literature - granny's birthday / what is a friend

• eng
• Middelbare school
• vmbo b
• Leerjaar 4

Today: we will discuss some literature again

> What is a friend?
> Short story: Granny's birthday

What did we discuss last week in our classroom talk?

First: story telling

Today's story:

> Responsibility
> Trust
> Loyalty

What is a
friend?

Situation to discuss

Write down your own thoughts

Write down what would make you testify or not, and whether this decision would be absolute (that is, without taking into account what happened to the pedestrian) or relative (depending on, for example, how seriously the pedestrian is injured).

Some people would testify only if the pedestrian was really hurt or dead: do you understand that reaction? Do you agree? Why, why not?

Does your friend have the right to ask you to testify that s/he was going at 30 km/h?

Yes, all the right

Yes, some right

No, he has no right

Let's discuss: first share with your neighbour (4 min)
and then
share with class

What do you notice?

Surprises?

Thoughts?

Short story: Granny's birthday

We will read together

Discuss with a neighbour:

Does the story seem likely to you? Why or why not?
What if you were there: what would you do?

Share in 1 minute

Does the story seem likely to you? Why or why not?
What if you were there: what would you do?

Write down difficult words from the text:

Granny's birthday vocabulary:

Matriarch > moeder overste
attorney > advocaat
mellow > zacht, relaxed, rustig
inebriated > aangeschoten
determination > vastberadenheid
penetrate > doordringen

Wat betekent 'determination'?

Wat betekent 'attorney'?

Write down a mini review of the story: what did you like (and why) or what didn't you? Who would recommend it to? Did the author do a good job?

How do you feel about today's class?

Goodmorning!

TODAY:
> exam vocabulary quizlet activity 
> Talk / read about what matters and what is enjoying things anyway

Haiku (short poem) by J. Prelutsky

If not for the cat

If not for the cat,
And the scarcity of cheese,
I could be content

On a typical day, how many annoying or irritating things do you have to do? What are they?

What makes you happy during a normal day?

SHort story reading: SUM

What does "sum" mean?

Reading question: what point does the writer make?

Short story: Sum

We will read together

Discuss these themes:

What counts, what is important, what matters?

What is enjoying things?

How much of what we do are we forced to do? Is that really bad?

What gives taste to life / does life need to be exciting all the time?

Share in 1 minute

Choose:

Do you want to be in group 1 (4 people)
Or in group 2 ( the rest of class)?

Group 1's task:

Write down 10 very important statements and 10 questions that you feel are crucial to life. Just should always be able to express these. 

Group 2's assignment: choose 10 words

Imagine you live in a world where there are only 10 words you can ever use. You can repeat them as much as you want, but you can’t ever use any other words. Write down the 10 words you’d choose.

Communicate group 1's sentences

Next, make sentences with them in order to communicate something to your group.
Also write down your actual intention (meaning)

Use feeling and gesture to help them understand you.
You can measure their understanding by writing your actual intended meaning below the sentence. 

share your sentence with class

* Substantives: you, I; someone, people; something

• Mental predicates: think, know, want, feel, see, hear

• Speech: say

• Actions, events, and movement: do, happen, move

• Existence and life: be (there s/are), live

• Determiners and quantifiers: this, the same, other; one, two, many / much, some, all

• Augmentor: more

• Evaluators: good, bad

• Descriptors: big, small

• Time: when, after, before, a long time, a short time, now

• Space: where; far, near; under, above; side; inside; here

• Interclausal linkers: because, if, if … would

• Clause Operators: not, maybe

• Metapredicate: can

• Intensifier: very

• Taxonomy, partonomy: kind of, part of

• Similarity: like