Setting Read & Respond

Last Name

First Name

Class Period

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5

Teacher

• Heare
• Proko
• Unrath

Read the following passage from 'Alice in Wonderland': "Once in a wood, she was anxious to get back to her right size again, and then to get into that lovely garden. But how? Peeping over a mushroom, she beheld a large blue caterpillar sitting on the top with its arms folded..."

• "Once in the wood..."
• "A large blue caterpillar..."
• "...get back to her right size again..."
• "...with its arms folded"

Read the following passage: "As Maribelle hurried down the street, the wind swept the snow along the sidewalk and hid her footsteps, so that it looked as if no one had passed. Above her, the cold, silent skyscrapers of the city loomed. The whole block was eerily silent in the snowstorm, and she pulled her coat tightly around her. Maribelle had only moved here a few months before. She cam because she wanted to be a singer. But right now, she was frightened."

• "Above her, the cold, silent skyscrapers of the city loomed."
• "Maribelle had only moved here a few months before."
• "But right now, she was frightened."
• "She came because she wanted to be a singer."

Which option describes a plot that can only take place in a specific setting?

• A selfish child tried to be a better person.
• A young woman falls in love with her family's enemy.
• A ship's captain chases a whale across the sea.
• A poor, hardworking woman becomes a successful chef.

Read the following passage: "Gilberto had been excited to go to the beach but when he got there and saw how crowded it was, he became annoyed. The sun twinkled in the sky, a warm yellow globe. The sound of the ocean drummed in his ears and the sand itched his ankles and feet. Beside him, his sister slurped loudly on an ice cream cone. "Could you not?" Gilberto asked."

• "The sound of the ocean drummed in his ears and the sand itched his ankles and feet."
• "The sun twinkled in the sky, a warm yellow globe."
• "Beside him, his sister slurped loudly on an ice cream cone."
• "Gilberto had been excited to go to the beach."

Which of the following settings suggest a TENSE and NERVOUS mood?

• A city playground full of laughing, playing children and parents.
• A long line of people waiting for a few concert tickets in the pouring rain.
• A stream running through a quiet, isolated forest.
• An empty mall parking lot early on a Sunday morning.