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LESSON #1
SETTING THE SCENE
FIRST THINGS FIRST
Introduce the day’s literary topic:
SETTING
Setting is the time and place from which a story is told
Setting is important because it helps establish the mood and tone of the story A well-crafted setting gives readers a mental image of the place
The great Southern writer, Eudora Welty said, “Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else... Fiction depends for its life on place. Place is the crossroads of circumstance, the proving ground of, What happened? Who’s here? Who’s coming?”
SLEEPY HOLLOW, MASSACHUSETTS
Like all Harry Moon books, Wand- Paper-Scissors takes place in the c- tional town of Sleepy Hollow,
Massachusetts It was here that the evil Mayor Maximus Kligore decided to work his evil It seemed the logical decision because for quite some time, tourists had been traveling to Sleepy Hollow,
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