Lesson overview

Introduction
Story - Narrative
Middle years and up
narrative
describing setting
environmental description
worldbuilding
describing things and objects
summary description
Grace Lin
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Narratives are almost always set in a physical world of objects and places. In this activity, we look at summary description—useful when the details of the world aren't important. We use a snippet from Grace Lin's Where the Mountain Meets the Moon as a model.