Checklist:

1. Post a 2-minute long, original script in the Discussion Board for the exercise (7 pt.)

2. Respond with a minimum 25-word post to the Discussion Topic in the Discussion Board for the exercise (1 pt.)

3. Comment on a classmates' entry with a 25-word minimum length post in the Discussion Board for the exercise (.5 pt.)

4. Comment on a classmates' entry with a 25-word minimum length post in the Discussion Board for the exercise (.5 pt.)

Discussion Board Question: In a play or film of your choosing, describe one of these elements of storytelling (exposition, inciting incident, rising action, climax, falling action, or resolution)?

Exposition: The background, history, or back story, that sets up the plot.

Inciting Incident: the event that sets everything in motion. This moment is when an event thrusts the protagonist into the main action of the story.

Rising Action: Tension increases as the story's central conflict grows through successive plot development

Climax: The most intense point in the development of a story, its culmination, the point of maximum intensity, or its major turning point. 

Falling Action: Occurs after the climax and begins the resolution.

Resolution: The final solution to the "problem" in the story.