1. THINK ABOUT IT 1.Write 1 paragraph about what you have learned in the exposition of the novel 2.Write 5 questions you would like to ask Brian right now

2. WHAT ELEMENTS MAKE A STRONG SETTING OR AN INTERESTING CHARACTER?

3. THINK ABOUT THE STORIES YOU HAVE READ…  What were the settings?  Were the settings interesting? Why or why not?  Who were the characters?  Did you like the characters? Why or why not?

4. TAKE A LOOK AT THIS SETTING. IS IT INTERESTING? WHY OR WHY NOT?

5. NOW LOOK AT THIS SETTING. IS IT MORE OR LESS INTERESTING? WHY?

6. HOW DO AUTHORS CREATE SETTINGS? WHAT INFORMATION DO YOU NEED/ WANT?  What types of words do authors use to build a setting?  What information do you look for?  What information do you want?  This is called imagery: words used to create images in the reader’s minds based on your senses  There are five types of imagery. What do you think they are (*hint refer to the definition).  ***Remember: Imagery refers to anything the reader can picture, not just the setting. This could refer to events or characters within the story.

7. EXAMPLE OF VISUAL IMAGERY (SEEING) "In our kitchen, he would bolt his orange juice (squeezed on one of those ribbed glass sombreros and then poured off through a strainer) and grab a bite of toast (the toaster a simple tin box, a kind of little hut with slit and slanted sides, that rested over a gas burner and browned one side of the bread, in stripes, at a time), and then he would dash, so hurriedly that his necktie flew back over his shoulder, down through our yard, past the grapevines hung with buzzing Japanese-beetle traps, to the yellow brick building, with its tall smokestack and wide playing fields, where he taught." (John Updike, "My Father on the Verge of Disgrace" in Licks of Love: Short Stories and a Sequel, 2000)

8. EXAMPLE OF AUDITORY IMAGERY (HEARING) "At the next table a woman stuck her nose in a novel; a college kid pecked at a laptop. Overlaying all this, a soundtrack: choo-k-choo- k-choo-k-choo-k-choo-k--the metronomic rhythm of an Amtrak train rolling down the line to California, a sound that called to mind an old camera reel moving frames of images along a linear track, telling a story." (Andy Isaacson, "Riding the Rails." The New York Times, March 8, 2009)

9. EXAMPLE OF GUSTATORY IMAGERY (TASTE) I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold (William Carlos Williams, "This Is Just to Say")

10. GIVE ME SOME EXAMPLES OF WORDS THAT ARE USED FOR IMAGERY…….

11. CHARACTERIZATION…. HOW CHARACTERS ARE BUILT Characterization: the process by which the writer reveals the personality of the characters Two types of characters:  Dynamic: a major character in a work of fiction that encounters conflict and is changed by it  Static: Minor characters in a work of fiction that do not undergo growth or change throughout the story

12. THINK OF DYNAMIC CHARACTERS YOU REMEMBER WHY DO YOU REMEMBER THEM?