Lesson overview:Approaches to reading unseen fiction texts
- In this lesson, we will be looking at strategies for reading unseen fiction texts. We will be using Freytag's Narrative Pyramid and the idea of 'Four conflicts in Literature' as ways of reading unseen fiction extracts. You will then have an opportunity to try out these ideas by applying this learning to an unseen fiction extract from Katherine Mansfield's 'The Tiredness of Rosabel'.
- In this lesson, we will be looking at strategies for reading unseen fiction texts. We will be using Freytag's Narrative Pyramid and the idea of 'Four conflicts in Literature' as ways of reading unseen fiction extracts. You will then have an opportunity to try out these ideas by applying this learning to an unseen fiction extract from Katherine Mansfield's 'The Tiredness of Rosabel'.
Fiction: Reading and descriptive writing:
- Approaches to reading unseen fiction texts
- Character types and function
- Analysing language: Selecting evidence
- Analysing language: Analytical writing
- Examining structural choices
- Unseen Fiction Texts: Pre-1900
- Mary/Eve Dichotomy
- Thinking about space: Where do women belong?
- Responding to evaluation questions
- Evaluation: Writing it up
- Reading skills: Unseen fiction - Cold Mountain
- Journeys in literature: Cold Mountain
- Descriptive detail: Close analysis
- Descriptive writing: Planning techniques
- Descriptive writing: Slow write
- Reading skills: Samphire
- Reading skills: Samphire (Part 2)
- Narrative writing: What makes a good opening?
- Narrative writing: Creating movement in our writing
- Narrative writing: Effective endings
- Reading skills: Pre-1900 unseen fiction - Heart of Darkness
- Writing skills: Responding to a setting stimulus image
- Writing skills: Responding to a person stimulus image
- Writing skills: Using symbolism
- Writing skills: A writing process