This document outlines an activity to analyze the short story "The Story of an Hour" by having students engage with different parts of the story's plot and characters. It involves using pictures and definitions to activate students' prior knowledge, having them read the story in groups and answer questions, working in groups to create alternative plots and apply conditionals, and assigning homework to continue analyzing story elements like plot, characters, traits, and setting. The goal is for students to practice their English skills like pronunciation, comprehension, critical thinking, and using grammatical structures while interpreting and discussing the short story.

1. Understanding Plot and Character Analysis
Activity 2 Topic: Reading on The Story of an hour / Target Content
Level B1
Interaction of Language
Technique Literature Symposium
Objective Interpret and communicate information about the story of an hour reading
Values Politeness when dealing with others.
Segment Time Instructor’s Task
Participants
Learning Tasks
Rationale
Schema
activation
5 min - T is going to provide
several pictures with
different parts of the story
and post them on the
board.
-T is going to present the
different parts of a story
(pieces of paper with
certain definitions of plot
and characters).
- T is going to divide the
group in four and read out
loud the story.
(after reading two times)
T is going to give a hand
out with basic questions
about the story.
- Students provide
their insights based
on each picture
posted them on the
board.
- Students are going
to come up with their
own definition of each
part of a story.
-Students are going
to respond based on
what they
understood.
- This part of the
class will allow
students to
express their
opinions about
literature and
respond to open
question.
Controlled
Reading
Practice
(analyses the
story –
Characters)
5 min - T is going to create
groups of 4 students and
provide a hand out with the
story.
Students are going to read
it and take out characters
main traits.
-T is going to elicit correct
pronunciation and
encourage students to look
for the meaning and
phonetics by using online
- Ss are going to pay
attention to correct
pronunciation of the
traits and describe
each character
accordingly.
-Ss are going to
predict meaning by
exchanging
information with the
other groups.
- This section of
the class will
enable Ss to test
their speaking
abilities.

2. dictionary application on
their cell phones. If
students do not have
cellphones, T is going to
provide physical dictionaries
or laptops.
Expansion
activity (Plot)
15 min - T are going to work in
groups and create a
different plot for the story
based on previous
knowledge.
T- is going to explain 1st
conditionals and its
structures to create
scenarios and enhance
meaning in the reading.
T- is going to give a hand
out with several written
exercises to apply 1st
conditionals.
- Ss will form small
groups based on T’s
instructions.
- Ss are going to
answer general
questions for a plot
and categorize who
were the best and the
worst person based
on their moral
judgments.
- This section of
the class will focus
Ss to create
critical thinking
and make some
reflections about
people’s
behaviors.
Homework
T is going to give students
pieces of information for
each part of a story (plot,
character, traits and
setting) to make an oral
activity to
-Ss are going to finish
it up at home and
present it next class.
Ths section will
focus of following
correct grammar
structures and
increase
vocabulary based
on their
judgments.

3. Materials that are going to be used to work in class and for
Homework
Annex # 1
Schema activation materials

5. Annex # 2

6. Annex # 3
Controlled Reading Practice (analyses the story – Characters) materials

7. Annex # 4
Expansion activity (Plot) materials

8. Annex # 5
Expansion activity (Plot) materials

9. Annex # 6
Homework material