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Published on Nov 23, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

KILLING MR. GRIFFIN

  • By Lois Duncan
  • Presenter Dalton Maze

HOW IS IT LIKE ONE OF OUR PREVIOUS BOOKS?

  • Killing Mr. Griffin is like the book Frankenstein.
  • It is like Frankenstein because there is death and mystery.
  • When the kids kidnapped Mr. Griffin they didn't mean to kill him just scare him.
  • He ends up dying because of his heart condition and them stomping his pills.
  • The mystery is the police trying to find out who killed him.

HOW IS IT LIKE ONE OF OUR PREVIOUS BOOKS?

  • The police keep asking the kids and other students if they knew who killed him.
  • Most of them lie and tell them no they don't know who killed him.
  • When the police find out who really did it they arrest them.

SETTING AND IMPACT ON THE STORY

  • Don't know the time period.
  • Somewhere southeast.
  • The school is Del Norte High.
  • The impact it has on the story is all the characters are nervous.
  • They are nervous because they dint know who killed him out if the group.

SETTING AND IMPACT IN THE STORY

  • Also they are nervous about the cops asking them about it.
  • None of the friends know who killed them out of the group.

THE CHARACTERS

  • Mr. Griffin
  • Jeff
  • Betsy
  • Mark
  • Dave

THE CHARACTERS

  • Sue
  • The police
  • Kathy
  • Police Detective Baca
  • Dave's grandma

THE CHARACTERS

  • The Protagonist is Jeff
  • The antagonist is Mr. Griffin

THE CONFLICT

  • The conflict of the story is that Mr. Griffin gave a couple of his students Fs.
  • When he does this it causes the students to want to kill him.
  • It is an external conflict because it is man vs. man.

THE PLOT

  • The exposition of the story is that the students don't like Mr. Griffin because he is to strict.
  • The rising action of the story is when the kids plan to kidnap him and plan the meeting to kidnap him.
  • The climax is when they kidnap Mr. Griffin and take him to the woods and stomp his medicine and leave him and he dies.
  • The falling action is when the police start looking for the killer and then they arrest the killer(s)