Producers of texts use purpose and style to affect our perspective on what it means to be human.
Aim: Consider what techniques and devices make up the Style of Short Story.
The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico
Listen to Paul Gallico Video until 4:56 "One Day" and then read the pdf of the Snow Goose: When you have finished reading (and only then!) go to the assignment. .
The Squaw by Bram Stoker
ATL: Practise empathy
How does empathy play a part here? When we read we have to be open to empathising. If we do not care then we will not get the ideas at all. If we merely sympathise then we will appreciate the novel logically, but if we truly allow ourselves to be immersed in what we are reading, if we empathise with the characters then we can experience the novel.
Question: Does empathy always make us a better reader?
ATL: Read critically and for comprehension
So if we read empathetically we do not need to be critical right?
Wrong- having established what you feel with regards empathy - then we can step back and reflect on how that feeling has been created.
That evening when Fritha came, the sea had moved in through the breached walls and covered it over. Nothing was left to break the utter desolation. No marsh fowl had dared to return. Only the fright-less gulls wheeled and soared and mewed their plaint over the place where it had been.
Paul Gallico (The Snow Goose)