V5 - week 8 - Wuthering Heights task

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 5

Presentation V5 - literature

Divide into groups of 5/6  persons (5 groups in total) and pick one of the following tasks to read up on and present information to class after the spring break (Wednesday March 8th and Friday March 10th)

TASK:

Use the links on the following slides to find out more about WH themes. 

Present to class in 5-10 minutes (ppt with pictures + key words + quotes novel)

Use info from the websites provided + find extra + use quotes from the novel in support

Topics to pick from:

1. Class structure in Wuthering Heights and in the Victorian era
2. Feminism in Wuthering Heights & Women's rights (suffrage) in the Victorian era
3. Nature & Civilization in Wuthering Heights + in the Romantic period vs the Victorian era
4. (Destructive) Love & Revenge as themes in Wuthering Heights & in classic novels
5. The Narrative structure in Wuthering Heights

Remaining poetry & Review

• It is a Beauteous Evening Calm and Free - wk 10
• We Are Seven  - wk 12
• Poetry & poets & Literary period review (incl. first 3 poems Keats, Lord Byron) - wk 12
• Vocabulary review - independently!

Tests Period 3

Literature test 

100 minutes - 

questions on poetry = meaning/literary devices poems, life/writing style of poets, background literary periods; 

questions on novels = pick one novel and answer question/writing a longer answer here - pick Wuthering Heights

Literary periods - Romantic period (18th century) + Victorian era (19th century) 

Literary devices in booklet

Background on Romantic period + Victorian era in booklet/Alquin magazine/notes in class/PPT slides

Poets: Keats, Lord Byron, Blake, Wordsworth

Poems: 

Keats: To Autumn, La Belle Dame Sans Merci

Lord Byron: She Walks in Beauty

Blake (pre-romantic poet): London, Tygre, The Schoolboy, The Chimney Sweeper (poem I and II)

Wordsworth: I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud, We Are Seven, It is a Beauteous Evening Calm and Free

Sources to be used for presentations

Use the following sources for your presentations:

• https://www.britannica.com/event/Victorian-era
• https://www.britannica.com/art/Romanticism#ref224460 (scroll down to literature)
• shmoop.com (name of novel + themes)
• sparknotes.com (name of novel + themes)
• litchart.com (name of novel + themes)
• cliffsnotes.com (name of novel + themes)
• Google Scholar - essays written on Wuthering Heights' themes

On the next slides, please find links that may be used.

www.cliffsnotes.com

www.researchgate.net

www.litcharts.com

www.sparknotes.com

www.cliffsnotes.com

en.wikipedia.org