To Kill a Mockingbird

1. Foreshadowing and Mood To Kill a Mockingbird

2. Foreshadowing Foreshadowing is the author’s use of clues to hint at what might happenlater in the story. Writers use foreshadowing to build their readers’ expectations and to createsuspense. This is used to help readers prepare for what is to come.

3. Read pg10- top of 12 What do you think the author is telling you here about the “Boo” Radely? What does the appearance of the house show Foreshadowing? pgs. 10- top of 12

4. Can you think of an element of foreshadowing? In chapters 4-8 find events that the Author uses to hint at what might happen later in the story- put the event on a post -it –note, page no. and a prediction of what might happen. Post your answers on the board.

5. Suspense is the growing interest and excitement readers experience while awaiting a climax or resolution in a work of literature. It is a feeling of anxious uncertainty about the outcome of events. Writers create suspense by raising questions in the minds of their readers.

6. Mood, oratmosphere, is the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage. Writer’s use many devices to create mood, including images, dialogue, setting, and plot. Often, a writer creates a mood at the beginning of a work and then sustains the mood throughout. Sometimes, however, the mood of the work changes dramatically. To Kill a Mockingbird In chapter 7, there are many words that create MOOD for the story. Find words and place them on post it notes with the page number and place them on the Smart Board.