Our Patron of Reading, Emma Carroll, visited yesterday for the second time.<\/p>\n
Since her last visit in September, \u2018The Somerset Tsunami\u2019<\/em> has been published and Emma spoke to Forms 1, 2 and 3 about how actual historical events inspired her to write this story set in 1607in the reign of King James I, which involves an actual tsunami in Somerset and a witch trial. The pupils were fascinated to learn about the things that could cause you to be accused of being a witch; in one session there was only one boy who didn\u2019t qualify! <\/p>\n\n For the Upper School sessions, Emma gave a talk entitled \u2018The Gothic Influence\u2019 which focused on her fascination with Mary Shelley and her book \u2018Frankenstein\u2019<\/em>. 5+, who have been studying Edgar Allan Poe\u2019s writing with Mrs Awwad, had a writing workshop with Emma looking at the atmosphere surrounding a gothic story including weather, setting, times of day and characters\u2019 emotions and will carry on with this in their lessons. <\/p>\n\n Alison Fenton, librarian, says, ‘It was a busy day but an enjoyable insight into the life of an author’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Our Patron of Reading, Emma Carroll, visited yesterday for the second time. Since her last visit in September, \u2018The Somerset Tsunami\u2019 has…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[126,131,140,145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-academic","category-featured","category-events"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n