Creative Writing

Creative Writing
Quarter 2 – Module 2: Identifying the Various Elements of a Drama: Setting
First Edition, 2020

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 Creative Writing

Quarter 2
Self-Learning Module 2
Identifying the Various Elements of a
Drama: Setting
Introductory Message

For the Facilitator:

Welcome to the Creative Writing Self-Learning Module on Identifying the

Various Elements of a Drama: Setting.

This Self-Learning Module was collaboratively designed, developed, and

reviewed by educators from the Schools Division Office of Pasig City headed by its
Officer-in-Charge Schools Division Superintendent, Ma. Evalou Concepcion A.
Agustin, in partnership with the City Government of Pasig through its mayor,
Honorable Victor Ma. Regis N. Sotto. The writers utilized the standards set by the K
to 12 Curriculum using the Most Essential Learning Competencies (MELC) in
developing this instructional resource.

This learning material hopes to engage the learners in guided and independent
learning activities at their own pace and time. Further, this also aims to help learners
acquire the needed 21st-century skills especially the 5 Cs, namely: Communication,
Collaboration, Creativity, Critical Thinking, and Character while taking into
consideration their needs and circumstances.

In addition to the material in the main text, you will also see this box in the
body of the module:

Notes to the Teacher

This contains helpful tips or strategies
that will help you in guiding the learners.

As a facilitator, you are expected to orient the learners on how to use this
module. You also need to keep track of the learners' progress while allowing them to
manage their learning. Moreover, you are expected to encourage and assist the
learners as they do the tasks included in the module.
For the learner:

Welcome to the Creative Writing Self-Learning Module on Identifying the

Various Elements of a Drama: Setting.

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This module was designed to provide you with fun and meaningful
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will be enabled to process the contents of the learning material while being an active
learner.

This module has the following parts and corresponding icons:

Expectations - This points to the set of knowledge and skills

that you will learn after completing the module.

Pretest - This measures your prior knowledge about the lesson

at hand.

Recap - This part of the module provides a review of concepts

and skills that you already know about a previous lesson.

Lesson - This section discusses the topic in the module.

Activities - This is a set of activities that you need to perform.

Wrap-Up - This section summarizes the concepts and

application of the lesson.

Valuing - This part integrates a desirable moral value in the

lesson.

Posttest - This measures how much you have learned from the
entire module.
 EXPECTATIONS

This is your self-instructional module in Creative Writing for Grade 12.

All the activities provided in this lesson will help you learn and understand:
Identifying the Various Elements of a Drama: Setting.
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:
1. define the setting as one of the various elements of drama;
2. understand the part of setting;
3. conceptualize the setting of a one-act play.

PRETEST
Identify what is being described. Encircle the letter of the answer.

1. The element of a drama/play that deals with the time, place and social
milieu where the story line is happening.
A. plot B. theme C. character D. setting

2. It is about the physical location, climate, weather, or social and

cultural surrounding of the play or drama.
A. plot B. theme C. social milieu D. stage design

3. The setting of the drama/play is usually introduced in the _____.

A. beginning C. resolution
B. climax D. falling action

4. A drama can be categorized as _____.

A. novel and novelette C. monologue and soliloquy
B. realistic and non-realistic D. simple and extravagant
 5. The setting of the drama/play can be presented through the visual
element _____.
A. stage design
B. costumes
C. sound effects and music
D. all of the above

RECAP

We have learned that character is one of the most essential elements

of a drama. It is the soul of the story line.

Characters are people, animals, or even ideas that are portrayed by

the actors in a play or drama. Characters are what make stories. Without
them, there is no story to tell, only a lot of scenery.

LESSON

Drama, like fiction, is another classification of literature. It also deals

with storylines and shares almost the same literary elements and techniques.
Today, we are going to discuss one of its literary elements.

Setting is one of the elements of a drama.

In a drama, setting plays a vital role in establishing the time and place
where the story is happening. It is the place, time, and the social milieu or
environment (physical, location, climate weather or social and cultural
surrounding), in which the acts and scenes occur. The setting in the drama
can be presented through the visual element that deals with stage, costumes,
special effects and music.
 The setting is usually set to provide a certain feel or mood to the place,
the time and social environment where the story of the drama or play is
revolving.

The Phantom of the Opera The Sound of Music

Setting can be a place where the character lives and where the story is
taking place. It is usually introduced during the exposition (beginning) of the
drama/play. It can be a certain period such as the Renaissance or the 1990s
that may provide the audience/viewer a picture of the how the people in the
story move around that time.

Setting gives context to the characters’ actions in a story line. It creates

the mood (how the audience feels). It’s easier to understand why the
characters in the drama/play are doing where we know where they are. The
time of the day, time of the year, and ages of the characters will also affect
how they act and what they say.

A drama can be categorized as either realistic or non-realistic.

Realistic dramas are dramas that fall under the realistic plane and are
drawn out from real people, objects, and situations. Therefore, the setting are
the commonplace people use in everyday situation. It could be any section of
a house, an office, a park, a street, a garage or an abandoned building or a
staircase.
 Non-realistic dramas are dramas drawn out from stylized and
unconventional situations. The characters in this type of drama are not real
but are either allegorical or symbolical. Sometimes, they are ghosts, devils,
animals or human representations of virtues or vices. Therefore, the setting
for this would be non-realistic. It could be a dream-like forest, a barren and
deserted mountain, an underworld or a fictional place.

ACTIVITIES

Activity 1
Fill in the graphic organizer with information that talks about the setting in
a drama/play. Do this activity in your notebook.

Activity 2
Complete the following statements by giving the meaning of each word.

1. Place as a setting pertains to ________________________.

2. Time as a setting is about ________________________.

3. Social milieu or environment is described ________________________.

4. Realistic dramas are dramas ________________________.

5. Non-realistic dramas are drawn out of ________________________.

Activity 3
Conceptualize the setting of the one-act play that you want to write. Indicate
the following information.

1. Date: _________________

2. Time: _________________

3. Place: _________________

4. Description of the setting: (2 points)

_____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________.

WRAP-UP

To wrap-up everything that we discussed in this lesson, do the 3-2-1

Important Things activity:

The three important things I learned for today’s lesson are …

1. _______________________________________________________________
2. _______________________________________________________________
3. _______________________________________________________________

The two things I realized in today’s lesson are …

1. _______________________________________________________________
2. _______________________________________________________________

The one important thing I pledge to share to others is …

1. _______________________________________________________________
 VALUING

Answer the question as honestly as possible. Write your response below.

In this time of great pandemic, how would you make your home, your
school, and your community a good setting or place for mental and personal
health awareness?

POSTTEST

Write the letter of the answer on the space before the number.

1. Why is setting important to a story?

A. It tells about the characters.
B. It lets us know the context of the characters’ action and sets the
mood.
C. It settles the conflict.
D. It helps predict the ending of a story.

2. When should the setting be used in a drama/play?

A. Setting should be used in the beginning of the story when there are
new events in the story line or when the audience needs information
to understand the plot.
B. Setting should be used at the end of the story to help explain the
resolution.
C. Setting should be used when there are new characters.
D. Setting should be used to help solve the conflict and to show the
climax.
3. A kind of drama that is drawn out of real people, objects and situations
is called _____.
A. tragedy B. comedy C. realistic D. non-realistic

4. Dream-like forest, a barren and deserted mountain, an underworld or

any fictional place are examples of what kind of drama/play?
A. tragedy B. comedy C. realistic D. non-realistic

5. An element of drama/play used to set and provide the mood using the
place, the time or social environment where the story is revolving.
A. plot B. setting C. theme D. characters
 KEY TO CORRECTION

5. B 5. D
4. D 4. B
3. C 3. A
2. A 2. C
1. B 1. D
POSTTEST PRETEST

References

Buhisan Arnold Jarn Ford, Sayseng Ayesha. Creative Writing (2016): 103

https://www.google.com/amp/s/thewritingplace.wordpress.com/2010/04/13/stor
y-elements-importance-of-the-setting/amp/

https://www.enotes.com/homework-help/one-elements-drama-setting-can-you-
explain-that-me-261997

http://www.literarydevices.com/setting/

https://study.com/academy/lesson/elements-of-drama-characters-plot-setting-
symbolism.html