Week 2 Hettys Unicorn By Pie Corbett When

Week 2 Hetty’s Unicorn By Pie Corbett

When the midnight bell struck, Hetty slipped from her bed. Tugging her great, dark cloak to her, she crept down the corridor. As she made her way down the wooden stairs, the eyes of her ancestors seemed to follow her – their portraits like dead dark shadows, hugging the walls. Hetty dodged several steps, knowing which ones would creak. Like a fleeting shadow, she padded towards the courtyard door, feeling the cold flagstones, cool against her bare feet.

Task 1 Clarify-Write the meaning of the words below ancestors, fleeting, padded, flagstones Task 2: Answer the questions Why does it say Hetty ‘slipped’ from her bed? ’ Why did she wear a dark cloak? How does the author use ‘characterisation’ to make objects appear alive? Why did he dodge some steps? Why did she have bare feet? Find a copy the simile starter used in the text.

Task 2: Answers Why does it say Hetty ‘slipped’ from her bed? ’ She quietly gets out of her bed so that she doesn’t make a noise. She doesn’t want to alert anyone that she isn’t in bed. Why did she wear a dark cloak? So that she was hidden and harder to be seen. How does the author use ‘characterisation’ to make objects appear alive? ‘the eyes of her ancestors seemed to follow her – their portraits like dead dark shadows, hugging the walls. ’ Why did he dodge some steps? From experience of walking down the steps she knows that they make a creaking sound and could alert someone to her presence. Why did she have bare feet? So that her footsteps wouldn’t make a sound. Find and copy the simile starter used in the text. Like a fleeting shadow,

Outside, the courtyard was bathed in moonlight. Hetty pulled the cloak to her and tiptoed across. “John, ” she hissed and a shadow whispered back. “I seen it, a unicorn, a wee one it was. . . ” The words tumbled out like sand running through fingers, in a jumble of excitement. Hetty followed him across the lawn, past the pond where the golden carp drifted like watery angels, down to the wood's edge where it was dark and shadowy.

TASK 3 Questions. “I seen it, a unicorn, a wee one it was. . . ” Choose an alternative word for wee. urine petite we are we pretty ‘The words tumbled out like sand running through fingers, in a jumble of excitement. ’ What does this tell us about the speed in which John spoke? What words has the author used to build tension within the text? dark and shadowy.

TASK 3 Questions. “I seen it, a unicorn, a wee one it was. . . ” Choose an alternative word for wee. urine petite we are we pretty ‘The words tumbled out like sand running through fingers, in a jumble of excitement. ’ What does this tell us about the speed in which John spoke? Quickly (or another word that means the same). What words has the author used to build tension within the text? dark and shadowy.