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Journal 9/21/15

Journal 9/21/15. Once you finish your quiz, quietly raise your hand so Mr. Dowd can collect it from you.

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Journal 9/21/15

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  1. Journal 9/21/15 Once you finish your quiz, quietly raise your hand so Mr. Dowd can collect it from you. In your journal, write about your experience writing your letter home on Friday. What was the easiest part for you? What was the hardest? What would you do differently if you could do it over?

  2. Agenda Take Quiz Complete and discuss journal Take notes on setting Complete setting activity Read chapter 9 together Answer questions on chapter 9

  3. Setting Setting draws us into the world of a story. Details of setting tell us • where and when events are happening • how the situation feels • who the characters are • what challenges the characters face

  4. Setting Details about a place usually are an essential part of a story. • The setting may include people’s customs—how they live, dress, eat, and behave.

  5. Setting Setting also may reveal a time frame. era time of day season [End of Section]

  6. Setting, Mood, and Tone Setting can add to a story’s emotional effect—its mood or atmosphere. relaxed, carefree foreboding, mysterious lonely, sad

  7. Setting, Mood, and Tone Details of setting also help express tone—the writer’s attitude toward a subject or character. Listen to this passage. What is Mark Twain’s tone? What details help create that tone? The furniture of the hut was neither gorgeous nor much in the way.The rocking-chairs and sofas were not present, and never had been, but they were represented by two three-legged stools, a pine-board bench four feet long, and two empty candle-boxes. The table was a greasy board on stilts, and the table-cloth and napkins had not come—and they were not looking for them, either. from Roughing It by Mark Twain

  8. Meg sat back in the stylish chair and chatted on her cell phone. The shopping bags at her feet bore the colorful labels of many different stores—but each seemed to have “fashionable” and “expensive” written all over it. Setting and Character Setting also can reveal character. • What do these details tell you about Meg? [End of Section]

  9. Setting and Conflict In some stories, the characters’ environment • provides the main conflict • directly affects the story’s meaning [End of Section]

  10. Practice Analyze the setting of the Community as it has been presented so far. How is Jonas’s community different from the one you live in? Use at least three pieces of textual evidence from three different chapters. Write your answer in your journal under today’s entry.

  11. Practice Setting Examples: Ceremony of 12 p.62 – Conflict and discomfort for Jonas Silence in the City p.59 – Mood detail JONAS chant p.64 – custom of community December p.1 – turning 12, cold Feeling sharing p.5 – custom of community Never heard of animals p.5 – lack knowledge The River p. 44 – Danger despite rules

  12. Reading Chapter 9 together Tell how the Assignment of Receiver differs from other Assignments. Describe how Jonas’s friends treat him differently after the Assignments are announced. Why do you think they do this?

  13. Homework:Predict, Read, React to Chapters 10-12Work on Summer Reading Project

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