Explain how authors use setting, plot, characters, theme, conflict, dialogue, and point of view to contribute to the meaning and purpose of prose and poetry, using textual evidence from the writing.
Arizona Academic Standards:
6.RL.5
Common Core State Standards:
Literacy.RL.6.5
Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE):
ELAGSE6RL5
Tennessee Academic Standards:
6.RL.CS.5
Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot.
New York State Next Generation Learning Standards:
6R5
In literary texts, analyze how a particular sentence, paragraph, stanza, chapter, scene, or section fits into the overall structure of a text and how it contributes to the development of theme, central idea, setting, or plot. (RL) In informational texts, analyze how a particular sentence, paragraph, chapter, or section fits into the overall structure of a text and how it contributes to the development of theme or central ideas. (RI)
Wisconsin Academic Standards:
R.6.5
In literary texts, analyze how a sentence, paragraph, stanza, chapter, scene, or section fits into the overall structure and how it contributes to the development of theme, central idea, setting, or plot. (RL) In informational texts, analyze how a particular sentence, paragraph, chapter, or section fits into the overall structure of a text and how it contributes to the development of theme or central ideas. (RI)
Florida - Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking:
ELA.6.R.1.1
Analyze how the interaction between characters contributes to the development of a plot in a literary text.
Arkansas Academic Standards:
6.RC.6.RL
Determine how elements in the structure of a story, drama, or poem support the development of setting, plot, or theme.
6th Grade Reading - Setting Lesson
Setting
A setting is the time and place in which the events in a passage happen.
When you read, think of where, and when, the story takes place.
A story can take place anywhere (the desert or a classroom) and at any time (nighttime, the past, or the future).
Being at a certain place in a certain time affects the way a character behaves.
The setting shapes the plot of the story, play, or poem.