Your composition will have a main setting. It may have one other setting.
However, if you have more than one main and one other setting, you are probably listing.
Prompt: Write a composition about what you did on a Saturday afternoon to keep from being bored.
If you write:
One Saturday I woke up. (The bedroom is the setting.) I got dressed and went to the kitchen to eat breakfast. (Kitchen is another setting.) I told my mom I was bored. She suggested I call my friend and see if he was bored, too. I called my friend, and he said we could go to the park. I got on my bike and went to his house. (The street is the setting.) His mom drove us to the park. (Her car is the setting.)
You go on to write about the one event that happened in the park that kept you from being bored. (The park is the main setting.)
You have listed all about your day.
You need to jump into the action. If the event that happened to keep you from being bored happened at the park, then your composition should start at the park.
In addition, do not list a bunch of different things you did at the park. That is a list. Tell about one event that happened at the park.
Instead, you might write something like:
It has been two years but I’ll never forget the best Saturday of my life. The tall grass felt cool, even though it was a hot day. My friend and I stretched out on our backs in the park. We had tossed around a lot of ideas of what to do because we were so bored that Saturday afternoon. My friend jumped to his feet when I suggested we gather up all of the kids at the park and get a football game going. (The setting is in the grass at the park.)
We found enough players to divide into two teams. I always play defense, because I am tall for my age and really strong. Even though I was playing defense, I looked up and the ball was hurling
through the air. I leaped into the air and caught the football. I placed it near my ribs and protected it with my arm. I started running to the end zone. I felt someone tugging on my right foot, but I shook him off. Two kids were running toward me. I zigged and zagged and ran across the line that we had agreed was the end zone. (The setting is the football field at the park.)
If it had been an official game, I would not have been able to have celebrated quite so much. The game was not an official one. It was just a bunch of kids playing on a Saturday afternoon in the park. So, I spiked the football. I wiggled my legs and pumped my hands over my head. My team ran and tossed me onto their shoulders. I grinned from ear to ear. My cheeks were red. Even the tops of my ears were red. I kept pumping my hand over my head.
The main setting is the make-shift football field you made in the park. This is where the event took place. The only other setting is the tall grass where you stretched out at the first of the composition.