Lesson 1 M3H4

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 3

WELCOME BACK 

What are we going to do?

Reading Reader

Literature project

This period is all about improving your reading skills! 

You are going to have a reading test and finish a literature project. 

 

Reading Reader

This period you will be working on your reading skills for 1 lesson a week. Towards the end of this period you will do a reading test. The reading reader will help you to be better prepared for the reading test due to the different types of questions we will discuss and the reading assignments you will do.

We will start with this next lesson.  

What to do

• Choose one of the prescribed books and answer all the questions that go along with it in the question booklet – you can discuss answers with peers who are reading the same book. Sometimes this is even obligatory (depending on the assignments in the question booklet)
  

• Hand the question booklet in on Magister ELO. All questions need to be answered for the booklet to be deemed sufficient
  

• Next, write a review on the book you read and incorporate 6 literary terms – you will receive a mark for this!
  

Literature project

• All about reading young adult literature and using literary terms to express opinions you might have on certain books and stories.
  

• What are literary terms?

• Theme, character, foreshadowing, setting, etc.      
  

Books

• The books you can choose from for this assignment are:
  

• War horse, Michael Morpurgo
  
• The curious incident of the dog in the night time, Mark Haddon
  
• Thirteen reasons why, Jay Asher
  

WARHORSE

• War Horse:
  
• “War Horse" begins with the remarkable friendship between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert, who tames and trains him. When they are forcefully separated , the film follows the journey of the horse as he moves through the war, changing and inspiring the lives of all those he meets.” 
  

• To give you an idea of the story – here’s a trailer of the film by Steven Spielberg: https://youtu.be/JPNyNr2Kp4w

The curious incident of the dog in the night time

• A murder mystery novel. The detective, and narrator is Christopher Boone. Christopher is 15 and has Asperger’s Syndrome. He knows a lot about maths and very little about humans. He loves lists, patterns and the truth. He hates the colors yellow and brown and being touched. He has never gone further than the end of the road on his own, but when he finds the neighbor’s dog murdered he sets out on a terrifying journey which will turn his whole world upside down.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMOoN-RCfHc
  

Thirteen reasons why

• Follows the story of Hannah Baker, a high school freshman, and the thirteen reasons why she commits suicide. Following her death, Hannah leaves behind a series of 7 double-sided cassette tapes detailing the 13 specific people and events that she blames for her demise.  Two weeks after her death these cassette tapes are mailed out with directions to pass the tapes on to the next person on the tape. Hannah's life story is conveyed through these tapes, which are narrated by Hannah herself, and through the point of view of Clay, her classmate and the ninth person to receive the tapes.
  

•  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkT-HIMSrRk 
  

PS for the assignment you’ll need to use textual evidence, simply watching the film won’t help. But it could be helpful to get an idea of the storyline before reading.

What now?

Go to the library and get the book of your choice!