Cover lesson MYP2 11-02-2025

Cover lesson MYP2 11-02-2025

Activity

Read the following texts:

Who was the first female writer to be published?

Female authors who have broken barriers

Activity

You have read the texts on the previous pages. 

If all is correct you have made notes on the various authors and why these women have been so groundbreaking.

Let's focus on a couple of these women.

Why are these different female authors so important?

SAPPHO

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

JANE AUSTEN

EDITH WHARTON

AGATHA CHRISTIE

Activity: Jane Austen

We are going to watch a video about Jane Austen and you will have to work on a couple of questions.

Make a screenshot of the following slide and add that to your document. Answer the questions (1&2) after having watched the video.

Activity: Jane Austen

We are going to watch a video after this slide.

Please work on the following activity

Work on Q 1&2

Activity: Jane Austen

After watching the video and making some notes, I would like to focus on a couple of aspects in the following slides.

Which 6 books did Jane Austen write?

Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility

Pride and Prejudice

Mansfield Park

Emma

Northanger Abbey

Persuasion

Do you feel the issues/lessons in Austen's novels are still relevant today?

1. Yes
2. No

Pride and Prejudice

The opening pages:

page 1

page 2

Read the text and answer the various questions.

This will be homework for Thursday.

Pride and Prejudice

Have you really finished the work?

Please work on someting else, school related, for the rest of the lesson.

See you Thursday.

According to the extract, what was the position of women in society?

What factors might have influenced women to get married?

What does the dialogue reveal to us about the characters?

What ideas about women are being presented here?

Whose voice do we 'hear' towards the end of the extract?