Martin, J.B. (1998). Snowflake
bentley. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company.
Caldecott
Medal Winner, 1999
Exposition (the beginning of the story, establishment
of setting and characters): Jacqueline Briggs Martin tells the story of
Willie Bentley, a boy who grew up in Jericho, Vermont in the late 1800s and
loved to study snow.
Conflict (the problem(s) faced by the characters): Willie
struggles to find a way to capture the beauty of snowflakes with photographs.
Rising Action (events in the story leading up to the
climax): Throughout his childhood and adolescence, Willie
Bentley tried multiple tactics for photographing snow, and when his mother
bought him a special camera at the age of seventeen, he was very close to
achieving his goal.
Climax (the culmination of events in the story, point
of highest reader interest): After two winters of work using the gift from his mother and lots of grief
from his neighbors, Willie is finally able to photograph snowflakes.
Falling Action (events leading to the solving of the
story’s problems): Willie spends the rest of his life studying
and photographing snow, and his pictures are eventually published in a
book when he is sixty years old.
Resolution (how events and problems of the story are
solved): After becoming ill with pneumonia which he caught walking home
in a blizzard, Willie passes away, and forty years after his death, the
children of Jericho, Vermont set up a museum in his honor.
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