Plot for "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"  by Rudyard Kipling   Notice that short story titles are placed in quotation marks.

Plot for "The Smallest Dragon Boy" by Anne McCaffrey

Graphic Organizer for Plot (Outline Not Yet Filled In)

Another graphic Organizer for Plot

Three Skeleton Key Plot

"Amigo Brothers" Short Story

The Major Parts of a Plot:

Exposition (introduces characters and setting and the basic situation)

Rising Action (conflict and complications are shown)

Climax (This is the highest point -- the point of greatest tension.  At the point of climax, something important changes -- usually the conflict is resolved.)

Falling Action (Tells what happens after the climax.  This is a winding up

Resolution -- How did everything end up.  "And they all lived happily every after" is a resolution.  In "Rikki-

Tikki-Tavi"  the resolution tells us that from then on Rikki kept the garden free from snakes.