1. Setting and Mood

2. Setting The physical location and time in which a story takes place
Find these details in the text to determine setting:
The story’s location
The time in which the action takes place
The social environment of the characters (manners, customs, moral values)

3. Sugar Rush What is the setting?

4. Hero’s Duty What is the setting?

5. Mood
Setting has an emotional effect on readers and can create a mood or atmosphere.
Mood is the feeling a text conveys to readers.
Authors deliberately choose a setting and include specific details to conjure a certain reaction/feeling in their readers.

6. Mood Identify the mood by asking:
What things, thoughts, or feelings do I typically associate these details with?
Given this, what mood is the author trying to create?

7. Sugar Rush What is the mood?

8. Hero’s Duty What is the mood?

9. Make Predictions
What is the setting, and the mood it conjures, leading me to think might happen?
What do I need to be aware of as I continue reading?