Week 3 HG Wells - Setting

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 3

Week 3 Writing

H.G. Wells

Goals

I can check my writing for basic errors

I can identify figurative and sensory language

I can describe the setting H.G. Wells' novels.

Remember?

Which element does not belong to setting?

  A Level of Technology 

  B Kind of Society

  C Time

  D Place

  E Plot

Remember?

The sun woke up in the morning.

  Simile

  Metaphor

  Personification

  Alliteration

Remember?

Which item does not belong to sensory language?

  She felt the rough wall on her left.

  The bird's song was heard throughout the forest.

  I've told you a million times!

  Her nostrils filled with the sweet smell of blood.

  The hot peppers made her eyes water and her tongue felt numb.

Check your work

Basic errors:

• Missing capital letters and full stops or question marks
• Dont instead of don’t, cant instead of can’t
• I
• Sentences too short / too long

Read your neighbour's work

Underline the figurative language

Underline the sensory language

The Time Machine

1. The novel is set in England in the 1890s, in the year AD 802,701, and more than 30 million years in the future.
2. It takes place in and around London.
3. Technology is rudimentair, the Industrial Revolution has just started, people are afraid of the future. The Time Traveller built a Time Machine.
4. London society: Upper class and Lower class. In 802.701: Eloi and Morlocks.

The Time Machine

Assignment

Eloi meets Morlock

Write a short script of the (friendly) meeting using at least 10 words from Unit 11 (vocab book) and Unit 8 (reader)

Assignment

1. What is the setting in your novel?
2. What happens to the story if it was set in another time (past or future)?
3. Exit ticket: What are the four elements of Setting?

I, Robot

1. US
2. It is set in 1998 
3. Lunar base, some sort of helicopters but most of all: robots!
4. Humans and Robots live together, based on robotic laws.

Robotic Laws

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

2. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

War of the Worlds

a. When? 1890's and beginning 20th century

b. Where? London and Surrey (English countryside)

c. The technology? Spaceships, robotic aliens, heat-rays

d. Society? Martians' world - very advanced in maths, far more intellectial that humans. Planet is dying.

Human world - we are lowly aliens to martians, not advanced but living on a triving planet.

Assignment

Eloi meets Morlock

or

Human meets Martian

Write a short script of the (friendly) meeting using at least 10 words from Unit 11 (vocab book) and Unit 8 (reader)