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SETTING IN NONFICTION

WORKSHEET

Setting, the time and place in which events occur, can be as important in nonfiction
as it is in a work of fiction. In a memoir, a writer might discuss how the customs,
beliefs and day-to-day life of her childhood home influenced the adult she became.

INSTRUCTIONS: in the web, write descriptive details that help convey the setting
of the memoir. An example ha been done for you.

Landscape People

Thousand-year-old houses Some of the people were


nice but there were
others who were very
critical.

1960s1960
Jerusalem

Customs and Beliefs


Day-to-day Life
Dance around the fire
and eat with the other They moved around a lot
people on the same plate because they liked to travel
. to different places even
though and were sad
because of the war.

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