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N O R W E L L H I G H S C H O O L British Literature 10 CRAIG BELMORE - KELLY CRISS - KELSEY LINK - LEIGH LEWIS CHAPTER 1 Introduction Please refer to these support materials throughout your study of British Litera- Map of Ancient Britain ture, as they have been compiled to sup- port your skill development and provide David Rumsey Map http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail context. /RUMSEY~8~1~20862~520055:Ancient-Britain- I--Published-under-# SECTION 1 Context NHS MOTIFS 1. Fear as Drive 2. Role of Civilization 3. Quest for Power 4. Influence of Desire on Relationships Readings and discussion this year will be centered around a thematic reading of British literature. Keep these five motifs in mind throughout your reading. 2 Medieval Age Group Presentation Directions: Over the next few days we will be working in groups to present the concerns, concepts, Presenter(s): and events that occurred during the Medieval Ages, also called the Middle Ages. Presentation draft writer: Products: Works Cited page writer: An Expository Essay describing the assigned topic. Illustrator/handout generator: An oral presentation of the concept/subject, including an introduction. A visual guide to the presentation (PowerPoint, poster, or handout) Game/Quiz writer: A Works Cited page. Topics: A comprehension check: a quiz or a game with appropriate rules or answer keys. Religion (“Pagan”/Christianity) Feudalism The Crusades Printed or photocopied (print resources) proof of research done. Medieval church Medieval Work (in each class) Bubonic Plague Procedure: Medieval homes Knights/Knighthood Invasion from Europe Develop the 6 questions that need to be answered in order to understand the topic: Medieval food and dress Chivalry Thomas a’ Becket Who? What? When? Where? How? Why? King Arthur Courtly Love Geoffrey Chaucer Research the topic using print resources in the library, being sure to capture the information necessary to create a Works Cited page. Divide the products above among group members. Goal: Students should be able to recognize key concerns, concepts, and events from Write an essay that introduces the topic and answers 6 important questions: Who? the period. What? Where? When? How? Why? Create talking points or note cards from the essay and deliver an oral presentation to the class. This presentation should answer the same 6 questions as the essay, but reading the essay is not enough to earn full credit (5 minutes, maximum). Create a quiz or game to check your listeners’ comprehension of your oral presenta- tion. Schedule the presentation order with me. Deliver the presentation and pass in a written version of the presentation. 3 SECTION 2 Close Reading HOW TO MARK A BOOK by Mortimer J. Adler (1902-2001) (link to PDF: HTMAB) READ THE ARTICLE ON THE OPPOSITE PAGE. AN- You know you have to read "between the lines" to get the most out of anything. I want to persuade SWER THE QUESTIONS BELOW. you to do something equally important in the 1. The essay is entitled “How to Mark a Text.” course of your reading. I want to persuade you to However, showing how to mark a text is a "write between the lines." Unless you do, you are STRATEGY employed for a greater purpose. not likely to do the most efficient kind of reading. What is the purpose of this essay? In other I contend, quite bluntly, that marking up a book is words, what is the author trying to DO? not an act of mutilation but of love. 2. Consider the image of the “beefsteak” in the You shouldn't mark up a book which isn't yours. fourth paragraph. How does this metaphor Librarians (or your friends) who lend you books convey the author’s meaning? expect you to keep them clean, and you should. If 3. What are some of the misconceptions about you decide that I am right about the usefulness of books and reading that the author seeks to marking books, you will have to buy them. Most dispel? of the world's great books are available today, in 4. Why is writing while reading necessary? Why reprint editions, at less than a dollar. does the author prefer writing directly on the There are two ways in which one can own a book. book? The first is the property right you establish by 5. How does this essay apply to high school paying for it, just as you pay for clothes and English? What suggestions and perspectives can furniture. But this act of purchase is only the you take from this piece? prelude to possession. Full ownership comes only when you have made it a part of yourself, and the best way to make yourself a part of it is by writing 4 ECTION S 3 The Victorian Period (1833-1901) Queen Victoria’s reign was marked by triumphs and tragedies. The Jane Eyre consequences of some of them, liked the mixed legacy of imperialism, were felt way beyond her century. Shy and diminutive, the young queen set out to restore the reputation of the monarchy. Her marriage in 1840 to her first cousin, Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, was a model of respectability. That quality, respectability, became a very important concept of the period. The first blight on her reign came in 1845 when a potato crop failed in Ireland. The Famine grew worse until by 1849 half the UNIT CONTENTS population had died or gone into exile. The British government did little for this quarter of the United Kingdom. The events and legend of the 1. Victorian Period Background Famine fueled the hatred and violence in the relations of the British and Irish for more than a hundred and fifty years. 2. Jane Eyre Passage Analysis Chart The high point of Victoria’s reign was The Great Exposition in the 3. Jane Eyre Socratic Seminar Questions Crystal Palace, organized by her husband, The Prince Consort, in 1851. Built in a wholly new style, iron girders holding over a million feet of 4. Jane Eyre Comparison Contrast Assignment glass panels, the building was the cathedral of commerce and empire. A combination of world’s fair and industrial show, the Exposition 5. Works Cited trumpeted to the world the achievements of manufacturing England, colonizing England, and self-satisfied England. Two works published in Victoria’s reign proved as powerful as any of the machinery for The Great Exposition. In 1848, as England watched as revolutions convulsed Europe, Karl Marx published The Communist Manifesto. This pamphlet warned that there was a “spectre haunting Europe.” That “spectre” was communism, with its prophecy of political revolution. The other book, the work of a gentleman scientist who had seen evidence for a biological evolution during his long sea voyage on H.M.S. Beagle, was On the Origin of Species. Supporters and attackers alike knew that after Charles Darwin’s work, our sense of ourselves and our place in the world would never be the same. The reform impulse gathered strength throughout the period. Jane Eyre Syntax Analysis 5 Passage Analysis Examine the following passage from Jane Eyre and fill out the chart that follows according to the syntax. Then explain how Sentence Number 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Bronte’s use of syntax affects the tone and meaning of the pas- Number of words sage. Number of independent clauses “I could not help it; the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes. Then my sole relief was to walk along the corridor of the third Number of dependent story, backwards and forwards, safe in the silence and solitude of the spot, clauses and allow my mind’s eye to dwell on whatever bright visions rose before it— Use of dash, and, certainly, they were many and glowing; to let my heart be heaved by the semicolon, or exclamation exultant movement . and, best of all, to open my inward ear to a tale that was never ended—a tale my imagination created, and narrated continuously; Repeated use of quickened with all of incident, life, fire, feeling, that I desired and had not in coordinating conjunctions my actual existence. It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot Number of polysyllabic words find it. Millions are condemned to a stiller doom than mine, and millions are in silent revolt against their lot. Nobody knows how many rebellions besides Use of questions political rebellions ferment in the masses of life which people earth. Women Use of repetition are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as Use of parallel structure their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagna- tion, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more Use of rhetorical fragments privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroi- Use of comparisons dering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if they seek to do more or learn more than custom has pronounced necessary for Types of figurative their sex” (111). language 6 Jane Eyre Socratic Seminar Prepare thoughts, evidence and questions based on the following questions in order to be ready to participate in discussion. 1. Discuss the significance of Jane's dreams. 2. What ultimately is Jane’s goal in the novel? Why does this desire constitute her both as a rebel and an outcast of the time period? 3.