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Lesson 1 (from Chapter One)

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.

The objective of this lesson is to look at setting.

Lesson

1. Homework. Students will rewrite the basic plot of The Things a Brother Knows and set it in another century, explaining how the different setting changes the story. For example, what would be different if it was set in World War I or II?

2. Class discussion. Could The Things a Brother Knows have been set anywhere? How does the setting make this a unique story? How do the people in The Things a Brother Knows differ from the students' hometown? How did the setting affect the characters? The plot? The themes? Why is the setting important?

3. Group work. In groups, students will research a...

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