1.  Brainstorm the “spots” in your current or your
past neighborhood that you will always
remember. Make a list.

4.  Time
 Place
 Circumstances

5. “If a piece of literature does not create the
setting for us, if it seems to occur in a no-
place no-time or in a vague-place fuzzy-time,
we cannot experience it, or else we must
experience that vagueness itself as crucial to
the action.” – Janet Burroway

7.  description

9.  Your routine, your neighborhood, your take
on home, history, climate, and the cosmos is
unique, like your voice, and inseperable from
your voice.
 Create your vision for your reader.

10.  Although imagery has earned a bad wrap
because of overuse, this is the time to employ
it.
 Seriously.
 Find the fine details.

11.  Remember that setting says a great deal
about the people in your story.
 Of Mice and Men would not be the same if it
had not taken place on a ranch in the times of
the Great Depression. Right?

12.  Setting often begins a piece, for the very
good reason that this is the first thing we
register in life.
 When we enter a place, we take it in as a
panorama.
 Pretend you’re a camera and give your
reader the big picture with words.

13.  Definition:
 the emotional atmosphere in a text.
 You make your reader feel something when
you establish a mood.
 Can be established by setting
 Usually contains some element of time and
weather: wet or dry, dark or light, winter or
summer, calm or storm, etc.

14.  See packet.

15. MOOD / QUALITY OF
TIMES/PLACES/WEATHER ATMOSPHERE
 the city in the rain  sinister
 midnight on the farm  sick with love
 1890, in the parlor  full of promise
 high noon on the river  suicidal
 a spring moment  dangerous
 in a bar, after hours  suspense
 the dusty road  happy-go-lucky
 dawn in a foreign place  lonely
WRITE A POEM IN WHICH YOU MAKE THE SETTING SUGGEST THE ATMOSPHERE. IF
THE CONNECTION IS NOT OBVIOUS, YOUR PIECE WILL BE MORE INTERESTING.

16.  Select one of the spots on the list you made in your
Quick Write today. You’re going to tell the story of
that spot.
 Complete the T-chart for one of the moments.
 Then, use Google Drive to type a piece (you choose
the form) that took place there and:
 has a clear setting and establishes mood
 shows a story (i.e. don’t tell us what happened… use
imagery!)
 shows why the place has a special place in your heart.