Nabin Duthraj #3 Literature/Element of Fiction 60 Minutes

Grade Eight

Lesson: Setting

Unit Overview
Main Idea (Claim) Summative Assessment
Setting means: Locale, time of year, time of
day, elapse time, mood and atmosphere, climate,
geography, Man-made geography, and
population.

Guiding Questions Objectives (know/understand/do/value)

What is setting? The students will
Why setting is important for the story? Identify the setting.
Explain why setting is significant for the
stories.
Time Instructional Procedures and Strategies
10 Beginning the Lesson
Minutes Teacher will
- Greetings!
- Ask student to ray for the class
- Tell objectives
- Activity students will write what they already know about the lesson.
45
Minutes
Developing the Lesson
Teacher will ask students what is setting? Let students think and share if they
know it.
Teacher will say the setting is A setting is the time and place a story
takes place. A story can take place in outer space or on a farm. It
can take place in the future or in the past.
Setting is locale, time of year, time of day, elapse time, mood and atmosphere,
climate, geography, Man-made geography, and population.
Why setting is important?
- Because the reader will not know where the story happens and the reader will
not know the weather and how the place look like. Setting gives better sense
of the story.
After explanation.
Teacher will have students read a story The clean well-lighted place by Ernest
Hemingway.

10
Minutes
Closing the Lesson
 Nabin Duthraj #3 Literature/Element of Fiction 60 Minutes
Grade Eight

Teacher will ask students to take a slip of a paper and have them write down:
- What is setting?
- Identify the setting in this story The clean well-lighted place?
- Why this setting is important for this story?

Formative Assessment Differentiation

Check for understanding Support the students.
Quiz
Resources
A story The clean well-lighted place by Ernest Hemingway.
https://educators.brainpop.com/bp-jr-topic/setting/
http://www.writersdigest.com/tip-of-the-day/discover-the-basic-elements-of-setting-in-a-story