Gothic in the Deathly Hallows: Creating a sense of decay

About Standards
Detailed practice
Story - Narrative
Middle years and up
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
J K Rowling
gothic
description
evoking mood
spooky
creepy
gothic decay
gloomy
word choice
controlling audience perspective
characterisation
contrast
expansion
sensory detail
project
Purpose
Write a creepy descriptive passage with a sense of gothic decay.
Description
In this lesson we model descriptive writing off of one of the spookiest passages in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the sequence in which Harry enters Bathilda Bagshot's house. We pay particular attention to how we create a sense of gloom and decay.
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