Setting: Painting a Picture with Words

Activity A:  Choose one of the following pictures and explain how the setting influences or defines the character within the picture. You will need to define the character and then explain what it is in the setting that makes you draw the conclusions that you do about the character.

Step1: Choose a picture (thumbnail) and then click on it to get a bigger image.
Step 2: Study the image.  Look at the character(s) carefully. 
Step 3: Click the back button to get back to the assignment page. Right click on the thumbnail image you chose. Click on Copy.
Step 3: Minimize the web page and then open up Microsoft Word. When your word document comes up, click on paste. Your picture should now be at the upper hand corner of your page. Space down once and create a heading in your word document called "Character." Type your impressions of the character. These impressions do not have to be complete sentences. Who is this character and how does he think and feel in this moment of time?
Step 4: Go back to the web page (maximize your browser) and look carefully at the setting. Think about what you just wrote about the character. Minimize the web page to go back to your word document. Create a heading in your word document called "Setting."  Give a physical description of  the setting. Where is the character? What time of day is it? etc.
Step 5: Pull all your ideas together in a paragraph that explains what it is in the setting that led you to describe the character the way you did?
Step 6: Print your paragraph(s).

Step1: Choose a picture (thumbnail) and then click on it to get a bigger image.
Step 2: Study the image.  Look at the setting carefully. 
Step 3: Click the back button to get back to the assignment page. Right click on the thumbnail image you chose. Click on Copy.
Step 3: Minimize the web page and then open up Microsoft Word. When your word document comes up, click on Paste. Your picture should now be at the upper hand corner of your page. Space down once and create a title for your description. Begin your narrative description by stating, "I am sitting, standing, walking (use an action verb) in ........ In the course of your description, be sure to relate how this setting makes you feel. Does your description evoke or spark any personal memories of similar settings or feelings? Be sure to include these in your narrative.  Remember: it is said that the sense of smell  brings back the strongest memories.
Step 4: Print your narrative.

Credits: 
1. Picture at top of page: Albert Bierstadt. The Shore of the Turquoise Sea 1878 http://www.best.com/~martyw/American.html
2. Activity A, Picture 1: Donna Hurt. Herman's Escape. http://gcc.bradley.edu/exhibit/98/1/hermanescape/art.html
3. Activity A, Picture 4: Morrow Jones. Ice Dancing. http://gcc.bradley.edu/exhibit/98/1/
3. Activity B, Picture 4:  Scott Mutter: A More Perfect World. Revolving Door. www.photographymuseum.com/scottmutter