Writing skills: Responding to a person stimulus image

Writing skills: Responding to a person stimulus image

Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. In this lesson, we will use a stimulus image will start our thinking process and gather some initial ideas. We'll then be looking at developing our understanding of characterisation by examining Kurtz from our text, 'Heart of Darkness', and linking him to various literary models. We'll read a passage from 'Heart of Darkness' as stimulus and then have the opportunity to plan out a response using a photo montage technique.

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5 Questions

Q1.
How many boxes are usually added when we do our 'Box-Planning'?
3
4
Correct answer: 5
6
Q2.
When planning our initial response for a description we have been considering 6 elements. Which of the options below is not something we consider?
atmosphere
Correct answer: main event
place
sensations
sights
smells
sounds
Q3.
When planning for a narrative response you do not include description. True or false?
Correct answer: false
true
Q4.
Heart of Darkness is a contemporary novel. True or false?
Correct answer: false
true
Q5.
What are the main characters in the novel called?
Marlow and Cortez
Correct answer: Marlow and Kurtz
Marshall and Cortez
Marshall and Kurtz

5 Questions

Q1.
What did Prometheus give to humans?
an apple
Correct answer: fire
steel
wine
Q2.
Which part of Prometheus' body was eaten every day?
his ears
his heart
Correct answer: his liver
his nose
Q3.
Two authors are linked to the Faustus story. Christopher Marlowe is one, but who was the original?
Chaucer
Correct answer: Goethe
Shakespeare
Sophocles
Q4.
Kurtz's parents were from which two countries?
England and Austria
Correct answer: England and France
England and Germany
France and Austria
Q5.
Kurtz is sometimes considered a tragic hero. Which one of the following do we see him experience in the extract?
catharsis
hubris
Correct answer: realisation
tragic flaw

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UnitEnglish / Fiction: Reading and descriptive writing

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