HAVO4 22-4 CL English

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 4

Learning goals

• To review Reading questions 2 and literary terms
• To learn new literary terms and prepare to read ''The Gold Bug''

Homework: Read ''The Gold Bug'' by Edgar Allan Poe and do Reading questions 3 (save your answers for the take home test)

The schedule

0. Already done: Homework Portfolio 3 due 16-4
1. Literature Test about the short stories - take home test after May Vacation
2. Idiom test 7, 8 and 9 on 26-5
3. Listening/Watching Test after school on 27-5 at 16.00
4. Conversation skills test from 2-6 until 16-6 in class periods (some after)
5. Book Assignment due on 11-6

6. Homework Portfolio 4 due on 18-6​
7. Reading Test in Test Period 4

No more Idiom test 10, 11 and 12!

Activate prior knowledge!

Which of our stories would have a lot of personification?

1. Oh Frances!
2. Dear Miriam
3. The Bucket and the Rope

What is a flat character?

1. a character with complex personality
2. a character with little complex personality

Learning

Reading questions 2

1. Where can you find personification in the beginning of the story? Provide two examples. (Last class)

2. What kind of perspective/narration does this story have? Why would the other choose these unusual narrators? (Last class)

3. How are women portrayed in this short story? How are they different from men in this story? (in Lessonup)

4. How does the author use flashback to create suspense? What would the story be like without it? (various answers)

5. Find words that the author repeats twice (or more). Why would the author choose these words? (various answers)

How are women portrayed in this story and the previous ones? What do you think about it? Are they round or flat characters?

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)​

• US writer, poet and critic​
  
• Wrote during the Romantic Period of American literature​
  
• Orphaned at a young age​
  
• Struggled with depression and substance abuse​
  
• Gothic writing – horror, fantasy

''The Gold Bug''

• Written in 1843 – after the Industrial Revolution and before the US Civil War
• Detective genre
• Popularized the cryptogram and made into movies
• Focuses on madness, treasure and pirates
• Literary terms for this story: Genre, suspense, symbolism, plot, climax/turning point

Literary terms for Rq3

• Genre: types of literature such as comedy, detective, tragedy, thriller, science fiction, romance, etc.​
  
• Suspense: excitement/anticipation created by the author​
  
• Symbolism: represents something beyond literal meaning​
  
• Plot: story line of action - climax/turning point is the point of highest action

What is the genre of Sherlock Holmes?

What is the plot of a story?

1. What happens in a story, the action
2. What a story means, the moral/main idea
3. What the most exciting moment is, the turning point

What would be an example of theme from Lion King?

1. The main character's uncle kills his father
2. The great circle of life and how we are all one
3. Everything in life is always in balance
4. The young lion needs to accept his destiny

A writer uses the color black to give his/her story a feeling of darkness or doom. What is this an example of?

1. Climax
2. Simile
3. Allusion
4. Symbolism

What is the plot of ''The Bucket and the Rope''?

What is a theme of ''The Bucket and the Rope''?

Reflection on learning goals

Do you think we achieved our learning goals: Review Reading questions 2 and prepare to read ''The Gold Bug''

Yes! It was new and interesting.

Yes, it was good.

I guess so. Don't care!

INo, I still don't understand something.

I have a question!!

Homework

Read ''The Gold Bug'' and answer Reading questions 3.