Setting Development 

Objective: ​Students will be able to identify important aspects of setting, such as 
word choice and use them to apply them to the development of their own settings.  

Plan: 
Opening   Class Discussion on what setting is, why  10 minutes  
it is important and the setting in I Am Not 
Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 

Individual  Students will be put into 5 different  15 minutes  

groups with pictures of 5 different places. 
In these groups students will be asked to 
come up with words and phrases to 
describe these images. *Students should 
mostly be working on this individually.  
*Also no peeking at the images of the 
other groups!* 

Partners  Students will be partnered with someone  16 minutes 

from a different group and each student 
will have 8 minutes to describe the image 
from the group and the other student will 
have to draw the place that they are 
imagining during the description and 
after they will get to identify the image 
being described. 

Class Discussion  Whole class will come back together to  10 
discuss our findings: What does a setting 
need? What should we include? Were our 
descriptions effective/ accurate? 

Class Closing  Students will get an opportunity to  20 minutes  

develop their own setting for narrative.