2. Setting - Monday 2. Setting - Monday Today, we will be looking at: 1) Free Write 2) Collect Character Assignment 3) Review Character 4) Notes on Setting & Questions  The purpose of setting in stories  The four aspects of setting 5) Independent reading You will have a quiz on Characters, Setting, MLA and Topic sentences Friday.

2. Setting Can be used to tell readers about the characters: That evening T.J. smelled the air, his nostrils dilating with the odor of the earth under his feet. “It’s spring,” he said, and there was gladness rising in his voice that filled us all with the same feeling. “It’s mighty late for it, but it’s spring” … We were all sniffing at the air, too, trying to smell it the way that T.J. did, and I can still remember the sweet odor of the earth under our feet. It was the first time in my life that spring and spring earth had meant anything to me. “Antaeus” by Borden Deal

2. Setting Can be used to set the atmosphere for the story: “During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, though a singularly dreary tract of country.” “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe

2. Setting The time and location in a story. There are four aspects to it: a) Place - Where it takes place & how is this significant? b) Time - When it takes place (day, month, season, etc.) c) Weather conditions - Is it rainy, sunny, stormy, etc? Does this reflect the attitude or situation of the characters? d) Social conditions - What is the daily life of the characters like? (speech, dress, mannerisms, and customs of a particular place)

Setting – Coffee, Snack and Worms Take five minutes to answer the following questions: A) How does the setting help shape the characters? (Kate in particular) B) Using the aspects of setting from your notes, describe the setting in the story. C) Is the setting of this story believable?

2. Setting - Tuesday Today we will ◦ Look at the expectations for your weekly assignment ◦ Read “Night Drive” ◦ Work on questions

2. Setting - Wednesday Today we will ◦ Review questions ◦ Work on Assignments ◦ Grammar Lesson

Supporting Sentences Remember a Topic sentence is: ◦ a topic + a controlling idea. Dogs make better pets than cats. Topic = Dogs Controlling idea = make better pets than cats.

Supporting Sentences After you have set your topic you must then support it. Supporting sentences give details and information to explain the topic sentences. If our topic sentence says that glass has important characteristics, we can support this statement by listing some of those characteristics.

Supporting Sentences - Example 1. Amazingly, glass, which appears to be fragile, can offer protection as well as visibility. 2. Although many people consider glass to be merely practical, it can also be made into objects of beauty. 3. Furthermore, the optical properties of glass have changed our view of the world.

Supporting Sentences In addition to examples, support sentences may also contain: explanations/reasons, descriptions, processes, statistics, comparisons/contrasts, arguments, causes/effects, facts, and so on. There is no rule about how much support you should give to your topic sentence, however, three pieces of support is a good number; not too much and not too little.

What could a possible topic be to describe this picture?

Supporting Sentences Set your topic sentence – Topic + controlling idea 3 points of support. Full sentences.

2. Setting - Thursday Today we will ◦ Grammar ◦ Work on assignment ◦ Independent Reading

2. Setting - Friday Assignment Due Book Talks Character / Setting Quiz