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?

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

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 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. Setting

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

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

Details of setting also help express tone—the writer’s attitude toward a subject or character. 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 Listen to this passage. What is Mark Twain’s tone? What details help create that tone? Setting, Mood, and Tone

Setting also can reveal character. What do these details tell you about Meg? Setting and Character [End of Section] 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.

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

Conflict is the struggle or clash between opposing characters, forces, or emotions in a story. character vs. character character vs. society character vs. nature character vs. self Setting and Conflict

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. 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 Practice

Reading Chapter 9 together 1.Tell how the Assignment of Receiver differs from other Assignments. 2.Describe how Jonas’s friends treat him differently after the Assignments are announced. Why do you think they do this?

Homework: Predict, Read, React to Chapters Work on Summer Reading Project