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    The document provides guidance on how to create a realistic setting for a story by using detailed descriptions across the five senses - sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste. It then presents an example setting of "The Rip" and asks the reader to describe a scene from their selected situation using sensory details to set the atmosphere or mood. The reader chooses a farewell between close friends at the airport as one leaves for overseas and describes the sad scene of saying goodbye through what can be seen, heard, touched, smelled, and tasted.

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    The Rip

    To create a setting that is realistic, an author needs to:

     describe it in detail
     use lots of adjectives (describing words)
     use their senses to bring it to life

    Complete the table below.

    Describe the setting of The Rip in one sentence: (e.g. The story is on the moon of Io as it orbits
    Jupiter):

    Atmosphere
    Complete the below table for ‘The Rip’.
    Sight
    What does the Water surrounding him and in the distance the beach
    setting look
    like?
    Hear
    What can the Waves crashing, maybe even seagulls
    characters
    hear?
    Touch
    What do The cold ocean
    certain
    features of the
    setting feel
    like?
    Smell
    What can the Salt water
    characters
    smell?
    Taste
    What can the The taste of salt water
    characters
    taste?
    Creating Atmosphere
    Choose one of the following situations and describe the scene using the 5 senses table below to
    create a particular atmosphere or mood. Highlight the situation you picked.

    1) A peaceful mountain scene where all of nature seems fresh and alive with beauty.

    2) A school assembly where an angry principal is reprimanding students for not obeying school rules.

    3) A rock concert where the fans are having a great time, and the music is very loud.

    4) A farewell between two close friends at the airport, as one leaves for overseas.

    5) Your first day attending your new high school.

    Describe your setting in one sentence:

    Each box needs at least two sentences and at least four adjectives describing the setting in detail.
    EXTENSION - Try to also include a simile for each sense.
    Sight
    What does A huge plain and your best friend boarding as she waves with tears in her eyes.
    your setting
    look like?
    Hear
    What can People talking in the background and the crater of their suitcases.
    characters
    hear?
    Touch
    What do Feeling the cold thick class as both of your hands touch it, and feeling tears
    certain running down from your cheek down to your chin.
    features of
    your setting
    feel like?
    Smell
    What can the Food, coffee, perfume a woman walking past.
    characters
    smell?
    Taste
    What can the The taste of your mouth going dry and the bitterness of it too.
    characters
    taste?

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