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Students will continue reading to the end of the story owl creek bridge and then write out summaries of plot on a timeline.
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Write your name on your plotline.
Students will upload a timeline of the plot. There are a series of events that do not occur in reality in the story. You must make a separate timeline for the events that are a fantasy next to the timeline for what actually happens, just make sure to note where fantasy occurs on the timeline of the objective reality timeline. Label one timeline "Objective Reality" and the other "Fantasy Reality"
Example:
Seven events is not what you should do. Do as many events as necessary. This is only an example.
Objective Reality
Event 1
Event 2
Event 3
Event 4
Event 5
Event 6
Event 7
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Fantasy Reality
see below
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Fantasy Reality
Event 1
Event 2
Event 3
Event 4
Event 5
Event 6
Event 7
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Objective Reality
1. Peyton Farquhar, a civilian plantation owner and Confederate sympathizer, is captured by Union troops.
2. He is accused of trying to sabotage Owl Creek Bridge (he was planning to burn it).
3. A Federal scout (disguised as a civilian in gray) had earlier told Farquhar that the bridge was unguarded, prompting Farquhar’s plan (backstory).
4. Farquhar attempts the sabotage at night but is discovered and arrested.
5. He is brought to Owl Creek Bridge, sentenced, and prepared for execution by hanging.
6. The scaffold plank is removed and Farquhar drops from the bridge (the rope tightens around his neck).
7. Peyton Farquhar dies on the bridge; his body hangs beneath the timbers and the soldiers return to duty.
Note: The long escape that follows in the story is not actually real; it is a mental/imagined sequence that takes place during the brief interval of the fall/neck injury described above.
Fantasy Reality (events imagined by Farquhar while he is falling/near death)
1. The rope appears to break and Farquhar plunges into the stream below, uninjured.
2. He frees himself from the sinking noose/line and swims vigorously downstream.
3. He survives river currents, avoids underwater hazards and a whirlpool, and reaches the bank.
4. He runs through the woods, hearing and feeling pursuit (bullets whizz by) but evading capture.
5. He makes an exhausting, seemingly long journey across fields and roads toward his home.
6. He sees familiar landmarks and becomes increasingly confident he will escape and return to his family.
7. He reaches his house and glimpses his wife through the doorway; she appears to recognize him.
8. He rushes toward her and reaches out—at that instant he feels a sharp pain/pressure.
9. The imagined escape collapses as he realizes the truth: he is still hanging and his neck has been broken.
10. The fantasy ends; reality resumes with his dead body swinging beneath the bridge.
Placement note: On the Objective Reality timeline, the entire Fantasy Reality sequence occurs at Event 6 (the drop). The fantasy represents Farquhar’s subjective experience in the seconds between the drop and his actual death.
Objective Reality
1. Peyton Farquhar, a civilian plantation owner and Confederate sympathizer, is captured by Union troops.
2. He is accused of trying to sabotage Owl Creek Bridge (he was planning to burn it).
3. A Federal scout (disguised as a civilian in gray) had earlier told Farquhar that the bridge was unguarded, prompting Farquhar’s plan (backstory).
4. Farquhar attempts the sabotage at night but is discovered and arrested.
5. He is brought to Owl Creek Bridge, sentenced, and prepared for execution by hanging.
6. The scaffold plank is removed and Farquhar drops from the bridge (the rope tightens around his neck).
7. Peyton Farquhar dies on the bridge; his body hangs beneath the timbers and the soldiers return to duty.
Note: The long escape that follows in the story is not actually real; it is a mental/imagined sequence that takes place during the brief interval of the fall/neck injury described above.
Fantasy Reality (events imagined by Farquhar while he is falling/near death)
1. The rope appears to break and Farquhar plunges into the stream below, uninjured.
2. He frees himself from the sinking noose/line and swims vigorously downstream.
3. He survives river currents, avoids underwater hazards and a whirlpool, and reaches the bank.
4. He runs through the woods, hearing and feeling pursuit (bullets whizz by) but evading capture.
5. He makes an exhausting, seemingly long journey across fields and roads toward his home.
6. He sees familiar landmarks and becomes increasingly confident he will escape and return to his family.
7. He reaches his house and glimpses his wife through the doorway; she appears to recognize him.
8. He rushes toward her and reaches out—at that instant he feels a sharp pain/pressure.
9. The imagined escape collapses as he realizes the truth: he is still hanging and his neck has been broken.
10. The fantasy ends; reality resumes with his dead body swinging beneath the bridge.
Placement note: On the Objective Reality timeline, the entire Fantasy Reality sequence occurs at Event 6 (the drop). The fantasy represents Farquhar’s subjective experience in the seconds between the drop and his actual death.
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