Narrative writing

L.O: To explore setting as a narrative technique.

Starter:
- Settings are important because they tell us the when and where of the story and it tells us about
the tone and the mood.

- The writer makes setting memorable by adding important details.

Settings:

Some writers do not plan their plot. They merely place characters in a setting and from there a story
emerges.

Activity 1

- The virtual room:

 A lot of stationary
 Paintings hanging on the wall
 The room is even filled with decorations.
 There are a lot of

-is it organised

 It is very organised, everything is labelled, in place, each type of stationary is labelled.

 A family of 4 members live there: that includes the mom, the dad, the sister (jane), the
brother (Jake).

Activity 2

-it took place in their house.

- a teenager girl (Jane) / an investigator.

Short story:

Jane has not gotten out of her room all day, she hasn’t eaten food or said anything, it is a bit weird
because she never does this. Her mom went up and gave a knock but received no reply, she was
super worried. Jane usually only does that when she is stressed out or in trouble but still gives
response.

It is the next day and Jane finally came out, her brother Jake went in the room and looked, it was all
messed up, there was paper all around the floor, nothing was kept in place, it looked like someone
has come in (not jane someone else)as there was weird marks on the wall. Usually jane room is the
cleanest and the most organized room in the whole house, but today it is very different. Jane went
downstairs and just sat not responding to anyone. Suddenly Jane starts to cry and keep crying and
tells her mother what happened the day before yesterday.
Activity 3

1. the narrators tell us about how scared the boy is and how he doesn’t have the safe place to sleep.
The kid is frightened, “faint with fear”.

2.the setting tells us that there are different noises, that suggest the boy was scared and as
mentioned in the paragraph that there was ray of light from the streetlamp that suggest that it was
nighttime.

3.the writer uses advance vocabulary in describing the sounds that were coming and Swami was
really frightened as it was dark, and the setting even described where the event took place and when
it took place. Swami is so frightened that he could imagine his dead.

Plenary:

www: I was able to write a short story.

Ebi: I focus more on the setting.