1. Your Place in the World Essential Terms: Setting Mood Conflict
Central Idea
Turn to pg. 28 and fill out your notes.

2. SETTING and MOOD Setting: time and place of the story
Mood: feeling or atmosphere writer creates for readers
Writers create setting through:
Details that suggest time of day, year, season, historical period
Descriptions of characters, clothing, buildings, weather, and landscapes
Setting can create tension, influence character, create mood, or serve as a symbol.

3. Turn to pg. 29
Ethan Frome

4. Model: Setting and Mood

5. CONFLICT and CENTRAL IDEA
Conflict: struggle between opposing forces
CONFLICT DRIVES the PLOT
Central Idea: the message that the author is sending to the reader through the story.
Conflict
+ What the Author has to Say about the Conflict
= CENTRAL IDEA

6. The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant
By W.D. Wetherell

7. Agree or Disagree? Teenage boys often fall for older girls.
Teenagers often do silly things for love.
Boys are more self-centered than girls.
Bad decisions often “haunt” the decision maker.

8. At the end of the story, the narrator, now older, reflects on his actions.
How does he feel about them now, and what has he learned about his place in the world?

9. CENTRAL IDEA
Answer the following for the story “The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant.”
What is the conflict?
What does author have to say about the conflict?
What is the central idea?

10. SETTING and MOOD
Describe a time where the author uses setting to establish mood in the story. Begin with a topic sentence, use evidence from the text to support it, and write a concluding sentence.
Skip every other line.