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ELA 3: All About Setting 223 Views


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Today we're learning all about setting...what? The table? Our alarm clocks? Fire to the rain? Oh, no, the setting of a story. That makes way more sense.

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Thank you We sneak What is setting Yeah there's an

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icon called settings on your iphone but you've probably already

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guessed we're not about to explain how to turn on

00:20

your bluetooth The setting is the time in place in

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which his story takes place Some stories have one setting

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All of their stories have multiple settings A story setting

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can be very specific like a particular year in a

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particular place or it could be more general and all

00:34

wooded forest for example although we'd like to see what

00:37

a non wooded forest looks like Okay but why is

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the setting of a story so important The setting provides

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a location for all of the story events to take

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place For example in the last unit we read two

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stories lawn popo and little red riding hood One story

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took place in china and the other one took place

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in a western country Thes stories ended up being significantly

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different mainly because of the setting of the story If

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red had wanted to bring her grandmother all the tea

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in china she would have needed a bigger basket When

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you're reading a story here are some questions you can

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ask yourself So you understand the setting more deeply Where

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does this story take place When does this story take

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place What is the weather like in the story What

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does the environment look like What special details make this

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setting different from other stories Is the setting just a

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nice place to visit or would you want to live

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there Once you understand the whats wheres and whens of

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the setting it should shed a little more light on

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this story's characters their motivations and the obstacles they face

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like if the setting is the sahara desert the characters

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probably aren't afraid of dying of frostbite and they're probably 00:01:42.245 --> [endTime] on the lookout for a passing ice cream truck

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