1. Reading Art and the art of reading (Elements of the Short Story) Monet, Claude. Wisteria. 1919. Oil on canvas. Paris, Musée Marmottan EQ: Why do audiences respond to foreshadowing? ELA9RL1.a Fiction: Locates and analyzes such elements in fiction as foreshadowing.

2. Millais, Sir John Everett. The Woodman’s Daughter. 1851, oil on canvas. The Guildhall Art Gallery, UK. 1.Characterize the people in the painting. What details support your thoughts? 2.Explain the “plot” of the painting. What is happening now? What has happened before? What will happen in the future? 3.What details suggest some future event(s)?

3. Millais, Sir John Everett. The Woodman’s Daughter. 1851, oil on canvas. The Guildhall Art Gallery, UK. 1.How does Millais foreshadow these future events in this scene of the budding romance between the two as children? 2.Which character is to blame? How do you know? 3.What moral message (theme) is he trying to convey? The inspiration of the painting is a poem of the same title by Coventry Patmore that tells the story of Maud, a poor woodman's daughter, and a wealthy squire's son. The son eventually seduces the girl. Because their difference in social class prevents them from marrying, Maud, in her despair, drowns their illegitimate child and goes mad.

4. Hughes, Arthur. The Woodman’s Child. 1860, oil on canvas. Tate Gallery, London. This painting also illustrates a child left alone in the woods while a parent works. Compare and contrast the mood of this painting with the Millais painting. Does the artist seem to foreshadow anything negative in this painting? Why or why not?