ELIC lesson Introduction

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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This lesson contains 15 slides, with interactive quizzes, text slides and 3 videos.

time-iconLesson duration is: 30 min

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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

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Purpose of this lesson
An Introduction into the nature of the novel 
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
its stories
its pain
its coping with loss
its humanity

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Have you ever heard of the bombing of Dresden?
Yes
No
Not sure

Slide 3 - Poll

Slide 4 - Video

Have you ever heard of what happened in Hiroshima?
Yes
No
Not sure

Slide 5 - Poll

Slide 6 - Video

What do you know about 9/11?

Slide 7 - Mind map

Slide 8 - Video

What do these three short films have in common?

Slide 9 - Mind map

Have you already read or heard of the novel
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close?
Have you seen the film?

Slide 10 - Mind map

The Book
In a vase in a closet, a couple of years after his father died in 9/11, nine-year-old Oskar discovers a key...

The key belonged to his father, he's sure of that. But which of New York's 162 million locks does it open?

So begins a quest that takes Oskar - inventor, letter-writer and amateur detective - across New York's five boroughs and into the jumbled lives of friends, relatives, and complete strangers. he gets heavy boots, he gives himself little bruises and he inches ever nearer to the heart of a family mystery that stretches back fifty years. But will it take him any closer to, or further from, his lost father?

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What is their relation with the novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close?

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Main character
Read about Oskar by clicking on the link on the next page. 

Keep the following questions in mind:
- What is his personality like?
- How does he deal with the loss of his father?

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The story
Have a look at the literary terms in the back of your literature booklet.

Then read the fragment from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.


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Slide 15 - Link