For Whom the Bell Tolls- Ernest Hemingway

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Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, journalist, and sportsman. His economical and understated style—which he termed the iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his adventurous lifestyle and his public image brought him admiration from later generations. 

Retrieved from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway

Work

For Whom the Bell Tolls is a novel by Ernest Hemingway published in 1940. It tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer attached to a Republican guerrilla unit during the Spanish Civil War. As a dynamiter, he is assigned to blow up a bridge during an attack on the city of Segovia.

It was published just after the end of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), whose general lines were well known at the time.

 It assumes the reader knows that the war was between the government of the Second Spanish Republic, which many foreigners went to Spain to help and which was supported by the Soviet Union, and the Nationalist faction, which was supported by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. It was commonly viewed as the dress rehearsal for the Second World War. In 1940, the year the book was published, the United States had not yet entered the war, which had begun on Sept. 1, 1939, with Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland.[1]

Retrieved from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Whom_the_Bell_Tolls

Learning Goals

- The background of the story is the Spanish War, you will have knowledge of the facts that occurred during the war. 

-you will be able to search and find the literary elements in the novel. You will know what the LT are. 

- You will be able to explain important quotes

-you will be able to give arguments in a Socratic dialogue about issues that concerns the theme in the novel. 

Dalton onderwijs

verwondersessie: input (present) Ernest Hemingway, Civil War Spanish, Fascism, Literary Elements

 workshopsessie: Activities Plot, LE, (Practise)

labsessie: Socratic Dialogue, Differentiate

communicatiesessie: Present (Produce)

www.britannica.com

Illustrated timeline of the Spanish Civil War (short)

warwick.ac.uk

Fascism

Communism

Find the Literary Elements in the Story

Explain important quotes in the story. 

 [Y]ou felt that you were taking part in a crusade. . . . [It] would be as difficult and embarrassing to speak about as a religious experience and yet it was authentic. . . . It gave you a part in something that you could believe in wholly and completely and in which you felt an absolute brotherhood with the others who were engaged in it.

Retrieved from: https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/belltolls/quotes/page/2/

Activity

Classroom Activity Idea 1

Break students into groups and assign each group one of the Themes from the text you’re reading. Have your students create a chart where they list each chapter (or scene, etc.) at the top. Ask your students to discuss in their groups how the theme is either introduced or developed through the characters, setting, or plot elements. Underneath each chapter in their chart, students can record whatever comes out of their group discussions.(They should provide evidence from the text to support their claims.) After they complete the chart, students will see how their assigned theme developed over the course of the whole text. (Note: you can do this activity with other elements, such as our Character List, Symbols, Motifs, etc.!)

Activity 2

Explain the Setting

Activity 3

Draw and write the Plot

Socratic Dialogue

Hemingway's writing includes themes of love, war, travel, wilderness, and loss.

Presentation

Each Group leads a discussion related to the theme

Evaluation

What have you learned? 

Explain the learning goals? Have you reached them?

Explore

-Communism

-Fascism

-Politic relations between the Countries

-WWII

-other Novels by Ernest Hemingway

-His Novels related to his life 

Present your choice of topic

Why should we read Ernest Hemingway?