Journal 9/21/15

Once you finish your quiz, quietly raise your hand so Mr. Dowd can collect it from you.

In your journal, write about your experience writing your letter home on Friday. What was the easiest part for you? What was the hardest? What would you do differently if you could do it over?

Agenda

Take Quiz

Complete and discuss journal

Take notes on setting

Complete setting activity

Read chapter 9 together

Answer questions on chapter 9

Setting draws us into the world of a story. Details of setting tell us

• where and when events are happening

• how the situation feels

• who the characters are

• what challenges the characters face

Setting

Details about a place usually are an essential part of a story.

• The setting may include people’s customs—how they live, dress, eat, and behave.

Setting

Setting also may reveal a time frame.

time of day

era

season

Setting

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Setting can add to a story’s emotional effect—its mood or atmosphere.

foreboding, mysterious

relaxed, carefree

lonely, sad

Setting, Mood, and Tone

Details of setting also help express tone—the writer’s attitude toward a subject or character.

The furniture of the hut was neither gorgeous nor much in the way. The rocking-chairs and sofas were not present, and never had been, but they were represented by two three-legged stools, a pine-board bench four feet long, and two empty candle-boxes. The table was a greasy board on stilts, and the table-cloth and napkins had not come—and they were not looking for them, either.

from Roughing It by Mark Twain

Listen to this passage. What is Mark Twain’s tone? What details help create that tone?

Setting, Mood, and Tone

Setting also can reveal character.

• What do these details tell you about Meg?

Setting and Character

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Meg sat back in the stylish chair and chatted on her cell phone. The shopping bags at her feet bore the colorful labels of many different stores—but each seemed to have “fashionable” and “expensive” written all over it.

In some stories, the characters’ environment

• provides the main conflict

• directly affects the story’s meaning

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Setting and Conflict

Analyze the setting of the Community as it has been presented so far. How is Jonas’s community different from the one you live in? Use at least three pieces of textual evidence from three different chapters. Write your answer in your journal under today’s entry.

Practice

Setting Examples:Ceremony of 12 p.62 – Conflict and discomfort for Jonas

Silence in the City p.59 – Mood detail

JONAS chant p.64 – custom of community

December p.1 – turning 12, cold

Feeling sharing p.5 – custom of community

Never heard of animals p.5 – lack knowledge

The River p. 44 – Danger despite rules

Practice

Reading Chapter 9 together

1. Tell how the Assignment of Receiver differs from

other Assignments.

2. Describe how Jonas’s friends treat him

differently after the Assignments are announced.

Why do you think they do this?

Homework:Predict, Read, React to Chapters 10-12

Work on Summer Reading Project