Georgia 7.T.T.1.b
The Standard
Analyze the use of plot structures, conflict, and narrative devices (e.g., flashback, foreshadowing) within a text. (I)
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards · Texts (T) · Techniques
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students track how a plot is organized and identify the conflicts driving events. They explain how flashbacks, foreshadowing, and other devices shape tension, meaning, or reader expectations.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can map events in story order and presentation order. They can cite passages that show conflict, flashback, or foreshadowing and explain how each builds tension or changes understanding.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may label a flashback or foreshadowing clue without explaining its effect on the plot. They may confuse internal conflict with external conflict or mistake any prediction for foreshadowing.
How to Assess It
- On an exit ticket, identify one conflict and one narrative device in the assigned excerpt. Explain how each shapes the plot using one quoted detail.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give groups event cards from a story to arrange in presentation order, then rearrange chronologically and mark flashbacks.
Ask students to write which conflict drives the main character's hardest choice and support their answer with two details.
Play Device Detective by displaying short passages while teams identify flashback, foreshadowing, internal conflict, or external conflict and explain the effect.
Analyze a film trailer for foreshadowing clues, then predict the central conflict and explain which images or lines support the prediction.
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