Literature 4 Oscar Wilde A Model Millionaire II

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Literature 1

Road Map

Oscar Wilde  -  The Model Millionaire 

• Brief recap
• Assignments

Focus: The build-up of the story

- Oral tests - planning!

- Test week - 120 mins = 2 tests 

Lesson goal

At the end of this class you are able to:

• relate the contents of the story
• describe the three main characters
• relate the five stages of a story and link them to 'The Model Millionaire'

Main characters

Hughie Erskine

Alan Trevor

Baron Hausberg

Short story

'a relatively short work of prose fiction, approx. 500 to 10,000 words, that, according to Edgar Allan Poe, can be read in a single sitting of two hours or less'.

The short story works to create a single effect.

Short story

1. Introduction

2. Rising action

3. Climax

4. Falling action

5. Resolution 

Short story

1. Hughie is introduced. He's an upper class guy with no job, but good looks and charm. He is in love with Laura.

2. Colonel Merton does not allow Hughie to marry his daughter unless he has 10.000 pounds.

3. Hughie goes to the studio of his painter friend Alan, sees a beggar man there and gives him his last souvereign. The beggar turns out to be Baron Hausberg and Hughie feels quite stupid

4. The baron, however, appreciates Hughie's kindness and rewards him with 10.000 pounds so he and Laura can get married

3. Hughie and Laura get married.

‘Millionaire models,’ remarked Alan, ‘are rare enough; but, by Jove, model millionaires are rarer still!’

 

Do

Write a paragraph of 50 -75 words in which you discuss Alan's statement. Is it still relevant? If so, how? If not, why not? Give exmples!

Reading diary

Ready? Reread sonnet 75 and/or work on other assignments 

Context

The circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood.

Here: either the context of the author or the context in a literary work

Content

the material dealt with in a literary work

Test week

Two tests for English  - 120 mins. 

Reading skills and literature -  60 mins each. 

Test week

Plan your oral exams!

Homework

Reread Sonnet 75 - 

Make sure you understand it. Or, if you have any questions, bring them to class!