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I, Spy
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Middelbare school
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Leerjaar 4
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I, Spy
Literature
Slide 1 - Slide
Let's read the text together
While reading, focus on the following:
What is the setting?
What is the perspective of this story?
Who are the characters?
What can you tell about the relationships between them?
In what way are the two male main characters the same?
Slide 2 - Slide
1. In which perspective is the story written?
A
first-person perspective
B
third-person perspective
C
omniscient perspective
Slide 3 - Quiz
Explain your answer
Class discussion.
Slide 4 - Slide
Explanation
The narrator isn’t part of the story
We only see what Charlie Stowe hears and thinks.
Slide 5 - Slide
2. Who are the other characters
in this short story (besides Charlie)?
Slide 6 - Mind map
Other characters
Charlie's mother
Charlie's father
The two men who accompany Charlie's father
The policeman outside and classmates are mentioned in the story, but play no role, so you don't have to remember them
Slide 7 - Slide
What are the two elements that you need to describe when talking about setting?
Slide 8 - Mind map
3. What is the setting of this story?
Discuss in pairs / groups of three
Underpin your answers with examples or quotes from the text.
For the time you cannot use WWI.
Slide 9 - Slide
What is it?
Class discussion.
Slide 10 - Slide
What is the setting of this story? (time)
In the evening; a searchlight passed the sky.
Slide 11 - Slide
What is the setting of this story? (place)
The tobacconist shop in a city in England near the shore
Hints in the text:
The tobacconist’s shop which his father kept;
the wind blew from the sea;
he would be in Norwich (=England)
Slide 12 - Slide
4. Charlie and his father are quite similar. Give two examples from the text to underpin this statement.
Discuss in pairs or groups of three.
Slide 13 - Slide
Correct answer:
They both hold their collar the same way
They both do things in the dark they should not do.
Slide 14 - Slide
5. Connect the descriptions to the relationship
Charlie and his father.
Charlie and his mother.
Charlie's father and Charlie's mother.
not (very) good
bad
good
Slide 15 - Drag question
5. Explain previous answers.
Discuss this in pairs or groups of three
timer
2:00
Slide 16 - Slide
Explanation
Charlie and his father: bad
he did not love his father; his father was unreal to him; [his father] noticed him only spasmodically
Charlie and his mother: good
"for his mother he felt a passionate demonstrative love"
Charlie and his father: not (very) good
Mr Stowe doesn’t even want to say goodbye to his wife when he is given the chance.
Slide 17 - Slide
6a. Charlie's father enters the shop with two men. Who are they?
Slide 18 - Open question
Bowler hat
Belted mackintosh
Slide 19 - Slide
6b. What is the reason they
are accompanying the father?
Slide 20 - Mind map
Well..
They have arrested him.
Slide 21 - Slide
6c. What do you think is going to happen with Charlie's father?
A
He will be probably thrown in jail.
B
He will probably be deported to Germany.
C
He will probably be executed.
D
He will probably get a fine.
Slide 22 - Quiz
6d. Why do you think this is going to happen? Look for clues in the text to underpin your answer.
Discuss this in pairs or groups of three
Slide 23 - Slide
The clue
The policemen ask if he wants to say goodbye to his wife, but he says he wants to do that at a later time.
He asks if that is possible and one of the policemen says: “
while there is life
”, foreshadowing his coming death.
Slide 24 - Slide
At the end of the story Charlie wants to "tell him that he loved him."
Slide 25 - Slide
7a. Why is this surprising, given the relationships described in question 5?
Slide 26 - Mind map
Well..
They do not have a really good bond.
Slide 27 - Slide
7b. Why is it understandable, given the answers described in questions 4 and 6?
Slide 28 - Mind map
Well..
Maybe Charlie finally realised his father and him were quite similar.
Another reason could be that he felt something was very wrong.
Slide 29 - Slide
The title of this short story is I, spy.
To whom does this title refer?
Slide 30 - Mind map
Explain your answer
Class discussion.
Slide 31 - Slide
The title refers to:
Charlie, as he spies on his father and the two strange men, but also Mr Stowe.
Mr Stowe did things in the dark that he wasn’t supposed to, which could refer to spying.
Slide 32 - Slide
I think I understand this text well enough for the test.
Yes
No
Slide 33 - Poll
Continue
If you have answered yes on the previous question, fill in the grid about
I, Spy
.
If you have answered no, please let me know what you do not understand (yet). Afterwards, fill in the grid as well.
Slide 34 - Slide
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