Introduction

• Engels
• Further Education (Key Stage 5)

Goals for today 

Katherine Mansfield 

Area of interpretation 

Time and Space 

Take into account the time, place and background of a text and consider how this influences the interpretation of the text 

Katherine Mansfield 

Go to the link below. In your groups , 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?
  
• https://digitalnz.org/stories/6243bca9c8015e002a68f45a

digitalnz.org

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 

Go to the Padlet link in our class stream in MB. 

Follow the requirements for your post (see information on the Padlet) 

Decide, as a group, which event you want to post on Mansfield's timeline. 

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