Types of Conflict

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Internal Conflict

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(b) External Conflict

• Two candidates are running for mayor. Only one can win.

• An astronaut discovers an alien creature on the moon that refuses

  to let him return to earth.

• Janie's alarm rings; she should exercise but wants more sleep.

• A boy finds a chest of gold in the woods but hesitates, realizing it must belong to someone.

• Joanna wins a scholarship to a fancy school but hesitates, fearing she'll miss her friends.

• Rosa wants to play on the school football team, but school rules say

  only boys can play.

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TEKS.ELA.7.7B

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Internal Conflict

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(b) External Conflict

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TEKS.ELA.7.1A

TEKS.ELA.7.5B

Kelly knows that she saw her friend, Kimmy, steal a pair of earrings, and that she should tell someone. However, Kelly is her friend, and she doesn’t want her to get into trouble.

• internal conflict

• external conflict

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TEKS.ELA.7.7B

A group of divers is trapped in an underwater cave when a giant octopus swims into the only exit.

• internal conflict

• external conflict

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TEKS.ELA.7.7B

Phillip knows he should finish his book report, but his friends are going to the beach. and he wants to join them.

• internal conflict

• external conflict

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TEKS.ELA.7.7B

Sunder refuses to wear the school uniform and is sent home for the day.

• internal conflict

• external conflict

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TEKS.ELA.7.7B

Alone on a sailboat in the Pacific Ocean, Melanie must survive a typhoon and make it back to the mainland.

• internal conflict

• external conflict

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TEKS.ELA.7.7B

A student organizes a demonstration to protest a city law against skateboarding in an abandoned parking lot.

• internal conflict

• external conflict

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TEKS.ELA.7.7B

Hannah lives in a world where people are not allowed to keep pets. She joins with a group of animal lovers and together they keep each other, and their dogs and cats, safe from the police.

• internal conflict

• external conflict

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TEKS.ELA.7.7B

Steven and Chantal are canoeing on a calm river when they suddenly get swept into a side stream that leads to dangerous rapids and a waterfall.

• internal conflict

• external conflict

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TEKS.ELA.7.7B

TEKS.ELA.7.5F