V4 17-12-2024 short stories + test

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 3-6

Welcome! Bags on the rack please. You need your laptop, short stories, grammar booklet, Wasp, notebook, pen 

Program

- Learning goals (5 mins)

- Short stories (20 mins)

- Kahoot (15 mins)

- Short break

- TEST

Goals: at the end of the 1st lesson...

- You will know about narration, theme

- You will have reviewed vocabulary

Narration = point of view

3 points of view when telling a story:

              1. First person

              2. Omniscient

              3. Limited omniscient

Reader: p.8

Narration:

First person                     Omniscient                    Limited omniscient

Theme

Work in groups of 4

Read: 

4. Theme, p.8

6. Narration, p. 8

(Check your reader if you have forgotten anything else)

To do:

Story 1 (Death by Scrabble): q.5

Fill in the missing elements (Characters, conflict, narration)

Story 2 (Lamb to the Slaughter): q.5

Fill in the missing elements

Story 3 (The Tell-Tale Heart): q.6, q.12

Check for missing elements

Missing elements stories 1, 2, 3

Checking together

Homework

- First lesson after the holiday: 

- Read short story no.4: The Lottery

create.kahoot.it

10 mins!

Well done! You...

- know about narration and theme

- have reviewed vocabulary

Also: pack your bags & leave 1 pen on your table

Literary Elements / Devices

Language techniques used by the author to make a story more gripping to read:

- create a mood

- give more meaning

- emphasise certain things

- make you want to find out more

How could an author use language to do all that? Examples?

1. Imagery

Language that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, taste, touch, smell)

The hinges creaked (sound)

The heart beat on with a muffled sound (sound)

As black as pitch with the thick darkness (sight)

My blood ran cold (touch)

The groan of mortal terror (sound)

2. 

For her, this was always a blissful time of day. (...) She loved to luxuriate in the presence of this man, and to feel almost as a sunbather feels the sun - that warm male glow that came out of him to her when they were alone together. She loved him for... (...). 

"Tired darling?"  "Yes," he said. "I'm tired." 

And as he spoke, he did an unusual thing. He lifted his glass and drained it in one swallow although there was still half of it, at least half of it left.

2. Foreshadowing

A suggestion / indication of something that will happen later on in the story.

Please note:

Character(s): write down name, dynamic/static/flat/round, how does the author show what they are like

3. Figurative language

When language has a different meaning from what the words/expressions literally mean, for example by making comparisons.

The author can create a mood, and/or emphasize important words, contrasts or similarities

3. Figurative language: terms

1. Our love is a red rose

2. He felt like a deflated balloon

3. A ship sailing the seven seas

4. Hark! louder! louder! louder! louder!

1. Our love is a red rose
2. He felt like a deflated balloon
3. A ship sailing the seven seas
4. Hark! louder! louder! louder! louder!

3. Figurative language: terms

1. Our love is a red rose: metaphor

2. He felt like a deflated balloon: simile

3. A ship sailing the seven seas: alliteration

4. Hark! louder! louder! louder! louder! : repetition

Summary: Literary Elements / Devices

Language techniques used by the author to make a story more gripping to read (mood, meaning, emphasis, suspense)

1. Imagery                                  (appeals to the senses)

2. Foreshadowing

3. Figurative language:       - metaphor

                                                       - simile

                                                       - alliteration

                                                       - repetition