Signalman Setting & Atmosphere

LO: To understand how setting and atmosphere can be created through text.

Keywords:

Setting

Atmosphere- The tone or mood of a place, situation or creative work.

- The place where events occur

Homework: You have to choose a picture (original/on the internet) to create your own scary setting. You need to decide on at least four adjectives to describe your picture and explain why they are appropriate for a scary, gothic setting.

Crumbling Rancid

RustingRotting

Diseased

These words would be appropriate for a scary setting because they bring the door to life and make it seem alive which is unnatural.

Starter Challenge!

Use 12 words to continue this quote. Imagine you are the Signalman walking through the tunnel. You have 1 minute.

“…gloomy red light, and the gloomier entrance to a black tunnel…”

Remember your adjectives and

verbs!

“I could smell…” “I trembled

at the…”

Sound Tunnel

Each of you has been given a word/phrase.Think of how you will say this word: Pace, volume, pitch…Try to capture a Gothic atmosphere!

• Highlight words and phrases in the extracts below, which suggest a strange ghostly setting.

• Once finished, stick this into your book and write a few sentences explaining how and why this ghostly setting was created.

Setting and Atmosphere in The

Signalman

…Over to you!

• Now that you are familiar with the language and some language features used within The Signalman, you must write a piece of creative writing to describe the tunnel just after the first train crash has occurred.

• You can write it from the perspective of The Signalman OR one of the injured passengers.

• You can use the dictionaries and thesauruses, to use some appropriately horrific and interesting adjectives for your setting.