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Setting

Setting. Time and Place. What is the setting?. The setting of a story is the place where the story happens and the time when it happens. The setting can be real or imaginary. Characters interact with the setting to show and tell a story.

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Setting

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  1. Setting Time and Place

  2. What is the setting? • The setting of a story is the place where the story happens and the time when it happens. • The setting can be real or imaginary. • Characters interact with the setting to show and tell a story. • Setting helps the reader share what the characters see, hear, smell, and touch.

  3. When your focus is setting, look for words that tell about: • Time of day, day of the week, month, or season (today, 3:00, Sunday, April, Fall) • Specific dates or historical details (July 4, 1776) • Place names, such as city, state, or country (Cambridge, Maryland, America) • Physical surroundings, such as weather, buildings, and landscape (rainy, castle, fields)

  4. Use Picture Clues to Identify Setting Winter Night Snowy Frozen Lake Cold Woods House Outside Farm Smell of Hay Barn Animal Sounds Day Dirt Grass Outside Spaceship Day Shadow Engine Noise Town/City Fields Clouds Hovering Red Light What words describe the settings?

  5. The Setting Supports the Plot • The setting of the story should make sense to the plot. • Which of the pictures below shows a setting that would make sense in a story of a dog sled race like the Iditarod?

  6. The setting can help create a mood. • Mood is the atmosphere or feelings created by a literary work. • They can be positive (joyous) or negative (dreary). Read the poem on the next slide and identify how the setting helps create the mood.

  7. A Fish in a Spaceship by Kenn Nesbitt A fish in a spaceship is flying through school. A dinosaur's dancing on top of a stool. The library's loaded with orange baboons, in purple tuxedos with bows and balloons. The pigs on the playground are having a race while pencils parade in their linens and lace. As camels do cartwheels and elephants fly, bananas are baking a broccoli pie. A hundred gorillas are painting the walls, while robots on rockets careen through the halls. Tomatoes are teaching in all of the classes. Or maybe, just maybe, I need some new glasses. The mood is humorous or comical. The setting is filled with impossible, funny descriptions. For example dinosaurs dancing on top of a stool.

  8. Think of a place you have been. Describe the setting to your partner and see if they can guess where and when your setting is.

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