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Today in class we wrote our three act structure letter using our two current texts; Back To the Future by Robert Zemeckis and Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. If you have not been in class for a while, the prompt for the letter I'm referring to is on google classroom titled #6 Three Act Structure Letter.

Roughly, from my notes and from the whiteboard in the classroom, here is the three act structure guideline we've been working on:

ACT I

1 point of attack

(1-2) inciting incident, tension

ACT II

3. lock in beginning of the quest and act ii

(3-4) milestone: indicates progress

4- pursuing the tension

(4-5) midpoint subplot or diversion

5- building on change from midpoint or subplot

6- setting up for a big decision, biggest challenge yet resolves act ii tension

7- act iii starts with a big choice to show character growth from act i

ACT III

(7-8) plot twist, grand focus to personal focus

8- climax revolves main tension (and other main tension from act i)

(Don't forget to work on your Be Reel blog posts, seeing as you need TWO per marking period! Also, remember to pin up your Objective Quality / Subjective Enjoyment cards in class for the movies you chose for your Be Reel blog posts. This is the Good-Good, Good-Bad, Bad-Bad board up in class by the door.)

Three act structure does not have to be over the top like it is in movies, it really can occur everyday. For instance, it could be having a fight with someone and trying to approach them, the encounter not going so well, and eventually being brought back together in the end.

From the excerpt from Vox.com that we read yesterday, three act structure could be as easy as: "send your characters up a tree. Throw rocks at them. See if they climb down." So, as mentioned before, three act structure can appear everywhere and does not have to be extravagant like in film and text.