Week 39 les 4 MA42

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• mavo
• Leerjaar 2

Today

- Recap grammar

- Work on weekplanner or portfolio

  September 30th

Central Park

New York

Goals

- I know what a 'setting' is in a novel

- I can describe the setting in my novel

Weekplanner

c. Plot

1. Expositions

2. Rising action

3. Climax

4. Falling action

5. Resolution

Plots can vary but often fit a pattern...

• Overcoming the monster ___________________  
• From rags to riches _________________________
• Voyage and return __________________________
• The quest
• Tragedy
• Comedy
• Rebirth

e. Theme

• refers to the underlying insight, the moral or idea that the writer is expressing through the story
• e.g. - The power of true love                        - Fate, which sometimes tears lovers apart and then                       joins them together
              -War

Conflict

What is it?

Internal vs external conflict -->

Internal or external conflict?

Helpfull websites

- sparksnotes

- litcharts

- gradesaver

Setting - time and place

• where and when does the story take place
• creates mood

Setting - time and place

Portfolio: 

 Setting: In what ways are time and place made important in the book? In what way is that important to the story? Any unexpected setting details? (e.g. a war story in an unexpected setting?)

The Wave

Spring of 1969 at Gordon High School in California. 

- What is the community like? 

- Setting real event? 

- Why is the time this took place unexpected? -> after WWII (just 24 years after WWII ended) 

Students weren't born but teacher & parents were.

Narnia

Magical land of Narnia -> describe

-  The beginning of the story is set in 1940's England, where it is the height of World War II -> Is this important? Escapism? 

Place -> The wardrobe = 'Magical door' to Narnia 

What is time like in Narnia? What is so special about it?!!!! What has this to do with the time during WW II?

Boy in the striped Pyjamas

- The book starts in 1942 Berlin 

- Out with -> What is that? Why would the writer give that name? Why don't they use the real name?

Unexpected? 

Why are the time and the different places so important to the story? 

Go Ask alice

- The setting of Alice's diary is purposefully vague. 

- Alice's family has to move across the country for her father's job -> how does this affect her? 

-  San Francisco is the only place that's named in the book -> was a well-known hippie mecca

-> Can you guess the year it was set? Try to find out

Work on weekplanner

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Finish Slim Stampen with 100%

Read

Sit next to your book buddy

or quietly work on your portfolio

30 seconds

English words, explain them in English in 30 seconds

Next lesson

- Literature 

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