Setting

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

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Setting  To create a mood or atmosphere  To show a reader a different way of life  To make action seem more real  To be the source of conflict or struggle  To symbolize an idea

The Functions of a Setting  For  For each paragraph, write the words that help to identify the setting.  Make  Make sure to list at least five words from each paragraph on your paper. We left the home place behind, mile by slow mile, heading for the mountains, across the prairie where the wind blew forever. At first there were four of us with one horse wagon and its skimpy load. Pa and I walked, because I was a big boy of eleven. My two little sisters romped and trotted until they got tired and had to be boosted up to the wagon bed. At first there were four of us with one horse wagon and its skimpy load. Pa and I walked, because I was a big boy of eleven. My two little sisters romped and trotted until they got tired and had to be boosted up to the wagon bed. That was no covered Conestoga, like Pa’s folks came West in, but just an old farm wagon, drawn by one weary horse, creaking and rumbling westward to the mountains, toward the little woods town where Pa thought he had an old uncle who owned a little two-bit sawmill. Share your answers with the class.

Elements of a Setting Study the graphic organizer. Consider how each term helps convey setting. Think of a place that you have been. Write a paragraph describing this place using the graphic organizer to help organize your thoughts.

Think of a place (in a story) you have been. Students should share their paragraphs with classmates. Students should share their paragraphs with classmates. Several students should share their paragraphs out loud and the class should identify the words that identify setting. Several students should share their paragraphs out loud and the class should identify the words that identify setting.