Nicholas Housing Projects in Harlem, NYC. Lolly lives with his mother in St. The Stars Beneath Our Feet Plot Diagram Example
Students should identify major turning points in the novel such as the Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Resolution.
In this activity, students will create a visual plot diagram of major events in The Stars Beneath Our Feet. Students can create a storyboard capturing the narrative arc in a work with a six-cell storyboard containing the major parts of the plot diagram. The complexities of family and friendships come into full relief in a story celebrating the power of creativity and community in a child’s life.Creating a plot diagram not only helps students learn the parts of the plot, but it reinforces major events and helps students develop a greater understanding of literary structures. Lolly, his family, friends, and neighbors are vivid and alive in a story featuring exceptional characterizations and dialogue. Inspired to begin constructing an elaborate city out of Lego bricks, his efforts lead to a surprising new friendship with Rose, a girl most kids shun, who is navigating struggles of her own, and to exploring the real places pictured in the book. But Lolly’s sense of himself and the world and possibilities begins expanding after receiving an architecture book as a gift. The threat feels all the more real since his big brother Jermaine was recently shot and killed, and Lolly’s grief is complicated by the fact his brother, so often his protector, was mad at him for refusing to get involved in Jermaine’s dubious business.
He’s also keenly aware that the freedom with which he moved through Harlem when he was young has changed now that he’s 12 now that he’s eyed by various crews of older boys and young men as being either with them, or against them. On the edge of young adulthood, Lolly has the support of his hardworking, no nonsense mom and her girlfriend his dad, who isn’t a daily presence in his life but whose love is never in doubt staff at the community center his best friend, Vega. 294 pages The Stars Beneath Our Feet by David Barclay Moore
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