W1T2- The Rabbits/The Simple Gift

• English
• Secondary Education

The Rabbits/The Simple Gift

Assessment Task 2 / Mid-Course exam

Week 3-4 Term 2

Assessment Task 2

For your assessment task you will need to:

- Identify, analyse and evaluate imagery, symbolism and connotations.

Overview of today's lesson

• Throwback The Rabbits; imagery, symbols and connotations
• Introduction to The Simple Gift 

Visual imagery

olfactory imagery

Auditory imagery

Tactile imagery

Gustatory imagery

What kind of imagery?
"Her lips tastes sweet as sugar"

1. Visual
2. Olfactory
3. Tactile
4. Gustatory

What kind of imagery?
"His words felt like a dagger in my heart"

1. Visual
2. Olfactory
3. Tactile
4. Auditory

What kind of imagery?
"The siren turned into a whisper as it ended"

1. Visual
2. Auditory
3. Tactile
4. Olfactory

What kind of imagery?
"I came into the house because it smelled like apple pie"

1. Visual
2. Olfactory
3. Tactile
4. Gustatory

The Rabbits

What is The Rabbits about?

What do you see in the image? Name everything you see, so all the details.

What do the rabbits symbolise?

The salient image is the part of the image that your eyes are first drawn to. Placement, colour, image and size determine what the salient image is. This is generally the most important or powerful element of the image. What is the salient image on this page?

Positioning is how the image is framed to the viewer or a character in the image. What is the effect of the low angle on the viewer?

What type of gestures are the rabbits giving? What is communicated by these gestures?

Connotations are thoughts, feelings, and ideas associated with a image. Which connotations does the image evoke?

The Simple Gift

I'm not proud.

I'm sixteen, and soon

to be homeless

The Simple Gift

Weary of his life with his alcoholic, abusive father, sixteen-year-old Billy packs a few belongings and hits the road, hoping for something better than what he left behind. He finds a home in an abandoned freight train outside a small town, where he falls in love with rich, restless Caitlin and befriends a fellow train resident, "Old Bill," who slowly reveals a tragic past. When Billy is given a gift that changes everything, he learns not only to how forge his own path in life, but the real meaning of family.

Themes

Homelessness

Friendship

Class divisions

Self-Discovery 

Identity

(Lack of) Possessions

Symbols

Sunshine

River

Light

Keys

Laughter

Grief

Education

Champagne

Let's look at the first page

Let's annotate!

• Annotation is the act of adding notes, comments or questions to a text while reading to deepen understanding. 
• Materials needed: copy of 'Champagne', provided by the teacher, pen or pencil, highlighter 

Show the teacher copy of Champagne to show how it looks.

Look at the title, 'Champagne'. What kind of connotations does it evoke?

In lines 1-2, what is Billy's attitude towards school?

In line 5, which language technique do you recognize?

1. Colloquial language (slang)
2. Oxymoron
3. Alliteration
4. Metaphor

Line 6

Line 6 'bottom of the bag' references to ' bottom of the barrel' idiom. 

Idiom is an expression that has a different meaning than its literal meaning

In this case it's symbolic for the feelings towards his dad. 

In line 10, which language techniques do you recognize?

1. Visual imagery
2. Descriptive language
3. Simile
4. Oxymoron

Connotations with 'glossy red apples'

Line 11, what's symbolic in 'Dad's champagne and cigarettes?'

Lines 12-13

load my schoolbag,

my travelling bag,

Note in the margins: Repetition on 'bag' for emphasis. His schoolbag turned into his travelling bag. Symbolic of limited possessions he takes with him in his new life. 

What language device do you see in line 16?

1. Metaphor
2. Gustatory imagery
3. Hyperbole
4. Colloquial language

Line 19: which connotations with 'celebrate'?

What can you infer about Billy's relationship with his father? (infer means conclude, work out, deduce)

What do you think will happen with Billy?

How confident are you to annotate by yourself?

Very! I totally get it. Bring it on!

Not sure. But with some more practice I might get the hang of it.

No, this is wasted on me. I'm never gonna understand this.

The Simple Gift worksheet

Go to Google classroom and work independently on the worksheet.