Literature 1: The 19th Century

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• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 4

Literature 1: 
The 19th Century 

The Literature Reader

Each week: 
- A LessonUp in class: guessing, some info & questions
- Background information in your reader
- Questions in your reader (answers on Its Learning)

+ Two bonus assignments: 12th of May  +  26th of May
+ A literature test at the end of the period (SE CIJFER)! 

Bonus Assignments (see Reader)

Assignment 1: Research the story of Frankenstein, think of a character that you would like to bring back to life, how would the plot of your series / movie change. 

Assignment 2: Take a look at two trailers of Dracula. If you were to direct a Dracula movie, what would it look like? What would it be about? Which actors would you use? Etc.

Literature Test

At the end of this period:
    - A literature test about all the background information, 
       the questions, and the assignments  
    - Schoolexamen cijfer!

So read the background information, answer the questions in your reader, check your answers, and start studying in time. 

1. Take a guess: How many people lived in London around 1800?

1. 500.000
2. 750.000
3. 1.000.000
4. 1.250.000

2. Take a guess: How many people lived in London a century later, around 1900?

1. 3.6 million
2. 4.9 million
3. 5.4 million
4. 6.7 million

3. Take a guess: Which of the following did not exist yet in the 19th century?

1. Telephones
2. Radios
3. Telegraphs
4. Cameras

4. Take a guess: What was an important Revolution during the 19th century?

1. January revolution
2. Industrial revolution
3. French revolution
4. Russian Revolution

5. Take a guess: How many people lived in the entire British Empire (Great Britain + all of the colonies) in 1900?

1. 200 million
2. 300 million
3. 400 million
4. 500 million

6. Take a guess: The first Gothic Novel (ghost story book) was written in what year?

1. 1509
2. 1623
3. 1764
4. 1834

The 19th Century

- Queen Victoria reigned 1837 - 1901

- Growing British Empire 

         - New aditions Egypt, Singapore and Burma  
- Huge transition during Industrial Revolution

         - Steam engines, machines, etc. 
         - People move from countryside to cities 
         

The 19th Century

Population numbers during the 19th century

-1800: 1 million people live in London

         - 1900: 6.7 million people live in London

         - British Empire: 400 million people worldwide 

Changes in the 19th century

- Life expectancy increased

- Class divisions changed

- Creation of a new group, Middle Class

1. doctors 
2. lawyers
3. teachers
4. engineers

Changes in the 19th century

- New inventions such as: Cameras, telegraphs and telephones

- Child labour

• Factory workers just like their parents
• crawling under machines
• cleaning chimneys
• working in shipyards 

Gothic Novels

- The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story (1764) by Horace Walpole
- Characteristics of Gothic Novels: 
        1. Unrealistic setting
        2. Unexplainable, scary events
        3. Improbable, sensational plots
- Popular for only a few decades 
- New life at the end of the 20th century

Romantic Period

- Romantic Period = 1800-1830, interested in: 
             - everything from the past 
             - the non-rational & supernatural
             - scary and unexplainable things

- Before 1800 = Age of Reason, interested in: 
             - God & rational thinking is most important

After 

7. What was not an effect of the Industrial Revolution?

1. Increased Child Labour
2. New Middle Class: engineers, doctors
3. People lived longer
4. More people working on farms

8. What was the title of the first Gothic novel?

1. The Castle of Orlando
2. The Castle of Otranto
3. The Castle of Othello
4. The Castle of Orcano

9. Before the Romantic Period came ...?

1. The Age of Treason
2. The Age of Raisin
3. The Age of Season
4. The Age of Reason

10. Which group was not a part of the new Middle Class?

1. Doctors
2. Soldiers
3. Engineers
4. Laywers

What did the critics think about the Gothic novel genre?

1. They loved it
2. They thought it needed a more realistic setting
3. They thought the books were rubbish
4. They were indifferent about the genre

Check the reader: 

- Read the introduction
- Check the assignments (friday first deadline)

Literature 1: The 19th Century 
- Read the background information
- Answer the questions (use the internet)
- Check your answers (see Its Learning (after wednesday))

Assignment Work time

Answering 7 questions!

Only 1 actually about the reader

6 about your own favourite character and bringing him/her/it back to life 

Be creative, you might even want to bring back a deceased dog or cat

19th century