V6 - P3 - Week 5 - Lesson 1 - Modern period part 1

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V6 - P3 - Week 5 - Lesson 1

Lesson goals

You will:

- have learned more about the Modern period

- have learned about literature from the Modern period

Today's Lesson

Literary History: Modern period

Virginia Woolf

Make groups of 4
One of you needs to sign in with your group name and lists who is in the group below

Literature Lesson - The Modern Period

The Modern period started c. 1900 until present day.
WWI happened in this time and affected British society.

Look up warfare in WWI and share your findings below.

Who is "The Lost Generation"?

"Lost Generation" has a double meaning. While it refers specifically to the generation of writers and artists disillusioned after the war, it can also refer to the post-war generation more broadly. That generation found the cultural lessons they had learned in childhood irrelevant; they were "lost" in the modern world.

Research the following topics in the early Modern era
1. women's suffrage 2. class struggles after WWI
3. Irish rebellion 1916 4. Decline British colonial empire
Submit your answer as a group

Reader Page 14-15: Task 9a
What strikes you about her sentences?
Post your answer as a group

What strikes you about her sentences?

The sentences are long and contain a lot of information

Look up the term: Stream of consciousness

What does it mean?

The unbroken flow of thought and awareness in the waking mind. 

Reader Page 14-15: Task 9b
In this fragment Mrs Dalloway gives a lot of information about
her past and present life.
Mention some instances and also how she feels about them.
Post your answers as a group

In this fragment Mrs Dalloway gives a lot of information about

her past and present life.

Mention some instances and also how she feels about them. 

• She thinks about when she was eighteen looking at flowers
• She loves London at this moment of June
• The war is over: thank Heaven

Reader Page 14-15: Task 9c
Who else tells us something about her?
What does he say?
Post your answers as a group

Who else tells us something about her?

What does he say?

• Scrope Purvis
• A charming woman, vivacious, seems younger than she is

Lesson goals

You:

- have learned more about the Modern period

- have learned about literature from the Modern period