How do you know when a problem

is being solved?

In this lesson you will identify

the climax by analyzing the
story to determine the turning
point.

Lets Review
Maricela:

Main Conflict=
Narrator is pregnant
and does not wish to
have the baby at such
a young age

A Common Mistake

Most
Exciting

Climax

A Common Mistake

Climax

CoreLesson
Core
Lesson

Climax = the turning point of the story

when the problem starts to get solved.

STARTS

CoreLesson
Core
Lesson

Examine the end to identify

the turning point:

And then it hit-bam! Then all the TVs and

radios went off. So did the lights. It was a
power failure
Whole city shuts down, but the garden just
keeps going, Leona said. She talked on, how
plants dont run on electricity or clock time,
how none of nature did. How nature ran on
sunlight and rain and the seasons, and how I
was apart of the system. The words sort of put
me into a daze. My body was part of nature.

CoreLesson
Core
Lesson

Is the main conflict being

solved?
Maricela:
Main Conflict= Narrator is
pregnant and does not
wish to have the baby at
such a young age

CoreLesson
Core
Lesson
YES!
Climax=

Maricela
realizes that she
is part of
something
bigger!

CoreLesson
Core
Lesson

Examine the ending to identify the

turning point.

Confirm it!

Write it down!

In this lesson you have

learned to identify the climax
by analyzing the turning point
of the story.

Guided Practice

Examine the end and

identify the turning point.

Guided Practice

Is the main conflict being

solved?

Guided Practice
Climax=

Write it down!

Extension Activities
Group Extension:
Using the short story you are writing,
work in partners to complete the three
steps to identify the climax of your story.

7 min.

Extension Activities
Individual Extension: Work through the
three steps identify the climax of your
independent work, then write it down on a
sticky note and in your OneNote
Notebook.

Quick Quiz
Quick
Quiz

What is the climax?

Climax=