Introduction

• Engels
• Upper Secondary (Key Stage 4)
• GCSE

Goals today

Feedback on your poetry presentions 

Word of the day 

AWL and subject specific terminology 

Considering some topics, concerns and, possible, messages in the play

Working in stations with sources and sharing our findings 

Word of the day

Opulent (adj) - demonstrating great wealth; wealth;extravagant

From Latin ops (power, help) 

Write down three antonyms for opulent.

 

The opulent lifestyle of the business tycoon was evident in his luxurious mansion on the sea-front. 

Word of the day

Opulent (adj) - demonstrating great wealth; wealth; extravagant

Antonyms

 

impoverished. lean, poverty-stricken, destitute, poor

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Homework - Literature HL

Read in your text book pages 42 - 44 

Complete the questions on stage directions and upload your answers to your class notebook in Teams. Attach to the tab for A Doll's House

Homework 2nd Nov 

Homework - Language & Literature HL

Read in your text book page 169

Take notes and add them to your class notebook in Teams. Attach to the tab for A Doll's House

Homework for 2nd Nov 

Words to use/learn (AWL)

Analysis 

Approach 

context 

establish 

function 

indicate 

response 

specific 

Words to learn/use (terminology) 

Dramatic dialogue 

connotative meaning 

denotative meaning 

playwright 

performance 

stage 

speech directions 

Write this vocabulary down in their columns 

Tick the words off as you use them in your written and spoken work. 

01:54

What impression do you have of Nora? What kind of person is she?

03:04

Nora's shoes could be considered to be a symbol. What might they be symbolic of?

04:27

What point could this section be making about the structure of society?

05:36

Shoes 

Notice how the symbolic meaning attached to an object can be augmented through the way they are used and appear in the narrative. 

06:16

The front door also carries symbolic meaning. what might be the symbolic message?

06:29

Music 

Notice how music is used to place emphasis on certain objects, events or actions. How could a playwright achieve a similar effect? What techniques could be available?

06:42

Keys and mobile symbolic? What idea could these symbolise?

07:48

This moment has been foreshadowed. What feeling/idea was triggered in you from the foreshadowed image.

Jot down your thoughts ...

Predict some of the ideas and events that might be in the play. 

What characters could there be and how do they interact with each other? 

   (2:27) 

Tick off some of your vocabulary for today. 

Jot down your ideas...

What themes/ main ideas were highlighted in the short film that we watched? 

(1:29)

Goals today

Considering some topics, concerns and, possible, messages in the play

Working in stations with sources and sharing our findings 

Looking at Ibsen and 'realism' 

Consider stage setting and language usage in act 1 

Etymology 'playwright'

"writer or adapter of plays for the stage," 1680s (Ben Jonson used it 1610s as a mock-name), from play (n.) + wright (n.).

Old English wryhta, wrihta (Northumbrian wyrchta, Kentish werhta) "worker," variant of earlier wyhrta "maker," from wyrcan "to work" (see work (v.)). Now usually in combinations (wheelwright, playwright, etc.) or as a surname. A common West Germanic word; cognate with Old Saxon wurhito, Old Frisian wrichta, Old High German wurhto.

From: https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=playwright

Word of the day

Cryptic (adj) - secret, mysterious 

synonym for cryptic. 

       SAISOMUGUB

 

The cryptic message was read and reread by the detective trying to find the missing child. 

Word of the day

Use cryptic in a sentence that shows your understanding of this word. 

AMBIGUOUS.

Go to the station that you are assigned 

1. Read the source that has been given to your group. 

2. Discuss the questions.

3. Add your answers to the questions in the collaborative space in Teams. 

4. Regroup in new groups of 4 so that there is someone from each source station in the group. 

5. Share your findings with the group. Write the information in your personal class notebook. 

6. Make, as a group, a prediction as to the topic and concerns of this play.

Identity 

How one expresses themselves in relation to the context (beliefs/morality, race or ethnicity and gender)

Identity 

A way somebody sees themselves based on experiences, beliefs and origins. 

Beliefs and Morality, Race and ethnicity, Religion, Social Class, Gender, Occupation, Education Level, Country of origin, Behavior, Sexual Orientation  

Henrik Ibsen 

Born 1828 in Norway 

Died 1906 

A Doll's House 

Written in 1879 

21st Dec 1879 world premier in Copenhagen 

1882 first English translation performed in Milwaukee USA

Context of composition 

The father of realism. 

Context of composition and context of interpretation 

Well-made play 

 A Doll’s House may be described as a ‘well-made play’: a style of 19th century play with clear-cut protagonists and antagonists, artificially logical plots, often involving some ‘skeleton in the family cupboard', and usually happy endings. Ibsen often used the basic form of the well-made plot, but used more realistic and problematic characters than were previously seen. 

The term was coined by the influential French playwright Eugène Scribe (1791-1861)

Title 

What denotative and connotative meanings does the title A Doll's House have for you? 

Jot down your answers...

during the music (2:03)

Draw the stage layout from above. You can also decide to draw it in 3-D. See next slide. 

Why, do you think, that Ibsen gave such a detailed description of the stage directions?

Reading the play

Read your play until 

Mrs Linde enters 

Highlight all  the endearments that Torvald (Helmer)  uses for Nora.

Endearments

(sweet little) Skylark 

Squirrel 

featherhead 

(sweet little) spendthrift 

sweet little skylark 

Miss Sweet Tooth 

my darling 

poor little girl 

extravagant little person 

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Words to use/learn (AWL list 1) 

Assume 

Available 

Consistent 

Identify 

Interpretation 

Occur 

Section 

 

Words to learn/use (terminology) 

Plot 

sub-plot  

Exposition 

complication 

resolution/denouement

Well-made play 

parallels & contrasts 

Write this vocabulary down in their columns 

Tick the words off as you use them in your written and spoken work. 

Play structure 

Exposition: Introduction to the characters, background information and 'sets up'  the situation which usually presents the central characters with some kind of change or challenge. 

Turn and talk ... 

Who are our central characters and what is the change or challenge that they are being confronted with? 

Play structure 

Complication: The middle part of the play develops the initial situation showing the consequences of change and how characters respond to their altered circumstances. 

Resolution /Denouement: Some kind of resolution of order or equilibrium and characters come to terms with what has taken place. 

Plot and sub-plot 

Plot = storyline 'what happens'

A sub-plot = is a secondary plot which runs alongside the play's main plot. It may involve characters who rarely encounter the characters who feature in the main plot. 

Sub-plots will often feature parallels and contrasts with the main plot. Usually the sub-plot will mirror the themes of the main plot, but present them from a different perspective. 

Timeline 

There are two plots in the play:

1. the main plot involves Nora, Torvald and Krogstad;
   
2. the sub-plot involves Krogstad and Mrs Linde.

Sometimes these plots converge and sometimes they diverge.

Ibsen uses the two plots to show how time and events affect the situation in which Nora finds herself