SETTING

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

PHYSICAL SETTING

• The physical 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.

PHYSICAL SETTING

• The physical 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?

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.

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

1892Adaire, presently, in

2015.

CULTURAL SETTING

• The cultural 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.

CULTURAL SETTING

• The cultural 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!

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!

THE SETTING OF MY SEMINAR CLASSROOM

SETTING AND FEVER 1793

• 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)