Literature 5 Marjane Sartrapi

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Literature 1

Road Map

Marjane Satrapi - 'The Shabbat'

from Persepolis (2001 - 2003)

Lesson goal

At the end of this class you are able to:

• describe the storyline of 'The Shabbat';
• recognise the context of the story;
• recognise the literary tools used in the story;
• describe what a graphic novel is and how it is different from a comic book. 

Context

• Marjane Satrapi, Iran, 1969 
• Originally in French
• 2007: Persepolis film
• 'The Revolution' = the Islamic revolution of 1978/9 in which the more western oriented shah was replaced by the conservative Ayatollah  Khomeini

Graphic Novel

A book containing a long story told mostly in pictures but with some writing

It differs from a comic in that it contains serious literary themes and sophisticated artwork

Spenserian: in last 2 lines, turn

abab bcbc cdcd ee.

Petrarchan 8 - 6: after line 8 

abba abba cde cde/cdcdcd

Shakespearean 3 quatrains and a couplet

abab, cdcd, efef, gg

Persepolis  - 'The Shabbat'

p. 19

What do you notice?

Literary devices in this graphic novel

onomatopeia

paralanguage

graphic weight

onomatopeia - the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it.

paralanguage - nonverbal communication such as tone, pitch, volume (manner of speaking).

graphic weight: some images draw the eye more than others by the way in which they use contrast or colour or patterns. 

Test

• Lesson Up Slides (the actual lessons and the definitions)
• Stories in your booklet
• Class information

Test -  check the lesson goals!

Literature general: know your definitions! 

Literature specific: what are the functions of literature, the characteristics of a sonnet (including rhyme scheme and such) and a short story.

Knowledge of all works read: when was it written, by whom, what is the content, who are the main characters, what is the setting, what does it mean?

Knowledge of all authors and their contexts: when did/do they live, where, what were the characteristics of the age, in which time slot do they fit on the literature time line, and, of course, what (other works) did they write?

Test

10 mulitple choice questions

10 true/false questions 

5 short open questions (short answers required)

analyse a poem

explicit and implicit meaning

literary devices

exit ticket

- What did you think of this course?

- why?

- What did you think of the works discussed? Why?

- Which work spoke to you the most? Why?

- Do you have any suggestions?