Setting: It's Where It's At

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In this lesson, students experiment with changing the settings in well-known fairy tales and examine how conflict might change in a different setting. Students explore the Prologue from Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" and analyze how the setting affects the conflict. After analyzing and comparing different possibilities, students, rewrite their version of the Prologue with a twist.

Objectives and Goals

Students will analyze how the setting in a piece of writing can affect the conflict.

Lesson Format

This lesson includes open-ended questions to activate prior knowledge and promote engagement, discussion opportunities to create a shared experience, creation of an original piece of writing to demonstrate understanding, and a video reflection on what the student has learned.

Procedure

This lesson is designed to be completed entirely in Canvas.