annotating an extract - planning

1. Reading introductory information

• what are you learning?

• Where in the wider novel does this passage appear?

• Why is this important?

• Who are the characters?

2. Identify the journey of the extract?

• what happened from start to the end?

• Opening and ending link or contrast?

• What happening structurally? Pivotal moments? Shift in focus?

• Anything signifcant to observe about form? What the narrative perspective?

3. Identify significant elements of crime

• element of setting

• Element of criminality

• Element of evidence

• Element of concealment

• Element of weaponry

• Element of victimhood

• Element of justice

• → select 3 elements

• → how is meaning shaped around these elements

4. Consider importance of contextual details

• social context

• Psychological context

• Moral context

• Geographical context

• Gender context

5. Check → AO2

• imagery

• Contrast

• Figurative language

• Narrative perspective

• Structural features: pivotal moments/foreshadowing

• Motifs