Reading ‘The Twisted Tree’: Martha and Stig’s relationship

English

Reading 'The Twisted Tree': exploring the opening

Reading 'The Twisted Tree': introducing the setting

Reading 'The Twisted Tree': exploring and creating similes

Reading ‘The Twisted Tree’: the presence of the tree

Reading ‘The Twisted Tree’: Mormor’s letter

Reading 'The Twisted Tree': identifying key themes

Exploring the use of mythology in 'The Twisted Tree'

Reading ‘The Twisted Tree’: explaining the creation of tension

Reading 'The Twisted Tree': the draugr as a villain

Reading 'The Twisted Tree': the theme of fate

Reading 'The Twisted Tree': the climax

The resolution of 'The Twisted Tree'

'The Twisted Tree': Consolidating knowledge of the plot

'The Twisted  Tree': understanding narrative arcs

'The Twisted Tree': the novel as a Gothic text

'The Twisted Tree': making impressive inferences about the tree

'The Twisted Tree': Norse mythology

'The Twisted Tree': analysing the dreadful draugr

'The Twisted Tree': creating a newspaper headline about the draugr

'The Twisted Tree': planning a newspaper article about the dreadful draugr

'The Twisted Tree': writing an effective article about the draugr

'The Twisted Tree': symbolism

'The Twisted Tree': how the writer builds tension

'The Twisted Tree': introducing thesis statements

‘The Twisted Tree’: selecting excellent quotes when writing about the novel

'The Twisted Tree': expressing my ideas about the novel

Reporting on Mormor's death in 'The Twisted Tree'

'The Twisted Tree': writing an article about Mormor's death

'The Twisted Tree': introduction to script writing

'The Twisted Tree': Revising inferences

'The Twisted Tree': scripting a scene from the novel

In 'The Twisted Tree', pupils explore Gothic imagery in a contemporary text. In 'Dystopian Settings', pupils use their own dark imagery to write their own descriptive pieces.

In 'Sherlock Holmes: Short Stories', pupils begin to analyse the choices of an author. in 'The Twisted Tree', pupils develop their analytical writing skills. 

In this unit, pupils read, explore and respond to the modern fairytale novel 'The Twisted Tree'. They start by reading the novel before practising writing analytically about the novel's key characters and themes. They finally respond creatively to the novel by writing an article and short script.

'The Twisted Tree': fiction reading

Subjects which particular individuals may be sensitive to, eg, adoption, migration, bereavement or death, divorce, poverty, deprivation.

Depiction or discussion of sensitive content

Depiction or discussion of violence or fighting, including threats of violence or the aftermath of violence.

Depiction or discussion of violence or suffering

In 'The Twisted Tree' which word is **not** used to describe the draugr?

In 'The Twisted Tree', whose letter tells Martha that the Norns will reveal her fate?

In 'The Twisted Tree', Burge uses the same word to describe both the tree and the Norns, which word is it?

In 'The Twisted Tree' which god does Martha demand to see, in order to save Stig?

Martha and Stig become mutually dependent on each other.

Martha and Stig share their personal experiences leading to greater trust.

There is romantic tension between Stig and Martha.

Which of these answers is **not** true with reference to Martha and Stig's relationship in 'The Twisted Tree'?

They are sucked into the hollow of the tree.

In 'The Twisted Tree' what happens to both Gandalf and Stig?

In 'The Twisted Tree', which character can be described as the protagonist with supernatural abilities?

Which word can be described as 'the development of events outside a person's control, regarded as predetermined by a supernatural power'?

In 'The Twisted Tree', the island of Skjebne is a fictional place, what does its name mean?

The weavers of fate and protectors of the tree.

The corpses that comes back to life and hunt the living.

The cursed souls that are trapped in the tree.

In 'The Twisted Tree', what are the Norns?

According to Martha's great-grandmother Karina, why is Mormor trapped in the tree in 'The Twisted Tree'?

In 'The Twisted Tree', how do Martha's inherited abilities connect her to her family's history?

Reading ‘The Twisted Tree’: Martha and Stig’s relationship

Lesson outcome

Content guidance