5 Summary of Week 1

This week you have started to recall and think about fictional villains you have met in your previous engagement with books. You have started to create your own fictional villain, using your imagination, and have learned a little about how established authors have created their popular villains.

Next week you will build on this foundation by starting to think a little more about the concept of empathy, and why it is that we may feel more empathy with certain types of people than others. You will explore how important empathy might be to both writers and psychologists and consider some of the real world applications of empathy. You will also move along to thinking about whether or not it is possible, or a good idea, to feel empathy with characters who do not seem similar to ourselves, such as villains.

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