1. How does your location and the time of day affect the way you think?
English Amped
Opening Inquiry
Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Instructions (5 min.):
Put a heading on a paper in your Literary Analysis section. Write down a response to these question:
How does your location and the time of day affect the way you think?
Supplies: laptops,

2. This Week in English Amped:
Today’s Agenda
Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Opening Inquiry
Objectives & Meeting
Mini lesson on setting
Book clubs
Reading
Reflection
Announcements:
Check your missing work sheet and complete by going to the website on your time.
Ugly Professional tomorrow
Read next book club section for Thursday.
Objectives:
Identify and analyze setting in comparison to context
Apply understanding of either setting or context to analysis of book club novels
This Week in English Amped:
Tuesday: Book Clubs—Setting
Writing Wednesday: Personal Narrative Workshop
Thursday: Book Clubs—Imagery; RATE Friday: Music Appreciation; Repetition Workshop; Featured Artists Friday
Supplies: laptops,

3. What is setting?
The time and place in which the action of the story occurs (the where and when)
Time
Historical era
Holiday
Day of the week
Time of day
Place
Weather
State
Country
Region
Continent

4. Answer the questions below after the passage has been read:
Beep! Beep! Harold slammed his hand down on the wheel of his hover car. "57 lanes and there's still traffic?" Harold questioned out loud, though nobody was in the vehicle with him. "Yes, Harold, it is a shame. Be patient, you'll arrive to work soon enough," a voice emitted from the console of the hover car. "Oh, yeah? Care to bet your job on it?" Harold asked the machine. The machine responded dryly, "I am programmed to decline gambling, Harold." Harold smirked and said, "Forget this." He turned off autopilot and grabbed the wheel of the hover car. "Harold, what are you doing? This is dangerous," said the machine. Harold laughed and said, "I'll show you danger," as he pulled the wheel back and piloted the car straight down through twelve lanes of traffic.
Answer the questions below after the passage has been read:
What is the setting of the above passage?
What details reveal the setting?

5. Why does setting matter?
It provides background on the characters and events of a story
Where are the characters?
Where/when is the story taking place?
It can help you better understand what main idea a story is trying to convey
Setting establishes a mood
It can make a story more or less interesting

6. Nonfiction vs. Fiction
Context is always important, especially for our research, but in fiction you need the setting first
Knowing the location and time of a story’s events then lets you zoom out and analyze the context around the location and time.
Context and setting come first in both pieces. The context develops the details regarding the research problem.

7. See handout for detailed points and instructions.
½ Book Club Sheets
15 minutes; 15 points
See handout for detailed points and instructions.
Complete the heading at the top of the page: (3-5 points)
Book Title
Name
Pages read
English II
Today’s Date
Block (bock) #
Respond to the questions on your book club sheets by focusing on the setting and context of your novel’s narrative
Discuss your ideas as a group and use each of your different perspectives on the book to help answer each role

8. Read!

9. Reflection Tuesday, January 24, 2017 What did we learn?
Objectives:
Identify and analyze setting in comparison to context
Apply understanding of either setting or context to analysis of book club novels
Supplies: laptops,