1. BELL RINGER!  Respond to the Quote of the Week in your bell ringer journal by answering one or more of the following questions:  What does the quote mean to you?  What is the speaker trying to tell you?  How have you experienced this in your own life?  When you are done, silent read.  “Sometimes what you want is right in front of you. All you have to do is open your eyes and see it.” -Meg Cabot

2. SETTING AND MOOD

3. LET’S REVIEW!  What two things make up the setting of a story?  Time and Place  Why is the setting important to a story? (Think about “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi”)

4. MOOD  What is a mood?  The mood of a text is the feeling a piece of literature awakens in a reader.

5. THE GRAVEYARD BOOK  Look at the cover art for The Graveyard Book. What mood does it evoke?  Flip through the book and look at the chapter titles and images. How do these help create the mood of the book as well?  What predictions can you make about the novel based on the text features?

6. JOURNAL QUESTIONS  What are some words that the author has used so far that help create the setting and mood for the story?  How do these words help create an image of what is happening?

7. JOURNAL QUESTIONS  What is the importance of the setting in this story so far?  How would the story be different and what would change if the story had a different setting?