lesson 2 the Man from the South/The Way up to Heaven

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Literature with a Creepy Twist - 2
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Welcome!
Literature with a Creepy Twist - 2

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Road Map

  •  Literature: Short stories with a Creepy Twist
  • Roald Dahl -  The Man from the South

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Grades block 4
• Language skills IV (4%) - GRO Passive (3 June 2022)
• Watching – and listening test (15%) 10 June 2022 9&10 h. 
• Reading test (15%) – Old HAVO-exam 
practise on www.eindexamensite.nl 2014-1; 13 May 2022!
• Literature test (15%) – test on the texts we have discussed 
= 49 % of your grade in total!
Test week 4 runs from Thursday 16 June to Wednesday 22 June.

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The aims:

You are going to find out: 
  • more about different story-telling techniques;
  • how to recognise important details in each of the stories and techniques;
  • how poems differ from stories.

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Literary aspects
Short story:
'a relatively short work of prose fiction, approx. 500 to 10,000 words, that, according to Edgar Allan Poe, can be read in a single sitting of two hours or less'. 
The short story works to create a single effect. 

(The Norton Introduction to Literature, 2013)

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Literary aspects
Structure
1. Introduction 
2. Rising action - often there is some kind of conflict
3. Climax 
4. Falling action - attempts are made to work things out
5. Denouement  

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Literary aspects
Structure
1. 'We' are all in a hotel, splendid weather, nice conditions
2. 'Shall we not make a little bet on that?'
3. The bet is on: Cadillac vs. little finger....1, 2, 3....6, 7, 8....
4. Enter Rather Old Woman 
5. It turns out that Carlos is a bit of a maniac and Rather Old Woman is both his keeper and his victim.

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The Man from the South (1948)
  • Set in Jamaica
  • Holiday resort
  • I - perspective 
  • Carlos - the man from the South
  • American cadet
  • English girl

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Story 2
The Way up to Heaven - 
Roald Dahl

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Story 2
The Way up to Heaven - 
Roald Dahl

Do assignments 2 and 3

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