Journal 9/21/15

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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?
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Agenda
Take Quiz Complete and discuss journal Take
notes on setting Complete setting activity Read
chapter 9 together Answer questions on chapter 9
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Setting
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

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

• The setting may include peoples customshow they
  live, dress, eat, and behave.

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Setting
Setting also may reveal a time frame.
era
time of day
season
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Setting, Mood, and Tone
Setting can add to a storys emotional effectits
mood or atmosphere.
relaxed, carefree
foreboding, mysterious
lonely, sad
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Setting, Mood, and Tone
Details of setting also help express tonethe
writers attitude toward a subject or character.
Listen to this passage. What is Mark Twains
tone? What details help create that tone?
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
comeand they were not looking for them, either.
from Roughing It by Mark Twain
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Setting and Character
Setting also can reveal character.

• What do these details tell you about Meg?

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Setting and Conflict
In some stories, the characters environment

• provides the main conflict

• directly affects the storys meaning

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Setting and Conflict
Conflict is the struggle or clash between
opposing characters, forces, or emotions in a
story.

• character vs. character

• character vs. society

• character vs. nature

• character vs. self

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Practice
Analyze the setting of the
Community as it has been presented so far. How is
Jonass 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 todays entry.
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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
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Reading Chapter 9 together

1. Tell how the Assignment of Receiver differs from
   other Assignments.
2. Describe how Jonass friends treat him
   differently after the Assignments are announced.
   Why do you think they do this?

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HomeworkPredict, Read, React to Chapters
10-12Work on Summer Reading Project