Transcript The Landlady

The Landlady
By Roald Dhal
Characters and Setting
Inferences and Conclusions
Warm-up
• Review the four ways we learn about
characters with your elbow partner.
Characters
We learn about characters in four ways:
1. A character’s actions
2. A character’s words, thoughts, and feelings
3. What other characters say, think, or feel
4. Other characters’ actions
Characters
• As we read “The Landlady,” look for clues
about her and Billy Weaver that reveal their
personalities.
Setting
• Setting is the time, place and culture in which
a story occurs.
• Gather information about the setting as we
read.
Setting
• After reading the beginning section, create a
setting web at your table – everyone must
contribute.
• When you’ve completed it, each table group
will choose one person to come up and add to
the class web.
• Continue to add to it as setting changes a bit.
• How does that impact the story? Your
questions? Inferences and predictions?
Supporting Inferences and Conclusions
• On the piece of paper that you are given, read
the inference at the top of the page.
• Quote the part of the story that supports it at
the bottom of the page, being sure to place it
in quotation marks.
• Illustrate it in the center of the page.