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Lesson 1 (from Chapter 1-3)

Objective

Setting. This book is set in a future time on a world called Solaria.

The objective of this lesson is to look at setting.

Lesson

1. Homework. Students will rewrite the basic plot of this book and set it in another century, explaining how the different setting changes the work.

2. Class discussion. Could this book had been set anywhere? How does the setting make this a unique story? How do the people in Solaria differ from the students' hometown? How does 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 Gladia'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 they reside currently and attend school has...

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