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Today we're learning all about setting...what? The table? Our alarm clocks? Fire to the rain? Oh, no, the setting of a story. That makes way more sense.
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Thank you We sneak What is setting Yeah there's an
- 00:15
icon called settings on your iphone but you've probably already
- 00:18
guessed we're not about to explain how to turn on
- 00:20
your bluetooth The setting is the time in place in
- 00:23
which his story takes place Some stories have one setting
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- 00:26
All of their stories have multiple settings A story setting
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can be very specific like a particular year in a
- 00:32
particular place or it could be more general and all
- 00:34
wooded forest for example although we'd like to see what
- 00:37
a non wooded forest looks like Okay but why is
- 00:41
the setting of a story so important The setting provides
- 00:44
a location for all of the story events to take
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place For example in the last unit we read two
- 00:49
stories lawn popo and little red riding hood One story
- 00:53
took place in china and the other one took place
- 00:55
in a western country Thes stories ended up being significantly
- 00:58
different mainly because of the setting of the story If
- 01:01
red had wanted to bring her grandmother all the tea
- 01:04
in china she would have needed a bigger basket When
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you're reading a story here are some questions you can
- 01:09
ask yourself So you understand the setting more deeply Where
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does this story take place When does this story take
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place What is the weather like in the story What
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does the environment look like What special details make this
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setting different from other stories Is the setting just a
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nice place to visit or would you want to live
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there Once you understand the whats wheres and whens of
- 01:30
the setting it should shed a little more light on
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this story's characters their motivations and the obstacles they face
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like if the setting is the sahara desert the characters
- 01:39
probably aren't afraid of dying of frostbite and they're probably 00:01:42.245 --> [endTime] on the lookout for a passing ice cream truck
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