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Finish the questions on the remaining pages of the above .pdf

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Work in pairs to answer the questions on Page 1 of the below .pdf

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Points you may want to include in your essay (these could be helpful!)

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Points you may want to include in your essay (these could be helpful!)

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§The symbolism of the ‘Jackson fork’ at the start.

§How Lennie killing the puppy (and other damage he has done before) builds tension because we expect something else bad to happen.

§The sounds coming in from outside.

§The use of light in the scene.

§How Curley’s Wife ignores the danger signs of Lennie, and why.

§The symbolism around Curley’s Wife, eg. “red”, “sausages”.

§Words, phrases, and descriptive techniques which create both calm and tense atmospheres at different times.

§How Curley’s Wife and Lennie move closer and further apart during the scene.

§George’s (and others’) warnings about Curley’s Wife here, repeated by Lennie, and before.

§Words and phrases used to describe Lennie struggling against Curley’s Wife.

§Words and phrases used to describe Curley’s Wife lying dead in the hay.

§How the scene changes once the men come into the barn, particularly how Curley reacts.

§The atmosphere at the end of the scene (time of day, use of light), and what we know will come next.

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Rate the tension as it rises and falls, then plot this in an appropriate graph.

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We'll summarise Section 5 in the Collaboration Space

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Activity 2 - Silent Reading of Section 5

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Activity 2 - Silent Reading of Section 5

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You can read the .pdf below, or the physical book, or listen to the audiobook link below.

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"How does Steinbeck create drama through changes in mood and atmosphere in 'the barn scene' of Of Mice and Men? Show your understanding of how this relates to the rest of the novella.”

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By the end of this session you will be able to:
- List and identify at least 10 positive, negative and neutral words for describing atmosphere.

- Describe the main events in ‘the barn scene’

- Represent the rising and falling tension in ‘the barn scene’ using an appropriate graph.

- Analyse the first 1/8th of Section 5 through close reading using the questions on the .pdf

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Language: verbs, adjectives, adverbs etc   e.g. ‘The resting (adjective)  horses nibbled (verb)…’

Sensory details:  sight, sound, smell, touch, hearing, taste

Alliteration: e.g. The afternoon sun sliced in through the cracks of the barn walls…’

Onomatopoeia: e.g. the buzzing of the flies; the afternoon humming

Repetiton/listing : e.g. ‘In the barn it was quiet and humming and lazy and warm.’

Imagery – similes, metaphors and personification: ‘flopped like a fish’.

Symbolism: e.g. the colour red symbolises…………………

Foreshadowing: when hints are given as to what is to come.

Characterisation: How a character is built up and presented e.g. through description, dialogue etc

Setting: the background to the plot e.g. the Salinas river, the bunkhouse, the barn etc

Theme: the underlying message or point a writer wants to highlight e.g. The failure of the American Dream

Dialogue: What we learn about characters through what they say to each other.

Pathetic fallacy: when natural phenomena such as the weather is used to create mood or atmosphere

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Activity 1 - Describing Atmosphere Words - Arrange these into Positive, Negative, and Neutral

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Activity 1 - Describing Atmosphere Words - Arrange these into Positive, Negative, and Neutral

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Anxious     Mellow     Calm

Apprehensive        Playful    Restless

Suspenseful     Violent      full of Anticipation/Expectation

Tense     Ominous     Peaceful

Relaxed     Painful     Threatening

Terrifying     Uneasy     Alarming

Extension:
... add any others you can think of.

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Vocabulary and Techniques for Atmosphere

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Vocabulary and Techniques for Atmosphere

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For each of these images, note down every word, phrase, or idea which comes to mind. You can copy the images from the Padlet to Class Notebook.

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Of Mice and Men Chapter 5 Audio read by Ryan Morris