Setting

Setting

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  SETTING
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  WHAT IS SETTING? •Authors set their characters in a “world” with a particular location in place, time and culture. Setting is comprised of the physical details, the temporal details and the cultural details of that world. • Setting helps us to describe how the environment makes us feel or explains why something happens in an environment. Temple University Campus
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  PHYSICAL SETTING • Thephysical details of setting include all of the places where the action takes place. It includes the location, climate, and the objects. Physical setting may change from scene to scene. • For example: In Adaire, our physical setting is: • Philadelphia • Big sturdy building. • Classrooms. • Desk, paper, chairs.
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  PHYSICAL SETTING • Thephysical setting explains: 1. Why Students take the PSSA, because we are in Pennsylvania. 2. Why we have students, because we are a school with classrooms. • These settings make me feel: 1. Philadelphia: Happy, because I like Philadelphia. 2. Sturdy Building: Safe, because I know I will not get hurt in Adaire. 3. Classrooms: Accomplished, because I get to teach all of you! How does Adaire’s physical setting make you feel? What can you explain because of the physical setting?
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  TIME PERIOD (TEMPORAL)SETTING • The temporal setting relates to time. It can include: • The era or year a story is set in. • The duration of time in which a story takes place • The time of day • Temporal setting also tells us what technology is available.
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  TEMPORAL (TIME) SETTING •Adaire’s temporal setting is currently 2015, the digital era. • This time period explains why we have smart boards and mac books. • Adaire is also 123 years old, being founded in 1892. • That duration of time explains why it is so cold sometimes, because of old pipes. • Adaire starts at an early time of day, at 8:26am. • This explains why so many students feel tired and lethargic first period. History of Adaire • How does Adaire’s technology make you feel? Adaire, 123 years ago, in 1892 Adaire, presently, in 2015.
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  CULTURAL SETTING • Thecultural setting includes patterns of behavior and beliefs that dominate the society in which the characters live. • Family relationships, moral values, gender roles, political systems, gender roles, rules and race relations are all part of the cultural setting.
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  CULTURAL SETTING • Thecultural setting explains: 1. Why we have boys and girls in our classrooms, because we are a mixed school. 2. Why we wear uniforms, because that is the political culture of Philadelphia Schools. 3. Why Adaire has the nicest students, because we have a strong community. • Adaire’s cultural settings makes me feel: • Welcomed, because the culture is to help everyone. This is a moral value. How would you justify Adaire’s cultural setting? Is it right, or does it need to be improved? Dr. Long’s classroom cultural setting is so inviting!
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  DRAW YOUR BEDROOM! •Do the following, in 7 minutes: • Draw your room! Include items such as furniture, electronics, pets (if they come into your room), homework, friends, etc. • Label which parts belong to either the physical, temporal, or cultural setting. • Write a sentence each about how your feel about the physical, temporal, or cultural setting or • Write a sentence each about what the physical, temporal, or cultural setting explains about you. • Afterwards 7, we will discuss our bedrooms together!
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  THE SETTING OFMY SEMINAR CLASSROOM
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  SETTING AND FEVER1793 • As we read Fever 1793, observe how the physical, temporal, and cultural setting effects Maddie and the world around her. Some things to think about while you read and consider the setting: • The time period in 1793 • Mattie is a girl. • Mattie’s lives in the nation’s capital (Philadelphia)