Unseen fiction 20/05/21

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 4

Goals today: 20th May 

You will have information about the Literature circles prep and test. 

You will improve your close-reading analysis skills in text 3 

You will improve your academic vocabulary 

You will start to write portfolio question 3 

Literature circles

Groups who have not met:

The Big Sleep: Fleur, Lars, Minou, Kato

The Reluctant Fundamentalist: Rosalie, Ayrton, Marijn, Daniel

All groups - second meeting recorded and shared before 27th May 

Before 27th May - 2nd meeting 

Before 3rd June - 3rd meeting 

Before 10th June- 4th meeting

Optional final meeting before 18th June 

18th June Literature circles analysis test 

Foreshadowing is when an author  drops hints about things that will happen later in a piece of writing. 

How does the writer foreshadow the destruction the bombers will cause? Use quotations to support your answer.

Consider these points: 

• The ‘ruined ships’ foreshadow the destruction of the city, especially as one of them ‘burns’ and the planes carry incendiary bombs.

• The ‘panicked sheep’ foreshadow the panicked reaction of the people who live in the city.

 

"Intercoms crackle. Deliberately, almost lazily, the bombers shed altitude. Threads of red light ascend from anti-air emplacements up and down the coast. Dark, ruined ships appear, scuttled or destroyed, one with its bow shorn away, a second flickering as it burns. On an outermost island, panicked sheep run zigzagging between rocks.

Inside each airplane, a bombardier peers through an aiming window and counts to twenty. Four five six seven. To the bombardiers, the walled city on its granite headland, drawing ever closer, looks like an unholy tooth, something black and dangerous, a final abscess to be lanced away. "

Read this section and complete the question and table on the next slide. 

quote	Technique	Effect
‘The walled city ... looks like an unholy tooth.’
‘A final abscess to be lanced away.’

1. list four things that can be seen from the plane. 

2. complete the table. 

Seen from the plane: 

• threads of red light

• anti-air emplacements

• the coast

• dark, ruined ships

• a ship with its bow shorn away

• a ship which is on fire

• panicked sheep

• the walled city.

 

 

quote	Technique	Effect
‘The walled city ... looks like an unholy tooth.’	Simile	'unholy' suggests that the bombardiers see the city as sinful or immoral. The reference to the ‘tooth’ may suggest that it is well protected, linking to a tooth’s enamel.
‘A final abscess to be lanced away.’	Metaphor	This suggests the bombardiers see the city as something rotten and disgusting, which needs to be destroyed in order to save it.

Read from "The Girl..." to "She cannot sleep"

1. The author makes Marie-Laure sound vulnerable.’ Do you agree? Make a  table as below to help you plan your ideas: (5 answers and 5 quotes) 

Yes/No because ... 

Quotation which supports this 

Yes/No because ...	Quotation which supports this
Yes, because she cannot see.	‘Sightless’
Yes, because she is quite young.	‘Sixteen year old’
Yes, because she is alone.	‘Waiting for her great-uncle Etienne, who owns this house, who went out the previous night while she slept, and who has not returned.’
Yes, because she is clearly anxious.	‘All evening she has been marching her fingers around the model ... she cannot sleep.’
No, because the author suggests she is clever and can fend for herself.	‘ In a corner of the room stand two galvanised buckets filled to the rim with water.’

Read from " She can hear ..." to "the airplanes grows"

1. In this part of the extract, the writer uses a lot of aural/auditory, tactile and olfactory imagery, describing the things Marie-Laure can hear, feel and smell. Why do you think the author does this? What does it highlight for the reader?

2. "When she opens the bedroom window, the noise of the airplanes becomes louder. Otherwise, the night is dreadfully silent: no engines, no voices, no clatter. No sirens. No footfalls on the cobbles. Not even gulls. Just a high tide, one block away and six stories below, lapping at the base of the city walls." How does the author use aural/auditory imagery and other language techniques to create an ominous atmosphere here?

3. The author keeps referring to the sound of the airplanes in this part of the extract. Find three examples. Why do you think the author includes these repeated references to the planes? What effect does this have?

Read from " She can hear ..." to "the airplanes grows" 

ideas

1. Use of imagery reminds the reader that Marie-Laure cannot see and therefore depends on her other senses. 

2. Aural/auditory imagery is used to describe the noise of the airplanes becoming ‘louder’, which reminds us of the danger Marie-Laure is in. This contrasts with the silence of the city itself, which seems unnatural. It suggests the fear of the citizens, who have left or are sheltering inside. It also makes Marie-Laure seem very isolated. This silence is emphasised by the repetition of ‘no’ and the listing of all the things she cannot hear. The final description of the sea ‘lapping at the base of the city walls’ creates that sense that something is approaching and that danger is close by.

Read from " She can hear ..." to "the airplanes grows" 

ideas

3. "She can hear the bombers when they are three miles away. A mounting static. The hum inside a seashell."

" When she opens the bedroom window, the noise of the airplanes becomes louder."

"The drone of the airplanes grows."

 

The use of repetition reminds us that the planes are getting nearer and nearer and that Marie-Laure is in danger. This increases tension in the narrative and highlights that for Marie-Laure her sense of hearing must compensate for her lack of sight. 

Homework/ Classwork 

Complete assignments for unit

8d, 8e & 8f  

Put your answers in class notebook =>AWL Academic language acquisition 

Portfolio exam type question

Homework for 24th May 

Answer question number 3 (in files) and place your answer in your class notebook. 

1. Answers in your tab with the title: Unseen fiction term 4 PORTFOLIO 

2. Give your answer the title: Text 3

3. Underline your 10 academic vocabulary words. (choices from the chapters so far).