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Lesson 1 (from Pages 1 - 50)

Objective

Setting. Tangerine takes place in Tangerine County, Florida in the present time.

The objective of this lesson is to look at setting.

Lesson

1. Homework. Students will rewrite the basic plot of Tangerine and set it in another time, explaining how the different setting changes the work. For example, what would be different if it was set in 1940?

2. Class discussion. Could Tangerine have been set anywhere? How does the setting make this a unique story? How do the people in Tangerine differ from the students' hometown? How did the setting affect the characters? The plot? The themes? Why is the setting important?

3. Group work. In groups students will research a setting that might be similar and discuss the ways in which Paul's life would have been different set in another time or place.

4. Class work. Students will write a short paper on how the town in which...

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