yr 9 setting lesson - lesson 4
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Signalman Setting & Atmosphere
LO: To understand how setting and atmosphere can be created through text.
Keywords:
Setting
Atmosphere- The tone or mood of a place, situation or creative work.
- The place where events occur
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Homework: You have to choose a picture (original/on the internet) to create your own scary setting. You need to decide on at least four adjectives to describe your picture and explain why they are appropriate for a scary, gothic setting.
Crumbling Rancid
RustingRotting
Diseased
These words would be appropriate for a scary setting because they bring the door to life and make it seem alive which is unnatural.
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Starter Challenge!
Use 12 words to continue this quote. Imagine you are the Signalman walking through the tunnel. You have 1 minute.
“…gloomy red light, and the gloomier entrance to a black tunnel…”
Remember your adjectives and
verbs!
“I could smell…” “I trembled
at the…”
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Sound Tunnel
Each of you has been given a word/phrase.Think of how you will say this word: Pace, volume, pitch…Try to capture a Gothic atmosphere!
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• Highlight words and phrases in the extracts below, which suggest a strange ghostly setting.
• Once finished, stick this into your book and write a few sentences explaining how and why this ghostly setting was created.
Setting and Atmosphere in The
Signalman
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…Over to you!
• Now that you are familiar with the language and some language features used within The Signalman, you must write a piece of creative writing to describe the tunnel just after the first train crash has occurred.
• You can write it from the perspective of The Signalman OR one of the injured passengers.
• You can use the dictionaries and thesauruses, to use some appropriately horrific and interesting adjectives for your setting.