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V5 - The Veldt and Literary terms review

V5 
Today's plan:
Check homework (50 kp)
Homework next week:

Literary Terms V4
The Veldt by Ray Bradbury

Next lesson: VT2 review




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This lesson contains 28 slides, with interactive quizzes, text slides and 2 videos.

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V5 
Today's plan:
Check homework (50 kp)
Homework next week:

Literary Terms V4
The Veldt by Ray Bradbury

Next lesson: VT2 review




Slide 1 - Slide

Goals
I can identify, explain and apply the following literary terms: foreshadowing, characterisation, (un)reliable narrator, point of view, setting, atmosphere, plot structure, alliteration, repetition + figurative language (simile, metaphor, hyperbole, understatement, personification)

I can identify and interpret the theme of The Veldt (supporting my inferences with textual evidence)

I can read between the lines to understand what might happen at the end of The Veldt

 

Slide 2 - Slide

I have started reading this term's novel:
YES
I HAVEN'T BUT I AM AWARE THAT I NEED TO BE HALFWAY THROUGH NEXT WEEK
YES (BUT ONLY 1 PAGE)

Slide 3 - Poll

Literary terms V4

Slide 4 - Mind map

Figurative language

Slide 5 - Mind map

Slide 6 - Slide

Slide 7 - Video

Alliteration
Vowels = klinkers
Consonants = medeklinkers
Alliteration = beginrijm van medeklinkers
Bijvoorbeeld: schots en scheef

Slide 8 - Slide

Which of these is an example of alliteration?
A
a glass heart
B
life is a roller-coaster
C
you're as cold as ice
D
silently seeking the silky sounds

Slide 9 - Quiz

Which sentence is an example of alliteration?
A
You are the apple of my eye.
B
Sheep should sleep in a shed
C
He was stubborn like a mule
D
We need more boots on the ground.

Slide 10 - Quiz

Repetition
Repeating words (or letters!) in a sentence, paragraph or story.

Example: The people of this town deserve a mayor they can trust, a mayor they can respect, a mayor they can count on.


Slide 11 - Slide

When / why is repetition used?

Slide 12 - Mind map

The Veldt?

Slide 13 - Mind map

1

Slide 14 - Video

00:59
What is the setting of this story? (time/place) Use evidence

Slide 15 - Open question

The Veldt
While reading the story, answer this question:

When is this story set? In the past, the present or the future? And how do you know?

Slide 16 - Slide

3. Can you find two instances of irony? For each instance, describe the irony.

Slide 17 - Slide

possible answers
e.g. the moment they decide to give the children a last chance to say goodbye to their nursery before they close it and this decision ends up killing them.
e.g. That they decided they needed e a respite from technology and needed to go back to really living, but technology kills them anyway.
more examples possible: check with your teacher in class. 

Slide 18 - Slide

4. What point of view is the story told from?

A
the mom
B
the parents
C
the children
D
the dad

Slide 19 - Quiz

5. What type of narrator tells the story?

A
third person limited omniscient narrator
B
first person limited omniscient narrator
C
third person omniscient narrator
D
first person omniscient narrator

Slide 20 - Quiz

The Veldt

Slide 21 - Slide

Answering literature questions (PEE)
1. Find two separate examples of foreshadowing. Write them down and explain their effect on the reader. 
(first question in IL The Veldt Assignment)

1. The first instance of foreshadowing is X. 
2. The second instance is X. 
The effect of these examples of foreshadowing on the reader is [POINT] I know this because [EVIDENCE]. This shows that [EXPLANATION] 

Slide 22 - Slide

TO DO NOW
1. Finish reading the story (15 mins)

2. Write down for yourself: what happens at the end? (read between the lines!)

3. Go to IL > literature > short stories > work on the questions for The Veldt: use a PEE structure

Slide 23 - Slide

Goals
I can identify, explain and apply the following literary terms: foreshadowing, characterisation, (un)reliable narrator, point of view, setting, atmosphere, plot structure, alliteration, repetition + figurative language (simile, metaphor, hyperbole, understatement, personification)

I can identify and interpret the theme of The Veldt (supporting my inferences with textual evidence)

I can read between the lines to understand what might happen at the end of The Veldt

 

Slide 24 - Slide

I can identify, explain and apply foreshadowing, characterisation, (un)reliable narrator, point of view, setting, atmosphere, plot structure, alliteration, repetition + figurative language (simile, metaphor, hyperbole, understatement, personification)

(if this is not true for any one of the literary terms, you have to pick a neutral or sad face)
😒🙁😐🙂😃

Slide 25 - Poll

What is the theme of The Veldt (remember: needs to be a sentence)

Slide 26 - Open question

How did you know what happened at the end of the story?

Slide 27 - Open question

Next lesson:
Continue The Veldt
VT2 Review
U2L2: 14-18
(please put the chairs on the tables, thank you!)

Slide 28 - Slide

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