Setting
What is setting?
What is the time and place a story takes place.
What is theme?
What is the main message of a literary work?
What is a character?
An animal, person, or made up creature in a story.
What is point of view?
What is the angle from which a story is told?
What point of view is this in:
I walked down the street to the store.
What is first person?
What is the setting for the "Monsters are Due..." story we read?
What is Maple Street, USA, 1950s?
One of the themes of "The Possibility of Evil"
(Answers may vary)
Ex: "What is do not judge a book by its cover?"
A static character is:
What is a character that does not change?
The pronouns used for first-person point of view.
What are I, me, we?
What is the problem in a story?
How would you describe the setting of "The Possibility of Evil"?
What is a small American town in the 1960s/ Pleasant Street?
One reason it is important to understand theme.
Answers may vary but could be:
"What is to fully understand the story?"
"What is to learn a new lesson?"
The main character in "The Possibility of Evil".
Who is Miss Strangeworth?
The difference between third-person limited and third-person omniscient.
What is third-person limited shows only one character's thoughts and feelings, but omniscient shows many?
DAILY DOUBLE: Find the theme:
Princess Emily screamed as the dragon started flying toward her castle, its muffled roars echoing through the kingdom. She called the guards and had them ready their weapons against the monstrous beast. Dragons were no good and Emily wanted it gone.
However, as the dragon got closer, she finally understood the roar.
"Hello! I just moved into the cave by the mountain! Does anyone have any sugar?" The dragon roared sadly.
The princess, feeling ashamed at her earlier assumption, ordered her guards to bring some sugar to the top of the castle. There she gave some to the dragon and apologized to her for sending the guards out. The dragon apologized too for her loud roaring, but she was in a panic. The dragon had been trying to bake a cake for the princess before she came to say hello as a token of good faith, but had forgotten to buy any sugar. The two laughed and became good friends.
What is don't judge a book by its cover?
You're writing a story about a person getting stuck and then surviving in a forest. The story takes place in 2019. What two other elements would be important to establish?
What are the season and time of day? (answers may vary)
The theme of "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street".
Answers may vary.
Ex: What is words, prejudice, and suspicion are the worst weapons?
DAILY DOUBLE!
In "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street", the characterization comes from:
What is the dialogue/what the other characters say about each other.
Read below and find the point of view:
I sat in my favorite comfy chair and grabbed my book as the rain continued to pour outside. I smiled softly as I began to forget it and got wrapped up in my book.
What is first-person?
The main conflict (or problem) in "The
Monsters Are Due on Maple Street".
Answers may vary slightly but should be similar to:
What is that nothing works and they do not know the cause?
Three elements of setting.
Answers may vary but should be three of these:
What are location, historical period (past, present, or future), season, time of day, and culture?
A question that is good to ask to figure out theme.
What are:
What CONFLICTS, or struggles, do the characters face? How are these CONFLICTS solved?
How do characters CHANGE? What do characters LEARN?
The four different types of characters we talked about (remember, a character is usually two of the four).
What are static, dynamic, main, and minor characters.
Read below and find the point of view:
Ray sighed as he thought about having to buy groceries after work. Across the table, Christian stared at Ray and wondered what he was thinking about.
What is third-person omniscient?
The conflict in "The Possibility of Evil".
What is Miss Strangeworth sees herself responsible for the town and getting rid of the "evil" in it.