Literary themes and where to find them

Literary elements and where to find them
  • Goals for today:
  • Enjoy some literature
  • Learn about themes & elements
  • Form groups (and figure out which literature you'll read)
  • Figure out what's next on the schedule for the foreseeable future
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In deze les zitten 12 slides, met interactieve quizzen en tekstslides.

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Literary elements and where to find them
  • Goals for today:
  • Enjoy some literature
  • Learn about themes & elements
  • Form groups (and figure out which literature you'll read)
  • Figure out what's next on the schedule for the foreseeable future

Slide 1 - Tekstslide

What is literature?

Slide 2 - Tekstslide

What 8 literary elements do they mention in the article?

Slide 3 - Open vraag

What is a theme?
  • Underlying messages
  • Big  ideas
Some examples:
  • Coming of age
  • Betrayal
  • Loyalty
  • Justice and power

Slide 5 - Tekstslide

Can you think of a book, poem, story(tv show/movie) that you know with any of these themes?
* Friendship, betrayal, coming of age, capitalism*

Slide 6 - Open vraag

Themes
A story can have multiple themes.
Try to figure out which elements feel most important.
Usually it's obvious, sometimes it's more hidden away in the text.

Slide 7 - Tekstslide

Let's read together
Before we begin: What is the story of red riding hood? 
Who is bad, who is good and who saves who?

  • Interesting old literature facts:
  • Forests are dangerous and often related to magic and crime (People were afraid of the forest and life outside of civilization)
  • Women were often powerless and there to be saved or married.
  • Some older feminist literature exists like "Orlando".
  • Some very powerful women exist even in medieval literature (Morgan Le Fay)

Slide 8 - Tekstslide

Red Riding Hood but politically correct
A modern re-telling of an old story.
Try to figure out any themes you might recognize.
Remember that themes are usually one or only a few words to describe an idea.

Slide 9 - Tekstslide

What themes are in the story according to you? You can share multiple ideas!

Slide 10 - Open vraag

What did you think?
What's your opinion on this story?
What type of story do you think this is?
What do you think the author intended to do with this re-telling?

Slide 11 - Tekstslide

What to expect next:
Research project 4H.
Reading and disecting some literature!
Shaping opinions and insights into the written world.
Presenting your findings to the class.
Eventually the project will be awarded with a grade (telt 2x mee)
You can find all information in your booklet.
The rubric is available on Teams!

Slide 12 - Tekstslide