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Deviating from the Plot Curve: Teaching Turning Points
May 10, 2011
By Michele Dunaway
While English teachers are notorious for teaching the plot curve and its inciting incident, rising action and climax, etc., and while this is a great way to analyze literature, one of my most interesting sets of lessons involves leaving the plot curve behind and replacing it with the three-act structure most screenwriters and novelists use today.
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