Week 1 Lesson 1

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 5

Welcome back!

In class today:

• Introduction to the year
• Introduction to the theme
• Assessment
• Novel options and themes
• Pick a novel and theme
• The workbook
• Start reading

Introduction to the year:

• 5.1 - formele schrijfopdracht 10%
• 5.2 - formele schrijfopdracht 10%
• 5.3 - Cito kijk en luistertoets 25%
• 5.4 - spreekvaardigheid en gespreksvaardigheid 25%

Introduction to the theme

• Final literature theme
• Choose a novel
• Choose a theme
• Write an essay
• Win at life!

Introduction to the theme

Several chapters each week

Questions in the workbook

Apply knowledge from class and discuss with fellow readers

Assessment

Essay Alternative Voices

The assessment for this period is to write an essay about your chosen novel. For this assessment you will write a 5 paragraph (750 words) essay in which you argue your interpretation of a particular topic in your chosen novel. 

Novel Options

The Power - Naomi Alderman

All over the world women are discovering they have the power. With a flick of the fingers they can inflict terrible pain - even death. Suddenly, every man on the planet finds they've lost control. The Day of the Girls has arrived - but where will it end?

The Power - Naomi Alderman

• Power and Violence
• Corruption
• Gender Reversals and Sexism
• Stories, History, and Perspective
• Religion and Manipulation
• Revolution and Social Change

Into The Wild - Jon Krakauer

In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. 

Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a party of moose hunters. 

Into The Wild - Jon Krakauer

• The American Wilderness
• Risk and Self-Reinvention
• Arrogance, Innocence, and Ignorance
• Luck, Chance, and Circumstance
• Materialism and Idealism
• Isolation v. Intimacy

The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Moshin Hamid

At a cafe table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As dusk deepens to night, he begins the tale that has brought them to this fateful encounter . . . Changez is living an immigrant's dream of America. At the top of his class at Princeton, he is snapped up by an elite valuation firm. He thrives on the energy of New York.

But in the wake of September 11, Changez finds his position in his adopted city suddenly overturned. And Changez's own identity is in seismic shift as well, unearthing allegiances more fundamental than money, power, and maybe even love.

The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Moshin Hamid

• Patriotism & Post-9/11 United States
• Coming of Age
• Racism & Fundamentalism
• Human Connection
• American Imperialism

The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead

When Elwood Curtis, a black boy growing up in 1960s Tallahassee, is unfairly sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, he finds himself trapped in a grotesque chamber of horrors. Elwood's only salvation is his friendship with fellow ''delinquent'' Turner, which deepens despite Turner's conviction that Elwood is hopelessly naive, that the world is crooked, and that the only way to survive is to scheme and avoid trouble. As life at the Academy becomes ever more perilous, the tension between Elwood's ideals and Turner's skepticism leads to a decision whose repercussions will echo down the decades. Based on the real story of a reform school that operated for 111 years and warped the lives of thousands of children.

The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead

• Trauma and Repression
• Unity, Support, and Hope
• History, Secrecy, and Racism
• Civil Rights, Dignity, and Sacrifice
• Power, Fear, and Upward Mobility

American Psycho - Brett Eaton Ellis

 Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do? Patrick Bateman has it all: good looks, youth, charm, a job on Wall Street, reservations at every new restaurant in town and a line of girls around the block. He is also a psychopath. A man addicted to his superficial, perfect life, he pulls us into a dark underworld where the American Dream becomes a nightmare .

Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho is one of the most controversial and talked-about novels of all time. It is a violent black comedy about the darkest side of human nature.

American Psycho - Brett Eaton Ellis

• Materialism and Consumption
• Identity and Isolation
• Monotony and Desensitization
• Vice and Violence
• The Truth

Pick a Novel

The workbook

Start reading!