Unseen fiction 7/06/21

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 4

Goals today: 7th June 

You will get information to prepare for your Lit circles test on 17th June 

You will check your vocabulary homework 

You will use narrative voice and unusual narrative technique to analyse text 6 

Literature circles League table 

Never Let me Go: x 3 

The Catcher in the Rye: x 2 

Do Androids Dream ...: x 2 

Turtles all the Way Down x 2 

Anna: x 3

The Big Sleep: x 1 

The Reluctant Fundamentalist: x 1 

Before 3rd June - 3rd meeting 

Before 10th June- 4th meeting

Optional final meeting before 17th June 

17th June Literature circles analysis test 

Prep 

You can only bring your prep cards into your test. Collect on your card information (in bullet point form) and quotes to use in the test. 

In the test you will have one question on each topic and you must answer two. 

Homework for 7th June

Complete assignments for unit

9a, 9b & 9c

Put your answers in class notebook =>AWL Academic language acquisition 

Portfolio assignments 

Text 1 - 4 completed for today (3/06/21) 

Text 5 completed for 7th June 

Text 6 completed for 14th June. 

Portfolios close on midnight on 14th June

Unseen fiction 

Complete this table. 

Connotations = diction/lexis word choice

Quotation	Technique	Effect
‘Where are my manners?’	Question	It suggests he is polite.
‘At some point in time, I will be standing over you, as genially as possible.’	Connotations of the word ‘genially’	It suggests that the narrator is pleasant, or at least wants to be pleasant (the addition of ‘as possible’ suggests he is not always able to be as genial as he would like).
‘I will carry you gently away.’	Connotations of the word ‘gently’.	the narrator sounds kind and caring which is in opposition from what we would expect from Death as a narrator.

 "At that moment, you will be lying there (I rarely find people standing up). You will be caked in your own body. There might be a discovery; a scream will dribble down the air. The only sound I’ll hear after that will be my own breathing, and the sound of the smell, of my footsteps. The question is, what colour will everything be at that moment when I come for you? What will the sky be saying?"

This is synaesthesia (look this term up) 

1. What effect do you think the use of synaesthesia has here? You might want to think about:

- the effect on the narrative

- the effect on our impressions of the narrator.

Suggested ideas 

1. The use of synaesthesia creates an unusual narrative perspective, which is appropriate given the unusual narrator. It also strengthens our understanding of the narrator as a sensitive character, who is highly aware of the things around him. Additionally, it suggests that our narrator has senses that are highly developed in an unusual way. 

Read from "Still, it’s possible " to " have beaten lungs."

I witness the ones who are left behind, crumbling amongst the jigsaw puzzle of realisation, despair and surprise. They have punctured hearts. They have beaten lungs.

1. What connotations does this verb have? How does it make the people sound?

1.

2. What effect does this metaphor have?

2.

3. What technique is used here? What effect does it have?

3.

Suggested ideas 

1.There are Connotations of something disintegrating or breaking. The use of this verb makes people sound as though their grief is destroying them.

2. This metaphor suggests that nothing makes sense any more. The grieving are struggling to put the pieces back together.

3. These metaphors reiterate the idea that bereavement has broken these people physically and emotionally. 

Portfolio exam type question

Homework for 14th June 

Answer question number 6 (in files) and place your answer in your class notebook. 

1. Answers in your tab with the title: Unseen fiction term 4 PORTFOLIO 

2. Give your answer the title: Text 5

3. Underline your 10 academic vocabulary words. (choices from the chapters so far).