Week 1.1: Short Story literary terms

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 3

Today

start short story

We're going to start by learning some literary terms and applying them to short fragments

Summarize the story

Classroom: Short Story reader

Go to p3

Match the literary terms

Terms

Re-watch the video if necessary

Apply the terms to the story. 

---- > if you can't use a term, explain why not

give me an example: protagonist

give me an example: antagonist

Theme and message

Theme: revenge

Message: 

- Evil will always be brought to Justice (Batman, Lion King, most Tarantino movies)

- revenge only leads to destruction (Captain America: Civil War, Count of Monte Cristo

Move him into the sun—

Gently its touch awoke him once,

At home, whispering of fields half-sown.

Always it woke him, even in France,

Until this morning and this snow.

If anything might rouse him now

The kind old sun will know.

Think how it wakes the seeds—

Woke once the clays of a cold star.

Are limbs, so dear-achieved, are sides

Full-nerved, still warm, too hard to stir?

Was it for this the clay grew tall?

—O what made fatuous sunbeams toil

To break earth's sleep at all?

Futility

BY WILFRED OWEN

"Wilfred Owen composed nearly all of his poems in slightly over a year, from August 1917 to September 1918."

What do you think the poem is about?

what is the theme?

what is the message?

Theme & Message

THEME: The pointlessness of war

MESSAGE: Idea that war is not what man was made for

Classroom

I have a bunch of activities there. Depending on time today I'll tell you which one we're doing. 

Test prep

Make a list of the terms

Write your own explanation

You'll have to apply and explain the terms on the test and in your book vlog