Unseen fiction 27/05/21

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 4

Goals today: 27th May 

You will receive some feedback on lit circles meetings 

You will improve your close-reading analysis skills in text 4

You will improve your academic vocabulary 

Homework Academic vocabulary & portfolio questions for text 4 

Literature circles League table 

Never Let me Go: x 2 

The Catcher in the Rye: x 2 

Do Androids Dream ...: x 2 

Turtles all the Way Down x 2 

Anna: x 2 

The Big Sleep: x 1 

The Reluctant Fundamentalist: x 1 

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 

Lit circles 

Setting - mold setting (reflects the prevailing mood or ironically shows the opposite) 

mirror setting (Character can be a participant in the rules of an environment or character can be a rebel, or trying to escape the stifling rules of an environment or setting can define how the character sees and responds to the world

Irony 

Insights into the human condition 

"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. It seemed to me I stood by the iron gate leading up to the drive, and for a while I could not enter, for the way was barred to me. There was a padlock and a chain upon the gate. I called in my dream to the lodge-keeper, and had no answer, and peering closer through the rusted spokes of the gate I saw that the lodge was uninhabited."

Based on this extract, how does the setting of Rebecca sound? 

Explain your answer, and support it with at least three quotations.

Read from " No smoke came ..." to "which I remembered"

1. Select three words from the extract which you think are particularly effective. Write them down below. Then, for each one, write down the word class and the effect it has within the passage. 

2. Look again at the passage. Identify one example of personification and write it down. 

What effect does this use of personification have?

Word classes you can choose from: verb, adjective, adverb, concrete noun, abstract noun, pronoun 

Read from: "The drive was ..." to "grew beside them."

1. How does the author make plants and trees sound unnatural? 

What techniques has the author used? Find quotes and explain the effect on the reader. 

Read from: "On and on..." to "behind my eyes."

1. In the last sentences of this paragraph, the author contrasts the narrator’s feeling of being lost with her coming across the house. What is the effect of this contrast?

2. Are you surprised by the narrator’s reaction to seeing the house? Why, or why not? Use quotes or references to the text to support your answer.

3. What does the narrator’s reaction suggest about the house?

Read from: "On and on..." to "behind my eyes."

1. In the last sentences of this paragraph, the author contrasts the narrator’s feeling of being lost with her coming across the house. What is the effect of this contrast?

2. Are you surprised by the narrator’s reaction to seeing the house? Why, or why not? Use quotes or references to the text to support your answer.

3. What does the narrator’s reaction suggest about the house?

Read from: "There was Manderley ..."  to "this pale sky."

The author uses a cyclical structure, which means that the end of the extract, where the narrator arrives at the house, links to the beginning of the extract, where she tells us that she dreamt she went to the house. What effect does this have? 

A semantic field is a group of words with related meanings. In the last passages the auhor uses a semantic field of beauty and calm. Collect words that fall under these two headings in your class notebook. 

This is an example of diction or lexis choice. 

What effect does this semantic field have? Link your answer to the rest of the extract, which you have read in earlier tasks.

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 31st  May 

Answer question number 4 (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 4

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