Challenge Grant Learning Interchange (Unit)

Super Settings!

Developed by Corinna Gledhill, Jan Hanks, and Lillie Williams

English/Language ArtsEnglish/Languages Arts

Super Settings!

Students will complete a plot line graphic organizer and they will create a setting project such as a diorama, a 3-D setting board, or a tell-along board to demonstrate how the characters were influenced by the setting and how the problem or conflict is resolved in a short story or novel which they had just completed.

Nevada Objective(s):
3.3 - The student will analyze the influence of setting on characters and on how the problem or conflict is resolved.

Subjects: English/Language Arts, English/Languages Arts
Learning Level: Middle School
Author(s): Corinna Gledhill, Jan Hanks, and Lillie Williams
Submitted by: Carolyn Breaz

1. Whole group - direct instruction by the teacher
2. Small group - character analysis using Character Chart (Attachment 3.1.C)
3. Individual - completion of graphic organizer and setting project

1. Students have already completed reading their short story or novel.

2. Students complete the plot line graphic organizer.

3. Students brainstorm the various settings in their story.

4. Students will in graphic organizer identifying the characters, settings, conflicts, and resolutions from their story.

5. Students will select a specific character, setting, conflict, and resolution from this graphic organizer.

6. Students will review the different setting projects (diorama, 3-D setting board, and tell-along board) and the materials that are necessary to construct them. They will examine concrete examples of each.

7. Students will use their chosen story elements and create a setting project. Their diorama, 3-D setting board, or tell-along board must demonstrate the influence of setting on a character and how the problem or conflict is resolved.

1. The students will complete a plot line graphic organizer.
2. The students will create a setting project, such as a diorama, a 3-D setting board, or a tell-along board to demonstrate how the characters were influenced by the setting and how the problem or conflict is resolved.

Novels, graphic organizers, posterboard, cardboard, shoeboxes, construction paper, milk cartons or other small boxes, glue flour, and water to make paper mache, paste, paint, markers, colored pencils, crayons, newspapers, recycled objects, scissors, straws or Popsicle sticks, etc.