A Study on Setting

Follow the directions listed below:Notebook out & opened to NOTES section.Write “Short Story Unit” at the top of a piece

of paper in your NOTES section.Record the title: The Most Dangerous Game

on that sheet.Then turn to the page immediately behind

your “Short Story Unit” page and head it Settings

October 15th, 2012

Directions:

Write one to five words that first come to mind when you see the following images. Try to use adjectives that describe the overall mood you associate with the image.

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You have viewed a variety of settings. The setting is the time and place events (fictitious or real) take place.

So what may have led two (or more) people to see the same image and record a variety, sometimes opposing, adjectives?

We make inferences based on two primary factors that vary from person to person. Context CluesLife Experiences

What led you to assign the adjectives you did?

Introduce conflictResolve conflictDevelop moodCreate suspenseAct as another character

Setting can be used to:

1st & 4th PeriodsBooks out open to page 48Charts and Vocabulary Sheets on desk

2nd, 5th, 6th, 7th PeriodsOne sheet of paper on deskHead the paper “Most Dangerous Game

Accountability Quiz”

Thursday, October 18, 2012

1. What is it that helps us make inferences?2. At one point Connell writes of Rainsford,

“He lived a year in a minute.”1. What literary device is used in the quote?2. What purpose does the quote serve?

3. Offer and explain a suggestion as to why Connell would have chosen an island for the setting for this story.

Bonus Questions:

1. What is it that helps us make inferences?1. Context Clues & Life Experiences

2. At one point Connell writes of Rainsford, “He lived a year in a minute.”

1. What literary device is used in the quote?1. HYPERBOLE

2. What purpose does the quote serve?1. Develops suspense and intensity. Reveals how SLOW time

seemed to pass as if the end of “the game” would never come.

3. Offer and explain a suggestion as to why Connell would have chosen an island for the setting for this story.

1. Feeling of being trapped2. Hopelessness

Bonus Answers: