WASPS 2 Minutes to write down what you associate with WASPS AQA Short Stories LO Can I explore and comment on the language and its effect on the reader When the Wasps Drowned P9 That was the summer Therese stepped on the wasps nest and brought an end to our barefoot wandering ID: 657352
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SUMMER
2 Minutes to write down what you associate with summer
! Slide2
WASPS
2 Minutes to write down what you associate with
WASPS!Slide3
AQA Short Stories
L/O:
Can I explore and comment on the language and its effect on the reader? Slide4
When the Wasps Drowned P.9
That was the summer Therese stepped on the wasps’ nest and brought an end to our barefoot wanderings, when the sun shone every day and everybody commented upon it. Old ladies on park benches, fanning themselves with well-thumbed issues of
Woman’s Own
, would sigh, ‘Oh, isn’t it hot?’ And I, hungry for conversation, would sit tall on the wooden seat and smile as I agreed, eyes darting to see if they might say anything more. The heat was all anyone ever seemed to speak of, and I knew that when the weather changed we’d still be talking of the same thing, only then we’d be blowing at our hands and complaining of the cold.
The chemist sold out of after-sun that summer, and flower beds dried up, and people had to queue to get into the swimming pool. With towels hung over their arms or squashed into carrier bags, we’d see them waiting along the wall outside, listening to the shouts echoing on the water within, envious of those who emerged coolly with hair slicked damp and eyes pinkened by chlorine, carrying bags of crisps from the vending machine.
It was the first time the garden walls seemed confining, when finally I was tall enough to peer over their mossy tops and look across the line of gardens and see sheets, dried out in the heat, listless in the still air, and hear the tinny music of distant transistor radios, and the ache of cars moving slowly in the hot sun, their windows wide as if that might change anything.
That was the summer they dug up Mr Mordecai’s garden.Slide5
Exploring the opening to the text.
What do we learn in the first three paragraphs?
What is the tone of the short story?
How does it make us feel as readers? Slide6
That was the summer they dug up Mr Mordecai’s garden.
What does this line suggest?
How does this change the tone of the short story?
What can we predict about the story? Slide7
Explore the ways the theme of
growing up is presented and developed in a selection of short stories from Sunlight on the Grass. Slide8
Can you find any evidence of our theme?
That was the summer Therese stepped on the wasps’ nest and brought an end to our barefoot wanderings, when the sun shone every day and everybody commented upon it. Old ladies on park benches, fanning themselves with well-thumbed issues of
Woman’s Own
, would sigh, ‘Oh, isn’t it hot?’ And I, hungry for conversation, would sit tall on the wooden seat and smile as I agreed, eyes darting to see if they might say anything more. The heat was all anyone ever seemed to speak of, and I knew that when the weather changed we’d still be talking of the same thing, only then we’d be blowing at our hands and complaining of the cold.
The chemist sold out of after-sun that summer, and flower beds dried up, and people had to queue to get into the swimming pool. With towels hung over their arms or squashed into carrier bags, we’d see them waiting along the wall outside, listening to the shouts echoing on the water within, envious of those who emerged coolly with hair slicked damp and eyes pinkened by chlorine, carrying bags of crisps from the vending machine.
It was the first time the garden walls seemed confining, when finally I was tall enough to peer over their mossy tops and look across the line of gardens and see sheets, dried out in the heat, listless in the still air, and hear the tinny music of distant transistor radios, and the ache of cars moving slowly in the hot sun, their windows wide as if that might change anything.
That was the summer they dug up Mr Mordecai’s garden.Slide9
How is the theme of growing up presented in these lines?
That was the summer Therese stepped on the wasps’ nest and brought an end to our barefoot
wanderings
It was the first time the garden walls seemed
confining
That
was the summer they dug up Mr Mordecai’s garden.Slide10
Band and Marks
Criteria
Band
5
‘Sophisticated, impressive’
25-30
Sophisticated interpretation of texts
Sophisticated
engagement with writers’ ideas and attitudes
Sophisticated analysis of language and structure
Imaginatively selected evidence
Band 4
‘Confident, assured’
19-24
Confident
and developed interpretation of texts
Engage with writer’s ideas and attitudes
Analysis of language and structure
Well selected evidence
Band 3
‘Clear, Confident’
13-18
Clear understanding
of significant moments in the texts
Ability to explain writers’ ideas
Ability to understand features of language and structure
Appropriate evidence
Band 2
‘Some’
7-12
Some
awareness of obvious meanings in the text
Some awareness of writers’ ideas
Some awareness of obvious features of language and structure
Evidence
Band 1
‘Limited’
1-6
Limited understanding of texts
Limited engagement
with writers’ ideas
Little range of textual evidence Slide11
How to write about texts:
Make a clear point
if possible use the vocabulary from the question or successful connectives
Select appropriate textual evidence
Use short quotes that suit the point you have made
Explain your evidence in detail
Think about what you infer/deduce from the textual evidence
Develop your ideas by:
Picking out key aspects of language and considering connotations and denotations
Think about the structural choices that have been made
Consider the effect on readers Slide12
How is the theme of growing up presented in these lines?
The theme of growing up is presented by the change in the children’s actions “bought an end to our barefoot wanderings”. This suggests that until this time the characters were carefree as they would wander about ‘barefoot’. As readers we could infer that they are getting older as children are more likely to go around barefoot than adults because they are not aware of the risks like being stung by wasps. The end to their wanderings seems to happen abruptly “bought an end”, this mimics how quick being stung was and how quickly their views of the summer changed.
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How is the theme of growing up presented in these lines?
The theme of growing up is presented by the change in the children’s actions
“bought an end to our barefoot wanderings”
.
This suggests that until this time the characters were carefree as they would wander about ‘barefoot’.
As readers we could infer that they are getting older as children are more likely to go around barefoot than adults because they are not aware of the risks like being stung by wasps.
The end to their wanderings seems to happen abruptly “bought an end”, this mimics how quick being stung was and how quickly their views of the summer changed.
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Has this
PEED paragraph:
Shown an interpretation
of the text
Shown an understanding
of the writer’s ideas
Commented on language
Commented on structure
Used clear textual evidence
The theme of growing up is presented by the change in the characters actions “bought an end to our barefoot wanderings”. This suggests that until this time the characters were carefree as they would wander about ‘barefoot’. As readers we could infer that they are getting older as children are more likely to go around barefoot than adults because they are not aware of the risks like being stung by wasps. The end to their wanderings seems to happen abruptly “bought an end”, this mimics how quick being stung was and how quickly their views of the summer changed.
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WASPS
L/O: How can I explore and comment on the context of the short story?Slide16
On her writing…
‘When the Wasps Drowned’ is part of Wigfall’s debut short story collection, The Loudest Sound and Nothing
. Often, the characters in Clare
Wigfall’s
stories appear to be searching for something and as they go about their seemingly ordinary lives, a dark or sinister aspect of life is revealed.
The
idea of absence and things lost
appear in her
writing. Even when lost things are found (like the body in ‘When the Wasps Drowned’), a happy ending isn’t forthcoming because the findings are connected to hidden crimes.
‘
When people ask what my stories are like I want to say they're like old folk songs. Spare and beautiful on the surface maybe, but with a dark undercurrent if you listen closely to the lyrics
.’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXkYKUGPFDsSlide17
Settings
Characters
Themes Slide18
Settings
The back garden
Mr Mordecai’s garden before
Mr Mordecai’s garden after
The house Slide19
Themes
Growing up
Relationships
DeathSlide20
Characters
Eveline
Tyler
Therese
Mum
Mr Mordecai
The police officers
The dead girl Slide21
The Dead Girl- what do we know about her?
Why does Eveline keep the ring?Why does the dead girl not have a voice? What comment on society is Wigfall trying to make? Slide22Slide23
850,000
children are lost each year. In the UK it is estimated that 140,000 cases of missing children are reported annually.
Breaking these statistics down, we can see that an average of about
1,800
children are reported missing every day!
That
is one child every 40 seconds!
And
these are just the reported cases
.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zUFviSuFx0Slide24
Holly and Jessica. 4
th August 2002.
Bodies Found 17
th
August 2002.
10 years old.
Sarah Payne. 1 July.
Body was found 17
th
July.
8 Years old. Slide25
Vicky Hamilton (Disappeared Feb 1991. Aged 15. Body found in 2007)
Angelika Kluk (Disappeared Sept 2006. Aged 23. Body found Oct 2006)
Dinah McNicol (Disappeared August 1991. Aged 18. Body found in 2007) Slide26
Jessica Marie Lunsford (October 6, 1995 – February 27, 2005) was a nine-year-old girl who was abducted from her home in Homosassa, Florida in the early morning of February 24, 2005. Believed held captive over the weekend, she was raped and later murdered by 47-year-old John
Couey who lived nearby.Slide27
On the evening of June 9, 1995, Morgan Chauntel Nick was kidnapped while playing with friends just yards away from her mother during a little league game in Alma, Arkansas. A massive investigation ensued, and continues, but Morgan Nick remains
missing.Slide28
3
rd May 2007. 4 Years Old.
Still missing. Slide29
Straight away I knew what it was I could feel, but I told Therese to run in and find the torch. She came back a moment later and we angled the light. At the end of the tunnel, a pale hand reached towards us. We said nothing as we looked. The skin was mauve
in places, the fingernails chipped and clogged with soil. Suddenly the day around us seemed unbearably quiet, as if everything was holding its breath.
She
held out a photograph of a late-teenage girl. A holiday pic. The girl was sun-browned, smiling at something beyond the camera
lens.