Activities for chapters 14–20
A comprehensive set of worksheet activities for KS5 students to explore chapters 14-20 of E.M. Forster's iconic novel, A Room with a View.
There are 18 individual, pair and group activities to help students get to grips with key themes, setting, characterisation and literary devices (including imagery, symbolism, use of pathetic fallacy and other key element of Forster's literary style) in the novel.
Students use the worksheet to guide their analysis of the text and prepare for revision. The activities also encourage students to read the text closely, discuss various aspects of it and form their own opinions. Could be used for independent study, as class activities to support class reading or for revision.
Suitable to use as preparation for Edexcel A-level English Language and Literature: Encounters.
The resource includes answers to support class discussion and self or peer marking.
Example tasks from the resource:
Discontent in the garden
Read the passage, about four pages into Chapter 18, beginning ‘It was a blustering day, and the wind had taken and broken the dahlias.’
- Forster uses pathetic fallacy to convey the idea of upset and even destruction at Windy Corner, especially for Mrs Honeychurch, now that Lucy has ended her engagement to Cecil. Find a definition of pathetic fallacy and find examples in the next few pages to illustrate this technique.
- Later in Chapter 18, as Mr Beebe and Charlotte Bartlett walk to the Beehive Tavern, they discuss Lucy and again nature mirrors the turbulent emotional situation. Find examples in the novel and consider how the seasons have changed throughout the novel and why.
