Week 4 Task - Design the Environment

We now know a lot about our characters but characters are not the only thing a book needs, it also needs a setting and a plot.

This week, we're going to work on the setting. A setting is the place and type of surroundings in which a story takes place.

Please write a description of the place where our story takes place in up to 200 words.

Here are some things to consider:
- Where is the book set? (e.g. England, a fictional country on Earth, a different planet)
- What time period is it? (e.g. past, present, future)
- What season is it? (e.g. summer, autumn, Christmas)
- What is the weather like? (e.g. icy, scorching, windy)
- What is the landscape like? (e.g. mountainous, coastal, desert)
- If you were standing in the middle of our setting, what would you see/hear/smell going on around you?

Remember to use showing as well as telling. You also might like to use similes, alliteration and onomatopoeia.

Further resources and information
- Personification
- Naming places (a silly game)
- Looking for clues (What do we already know?)
- Connectives (including another exercise)

- Drawing a map