Jeewan Moktan Fiction [Unit Length]: 1 hour 30 min

Class/Grade: 7

Lesson: Fiction skill (foreshadowing)

Presentation

Unit Overview
Main Idea (Claim) Summative Assessment
Fiction skills: Short story writing
Foreshadowing

Guiding Questions Objectives (know/understand/do/value)

What is foreshadowing?
How do we identify foreshadowing in a passage
or a story?
What are the functions of foreshadowing?
Why is foreshadowing important in the story?
The student will . . .
Identify foreshadowing in text or story.
Identify the functions and importance of
foreshadowing in the story.
Create foreshadowing examples

Time Instructional Procedures and Strategies

2 min Beginning the Lesson
Prayer:
Video
10 min Developing the Lesson
Then introduce the lesson: Foreshadowing
What is Foreshadowing?
We often think whats going to happen next when we watch some movies or TV
series, when we are with friend, we like to find our accuracy rate. We are just
reading a clue what the authors have left.
Foreshadowing: A literary device author uses to hint toward future events in the
story.
You can think of foreshadowing as a way of giving the reader a chance to make a
prediction about what might happen next in the story.
(This can be helpful to the writer when she/he crafts his/her story to build suspense, to
develop the plot, and to add nuance)
For example: if the murderer ends up being a character we were never introduced to, then
the reader can feel unsatisfied or even confused.

He may use dialogues, events or supernatural elements (revelation, including

characteristic relating to the ghosts, gods, or other supernatural beings, or to things
beyond nature) to provide us some information about events in the future.
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Class/Grade: 7

Functions of foreshadowing in the story:

Firstly, to build an atmosphere for the upcoming events
Secondly, to create suspense in the story
Lastly, it is used to inform the readers what possible things can happen later in the story.

15 min
How do we find foreshadowing?
Writers use a variety of techniques to give the reader/watcher hints as to what is to come:
Movies and TV Shows: music
Stories: words that give away emotions (anxious, nervous, excited, etc.)
: Characters like a dead man, angry man can foreshadow, events or actions like lost
in the wood, and even a title like a poor man and rich man can foreshadow the story.

Some clues:
- Dreams: Ask students if they know about any dream that foreshadows the story.
Give an example from Bible, Josephs dream.
- Warning or Curses (points out or give advice): connect it the literature book which
they are reading (The striped boy in the Pajamas). In chapter 2, Bruno (main
character) is warned by his mother not to ask question why they are moving to
next place and also to not ask about his fathers job.
- fortune tellers: It foreshadows about our future. As a Christian, do you believe in
fortune tellers?
- Prophets: what is prophets? What examples can you give about prophecy? Firstly,
encourage them to tell. Then, give an example from Isaiah 7:14
- Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will be with child
and will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.
- Connect with the lesson (Foreshadowing)

- Discuss what it means. (The coming of Messiah, Jesus Christ, to save human
beings from their sin).
Great commission

10 min Sharing: First in a group, talk/share with each other about the events in TV series,
movies, or in stories that foreshadows the future event. What clues the author gave?
What did you predict? What happened at the end? OR Personal Experience
Second: Choose one member from group to share in the whole class.

Break for lunch:

3 min
Then continue with some reviews:
What is foreshadowing?
What are its functions
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What are its importance?

What Bible verse did I teach you?
What are some clues for foreshadowing?
5 min Then give some other examples of foreshadowing:
NOW, my dears," said old Mrs. Rabbit one morning, "you may go into the fields or down
the lane, but don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden: your Father had an accident there; he
was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor."

~ Beatrix Potter from The Tale of Peter Rabbit ~

What do you think might happen next?
Sam wished he could rid himself of the sick feeling in his gut that told him something
terrible was going to happen, and happen soon.
What do you think might happen next?

Importance of foreshadowing:
To hold the plot together
To reveal theme (Not discussion about theme, teach theme lesson next week)

10 min
Check for understanding:
Oral quiz: tell students to choose correct answers.
Question 1. a year ago today that she stood in this very same spot, trying to do the very
same thing. How could I be doing this? Sarah thought to herself. She took a deep
breath and recalled that embarrassing and humiliating time.
She had sung on stage a million times, but, for some reason, that night was
different. As she gazed out in the into the crowd, she saw them. They never came, yet
there they were. Sarahs breath had quickened and her heart began to beat a mile a
minute. I cant do this, she mumbled as she fled the stage.
And now, exactly a year later, Sarah stood, ready to head out on stage. She hoped
she was ready.
Options:
A: Flashback, B: Exposition, C: Foreshadowing, D: Resolution
Robinson Crusoe (paraphrased excerpt)
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Class/Grade: 7

Daniel Defoe
Being the third son of the family, and not bred to any trade, my head began to be filled
very early with rambling thoughts. My father, who was very ancient, had given me a
competent share of learning, as far as house education a country free school generally go,
and designed me for the law, but I would be satisfied with nothing but going out to sea.
My inclination to this led me so strongly against the will, nay, the commands, of my
father, and against all the entreaties and persuasions of my mother and other friends, that
there seemed to be something fatal in that propension of nature tending directly to the life
of misery which was to befall me.
The author uses the reaction of Robinson Crusoes family and friends to give the reader
hints of what may happen in the story.

This is known as ________________.

Exposition
Flashback
Exaggeration
Foreshadowing

The dark storm clouds rolled across the lake and Rebecca couldnt help but shiver. The
ominous feeling the black clouds gave her made her pull her wool coat closely around
her. She started walking faster and faster, hoping that whatever was coming would pass
3 to 5 quickly and wouldnt hurt too badly.
min:
explain
15 to This is an example of:
20 min Foreshadowing
time to
think Exposition
and Flashback
write
Dnouement

Closing:
Question: YOUR TURN
write a paragraph / dialogue / character / description / dream / etc. that you can use in
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their story. You will have to write a sentence underneath to explain what they are
foreshadowing.
E.g.
"Sandra," said Fred, "I love you to death."
This foreshadows the climax of the plot, where Fred jumps in front of a car to save
Sandra.
Explain more if they are confused, then visit each students and ask if they need help. It
might take longer time because I do not assume everybody understand the lesson.
If I have time, I will review some of the points. But if I do not have a time, I will just
collect the classwork and give it to my cooperating teacher.

Formative Assessment Differentiation

Sharing, discussion, oral quiz, feedback Mixed group discussion (low ability and high
ability students)
If it does not work, meet them during break for
extra support.
Resources
https://literarydevices.net/foreshadowing/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE0ISlj8wo8