Highlights Heart of Darkness

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 4

Into the darkness 

with 

Heart of Darkness

H4

previous lesson: making inferences

lessonup.app

Goals

At the end of this lesson you understand what colonialism is.

At the end of this lesson you can make inferences to visualise the setting.

Planning

goals

Warming up and what do you Remember - 7m

Context - 5m

Activity Setting - 20m

Present findings - 8m

What's next? - 5m

Workshop Planning

1m ->S

3m ->R

2m->R

5m->S

2m->S

2m ->R

Which words relate to the picture: DRAG AND DROP on the picture

Africa

fair trade

   natural resources

Asia

Western world

Capitalism

slavery

Aid

generosity

civilized

Colonialism

Colonialism 

Colonialism is defined as the occupation and control of one nation by another.

European nations colonized Africa as well as many other nations.

What are our neighbours famous for?

What are our neighbours infamous for?

Heart of Darkness

We know about colonialism, we know a bit about what the Belgians have done, now lets dive into the setting->

What can you infer?

 Read along

“...Going up that river was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings. An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. The air was warm, thick, heavy, sluggish. There was no joy in the brilliance of sunshine. The long stretches of the waterway ran on, deserted, into the gloom of over-shadowed distances. In silvery sand-banks hippos and alligators sunned themselves side by side. The broadening waters flowed through a mob of wooded islands; you lost your way on that river as you would on a desert, and butted all day long against shoals, trying to find the channel, til you thought yourself bewitched and cut off forever from everything you had known once—somewhere—far away—in another existence perhaps ... And this stillness of life did not in the least resemble a peace. It was the stillness of an implacable force brooding over an inscrutable intention.” p42/48

1. Answer the questions individually and then discuss it in your group and use the information to make one visual image per group of the quote -> you can choose --> Draw or make a digital collage.

2. indvidually/ In groups

3. Need help? Ask other student, then teacher

4. 15 minutes

5. Anyone can be chosen, Some of you will explain/present the drawing or collage 

6. Ready? Double check with your groupmembers that can all explain your image.

Questions:

1. Do you know all the words? Discuss in your group and look up the meaning of words

you don’t understand.

2. What do you think this abstract is about?

3. What words did the writer use to create a visual image in your head? Write them

down.

 Read along

“...Going up that river was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings. An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. The air was warm, thick, heavy, sluggish. There was no joy in the brilliance of sunshine. The long stretches of the waterway ran on, deserted, into the gloom of over-shadowed distances. In silvery sand-banks hippos and alligators sunned themselves side by side. The broadening waters flowed through a mob of wooded islands; you lost your way on that river as you would on a desert, and butted all day long against shoals, trying to find the channel, til you thought yourself bewitched and cut off forever from everything you had known once—somewhere—far away—in another existence perhaps ... And this stillness of life did not in the least resemble a peace. It was the stillness of an implacable force brooding over an inscrutable intention.” p42/48

Present your visual images:
either a picture of your drawing or a screenshot of your collage

Goals achieved?

and what's next:

• At the end of this lesson you understand what colonialism is.
  
• At the end of this lesson you can make inferences to visualise the setting.

Did you achieve the goal? green: yes / Red: no (write down what you still need to achieve these goals) -> We will start with these questions and topics next lesson

Bring your answer to class next lit lesson:

What effect might such an environment have on a civilized person, like the Belgians?

AND: read Chapter 1