V6B - P3 - Week 6 (Victorian+Modern)

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V6B - P3 - Week 6

Today's Lesson

First half: 

Literary History: The Victorian Period

Second half:

Literary History: Modern Period

Make groups of 3 or 4
One of you needs to sign in with your group name and lists who is in the group below

Literature Lesson - The Victorian Period

During the Victorian Age the British empire was called:
“The Empire where the sun never sets"
Explain why and submit your answer as a group

The British Empire

• England grew to become the greatest nation on earth
  
• Imperialism = territorial expansion, colonies abroad
  
• Empire included Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Africa, Kenya, and India
  
• England built a very large navy and merchant fleet (for trade and colonization)
  

Research the following topics in the Victorian age
1. women's rights 2. worker's rights
3. child labour 4. non-British citizens
Submit your answer as a group

Reader Page 13: Task 8a
What can you say about the tone of the fragment?
Post your answer as a group

What can you say about the tone of the fragment?

Critical of life in England and how people treat foreigners

Reader Page 13: Task 8b
Submit Dickens's comments on foreigners
Post your answers as a group

Comments on foreigners

• Foreigners: uphill work (hard work), every foreigner had a knife, ought to go home to their own country, God’s will that they are not English, foreigners country didn’t do as well as England

Reader Page 13: Task 8b
Submit Dickens's comments on Englishmen.
Post your answers as a group

Comments on Englishmen. 

• Englishmen: God made them English (good thing), England does not experience bad times because it makes good decisions
  

What do you know about Darwinism
and its effect on Victorian life?
Submit your answer as a group

Literature Lesson - The Victorian Period

Literature Lesson - The Modern Period

The Modern period started c. 1900 until present day.
WWI happened in this time and affected British society.

Look up warfare in WWI and share your findings below.

Who is "The Lost Generation"?

Research the following topics in the early Modern era
1. women's suffrage 2. class struggles after WWI
3. Irish rebellion 1916 4. Decline British colonial empire
Submit your answer as a group

Reader Page 14-15: Task 9a
What strikes you about her sentences?
Post your answer as a group

What strikes you about her sentences?

The sentences are long and contain a lot of information

Look up the term: Stream of consciousness

What does it mean?

The unbroken flow of thought and awareness in the waking mind. 

Reader Page 14-15: Task 9b
In this fragment Mrs Dalloway gives a lot of information about
her past and present life.
Mention some instances and also how she feels about them.
Post your answers as a group

In this fragment Mrs Dalloway gives a lot of information about

her past and present life.

Mention some instances and also how she feels about them. 

• She thinks about when she was eighteen looking at flowers
• She loves London at this moment of June
• The war is over: thank Heaven

Reader Page 14-15: Task 9c
Who else tells us something about her?
What does he say?
Post your answers as a group

Who else tells us something about her?

What does he say?

• Scrope Purvis
• A charming woman, vivacious, seems younger than she is

Literature Lesson - The Modern Period

Student's choice

You have several options for the rest of this lesson:

- Study the PPT on the Victorian Age

- Study other Literary History PPTs. 

- Study literary history reader

- Practise your reading skills on www.examenflow.nl 

Finished!

You have finished today's lesson. 

You learned more about literary history

 and

you have prepared for your final tests. 

Well done!