Explaining how Burnett presents the garden setting in 'The Secret Garden'
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can explain how Burnett uses language devices such as personification and similes to present the garden setting in ‘The Secret Garden’.
Key learning points
- Use the first read of an unseen extract to establish key information about plot, character and setting.
- After a first read, read a text more closely, considering the meaning of specific words/phrases and their effects.
- Writers deliberately use a range of language techniques to create meaning.
- Every idea we have must be clearly supported by evidence from the text.
Keywords
Setting - the location and time frame in which the action of a narrative takes place.
Language devices - a writing technique that writers use to express ideas, convey meaning, and highlight important themes.
Tone - the general mood or feeling of a text.
Personification - when non-human objects or things are given human characteristics.
Common misconception
That we will all respond to a description in the same way.
The way we respond to a description and the language devices will always be unique because we all have different experiences.
Teacher tip
You could ask the pupils to draw the garden based on the description and then compare their descriptions to see how words and ideas can be interpreted differently.
Equipment
You will need an extract from 'The Secret Garden' which is available in the additional materials.
Licence
Lesson video
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.What is an extract?
Q2.We stereotypically think of flowers as .
Q3.The tone of a text is .
Q4.In order to evidence your opinion about a text you should use .
Q5.Which of the following is a simile?
Q6.A writing technique that writers use to express ideas, convey meaning, and highlight important themes is known as devices.
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.The setting of a text is .
Q2.In Burnett's 'The Secret Garden', Mary felt seeing the garden come to life.
Q3.Giving non-human things or objects human characteristics is known as .
Q4.In Burnett's 'The Secret Garden', the garden is given a magical quality when are said to help the plants grow.
Q5.In Burnett's 'The Secret Garden', the flowers are personified when they are said to .
Q6.Which of the of the following is an effective topic sentence?
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