Lesson 5 - Reading a book - Context

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 2

Quiet reading time

• Read in your book or in a book
• No electronics

Reading a book - HV2

Week 1 and 2: picking a book + reading motivation

Week 3: Emotions and setting

Week 4: Grammar and vocabulary

Week 5: Example presentation

Week 6: Working independently + practicing

Week 7: Handing in your reading task

Today

• Reading time

• Check the "inferring character traits & feelings" worksheet

• Information about context (setting)

• Time to write emotions in your emotions chart

Lesson 5: Context

What is context?

Context refers to the background or details surrounding an event that occurs in literature. Details about the setting, a character's past, or even the time period of the story can help to set the context. Understanding the context can help a reader to better understand and interpret the events of the plot.

For this task we will be focussing on "the setting" (the physical context)

Setting

The setting of the story is the time and place that it occurs. Every story has a setting. The setting helps to create the mood of the story. It influences how readers feel about the text. On the next slide is an example of what I mean.

How does setting affect mood?

Imagine a story about a girl and a boy playing hide-and-seek. Pretend that the conflict in this story is that the girl cannot find the boy no matter how hard she looks. The setting of this story will have a huge impact on the mood, or how readers feel while reading the text. If this story took place in a candy shop during the day, it might have a happy or playful mood. But if this story took place at a cemetery during the night, the mood would be down right frightening.

Being able to identify when and where the story is taking place is a basic reading comprehension skill.

Teacher shows PowerPoint about Setting.

If you would like to practise some more with reading & deciding on the setting, come and pick up a work sheet, please.

They were lost in a dark and mysterious forest.

It was a sunny day and there was only a light breeze on the lake.

The sun had been up for hours and it was gorgeous sunny day in the city.

After leaving the club they took a wrong turn and ended up in a dark alley.

The princess loved seeing the castle from afar, between the mountains and greenery.

Find one picture that (you think) shows the
context of your book.

Decide how many points this moodboard would get.

1. 0 pts: Completely irrelevant to the story. Or no moodboard provided.
2. 1 pt: Presents some creativity however inadequate and irrelevant to reading. Or uses mostly movie stills.
3. 2 pts: Attempt at a creative approach to the task, clear relation to the book.
4. 3 pts: Creative work, matches the style of the book. Relevant information from the book shown on the moodboard.

Decide how many points this moodboard would get.

1. 0 pts: Completely irrelevant to the story. Or no moodboard provided.
2. 1 pt: Presents some creativity however inadequate and irrelevant to reading. Or uses mostly movie stills.
3. 2 pts: Attempt at a creative approach to the task, clear relation to the book.
4. 3 pts: Creative work, matches the style of the book. Relevant information from the book shown on the moodboard.

Decide how many points this moodboard would get.

1. 0 pts: Completely irrelevant to the story. Or no moodboard provided.
2. 1 pt: Presents some creativity however inadequate and irrelevant to reading. Or uses mostly movie stills.
3. 2 pts: Attempt at a creative approach to the task, clear relation to the book.
4. 3 pts: Creative work, matches the style of the book. Relevant information from the book shown on the moodboard.

What to do now?

Work on your emotions chart

and/or

Find pictures for your moodboard

Homework

Finish this LessonUp, please!

Keep reading in your book.

Note down emotions.

Look for clues about the setting of your book.

Thursday the 28th of November: Half-way point test in Learnbeat.