L6 - L7 - Chapter Three.
L6 - L7 - Chapter Three.
L6 - L7 - Chapter Three.
Three
Lyra’s Jordan
LO: To read and explain what happens in
chapter three and to analyse the effectiveness
of key vocabulary in developing a sense of fear.
Re-cap – What happened in Chapter
Two?
‘Jordan college was the grandest and richest of all the colleges in Oxford. It
was probably the largest too, though no one knew for certain. The buildings,
which were grouped around three irregular quadrangles, dated from every
period from the early Middle Ages to the mid-eighteenth century. It had never
been planned; it had grown piecemeal, with past and present overlapping at
every spot, and the final effect was one of jumbled and squalid grandeur.
Some part was always about to fall down, and for five generations the same
family, the Parslows, has been employed full-time by the College as masons
and scaffolders. The present Mr Parslow was teaching his son the craft; the two
of them and their three workmen would scramble like industrious termites
over the scaffolding they’d erected at the corner of the Library or over the roof
of the Chapel, and haul up bright new blocks of stone or rolls of shiny lead or
baulks of timber.
Answers
Stretch! Find the line in the chapter where the tense changes. Why might Pullman
have done this?
The author gradually builds up a sense of
fear in the scene in the warehouse (pg. 44-
45), but which phrase tells us the children
are in real danger?
Write one simile, one adjective, one verb and one noun
from chapter three on the post-it note and use it to get
yourself out of the classroom!