lesson 1 The Man from the South

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 4

Welcome!

Literature with a Creepy Twist - 1

Road Map

• Planner - tests: any questions?
• GRO - test 
•  Literature: Short stories with a Creepy Twist
• Roald Dahl -  The Man from the South

Grades block 4

• Language skills IV (4%) - GRO Passive (week 22)

• Watching – and listening test (15%) (week 23)

• Reading test (15%) – Old HAVO-exam 

practise on www.eindexamensite.nl 2014-1; 13 May 2022!

• Literature test (15%) – test on the texts we have discussed 

Test week 4 runs from Thursday 16 June to Wednesday 22 June.

Exams

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The aims:

You are going to find out: 

• more about different story-telling techniques;
• how to recognise important details in each of the stories and techniques;
  
• how poems differ from stories.

Literary aspects

Short story:

'a relatively short work of prose fiction, approx. 500 to 10,000 words, that, according to Edgar Allan Poe, can be read in a single sitting of two hours or less'. 

The short story works to create a single effect. 

(The Norton Introduction to Literature, 2013)

Literary aspects

Structure

1. Introduction 

2. Rising action - often there is some kind of conflict

3. Climax 

4. Falling action - attempts are made to work things out

5. Denouement  

Literary aspects

Structure

1. My boyfriend and I are on holiday in Honolulu

2. We fight because he does not want to surf the waves

3. I go alone and I am attacked by a shark

4. My boyfriend sees it, jumps in and fights off the shark

5. I think he's a hero and we live happily every after.

Authors

• Roald Dahl
• Edwin Brock
• Edgar Allen Poe 

The Man from the South (1948)

• Set in Jamaica
• Holiday resort
• I - perspective 
• Carlos - the man from the South
• American cadet
• English girl

The Man from the South (1948)

Finish the story

- 2 paragraphs

- about 150 -200 words

- in line with the story so far. 

Homework

12 May 2022

Finish the story

- 2 paragraphs

- about 150 -200 words

- in line with the story so far

Read Roald Dahl's biographical notes!

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