Swipe experiment

Basic Plot Diagram

A photograph of models of the Three Little Pigs

Source: Meeting the Three
Little Pigs, Loren Javier, Flickr

The three pigs are introduced as brothers who move out of their mother’s house.

A painting of an atypical Big Bad Wolf grinning and bearing his teeth.

Source: Big Bad Wolf, Caylin, Flickr

Mother Pig gives her sons a warning about the big bad wolf in the forest; readers should make a mental note that her warning could signal trouble for the pigs later. The warning hints at a future conflict.

A page form the Mother Goose tale “The Three Little Pigs”

Source: The Three Little Pigs,
misopocky, Flickr

The pigs build houses for themselves. One pig builds a house of straw, one builds a house of wood, and the third pig builds a house of brick. The big bad wolf wants to eat the pigs, so he sets out on a mission to destroy their homes. He destroys the straw house first. The wooden house is destroyed next. Then, all three pigs take shelter in the brick house where the wolf is unsuccessful in blowing this house down.

A drawing of the wolf blowing down the straw house in the Three Little Pigs story

Source: Three little pigs 1904 straw
house, L. Leslie Brooke, Wikiimedia

After the wolf has exhausted himself trying to blow down the third and final house, he decides to climb down the chimney to get the pigs once and for all. The pigs are prepared for this and have a pot of boiling water waiting at the bottom of the chimney. The big bad wolf falls into the boiling pot of water.

A photograph of three pigs carved from wood

Source: Three little pigs, Tom Magliery, Flickr

The pigs make wolf stew and eat heartily.

A photograph of a model village inhabited by the Three Little Pigs

Source: The Three Little Pigs, Maia C, Flickr

The pigs are safe from the wolf forever and live happily ever after.

Opening,
Exposition

Inciting Incident

Rising Action

Climax

Falling Action

Resolution