Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot, how imagery affects the mood of the text, how characters’ decisions affect the plot).
Arizona - K-12 Academic Standards:
7.RL.3
Common Core State Standards:
Literacy.RL.7.3
Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE):
ELAGSE7RL3
Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot).
North Carolina - Standard Course of Study:
RL.7.3
Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact.
New York State Next Generation Learning Standards:
7R3
In literary texts, analyze how elements of plot are related, affect one another, and contribute to
meaning. (RL)
Tennessee Academic Standards:
7.RL.KID.3
Analyze how specific elements of a story or drama interact with and affect each other.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
7.3.C*
analyze how place and time influence the theme or message of a literary work.
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.3.7.C
Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact and how setting shapes the characters or plot.
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
E07.A-K.1.1.3
Analyze how particular elements of a story, drama, or poem interact (e.g., how the setting shapes the characters or plot).
Florida - Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking:
ELA.7.R.1.1
Analyze the impact of setting on character development and plot in a literary text.
7th 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 or a play.