What is a villain?

LO: To understand what makes a character ‘evil’To create a poster to argue that your character is the

most evil. By the end of the lesson you will have:

Level 5created a very bad

character who looks

frightening

Level 6created a most

wicked character whose

physical appearance

revolts all who see

Level 7created the most menacing, the most repugnant and the most vile of all evil characters.

Evil Characters

"a cruelly malicious person who is involved

in or devoted to wickedness or crime;

scoundrel; or a character in a play,

novel, or the like, who constitutes an

important evil agency in the plot".

How many Disney villains can you identify in this clip?

Active readingIn groups of 4

• Take it in turns to read the extract about the scary character you have been given

• Make a list of 10 reasons why they are scary

Within stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere. […] His face was a strong, a very strong, aquiline, with high bridge of the thin nose and peculiarly arched nostrils, with lofty domed forehead, and hair growing scantily round the temples but profusely elsewhere. His eyebrows were very massive, almost meeting over the nose, and with bushy hair that seemed to curl in its own profusion. The mouth, so far as I could see it under the heavy moustache, was fixed and rather cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth.

These protruded over the lips, whose remarkable ruddiness showed astonishing vitality in a man of his years. For the rest, his ears were pale, and at the tops extremely pointed. The chin was broad and strong, and the cheeks firm though thin. The general effect was one of extraordinary pallor.

Hitherto I had noticed the backs of his hands as they lay on his knees in the firelight, and they had seemed rather white and fine. But seeing them now close to me, I could not but notice that they were rather coarse, broad, with squat fingers. Strange to say, there were hairs in the centre of the palm. The nails were long and fine, and cut to a sharp point.

…by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavoured to form? His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! -- Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips.

Gaunt to the point of emaciation, its desiccated skin pulled tautly over its bones. With its bones pushing out against its skin, its complexion the ash gray of death, and its eyes pushed back deep into their sockets, the creature looked like a gaunt skeleton recently disinterred from the grave. What lips it had were tattered and bloody [....] Unclean and suffering from suppurations of the flesh, the creature gave off a strange and eerie odour of decay and decomposition, of death and corruption.

Her appearance is horrid beyond reason: four eyes, six necks stretched long like hungry half-feathered chicks, huge, nasty heads, with three rows of ragged, shark teeth in each. Twelve tentacle legs and a cat’s tail with six dog heads containing three rows of razor sharp teeth, blistered out around her waist.With necks fully expanded, she is 15 feet tall; the necks are 5 feet long each. Hidden in a cave at the bottom of a cliff, she usually let her heads rearing up out of the chasm, gapping dolphins or any human or animal that would venture in the surroundings.

WAGOLL

Individual ChallengeDraw a picture of the villain in your extract and label using quotes from the text.

WAGOLL

Team Challenge• In your group give out responsibilities and create a

poster about why your character you have been reading is the scariest

• One person needs to be responsible for…– Drawing the pictures– Creating a title– Choosing where things go and the colours– Presenting the reasons you have found in your text

• You will present your poster to the class next time you have my lesson

Peer Assess

Success Criteria You have given your character a really evil sounding name (Think of:Maleficent, the Evil Queen, Cruella de Ville)You have drawn a truly hideous picture which accurately portrays the character described in the textYour poster uses colours and presentational devices to grab our attentionYou use quotes from the text and explain how they have influenced your poster design

What Works Well: Your villain petrified me with its

and

Even Better If:You could have given your character a

better name than The Ugly One… Cruella de Ville's name is a play on the words

‘cruel’ and ‘devil’. Can you invent something as good?

The creatures being

described….