Work through the list without notes. If you cannot do a statement, follow its link, then come back. Guide = study guide; Practice = practice questions.
Understanding
- I can define setting as time and place, and say what social and mood effects setting details can have. (Guide: “Setting is where and when, and what that carries”)
- I can explain how a detail of position or condition can signal social status. (Guide: “Reading place”; Practice question 3)
- I can explain why the narrator’s word choice may colour how a setting is presented. (Guide: Worked example 1, Step 4)
- I can explain why weather does not always mirror a character’s feelings. (Guide: “Common misconceptions”)
Skills
- I can pick out the details that fix a period or season and avoid dating more precisely than the text allows. (Guide: “Reading time”; Practice question 1)
- I can identify sensory details of sound, smell and temperature and say what mood they create. (Guide: Worked example 1; Practice questions 5 and 7)
- I can collect setting details, group them by what they convey and state the value or mood. (Guide: Worked example 2; Practice question 2)
- I can write a short paragraph opening that links two setting details to a value. (Guide: Worked example 2; Practice question 8)
Reasoning
- I can show how a setting limits or shapes what a character can do. (Guide: Worked example 2, Step 4; Practice questions 4 and 8)
- I can reject an answer that overgeneralises from one detail to a whole society. (Practice questions 4 and 6)
- I can say what difference a setting detail makes to meaning, not just what it describes. (Guide: “Checking your inference”)
All ticked? Move on to the Topic 1.3 study guide, Plot: how events are ordered and why, or return to the revision notes.