Today in my reading class, we had a special guest reader to read chapter 2 of our Global Read-Aloud book, Fish, to us. At the conclusion of the chapter we discussed 3 different levels of setting in the book: micro-setting, meso-setting, and macro-setting. We discussed how people and animals are part of setting, as well as government and geography, and even situations occurring in countries such as drought, famine and war. We realized that setting has a humongous impact on Tiger’s life and has everything to do with how the story will end up going. Attached is an image made by groups of students in class as they identified the elements of each level of setting. We would love your comments!
I really enjoyed viewing your diagram of the elements in each level of the setting (micro, meso and macro) which you identified in ‘Fish’ by L. S. Matthews.
I shall be sharing your work with my class. We responded to the setting of Fish, by composing our own pieces of descriptive writing. We’d love you to read a few of the descriptions which we have displayed on our blog.
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The similarities of Fish and A Long Walk to Water in the Macro setting are that they both take place during a war. In the Meso setting the weather is similar, both Fish and in A Long Walk to Water there is a wet season and a dry season. In the micro setting, A Long Walk to Water the boy goes to school but in Fish Tiger does not go to school. The differences in Fish and A Long Walk to Water include different countries. In A Long Walk to Water it takes place in Sudan. In Fish, we don’t know which country, but our class predicted that it takes place in the middle east.