1. Warm up: Diagram the following sentences in your notebook (remember to write the sentence and then diagram it) 1. Rabbits jumped. 2. Run. 3. We studied. 4. Everyone screamed. The Bully Chapters 3-4 The Bully Chapters 3-4

2. What genre is The Bully? Realistic Fiction Realistic fiction, although untrue, could actually happen. Some events, people, and places may even be real.

3. form of fiction (not true) accurately reflects life as it could be lived today everything in the story could actually happen people living in our natural physical world the characters have normal human powers story may be set in real places, but the story is NOT based on history, nor does it contain elements of science fiction

4. Setting Setting is the time and place of a story. Setting can include the locale of a story people’s customs—how they live, dress, eat, and behave Hong Kong

5. Setting Setting is the time and place of a story. Setting can include the weather time of day time period (past, present, or future)

6. Setting Setting provides a background—a place where the characters live and act. [End of Section]

7. How Is Setting Created? Writers carefully select images and details to create a setting that draws us into the story. sightsight hearinghearing the steady beat of the drum the tart apple three hot-air balloons colored the sky tastetaste

8. How Is Setting Created? smell gritty, wet sand between her toes strong, sweet scent of a rose touch [End of Section]

9. Setting and Character Sometimes writers place characters in settings that reflect the characters’ personalities. What do you think these characters are like? [End of Section]

10. Setting, Mood, and Tone Setting can also create mood, or atmosphere. It can affect the way we feel about the characters. mysterious peaceful menacing

11. Setting, Mood, and Tone Setting can also express a tone, or attitude toward a subject or object. Now, with supper finished, we retire to the room in a faraway part of the house where my friend sleeps in a scrap-quilt-covered iron bed painted rose pink, her favorite color. Silently, wallowing in the pleasures of conspiracy, we take the bead purse from its secret place and spill its contents on the scrap quilt. from “A Christmas Memory” by Truman Capote What is the tone of this passage? How do you think the writer feels about these characters? [End of Section]

12. What is the setting of The Bully? Philadelphia, Pennsylvania California

13. Review Vocabulary Chapters 1-3 1. wavering 2. retaliate 3. dread 4. menacing 5. wearily 6. awe

14. Vocabulary for Chapters 4-6 scolded p. 38 lurking p.38 deliberately p.45 sullen p. 45 scowled p. 74 frantic

15. Scolded (v.) to speak to angrily; use harsh language

16. Deliberately (adv.) done on purpose; intentional; careful

17. Sullen (adj.) gloomy; dark

18. Scowl (n.) an angry, harsh facial expression; frown

19. Frantic (adj.) wild; hectic; out of control

20. Lurking (v.) to sneak around