Extract question response planning guides (audience response, impression of a relationship, mood)

This is a series of straightforward planning guides for responses to extract questions focused on:

- audience response to the extract

- the impression we get of a relationship from the extract

- mood (the feeling created by charaters and events) or atmosphere (the feeling created by objects and surroundings) in an extract.

I have found these to be very useful with students who struggle to structure a response to the extract question.

Before using any of these resources, I first ask students to draw lines dividing the extract into three sections (there are usually 2 or 3 shifts in an extract: from one event to another, one character to another, etc. Getting students to identify and focus on different sections of the extract helps them to structure their answer and to ensure that they're writing about the extract in its entirety).