Creative Writing

Creative Writing
Quarter 1 – Module 14: Setting and Atmosphere
First Edition, 2020

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 Creative Writing

Quarter 1
Self-Learning Module 14
Setting and Atmosphere
Introductory Message

For the Facilitator:

Welcome to the Creative Writing Self-Learning Module on Setting and

Atmosphere.

This Self-Learning Module was collaboratively designed, developed, and

reviewed by educators from the Schools Division Office of Pasig City headed by its
Officer-in-Charge Schools Division Superintendent, Ma. Evalou Concepcion A.
Agustin, in partnership with the City Government of Pasig through its mayor,
Honorable Victor Ma. Regis N. Sotto. The writers utilized the standards set by the K
to 12 Curriculum using the Most Essential Learning Competencies (MELC) in
developing this instructional resource.

This learning material hopes to engage the learners in guided and independent
learning activities at their own pace and time. Further, this also aims to help learners
acquire the needed 21st-century skills especially the 5 Cs, namely: Communication,
Collaboration, Creativity, Critical Thinking, and Character while taking into
consideration their needs and circumstances.

In addition to the material in the main text, you will also see this box in the
body of the module:

Notes to the Teacher

This contains helpful tips or strategies
that will help you in guiding the learners.

As a facilitator, you are expected to orient the learners on how to use this
module. You also need to keep track of the learners' progress while allowing them to
manage their learning. Moreover, you are expected to encourage and assist the
learners as they do the tasks included in the module.
For the learner:

Welcome to the Creative Writing Self-Learning Module on Setting and

Atmosphere.

The hand is one of the most symbolized parts of the human body. It is often
used to depict skill, action, and purpose. Through our hands, we may learn, create,
and accomplish. Hence, the hand in this learning resource signifies that you as a
learner is capable and empowered to successfully achieve the relevant competencies
and skills at your own pace and time. Your academic success lies in your own hands!

This module was designed to provide you with fun and meaningful
opportunities for guided and independent learning at your own pace and time. You
will be enabled to process the contents of the learning material while being an active
learner.

This module has the following parts and corresponding icons:

Expectations - This points to the set of knowledge and skills

that you will learn after completing the module.

Pretest - This measures your prior knowledge about the lesson

at hand.

Recap - This part of the module provides a review of concepts

and skills that you already know about a previous lesson.

Lesson - This section discusses the topic in the module.

Activities - This is a set of activities that you need to perform.

Wrap-Up - This section summarizes the concepts and

application of the lesson.

Valuing - This part integrates a desirable moral value in the

lesson.

Posttest - This measures how much you have learned from the
entire module.
 EXPECTATIONS

This is your self-instructional learner module in Creative Writing. All

the activities provided in this lesson will help you learn and understand:
Setting and Atmosphere.

PRETEST

Directions: Read each of the following items comprehensively. Then answer

the stipulated questions.

1. “The moon was shining brightly as the fox slowly crept toward the
chicken.
a. fox slow crept
b. chicken coop
c. the moon was shining brightly
d. b and c

2. Why is setting important to a story?

a. It tells about the characters.
b. It lets us know the context of the characters' actions and sets the
mood.
c. It settles the conflict. of a story.

3. What is the best way to put the setting into the pages of the story?
a. Take a picture and copy it into the pages of the story.
b. Use descriptive words and details that create a picture into the
reader’s minds and pull on their senses.
c. Use long words and sentences to make a picture.
d. Describe how the characters look.
 4. When should the setting be used in a story>
a. The setting should be used at the beginning of the story, when there
are new events in the storyline, or when the readers need the
information to understand the plot.
b. The setting should be used at the end of the story to help explain the
resolution.
c. The setting should be used when there are new characters
d. The setting should be used to help solve the conflict and to show the
climax.

5. How has the setting improved the video game industry?

a. It created new types of computer consoles.
b. It made characters more interesting.
c. It gave the games more backgrounds and visuals to make them
complex and exciting.
d. It helped people understand the games.

RECAP

Learning the different elements of setting and atmosphere in fiction is

very primordial on your part as senior high school students. Each of you must
be reminded of the great effect of knowing these techniques in literature so
that by then you can easily come up with a vivid and descriptive narration of
stories of your own through SETTING.

LESSON

The lesson that you are about to learn helps you elicit a deeper impact
on what setting is all about, how is it being presented in a story perse, and
what benefits the readers get from recognizing fully a setting or atmosphere
in any story for that matter.
Basically, what is a setting?

Setting is the time and place of

the story. It’s a literary element
of literature used in novels,
According to William Kenny’s
short stories, plays and films
book, the term setting refers
and usually introduce during
to the point in time and the beginning of the story.
space at which the event of
the plot occur

 The setting may also include the environment of the story, which can
be made up of the physical location, climate, weather, or social and
cultural surroundings.
 Setting can be real or imaginary.
 A good setting helps the reader in the story.
 A good author includes descriptions of the setting using the five senses.

SIGHT<SMELL<TASTE<FEEL<SOUND

The PURPOSE OF A SETTING

Providing conflict between man

Giving background about the story
vs.

nature vs. man vs.

Revealing about a character from society
Providing a mood or atmosphere
each person giving imagination about the
image of all characters to readers
by using five senses.

TYPES OF SETTING

NEUTRAL SETTING a. Of the setting in a work of fiction is little

more than a reflection of the truth that
things happen to somewhere
 b. Beyond giving us this much information,
the author has no real interest in his
setting and does not encourage such
interest on your part
SPIRITUAL SETTING a. As long as the setting is only vaguely and
conventionally rural, the values suggested
are to be vague conventional.
b. But as the physical setting becomes more
specific and more vividly rendered, so does
the spiritual setting
c. By the spiritual setting, we mean the values
embodied in or implied.
DYNAMIC SETTING a. Setting may thrust itself dynamically into
an action, affecting events and being in
turn affected by them, until seeing seems to
assume the role of the major character.

THE ELEMENTS OF SETTING

1. The actual geographical location

2. The occupations and modes of day to day of the characters.
3. The time in which the action takes place.
4. The religious, moral, social, and emotional environments of the
character.

FUNCTIONS OF SETTING

■ setting as a metaphor
The setting becomes symbolic of the theme of the story.
Sometimes in fiction, we encounter details of setting that seem to function
as a projection or objectification of the internal states of the characters or
a pervasive spiritual condition.

ATMOSPHERE
Called as metaphorical function
 Is the creation of an atmosphere which has been more talked about than
defined, there is a possibility of a contrasting atmosphere.

■ setting as the dominant element

Time as the dominant element. Time is the highest importance, especially
in historical fiction.
Place as the dominant element. The work of fiction in which the spatial
setting or place dominates is generally as examples of local color or
regionalism.

■ setting in non-realistic fiction

None realistic fiction is that in which the story’s events could not happen
in real life.
Example: a setting of fantasy and science fiction

■ setting and the whole story

The setting is an important part of the story, but the setting cannot exist
by itself
The most interesting setting is based on the historical or sociological
moment
The good setting can support the whole story

ACTIVITIES

Activity 1
Make a vivid description of the image below. Supply the information presented
to give you a perfect setting of the picture.
RUBRICS
Factual Information - 5points
Vocabulary - 5points
Correctness of Language - 5points
Fluency/ Grammar - 5points
20 points

Activity 2
Describe the setting of the images from your point of view.
RUBRICS
Factual Information - 5points
Vocabulary - 5points
Correctness of Language - 5points
Fluency/ Grammar - 5points
20 points

WRAP-UP

The précis bestowed upon the concepts, instances, and activities and
other undertakings will give you a perfect apprehension about it. To
emphasize some, the setting is the time and place in which the story takes
place. The definition of setting can also include social statuses, weather,
historical period, and details about immediate surroundings. The setting
provides the backdrop to the story and helps create the mood.

VALUING

In all our endeavors, in all our day to day activities, it is just prim and
proper that time is very vital, likewise everywhere and anywhere we go, a place
OR AN ENVIRONMENT leaves remarkably and meaningfully into our mind,
soul and heart.
 POSTTEST

Directions: Read each of the following items below, then choose the letter of
the best answer.

1. Setting is defined as the __________ and __________ of the story.

a. Tone and place
b. Tone and plot
c. Time and place
d. Time and plot
2. “The river, reflecting the clear blue of the sky, glistened and sparkled
as it flowed noiselessly on.” What is the mood of this sentence?
a. Sad
b. Happy
c. River
d. Calm
3. True or False. Setting can impact the story by creating conflict.
a. True
b. B. false
c. True and false
d. A and C.
4. The atmosphere is another word for
a. Mood
b. Tone
c. Time
d. Place
5. Which mood word best describes the hallway during class changes?
a. Chaotic
b. Tranquil
c. Peaceful
d. Melancholy
 KEY TO CORRECTION

5. A 5. A
4. A 4. C
3. A 3. D
2. D B. Answers may vary 2. C
1. B A. Answers may vary 1. B
POSTTEST ACTIVITY PRETEST

References

Definition and Examples of Literary Terms. July 10, 2020.

https://literaryterms.net/
Setting Quiz. July 10, 2020. https://literaryterms.net/setting-quiz/
Example Pickwick Paper The river reflecting the clear blue of the sky glistened:
Course Hero. July 10, 2020. https://www.coursehero.com/file/p482hkh/Example-
Pickwick-Paper-The-river-reflecting-the-clear-blue-of-the-sky-glistened/
Setting. July 10, 2020. https://www.slideshare.net/000indi/setting-46077689