Lesson overview

Introduction
Story - Narrative
Middle years and up
narrative
describing setting
environmental description
worldbuilding
describing things and objects
physical description
interacting with the world
action
Tracey Baptiste
The Jumbies
Narratives are almost always set in a physical world of objects and places. In this activity, we explore how we can show details about the world through how the characters interact with it. We use a snippet from Tracey Baptiste's The Jumbies as a model.