The Turning Point After completing the assigned reading of your novel or short story, answer the following questions using complete sentences. An in-depth look at the climax 1. Who is the author? Washington Irving

2. What is the title of your novel or short story? The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

3. Who is the protagonist of your novel or short story? Ichabod Crane

4. What decision does the protagonist face in the climax?

5. What does the protagonist decide and what action does the protagonist take because of this decision?

An in-depth look at the falling action 6. Choose an event, excerpt, or chapter that is part of the falling action of your selected novel or short story. Summarize the event or chapter.

7. How does the event, excerpt, or chapter you have selected resolve or begin to resolve the conflict?

8. How does the event, excerpt, or chapter you have selected show how the protagonist has changed or is changing?

Keep Your Eye on the Character Complete the following sentences with the protagonist's name and adjectives to describe him or her at each stage of the plot. Use evidence from the story to support your selected adjective for each stage. 9. In the exposition and rising action, the protagonist is (adjective) ______________. This trait is evident when (example from the story) ___________________________.

10. At the climax, the protagonist is (adjective)____________________ when he / she decides (protagonist's decision) _______________________________________.

11. In the falling action, the protagonist is (adjective) ___________________. This trait is evident when (example from the story) _________________________________.