Introduction

• Engels
• Further Education (Key Stage 5)

Goals for today 

Katherine Mansfield 

Go to the link in the next slide. In your pairs , try to find clues that answer these questions: 

• What was her family like? 
  
• Where did she grow up?
  
• Where did she go to school?
  
• What were her interests?
  
• Where did she live as an adult?
  
• How did fashion change during her lifetime?
  

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Katherine Mansfield 

What year and where she was born

Where she went to school (both primary and secondary)

When she moved to England permanently

What year her first book was published

What year her brother Leslie died in the First World War

What year she was diagnosed with tuberculosis/a ‘spot on her lung’

What year her second book was published

What year her third book was published

What year she died and where she is buried

During your research, note down any unusual of interesting events or years in her life. You will need these later. 

Useful links for information 

Katherine Mansfield 

https://padlet.com/r_nusser2/katherine-mansfield-s-timeline-kwt5124fauk4ga5j

Read the following text 

Read the article on the next slide. 

What are the conventions of a short story?

Take notes in your exercise book. 

www.blurb.com

www.theguardian.com

"Miss Brill"  

Miss Brill:

• Unmarried; Spinster
  
• Connotations?
  
• Brill: a kind of flat fish
  
• “Fried Whiting”
  
• Beige, brown: lacking excitement, perhaps?