REMINDERS & ANNOUNCEMENTS!  Grab your notebook. They’ve been graded. If your entries got  + you got a 100% on that entry. If you got a  you got a 70% or higher. If you got a  - you got a 60% or lower. Remember, your writer’s notebook is a TEST GRADE at the end of the six weeks. You will not be able to re-write entries. You must do your warm ups every day to the best of your ability. Make sure they are done well by the time I collect the notebooks.  If you did not turn in your journal with reflections last class, do so now. You’re already losing 20 points for being late. I graded characterization & point-of-view as one grade. This grade is in the gradebook. Your next two entries, setting & imagery and conflict will be collected for a grade on Friday.  You will also have a notebook check and grammar quiz on FRIDAY!  And remember, you will need a printed out article for Friday as well. If you’re stuck, check my website.

GRAMMAR FOCUS: PUNCTUATION- SERIES COMMA For today’s entry: use at least three sentences with series commas. One should use a list of nouns (person, place or thing), one should be a listing of actions (verbs) and one should be a listing of adjectives (descriptive words). Circle the commas and write the proof above. Also, don’t forget to find an example quote from your reading.

SETTING!

WHAT IS SETTING?  In literature, the word ‘setting’ is used to identify and establish the time, place and mood of the events of the story. It basically helps in establishing where and when and under what circumstances the story is taking place.

HOW DOES SETTING AFFECT A STORY?

SETTING & MOOD  Settings are not only used to reinforce your characters, they can also enhance the different moods in your writing.  A mood describes the emotional quality of something, whether it is a song, a painting or, in this case, a scene in your novel. It might help to think of mood as the way you want someone to feel while reading your novel.

EXAMPLE FROM TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD  Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop... [s]omehow it was hotter then... bony mules hitched to Hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square. Men’s stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon, after their three-o’clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum.... There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County. But it was a time of vague optimism for some of the people: Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself.

WHAT IS IMAGERY & WHY DOES AN AUTHOR USE IT?  Sensory details are when you use descriptions and adjectives that appeal to the five senses.  They are important in writing because they bring a story to life for a reader. It helps the reader become “engaged” or interested in the story.  Sensory details help the reader imagine the setting and characters and help the reader feel the action of the plot.  Also… if a writer is using a lot of sensory details and “imagery” it means they want you to pay attention to that element of the story. He or she is drawing attention to what is happening.

SETTING & CHARACTER EXAMPLES (SIGHT) Sight images are the most common. They describe what things look like. Notice how these examples draw the reader’s attention to the character and setting being described.  “The moon was full, lavish and silvery, and the sky was inky black, with a million stars overhead. The inside of the little cabin seemed to hug itself around her, all cozy blackness, except for the glow of the lights on the instrument panel. She could see the landscape below spread like another world, monochrome, shades of charcoal bathed in the blue silver light of the full moon.”  “A giant of a man was standing in the doorway. His face was almost completely hidden by a long, shaggy mane of hair and a wild, tangled beard, but you could make out his eyes, glinting like black beetles under all the hair.” (p. 46)

REMEMBER, IMAGERY ENCOMPASSES ALL FIVE SENSES What is the primary sense illustrated here? “On rainy afternoons, embroidering with a group of friends on the begonia porch, she would lose the thread of the conversation and a tear of nostalgia would salt her palate when she saw the strips of damp earth and the piles of mud that the earthworms had pushed up in the garden. Those secret tastes, defeated in the past by oranges and rhubarb, broke out into an irrepressible urge when she began to weep. She went back to eating earth. The first time she did it almost out of curiosity, sure that the bad taste would be the best cure for the temptation. And, in fact, she could not bear the earth in her mouth. But she persevered, overcome by the growing anxiety, and little by little she was getting back her ancestral appetite, the taste of primary minerals, the unbridled satisfaction of what was the original food.” One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

TODAY’S REFLECTION  Choose one quote that describe the setting of your book. Explain what role the setting plays in your novel.  Find two examples of imagery in your book. Make sure you analyze the effect the imagery has on the reader. Think about why the author chose to draw such attention to what is being described.  Make sure you have CITATIONS! (Author’s Last Name & Page #) IF YOU DO NOT HAVE CITATIONS, IT’S AN AUTOMATIC 50%.