Instructor (1990), January 1st, 2001
Tips and techniques to help young authors render time and place vividly
Read a few more lines of the Newbery Award-winning Holes by Louis Sachar and you learn that while there is no lake at Camp Green Lake, there are campers--and rattlesnakes and scorpions and a Warden (with a capital W). It's a vividly detailed environment that can't help but shape the lives of the characters inhabiting it. Share Sachar's thoughts on setting, below, with your students. Then use the activities and tips in the pages that follow to help them create settings in their own writing that give characters and plots ...
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