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All rights reserved. | |\n\nOverview  \n• Introduction to the discussion topic: the narrative mood.  \n• Focus on mood in creative writing.  \n• Jekyll and Hyde – and how Stevenson creates mood.  \n• Sharing a student response – how did the student create a pervasive mood?  \n• Teaching and learning resource ideas for approaching texts through a focus on mood.  \n• Report on the exam – how understanding mood can enhance aspects of exam performance.  \n3  \nCopyright © 2021 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.  \n| Warm-up exercise: Mood |  |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| • What moods are created here?\u003Cbr>• What is creating that mood?\u003Cbr>• How has the artist created mood?\u003Cbr>\u003Cbr>A\u003Cbr>© [iStock.com/Pobytov](iStock.com/Pobytov) |  | \u003Cbr>B\u003Cbr>© Mark McMahon/Getty Images\u003Cbr>\u003Cbr>C\u003Cbr>© [iStock.com/Oleh_Slobodeniuk](iStock.com/Oleh_Slobodeniuk) |  |\n| 4 | Copyright © 2021 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. |  | |\n\n\n| Discussion focus: Mood and structure |  |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Discussion points:\u003Cbr>\u003Cbr>What is‘mood’when related to a narrative? |  | \u003Cbr>How does the writer create‘mood’ in writing? |  |\n| 5 | Copyright © 2021 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. |  | |\n\n\n| The‘mood’of the narrative: What is the big idea?\u003Cbr>•\u003Cbr>• ‘Mood’ is a term which describes how certain narrative choices and devices (or mode) compose a discursive narrative atmosphere (or mood) .’\u003Cbr>‘Mood of the narrative permeates the story world’– quotations from‘The Narrative Mood of Jean Rhys’Quartet’ •\u003Cbr>•\u003Cbr>• by Octavio R. González – please seepage 11 of the Resources booklet for the link to this.\u003Cbr>Mood is the narrative’s centripetal force. All narrative elements can be subordinated to the mood evoked by the writer.\u003Cbr>Structure, tone, language; the narrative perspective, all contribute to mood. © [iStock.com/Pobytov](iStock.com/Pobytov)\u003Cbr>\u003Cbr>© [iStock.com/Pobytov](iStock.com/Pobytov) |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 6 | Copyright © 2021 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. | |\n\n\n| Creating mood in a narrative\u003Cbr>•\u003Cbr>•\u003Cbr>•\u003Cbr>• Please see page 4 of the Resources booklet.\u003Cbr>The following extract is from Chapter 4 of The Carew Murder Case, The Strange Case of Jekyll and Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.\u003Cbr>Utterson is entering Soho and making his way, with a policeman, towards Hyde’s residence there.\u003Cbr>How does this extract create a mood? |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 7 | Copyright © 2021 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. | |\n\n\n| Student writing to demonstrate a pervasive mood\u003Cbr>• Please see page 5 of the Resources booklet. • This is a Level 4 example of student creative writing. • How has the student successfully created a pervasive mood? • What aspects of structure could you draw attention to? • Use the chat box to add your ideas. |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 8 | Copyright © 2021 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. | |\n\n\n| Ideas and resources for teaching mood and structure |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| To teach mood and structure, you will find it useful to have:\u003Cbr>• some texts that do mood and structure well, to illustrate what writers do\u003Cbr>• classroom activities that help to unpick the learning. |  |  |\n| 9 | Copyright © 2021 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. | |\n\n\n| Extract from‘The Prelude’– William Wordsworth |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Please see page 6 of the Resources booklet for the extract.\u003Cbr>Ideas for teaching and learning 1. Read the extract. Decide where the mood changes. Label each part with an emoji, or an emotion/mood. Highlight the word/phrases to support this decision. 2. Cut up the poem separating where the poem builds or develops a mood, or where the mood starts to change or contrast. The poem has been separated into different parts where mood is established, developed or contrasted. 3. 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