4VWO English TTO: short story review
4VWO English TTO: short story review
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4VWO English TTO: short story review
Agenda
Questions about the test?
Reminder about practice question (Classroom)
Two key points for succeeding on this test: authorial choices, and writing skills
Review activities (knowing the stories)
Questions about the test?
Note: make sure you know the authors of each story!
Practice question
(Select an extract from a story, analyse how the author has created mood in this extract)
-- Submit on Classroom before tomorrow's lesson for feedback
Two key points for succeeding on the test
Authorial choices
You are not being assessed primarily on your knowledge of the stories (there will be no multiple choice sections about the content of the stories).
Your are being assessed on your ability to analyse the language used by authors, and to make persuasive arguments about why certain devices / literary techniques have been used.
Writing
You will also be expected to write effectively. In other words:
proper paragraph structure (clear points, evidence, explanation, links back to main point)
formal, varied, sophisticated language (show off skills from the language test!)
Which of the stories studied this term have first-person narrators?
Give an example of a first-person narrator who is "unreliable"; briefly explain why.
Example: finding evidence in authorial choices
I am sitting by the window now, up in this atrocious nursery, and there is nothing to hinder my writing as much as I please, save lack of strength.
John is away all day, and even some nights when his cases are serious.
I am glad my case is not serious!
But these nervous troubles are dreadfully depressing.
John does not know how much I really suffer. He knows there is no REASON to suffer, and that satisfies him.
Of course it is only nervousness. It does weigh on me so not to do my duty in any way!
I meant to be such a help to John, such a real rest and comfort, and here I am a comparative burden already!
Nobody would believe what an effort it is to do what little I am able,—to dress and entertain, and order things.
It is fortunate Mary is so good with the baby. Such a dear baby!
And yet I CANNOT be with him, it makes me so nervous.
Example: finding evidence in authorial choices
I am sitting by the window now, up in this atrocious nursery, and there is nothing to hinder my writing as much as I please, save lack of strength.
John is away all day, and even some nights when his cases are serious.
I am glad my case is not serious!
But these nervous troubles are dreadfully depressing.
John does not know how much I really suffer. He knows there is no REASON to suffer, and that satisfies him.
Of course it is only nervousness. It does weigh on me so not to do my duty in any way!
I meant to be such a help to John, such a real rest and comfort, and here I am a comparative burden already!
Nobody would believe what an effort it is to do what little I am able,—to dress and entertain, and order things.
It is fortunate Mary is so good with the baby. Such a dear baby!
And yet I CANNOT be with him, it makes me so nervous.
Almost every sentence shifts in tone / contradicts the one before it: creates a restless feeling
"The Yellow Wallpaper," Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Identify the stories from these descriptions. Note: to make this more of a puzzle, the descriptions are not always the most obvious, so take your time...
The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope: the social setting is one in which secret sexual scandal is almost expected.
The Garden Party: the protagonist feels the overwhelming weight of her privileged upbringing.
The Yellow Wallpaper: the narrator in confined in an old nursery.
A Private Experience: the protagonist shares an intimate moment with someone unlike themselves, dues to a crisis situation.
Everyday Use: the 1st-person narrator is not the most formally educated character in the story.
Mr. Loveday's Little Outing: the title character is completely satisfied at the end of the story.
The Tell-Tale Heart: the protagonist claims to have excellent hearing.
The Moment Before the Gun Went Off: what the protagonist keeps silent is the key to this story.
Gravel: in this story, the motivation of the person who dies is the real mystery.
Opinion poll: which of the following characters would you most want to do a group project with in school?
Laura ("The Garden Party")
Mary ("Lamb to the Slaughter")
The narrator ("The Tell-Tale Heart")
Caro ("Gravel")
Chika "A Private Experience")
Marais ("The Moment Before the Gun Went Off")
Remaining time?
Put together a practice answer, if you haven't already done so.
Already done so? Choose another extract and start to make notes on authorial choices.
