Evaluates Narratives

English VI - Week 7

Evaluates Narratives on How the Authors Developed the Setting and Characters

This module was designed and written with you in mind. It is here to help you This module was designed and written to assist you to identify the setting and enumerate characters in the story. It prepares also for you to evaluate narratives based on how the author developed the setting and characters.  

At the end of this module, it is expected that you learned to:

1. Enumerate characters in the story; 2. Identify the setting in the story; 3. Explain narratives based on how the author developed the setting and characters. 

The Setting of the story

- refers to the geographic location (places or scene) and time within a narrative

- makes the story vivid and interesting. Usually, the setting is not said directly, instead, clues are given for the readers to infer. In some stories, however, the setting can change. Time may not be described directly and can move back and forth. The place where the scene is happening can be change abruptly. 

Characters in the story

-  refers to the persons, animals, beings, creatures, or things around which the story revolves. Writers are use characters to perform the action and speak dialogue, moving the story along a plotline. 

There are some traits of the characters in a story are shown in various ways:  

• Through the author’s use of descriptive words about the characters.  

• By the actions of the characters themselves.  

• By the words coming from the other characters or the narrator in the story. 

• In this lesson, we'll explore ways to evaluate narratives based on how the author developed the setting and characters

Activity 1:

Identify the proper noun in the following sentences.

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1. Ryan went to the market

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2. The latest Iphones were missing.

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3. The group of girls was having fun in Center Plaza Mall.

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4. Mrs. Reyes cared for the babies throughout the day.

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5. He likes to go swimming in Puntabelle.

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6. Mary Anne got a rash and an allergy.

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7. After a rainy day, Mr. Johnson checked the electricity box.

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8. There were dolphins and sea lions at Ocean Adventure

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9. My classmates are living in Springfield Subdivision.

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10. Mimi’s height and talent helped her to win the contest.

Activity 1.1

Solve each problem. Write the corresponding letter from the answer you’ve got in a piece of paper. This will form words that we will be learning today.

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Write your answers here:

Setting 

is the time and place (or when and where) of the story. Example of setting: 

Long ago in the past, there was a young girl named Cinderella. ( TIME)

Cinderella’s home is in a faraway kingdom. ( PLACE)

To understand more settings, the given example is the Disney movie “Cinderella.” The time aspect of the setting changes after her father dies, skipping roughly ten years into the future. Understanding these changes in time helps in keeping up with the story or narration. Let’s Try This. Read and understand the example below. Let’s find the setting in the story. 

As the sunset in the evening sky, Ryan slowly turned and walked his way home. All was silent and still. Through the window, he could see her older sister Bella watching a Korean movie on the television. Bella came home from the city where she is currently studying. Though it was lonely at times for Ryan being alone in their home, seeing Bella once a month makes him happy. 

While Characters in the story refers to the persons, animals, beings, creatures, or things around which the story revolves. They are also important elements in narratives.  

There are some traits of the characters in a story are shown in various ways: 

• 1. Through the author’s use of descriptive words about the characters. Example: Ryan is playful and outspoken.  

• 2. By the actions of the characters themselves. Example: Ervin sat under the tree. He is happy being with the dragonflies that dart around the plants and the spiders that make the web among the leaves. 

• 3. By the words coming from the other characters or the narrator in the story. Example: “That girl should be more friendly. She keeps to herself most of the time.”

Let’s Try This. Now, try to check the story again. Let see who are the characters. 

Let’s Try This.

Read and understand. Let’s identify the setting of the story and let’s find who are the characters in the given story below. 

Shela was alone at home when the doorbell rang. Jumping up from her seat she ran to open the door. “Have you tried this brand of coffee before?” asked the stranger. Shela was frightened. She was actually expecting her mother at the door. 4 She wanted to shut the door but it was too late. The salesman had already pushed his way into the house.

Fill in the Blank

SETTING

Fill in the Blank

CHARACTERS

Opinion

 is an explanation or judgment about the story or narratives on what you have read, but this is not necessarily based on fact or knowledge. Basically, it answers the questions “How” and “Why.” For example: 

What’s More

The Angel by Hans Christian Abdersen 

“Whenever a good child dies, an angel of God comes down from heaven, takes the dead child in his arms, and flies with him over all the places the child had loved during his life. Then he gathers a handful flowers, which he carries up to the Almighty that they bloom more brightly in heaven than they do on earth. And God presses the flowers to His heart, but He kisses the flower that pleases Him best, and it receives a voice, and is able to join the song of the chorus of bliss.”

The flower grew beautifully, rose-bush, but some wicked hand had broken the stem. The dead child said, “That was so pitiful! Let us take it to heaven in God’s garden so that it will grow there.” The angel took up the rose-bush; then he kissed the child, and the little one half opened eyes. The angel picked also some beautiful flowers, as well as a few humble buttercups and heart’s-ease. "Now we have more flowers," said the child; the angel only nodded and he did not fly upward to heaven.  

It was quite still in the middle of night in this great town. They remained still and the angel came over a small, narrow street. There are dirty plates, pieces of plaster, rags, old hats, and other things that is not good to see. In all this confusion, the angel pointed to the pieces of a broken flower-pot. The earth had been kept from falling flower-pot and to a lump of earth which had fallen out of it. The earth had been kept from falling to pieces by the roots of a withered field-flower, which had been thrown by the rubbish.  

The angel said, “We will take this with us, I will tell you why as we fly.” And as they flew the angel started to tell a story. "Down in that narrow alley, in a low cellar, lived a poor sick boy; he had been troubled from his childhood, and even in his best days he could just manage walk up and down the room on crutches once or twice, but no more. Some days in summer, the sunbeams would lie on the floor of the cellar for about half an hour. In this spot the poor sick boy would sit and warming himself in the sunshine. Then he would say he had been out, they knew nothing of the green forest in its spring verdure, till a neighbor’s son brought him a green bough from a beech-tree. This he would place over his head, and fancy that he was in the beech-wood while sun shone, and birds carolled gayly.

One day the neighbor’s boy brought him some field-flowers, and among them was one to which the root still adhered. This he carefully planted by a fortunate hand, for it grew, put forth fresh shoots, and blossomed every year. It became a splendid flower-garden to the sick boy, and his little treasure upon earth. He watered it, and cherished it, and took care of it. It should have the benefit of every sunbeam that found its way into the cellar, from the earliest morning ray to the evening sunset. The flower entwined itself even in his dreams, for him it bloomed, for him it spread its perfume. And it gladdened his eyes and to the flower he turned, when the Lord called him. He has been one year with God. The flower has stood in the window, withered and forgotten. Even this flower, withered and faded as it is, it gave more real joy than the most beautiful flower in the Queen’s garden,”  

"But why do you know this?" he asked. "I knew it, because I ‘am the sick little boy and I know my own flower very well," said the Angel. Then the child opened his eyes and looked into the glorious happy face of the angel, and at the same moment they found themselves in God's Heaven where all is happiness and joy. The Almighty pressed the child to His chest, and he received white wings, so they can flew together with the angels, hand in hand. After that, God pressed all the flowers to His heart, but He kissed the poor withered flower. All were supremely happy and they all graciously sang, the God blessed child and the withered field flower that had lain so long in the rubbish heap in the narrow, dark alley.

Learning Task 2

Answer the following questions and name the characters in the given story.

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________ 1. Whenever a good child dies, who comes down from heaven?

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_________ 2. Who sends an angel to takes the dead child?

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_________ 3. One spring day, who brought some field flowers to the little boy?

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_________ 4. In the said story of the angel, who is the poor sick little boy that had been bedridden since his childhood?

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_________ 5. Who takes the angel by his arms and flies with him all over the place?

Learning Task 3

Identify the setting of the story.

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1. Where the angel of God does come down from?

• Heaven

• Beautiful Garden

• Queen’s Garden.

• Field Flowers

• Gardens with Lovely Flowers

Multiple Choice

2. In this place, there was everlasting joy and happiness.

• God's Heaven

• Beautiful Garden

• Queen’s Garden.

• Field Flowers

• Gardens with Lovely Flowers

Multiple Choice

3. After they passed over the places where the child used to play, they came to?

• God's Heaven

• Beautiful Garden

• Queen’s Garden.

• Field Flowers

• Gardens with Lovely Flowers

Multiple Choice

4. It has given more happiness than the richest flower in what garden it is?

• God's Heaven

• Beautiful Garden

• Queen’s Garden.

• Field Flowers

• Gardens with Lovely Flowers

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5. This place was the little sick boy’s one and only treasure on earth

• God's Heaven

• Beautiful Garden

• Queen’s Garden.

• Field Flowers

• Gardens with Lovely Flowers

Learning Task 4

Read the following question. Write your answer on the given blank.  

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If you were the dead child, what would you feel if there’s an angel taking you to heaven? Why?

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Which flowers will you take to plant in heaven? Why?

Learning Task 5

Select the correct answer

Multiple Choice

The setting of the story is the ________ (or when and where) of the story.

• Characters

• Time and Place

• Writers

• Vivid and Interesting

• Opinion

Multiple Choice

________ in the story refers to the persons, animals, being, creatures or things around which the story revolves.

• Characters

• Time and Place

• Writers

• Vivid and Interesting

• Opinion

Multiple Choice

________ is an explanation, or judgment about the story or narratives on what you have read, but this is not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.

• Characters

• Time and Place

• Writers

• Vivid and Interesting

• Opinion

Multiple Choice

________ are use characters to perform the action and speak dialogue, moving the story along a plot line.

• Characters

• Time and Place

• Writers

• Vivid and Interesting

• Opinion

Multiple Choice

Setting of the story makes the story _________.

• Characters

• Time and Place

• Writers

• Vivid and Interesting

• Opinion