encountered or used routinely or typically: ordinary

a group of words or expressions that are related in meaning

a place, situation, or thing that is not known about or understood

to compare two people or things in order to show the differences between them

Contrasting the everyday and the unknown settings in Baum's 'The Wizard of Oz'

English

In 'Step into the Unknown', pupils learn how to use a variety of sentences for deliberate effect. In the 'Dystopian Settings' unit, pupils will continue to use a range of sentence structures, to create atmospheric descriptions.

In 'When the Sky Falls' pupils write narratives inspired by a text. In 'Step Into the Unknown', using extracts from texts from the literary canon, pupils write descriptions of settings.

Step into the unknown: fiction reading and creative writing

Depiction or discussion of famine, disease, natural disasters.

Depiction or discussion of violence or suffering

In L. Frank Baum's 'The Wizard of Oz', Dorothy's 'everyday' is...

In L. Frank Baum's 'The Wizard of Oz', which colour is repeatedly associated with Kansas?

giving human emotions to non-human things

to express something without saying it explicitly.

In L. Frank Baum's 'The Wizard of Oz', the sun in Kansas is described as...

In L. Frank Baum's 'The Wizard of Oz', the use of the simile to describe Oz suggests...

Which of the following might we use to describe 'the everyday'?

Which of the following do we typically associate with the colour grey?

a comparison where something is something else

a comparison where something is like something else

where non-human things are given human emotions

Content guidance

Depiction or discussion of violence or suffering

Adult supervision required

This lesson will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.

Contrasting the everyday and the unknown settings in Baum's 'The Wizard of Oz'

Lesson outcome

Content guidance

This lesson will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.