Les two The River

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 5

Word Bank

narrator (first person),  storytelling, stanza, chorus, lines, metaphorical, allusion, lyrics, rhyme scheme, characters, setting, imagery, mono-syllabic meter, plot, theme

HOMEWORK last lesson

Ask your parents who were the game changers in their youth: who were the rebels and what was so impressive about them?  

Rest of lesson you 

Down Loaded - Notes on Springsteen and read it carefully. Made annotations/took notes. 

Are prepared for these lessons. 

Read Text.  Ask as many questions as you can using only the above prompts. You have five minutes. GO

Pick you most creative question and see if your partner can answer it. These are called thin questions.

Questions where the student needs to think critically about. How What Why Where When (thin questions where the answer is in the text)

Look at text again. They must think of at least 5 questions that the B person has to answer. These must be really GOOD

Questions where the student needs to think critically about the wonderment question that require student readers to go beyond the text and speculate, hypothesize, or make inferences. I wonder why……….

Don’t forget to write the answer for yourself so you remember it.

You have 5 minutes. Now ask your two best questions to the person behind you. Now compare questions. Do you have any that are similar.

Look at text again . It’s about a topic that you now know a lot about. Using the above prompts write questions.

You have 10 minutes.

Compare your questions with your group of 4.

Now hold a discussion using these questions in your group. Base your answers on the text and your pre-knowledge.

Explain word document Analysis The River. 

Rest of lesson

Look at your notes. Organize them  Re-read The River and add your annotations to your songbook. 

Smart thing to do - add your written notes to your songbook by . writing on the opposite page in an organized manner.  Think about how song analysis is part of literature. 

DAY TWO Word Bank

rock and roll, ballad, chorus, verse, bridge, Bildungsroman, coming of age, character sketch, genre, vignette, soundtrack

Next lesson play small part of the two songs. Look at your interpretations. Are they different now that you have heard the music? Would you change your interpretation. Write down how you feel about the song now?

Breakout

  Analyse The River,  Independence Day and Out in the Street. Compare/Contrast the three. Write in your song books. 

 

DO NOT LISTEN TO THE SONGS.

Day 3 The River

Feelings/Emotion

How do you feel about the song now?

It is from the river 2016 tour. Consider Springsteen wrote the song in 1977 (as part, originally, of the Darkness on the Edge of Town album: an album about father son relationships – a dark brooding album). In what way does his understanding of relationships changed over the years?

How would you change your interpretation? 

Look at your interpretations. Are they different now that you have heard the music? Write down how you feel about the song now?

In FIVE words write down what Independance day is about.

Springsteen uses an unusual narrative perspective – 2nd person. Writing this address to his father would gain/lose something if it were written in the more mainstream 1st or 3rd person

GAIN

LOSE

Springsteen uses the metaphor of the 4th of July (USA Independence day: a treaty signed after the USA broke free from Britain in a bloody war) as the backbone of his song. This obvious stylistic device aids / hinders the song’s appeal.

GAIN

HINDERS

Reflection

All teenagers have to break free from their family and homes. Now that we have discussed the song Independance Day what have you learned about the struggle that this freedom requires – on a personal level, but also on the larger battlefield of world politics? 

Add your thoughts to your songbook

Explain Short Story assignment 

the gift of your past creates a vision for your future