Lesson overview
Introduction
Story - Narrative
Middle years and up
narrative
describing setting
environmental description
worldbuilding
- Narratives are almost always set in a physical world of objects and places. In this lesson, we explore different ways we describe setting—not only through concrete physical details, but also behaviour, history, meaning and so on. At the end, we have a checkpoint that combines elements of description. We use snippets from a variety of sources including Jason Reynolds, Erin Entrada Kelly, Tomi Adeyemi, and Tracey Baptiste. This lesson contains 10 activities and will take most students 2-3 hours to complete. UPDATE: If you want to assign individual pages from this lesson, search for "setting activity".