Yr 9 setting lesson - lesson 4
- 1. 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
- 2. 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 Rusting Rotting 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.
- 3. 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…”
- 4. 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!
- 5. • 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
- 6. …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.