In this lesson students will learn how to create the setting for a narrative story. Using a Ted Ed video narrated by Kate Messner students will learn how an author creates a believable world for their characters to live in. The lesson includes formative assessment questions and contains graphic organizers to help students build their narrative setting.

This Ted-Ed video, which can be used as a part of a writing lesson in the literature classroom, addresses the idea of finding "deeper meaning" in a literary work. It is an engaging instructional video that takes the perspective of a student who is a beginner in literary analysis writing and needs help understanding how to read with insight and acknowledge complex ideas in their work. Using two example texts (Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Morrison's ), the narrator helps students understand how to think about literature analytically prior to writing about it.