When it comes to writing settings or creating a scene in a story, the essential thing you want to do is create a visual representation of what the environment is like with words. You want to tap into the 5 senses of touch, taste, sound, sight, and smell of the reader. If you want to tap into the 6th sense, you want to create powerful imagery to the point that the reader goes into a different place within themselves. A place where there is an ambiance to the point where the person actually feels like they are in a different world internally and feeling different emotions. That is probably the work of hypnotism, but in a way, storytelling is much like that. You are drawing your reader into a different place using words.
For the first setting exercise, describe the world as you wish to see it. Describe your ideal environment. Be as detailed as possible and include elements of the five senses. How do things smell, taste, feel, sound, and look? If you want to go the extra mile, how does your environment feel emotionally and make you or others feel? This should be roughly 6-8 sentences. Note: This is to be written in the form of a story format.
Instead of this: The world as I wish to see it is one where everything is calm and peaceful. It is one where everyone is getting along and I live on a peaceful ocean with waves and coconuts everywhere I go.
Example: As I lay in the powdery mound of sand, the cool, salt-water wind brushes past my face-- whistling my worries away with a melody as pleasant as that of a Beethoven piano concerto. Ahead of me, the waves coil and fold like a silky blanket of liquid that melts, drips and puddles-- inching its way to my feet to soak in the tensions of my being and pulling it away-- dissolving as the water withers and foams its way back into the essence of the ocean. It is here in the vastness of the ocean with the swaying brushes of palm trees and the tender pulp and nectar of the coconuts that fall in the puff of sands with all the rumbling of the waves and occasional caws of the seagulls that I find myself in a place I can easily call home.
Keep it to about the length of this example. If you would like to collaborate with a peer, you may do so and add to each other's scenery and settings.
Student Anon: As I wake up looking up at the ceiling hearing the dolphins singing as they're swimming by. I get up and go to the deck to see water clear as day that I see the little fishes swim by. As I'm standing, I can feel the breeze moving my hair in the wind. I go and walk around touring the cruise because it was my first night. As I'm trying to find the food bar or the buffet, I run into someone and get hot coffee all over my arm. I can feel my arm starting to tingle and turned a little red. Later that day the cruise went to an area where you can see a lot of the dolphins and whales jump in and out of the water and as you look onto the distance you can see the beautiful sunset. As it was getting darker I went and ate dinner and dessert, but for my dessert I ate strawberry and chocolate and it tasted like heaven...