2. Night

• Engels
• Upper Secondary (Key Stage 4)
• GCSE

Seating plan term 2 

Alastrina 

Andrea 

Emilia 

Deeshitha 

Hugo 

Kate 

Elsje 

Erik

Sham 

Mia 

Anna 

Robin 

Megan 

Damien 

Neysa 

Cleo 

Aamu 

Ella 

Lena 

Coen 

Rik

Kim 

Zoe

Alyanna 

Lesson objectives 

We will review our guided textual analysis essays 

We will consider concepts for this novel and agree on a five to frame this work

We will investigate the dedication and epigraphs of the novel 

We will consider more closely an extract from the novel 

Mid-term tests 

Two unseen extracts with one guiding question each. You will write one guided textual analysis essay on one of the texts. One text will be poetry and one an extract from a play. Construct your essay using the parameters we have previously discussed - introduction, conclusion and three body paragraphs. Thesis statement and topic sentences. Use linking. 

Concept collection 

Considering what you have read so far in the novel, what concepts do  you think are central to this story? Think of no more than five.

Concepts are organising ideas with distinct attributes that are shared across multiple example. Like mental file folders, they are words we use to organise and categorise our world. They help our brains organise examples into meaningful groups based on shared attributes. 

reference: Learning that Transfers by Julie Stern 

Concept collection 

Add, to your class notebook, a section titled The Handmaid's Tale. In this section, make a new page and post five concepts. You can take inspiration from others  or post your initial thoughts. 

What concepts do you recognise in the novel so far? No more than five.

Dedications: “For Mary Webster and Perry Miller”​

Mary Webster – a Puritan woman living in England in the 17th Century who was hanged for allegedly being a witch. Despite hanging all night, she somehow survived, and lived for a further 14 years. Margaret Atwood believed Webster may have been an ancestor of hers.​

Dedications: “For Mary Webster and Perry Miller”​

Perry Miller– Influential historian and scholar of American Studies. Expert in American Puritanism. Mentored Margaret Atwood at Harvard University.​

Epigraph 

An epigraph is a literary device in the form of a poem, quotation, or sentence – usually placed at the beginning of a document or a simple piece – having a few sentences, but which belongs to another writer. An epigraph can serve different purposes, such as it can be used as a summary, introduction, example, or an association with some famous literary work, so as to draw a comparison, or to generate a specific context for the piece.

Source: https://literarydevices.net/epigraph/

Epigraphs​

What is the link to the narrative of the novel? What is the thematic reason for including this epigraph?​

And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die. And Jacob’s anger was kindled against Rachel; and he said, Am I in God’s stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb? And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her. ​

- Genesis, 30:1-3

a quotation set at the beginning of a literary work or one of its divisions to suggest its theme

Epigraphs​

What is the link to the narrative of the novel? What is the thematic reason for including this epigraph?​

But as to myself, having been wearied out for many years with offering vain, idle, visionary thoughts, and at length utterly despairing of success, I fortunately fell upon this proposal ​

Jonathan Swift, "A Modest Proposal​"

"A Modest Proposal" is a satirical essay, published in 1729,  written by Jonathan Swift in which he protests about the British attitude towards the Irish by ironically suggesting that poor Irish families could sell their babies to wealthy Englishmen, to eat.​

MEANING. Although rules may be implemented strictly, leaving few options, people still always have free choice.

Epigraphs​

What is the link to the narrative of the novel? What is the thematic reason for including this epigraph?​

In the desert there is no sign that says, Thou shalt not eat stones. ​

- Sufi proverb​

Although rules may be implemented strictly, leaving few options, people still have free choice.