V4entl7- lessons 1 - wk 41

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 4

Today's objectives

• Reading your first novel/literature > 1945

• Writing an essay

Building paragraphs/building sentences

• Homework: Vocabulary/Grammar/Writing

Literature - 2 novels

• Literary analysis of 2 novels written > 1945
• Teacher's approval of titles required
• Read the first one during the fall break
• To the library in groups of 6

1984 - George Orwell

•  a dystopian novel by English novelist George Orwell, published in 1949 

•  Big Brother is watching you

•  consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repression of persons and behaviours 

• Examines the role of truth and facts within politics and the ways they are manipulated.

The curious incident of the dog in the night-time - Mark Haddon

A 15-year old boy Christopher Boone, discovers the slain body of his neighbor’s poodle, Wellington, on the neighbor’s front lawn one evening and sets out to uncover the murderer. 

His investigation is  aided and hampered by his mild form of autism. After Christopher hits a policeman in a misunderstanding at the scene of the crime, the police take Christopher into custody. They release Christopher with only a stern warning, under the condition that he promises to them and to his father not to look into the murder any further.

Christopher chronicles his investigation in a book—the book we are reading—as part of a school assignment. Ignoring repeated warnings from his father, Christopher investigates the crime scene and conducts interviews with the residents of his block. He discovers his father's affair and more about his missing mother.

Dance on My Grave - Aidan Chambers

A 1982 young adult novel by British author Aidan Chambers. 

It tells the story of a British teenager named Henry Robinson, detailing the events that led to his dancing on the grave of his slightly older friend, Barry Gorman, with whom Robinson had a love affair.

It was one of the first few young adult books on homosexuality.

Looking for Alaska - John Green

Before. 

Miles “Pudge” Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave “the Great Perhaps” even more (Francois Rabelais, poet). 

He heads off to the crazy world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe, because down the hall is Alaska Young - a gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed up, and utterly fascinating girl. She talks about her mother and how she misses her. She is stealing his heart more and more, then. . . .

After. 

Nothing will ever be the same.

The Outcast - Sadie Jones

Lewis is 10 when he helplessly watches his mother drown, and within a few months has a needy, nervous stepmother with whom to contend. 

Forced to bury his grief by a cold disciplinarian father, Lewis expresses his pain in violent outbursts, spending two years in prison and cutting his arms as a release.In the same Hertfordshire village, Lewis's childhood friend Kit suffers beatings at the hands of her abusive father. 

The stifling summer of 1957 erupts when violence, sex, parental responsibility, love and emotion become fatally muddled. Will Kit and Lewis remain intact and find their way to each other amid the mess? A tragic account of the devastating effects of parental abuse and the redemptive power of true love.

Essay writing - ex. 4 - p. 39

Write an essay on sth. your passionate about AND INCLUDE THIS IN YOUR WRITING PORTFOLIO

Swap essays, check and WRITE feedback on:

• Lay-out (5 separate paragraphs)

 

• Intro ending in central idea; 
• Three paragraphs with each one argument and examples
• Conclusion (summary/recommendation)

• Vocabulary (spelling/capital letters)

• Grammar (tenses/concord)

• Content

How to write an essay

Intro (general info ending in thesis statement) 

Supporting argument 1 + examples

Supporting argument 2 + examples

Supporting argument 3 + examples

Conclusion

Building sentences

Delete repetition

Add interesting details 

(adjectives/adverbs/modifying clauses)

SLIDE OUTCAST

Homework next class

Do ex. 5,  6 ,  7 , 8 and 9 - p. 40/41

Next class/quick workers:

Read ex. 10 and use the outline to write paragraph 2