1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v =YyknBTm_YyM

2. Audio Book Link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGMk49 MbKkE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGMk49 MbKkE

3. Objectives To develop a more detailed understanding of Captain Murderer To understand how Dickens uses structure, language and detail for impact in the story

4. Why did Dickens write such a gruesome tale? I bring up nurses, since Charles Dickens once remarked how his family's nurse, the daughter of a shipwright, named Mercy, though he stated how "she had none on me." She frequently related to him as a child such nightmarish tales, as that of Captain Murderer, truly a Halloween-type tale if there ever was one! As Dickens states: "Hundreds of times did I hear this legend of Captain Murderer, in my early youth...there was a mental compulsion upon me in bed, to peep in at his window as the dark twin peeped, and to revisit his horrible house, and look at him in his blue and spotty and screaming stage..." He added how, the nurse or "young woman who brought me acquainted with Captain Murderer, had a fiendish enjoyment of my terrors, and used to begin, I remember--as a sort of introductory overture--by clawing the air with both hands, and uttering a long low hollow groan....I sometimes used to plead I thought I was hardly strong enough and old enough to hear the story again...But she never spared me one word of it..." The above story of course are variants of the English tale of "Mr. Fox," and that of the famed French account of "Bluebeard," who were both cannibal bride-grooms who murdered and/or ate their wives. http://frontierhistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/charles-dickens-supernatural-and.html

5. Which genre of literature do you feel Captain Murderer belongs to?

6. Atmosphere and mood Jot down as many words as possible to describe the atmosphere and mood of the tale of Captain Murderer. You have 3 minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyknBTm _YyM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyknBTm _YyM

7. Macabre adjective 1. gruesome and horrifying; ghastly; horrible. 2. of, pertaining to, dealing with, or representing death, especially its grimmer or uglier aspect. 3. of or suggestive of the allegorical dance of death.

8. Gruesome adjective 1. causing great horror; horribly repugnant; grisly: the site of a gruesome murder. 2. full of or causing problems; distressing: a gruesome day at the office.

9. Grisly adjective, grislier, grisliest. 1. causing a shudder or feeling of horror; horrible; gruesome: a grisly murder. 2. formidable; grim: a grisly countenance.

12. Tension Graph Which lines create the most tension?

13. Opening paragraph Re-read the opening paragraph of the story Does it meet your expectations of the opening paragraph to a story?

14. Structure How would you split the story into sections? How would you label your sections?

15. Describe how you think Captain Murderer would speak. (tone of voice, topics of conversation, humour etc.)

16. http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=female+faces&safe=active&s ource=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=Utl5U-- PO8ic0QXRxIHACQ&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1280&bih=902&s url=1 Which female faces would Captain Murderer choose and why? Write his wish list for a future bride

17. Read the story again Underline all the colour references How does Dickens use colour in this story?