This lesson contains 15 slides, with interactive quiz, text slides and 1 video.
Lesson duration is: 45 min
Items in this lesson
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Today's plan
1 An introduction to Jane Austen & Emma
2 Read CH 1 (finish CH 2 + 3 at home)
Your laptop - Emma - notebook - pen
*Leerdoelen zijn RTTI geformuleerd (in leerlingentaal).
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Goals
1 At the end of this class, you will understand the context and some important themes in Emma
2 At the end of this class, you will understand part of CH1
*Leerdoelen zijn RTTI geformuleerd (in leerlingentaal).
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Jane Austen - Why The Fuss?
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Why do you think Jane Austen's stories are still so popular?
Slide 5 - Mind map
Slide 6 - Video
Early 19th Century Novel
Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
Most important novelist of early 19th century
Elegant + witty studies of young women
Focusing on love and common sense
Most important novels:
Sense and Sensibilty / Emma / Persuasion
Pride and Prejudice
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Born in Steventon, daughter of an Anglican priest
Good education (not customary for girls)
Happy childhood, reading was encouraged (Fielding and Richardson)
Started writing when she was 15
Never married, isolated from other authors
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"I am going to take a heroine who no one but myself will much like" - Jane Austen about Emma
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Reading together: CH 1
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Discussion questions
How would you describe the character of Emma? In terms of personality/circumstances?
"How was she to bear the change?...... Miss Taylor in the house" What is meant by these lines and what does it tell you about marriage in this era?
How is "it feels like it is only written for you" reflected in the conversation between Emma and her father?
Write down your answers as I will be randomly asking someone to explain!
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Emma's character
1. Emma is handsome, clever and rich. She grew up in a happy, stable and protected environment. However, she can "think a little too well of herself."
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Emma & Ms. Taylor or Mrs Weston
2 They had a very close relationship which was almost sister-like. However, Emma realizes that she will not see her friend so often anymore and that her friend's marriage excludes her from understanding what marriage is like. Her father, being a man, will not understand what it is like to be a woman and what she is going through. Marriage is a big deal and can create a rupture between female friendships.
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It feels like it is only written for you
3 Emma and her father have a warm relationship. He is very kind and easy going, but also selfish. He does not like it when his daughter married and moved away from the house. In their conversation about Miss Taylor, Emma and her father disagree. Emma tells her father that it is excellent that Miss Taylor married and moved out. She does not express her previous feelings of loneliness. We know something that her father does not.
Lesson duration is: 45 min
