Setting-Modified

Which questions about a story will the setting answer?

• What is the author’s attitude toward the characters?

• Where and when does the story take place?

• Who are the people the story is about?

• Why and when did the author write the story?

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CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

Setting can give clues about a story’s ________.

• plot

• conflict

• mood

• all of the above

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CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

Which of the following might describe the setting of a story?

• a frog and a witch
• happy and loving 
• a high school in 1956
• love is stronger than fear

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CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

What is the setting of the passage below?

One summer day, Randolph the Bright slept alone in his room in the castle at Reddington. The light of morning seeped slowly through his curtains. Randolph blinked against the day, smiling as his dream came to a peaceful conclusion.

• winter in a train station of a busy city

• a hospital in the future

• a summer morning in a castle

• a grocery store in the 1980s

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CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

"I'm going to be a pirate this year," said Derek. "What about

you?"

"I'll be a vampire!" replied Emma. "We got the costume yesterday when we got our pumpkins."

When does this take place?

• October

• November

• April

• August

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CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

Mrs. Craig stood in the long line tapping her foot impatiently. She had a package to mail to her aunt across the country and she wanted to buy some stamps too. Where does this take place?

• at the hospital

• in the mall

• in the airport

• at the post office

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Dwayne looked at the map again. He could see the Empire State building, but he still could not figure out where his hotel was. No one he asked could speak English and he only knew how to speak French. Where does this take place?

• in New York

• on a train

• on a farm

• in a classroom

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CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

Julie leaned forward in her seat as the lady on the trapeze

let go, did a flip in the air, and was caught by another trapeze artist. "How do they do that?" She wondered. Everyone cheered as the performers waved to the crowd.

Where does this take place?

• at the circus

• at the zoo

• on the farm

• on a train

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CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

As Brian opened the door, sunlight flooded the small room.

He grabbed a shovel that was leaning against the wall and headed back out to the garden without closing the door. Which of these things would you be likely to see in this setting?

• a balloon

• a rake

• a loaf of bread

• a basket

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CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

Which sentence is about the setting?

• The room was full of comfy chairs.

• Alice ran across the room.

• She was late for class.