Benjamin Disraeli's Sybil

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 5

Let's talk  read politics.

It's gonna be YUGE.

Let's talk  read politics

It's gonna be YUGE.

Politicians

Would they make for great novelists?

...Imagine...

• One of our most eloquent world leaders..
• becoming a well renowned novelist...
• Sort of...

Winners & Losers

1. What do you know about Trump’s lifestory? 
   Key words please.
2. What elements of Trump’s lifestyle, beliefs or attitude are being mocked through the children’s book? Mention 3 or more.
3. The book refers to some controversial policies which Trump had been promoting while on campaign trail. Which one(s) do you recognise?
   

Discuss in pairs

Winners & Losers

1. What do you know about Trump’s lifestory? 
   Key words please.
2. What elements of Trump’s lifestyle, beliefs or attitude are being mocked through the children’s book? Mention 3 or more.
3. The book refers to some controversial policies which Trump had been promoting while on campaign trail. Which one(s) do you recognise?
   

Think of other political issues or controversial policies that Trump has ignited. No idea? --> Google.

• In the style of “Winners aren’t Losers” 
  write a catchy children’s-rhyme about a much-debated issue during Trump's Presidency. 

Let's. get. political.

EXAMPLE

Now let’s talk control  -

How guns are YUGE fun

I think it's about time

every teacher had one!

a.k.a. Dizzy,

(born December 21, 1804, London)

 British statesman and novelist who was twice prime minister and who provided the Conservative Party with a twofold policy of Tory democracy and imperialism

“The most important character in Sybil is Disraeli himself. As an author, he is irrepressibly at large in all his writing. His voice resonates from page to page, and his sympathy for the plight of the poor elevates even the dullest passages. The speech in which the young Chartist agitator, Morley (in love with Sybil) describes "the Two Nations… between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy" is brilliant, passionate and unforgettable, reaching its climax in that celebrated upper-case line: 

"THE RICH AND THE POOR."

Benjamin Disraeli

SYBIL

CRITIC'S REVIEW

SYBIL - CRITIC'S REVIEW

“The most important character in Sybil is Disraeli himself. As an author, he is irrepressibly at large in all his writing. His voice resonates from page to page, and his sympathy for the plight of the poor elevates even the dullest passages. The speech in which the young Chartist agitator, Morley (in love with Sybil) describes "the Two Nations… between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy" is brilliant, passionate and unforgettable, reaching its climax in that celebrated upper-case line: "THE RICH AND THE POOR."

Trump. Similarities? Differences?

Similarities & Differences
between
Disraeli & Trump

SYBIL - CRITIC'S REVIEW

Disraeli & Trump

Similarities? Differences?

• SIM: personality and beliefs resonate. Two nations.
  
• DIF: Trump’s being mocked, Disraeli’s praised. Trump looks down on the poor, Disraeli has sympathy.