Miss Alaineus Plot Elements

The story ends. All loose ends are tied up. A lesson is learned by the character.

She dressed up as Miss Alaineus for the Vocabulary parade, and everyone loved her costume!

The character and important background information is introduced.

Sage caught a cold and missed vocabulary day.

The tension is the greatest. The most exciting moment. The conflict is at its highest point.

Sage shared her incorrect definition of miscellaneous with the whole class during the class’s vocabulary bee. The entire class erupted in laughter.

Explains events that build the conflict (problem).

Explains events that moves the story toward the resolution.

The problem is solved and a lesson is learned.

Sage remembered a time when she went to the grocery store with her mother. Her mother bought "miscellaneous" items and they included a box of spaghetti with a woman on the box.

Sage shared the definition of the word miscellaneous in class as, "the woman on the spaghetti box" and her classmates erupted in laugher.

Instead of looking the words up in the dictionary like she was supposed to, Sage made up own definitions.

Sage's mom encouraged her to rethink her "capable" costume.

It shows a picture of Sage dressed up as Miss Alaineous.

Sage took her vocabulary failure, and turned it into something good. She dressed up as Miss Alaineus for the Vocabulary parade, and everyone loved her costume!