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Lesson 1 (from Chapters 1 through 11)

Objective

Setting. Where a play, book or story takes place often affects the characters' personalities and the possibilities for plot. Setting is a usually carefully considered item in an author's set-up for fiction. Setting in the young adult genre is particularly important since oftentimes the reader must understand the differences between the young adult world and the "real" world.

The objective of this lesson is to look at setting.

Lesson

1. Homework. Students will rewrite the basic plot of "Between Shades of Gray" and set it in another century, explaining how the different setting changes the work. For example, what would be different if it were set in World War I or II?

2. Class discussion. Could "Between Shades of Gray" have been set anywhere? How does the setting make this a unique story? How do the people in Europe in this era differ from the students' hometown? How...

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