Grade Level: 9th Grade
Subject: English
Overview: Effective setting can make or break a novel. If the world in which the characters interact is real and interesting, readers find it easy to stay focused on book’s other elements. Setting is indeed one of the reasons why The Hobbit is such a well-loved book. It creates a world that seems genuine to readers and packs in a lot of variety. This is accomplished through the use of imagery, detail, and description. Once again, this is an example of an important literary element that students can look to for support in their own reading and writing. This lesson plan allows students to select a setting and break it down for its components based on Tolkien’s description.
Standards:
· 1.5: Adapt communication to a variety of public, group, and interpersonal audiences, settings, and purposes.
· 2.5: Recognize the need for background knowledge and research to enhance comprehension.
· 2.9: Summarize text by determining main ideas and analyzing essential and non-essential supporting details.
· 3.1: Analyze the ways in which authors develop literary elements (setting, plot, character, conflict, point of view, mood, tone, theme) to impact works and readers.
· 3.2: Evaluate how diction, figurative language, imagery, detail, organization, and style shape meaning and impact works and readers.
· 5.4: Organize writing using a logical progression of ideas and transitions to effectively convey the relationships among them.
21st Century Skills:
· 1C: Promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students’ conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes.
· 2A: Design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity.
Technologies Used:
- · Bubbl.us: Students can use bubbl.us to create a visually organized list of imagery and characteristics about the setting they choose to use. The Bubbl.us can also be used by multiple students as they collaborate with one another.
- · Google Earth: If the students feel they would like to look at various spots of the planet for help in creating their map, they may access Google Earth for ideas.
Lesson Activities: The lesson begins with a brief introduction of setting and its relationship to imagery, detail, and description. Example description of Mirkwood will be read from page 123 of The Hobbit (Chapter “Flies and Spiders”). The major settings of the book will be listed on the board for students (Hobbiton, Rivendell area, Misty Mountains, Beorn’s area, Mirkwood, Thranduil’s cave and Lake Town, and The Lonely Mountain). Students will then form seven groups based on the various settings. Each student will individually use Bubbl.us to create a bubble map of the various areas and characteristics of their setting.
Once each student has created their bubble map, groups will come together and condense their characteristics and areas into a master list. The master list will be used to create the visual representation on a poster board (either a landscape or map) of that setting. Those who choose maps will be encouraged to follow Tolkien’s example in the flaps of his novel. The groups will then have two class periods to create a visual representation of the setting they have chosen (like a zoomed in section of a google map). Each group will also need to select the one passage of the book that they feel best describes that setting and attach it to their poster. Posters will be shared with the rest of the class as a deeper explanation of each setting.
Assessment: As with the assessment for Character, this activity will have a group and an individual grade. The individual grade will be worth 10 and the group grade 20, for a total of 30 points. The individual grade will be based on the Bubbl.us bubble map that each student created individually. If they are present and include at least eight bubbles, the student receives all ten points. For every bubble they are short, they lose a point.
Group Grade:
| | One | Two | Three | Four | Five |
| Quotation | No Quote | Unrelated Quote | Related Quote, but incomplete | Good choice, just not the best in the book | Perfect quote selected |
| Detail of Visuals | Little to no specific detail | Some detail | Moderate detail | Good detail with room for improvement | Abundance of creative detail |
| Truthfulness to Novel | More than three contradictions with the novel | Three contradictions with the novel | Two contradictions with the novel | One contradiction to the novel | Poster in complete agreement with book |
| Group Presentation | Decent explanations, but mostly just by one student | Good explanations, but two students no involved | Good explanations, but one student not involved | Good explanations involving all members |
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