1. Narrative Elements
Setting

2. Think About It…
If you were writing about this classroom, how would you describe the setting?

3. What is Setting? Setting is the time and place of a story.
It also includes the general environment to give a background (imagery, customs, etc.)

4. What is Setting? The setting can be specific…
Sterling, Virginia; 2000
The setting can also be vague
Outer space; sometime in the future

5. Why Does Setting Matter?
Knowing when and where a story takes place will help you to understand it better
It will help draw you into a story

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10. Setting + Mood and Tone Setting creates the mood and shows the tone.
This can affect the way we feel about characters.

11. Mood & Tone
These involve feelings while reading a book

12. Mood The way a story makes you, the reader, feel is called mood.
Examples: cheerful, hopeful, silly, painful, suspenseful

13. How does this story make you feel?
During the holidays, my mother's house glittered with decorations and hummed with preparations. We ate cookies and drank cider while we helped her wrap bright packages and trim the tree. We felt warm and excited, listening to Christmas carols and even singing along sometimes. We would tease each other about our terrible voices and then sing even louder.

14. Tone
The narrator’s attitude (maybe the author’s attitude) throughout the story or piece of writing
Examples: casual, formal, friendly, stern, tragic

15. Think About It… Mockingjay, by Suzanne Collins
Time – Sometime in the future
Place – On the land that was previously the United States
Social Environment – War of rebels vs. government
Would The Hunger Games be the same story if it was set anywhere but a dystopian future facing such hardships?

16. Think About It… Harry Potter, by J.K. Rowling
Time – Sometime in the 1990s
Place – England; Hogwarts and other magical locales
Social Environment – Growing up; Harry vs. Voldemort
Would the Harry Potter series be the same story if it was set anywhere but a magical version of Europe?

17. Setting, Tone and Mood in Movies
Elf Clip
Tell Tale Heart Clip
Tell me what the setting is
Then list the mood
What elements in each clip helped you determine the tone and mood?