Around the World in Eighty Days Teacher’S Guide
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Around the World in Eighty Days Teacher’s Guide 1 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Read chapters Read ch. 3-4. Read ch. 5-6. Read ch. 7-8. Discussion and 1-2. exercises. Read ch. 9- Read ch. 11-12. Read ch. 13-14. Read ch. 15- Discussion and 10. 16. exercises. Read ch. 17- Read ch. 19-20. Read ch. 21-22. Read ch. 23- Discussion and 18. 24. exercises. Read ch. 25- Read ch. 28-30. Read ch. 31-33. Read ch. 34- Read 36-37 and 27. 35. lit analysis. Discussion Discussion and Discussion and Final Activity Final Activity and writing. writing. writing. Project Project Decide on your schedule for book. 2 chapters/ day plus written work, for 4 days/wk = 18-19 days, about 5 weeks, with discussion on the 5th days of each week and on days 21-25 for final projects. 3 chapters/day plus written work, 4 days/wk = 12-13 days, 3 weeks, with discussion on the 5th day. Take a few days on the 4th week to discuss and do the plot sheet. We only did the 3-chapters option for Week 4 Monday through Wednesday, because the book gets very exciting, and I knew my boys would want to read ahead to finish it. This made the book discussion very long on those days, but it still allowed us to finish the book in four weeks. Because of the long reading assignments and discussions on those days, I decreased the written work for those days and moved it to the fifth week. Copyright Amy Meyers 2020. Please do not copy this teacher’s guide or the student guide for other people. Direct them to my blog (www.itavitaafrican.wordpress.com) or to the MFW ECC Facebook page for the direct download of the files. 2 Day One: Chapters 1-2 Teacher Check: • Do they understand how you want them to annotate? • Which vocabulary option will you be using? • Help them set up their notebooks, if needed. • Check their précis. Give any help that is needed. • Discuss as much of the following as you like. I would go easy on the literary devices in the beginning of the book until they learn more in their guide, but make sure to bring out character elements right from the beginning. Literary devices: • allusion—pg. 1 Byron • Fogg—he’s obscure. No one knows much about his background. pg. 2 “But those who knew him best oculd not imagine how he had made his fortune, and Mr. Fogg was the last person to whom to apply for the information….least communicative of men.” pg. 3 “…seemed all the more mysterious for his taciturn manner….the wits of the curious were fairly puzzled.” • figure of speech: “second sight” pg. 3 what does that mean? • simile and imagery: pg. 5 “Fogg was seated squarely in his armchair, his feet close together like those of a grenadier on parade, his hands resting on his knees, his body straight, his head erect.” Fogg is compared “to a grenadier, or a certain type of soldier. This emphasizes his stoic, hardened nature, setting up the emotional wall in front of him that will continue to persist throughout his journey until his love for Aouda finally breaks it down.”1 • Theme of time: pg. 5 “…he was steadily watching a complicated clock which indicated the hours, the minutes, the seconds, the days, the months, and the years.” • symbol: Pass’s watch p. 6 Fogg says it’s too slow, Pass says that’s impossible. • simile/hyperbole? ch. 2 “I’ve seen people at Madame Tussaud’s as lively as my new master!” Madame Tussaud’s people were wax. • ch. 2 allusions: English composure which Angelica Kauffmann represented on canvas; p. 9 “Passepartout was by no means one of those pert dunces depicted by Moliere, with a bold gaze and a nose held high in the air…” • simile p. 9 “…he gave the idea of being perfectly well-balanced, as exactly regulated as a Leroy chronometer.” • allusion p. 10 “the ancient sculptors are said to have known eighteen methods of arranging Minerva’s tresses” • foreshadowing? p. 10 “rash to predict how Passepartout’s lively nature would 1 Gundersen, Kathryn. Suduiko, Aaron ed. "Around the World in 80 Days Metaphors and Similes". GradeSaver, 24 October 2015 Web. 16 May 2020. 3 agree with Mr. Fogg.” We’re already seeing how different they are. • simile: the mansion pleased him, seemed to him “like a snail’s shell…” • metaphor: ch. 2: “Ah, we shall get on together, Mr. Fogg and I! What a domestic and regular gentleman! A real machine; well, I don’t mind serving a machine.” Questions and Discussion: • Why is it likely that Phileas Fogg had journeyed quite a bit before? • What does the fact that Fogg fired his servant because the shaving water was two degrees less than desired reveal about him? • Why is the last name “Passepartout” fitting to his character? • Why does Mr. Fogg immediately say he’ll use the name Passepartout right after Pass mentions that he’d like to forget that name? Research: Byron, clubs, British Empire Victorian era, Moliere, Angelica Kauffman, wax figures Activity: • Phileas Fogg’s life was very organised. What is your daily routine? What time do you get up and what else do you do each day? Make this into a pie chart. • Only rich Victorian families could afford to have butlers and servants. Nowadays machines have replaced many of the jobs that servants did using their hands. As his butler, Passepartout helped Phileas Fogg keep to his daily timetable. Can you invent a machine that would help you save time every day? What will it do for you and how will it work? Draw a picture or diagram. • Play whist • Make a schedule/pie chart of his schedule and yours. Are you as disciplined as him? Character/Bible: What does the Bible say about self-discipline? ch. 2 p. 9 “Phileas Fogg was, indeed, exactitude personified, and this was betrayed even in the expression of his very hands and feet; for in men, as well as in animals, the limbs themselves are expressive of the passions.” The Disciplined Life is an excellent book you may want to read with your older children. Some chapters at the end discuss teaching yourself to discipline even your body movements. Also see the chapter 2 copywork quote below: he knew that relationships with other people would “slow” him down because of “friction” or arguments/conflict. So he’d rather not have relationships than to be bothered from his routines and habits in any way. Can self-discipline be had to an extreme? Are there extremes to all character traits? Discuss Aristotle’s idea of the Golden Mean: this is the desirable middle between two extremes, one of excess and the other of deficiency. All good qualities are a balance of moderation in the middle. “Moderation in all things.” (For example: Courage is the Golden Mean between cowardice [lack of courage] and rashness [excess of courage]. Copywork or Dictation: Ch. 1: pg. 5 “If to live in this style is to be eccentric, it must be confessed that there is something good in eccentricity.” Ch. 2: “He lived alone, and so to speak, outside of every social relation; and as he knew that in this world account must be taken of friction, and that friction retards, he never rubbed against anybody.” 4 Day 2: Chapters 3-4 Teacher Check: • Did they annotate anything in the book? • Did they do their vocabulary work? • Check their précis. Give any help that is needed. • Help them set up their notebook, if needed. Check their character page on Mr. Fogg. Make sure they followed directions. • Discuss as much of the following as you like. I would go easy on the literary devices in the beginning of the book until they learn more in their guide, but make sure to bring out character elements right from the beginning. Minor characters introduced: Andrew Stuart, an engineer; John Sullivan and Samuel Fallentin, bankers; Thomas Flanagan, a brewer; and Gauthier Ralph, one of the Directors of the Bank of England. Literary devices: • play on words “was more than surprised to see his master guilty of the inexactness of appearing at this unaccustomed hour” • irony: What does Pass want? p. 10 “Pass had been a sort of vagrant in his early years, and now yearned for repose; but so far he had failed to find it…” He won’t get it with Fogg, either, though he certainly should have been able to, considering Fogg’s descriptions thus far. Also p. 10 he’d heard that Fogg didn’t travel. “Early on in the novel, after Passepartout has just been introduced, he announces that he has come to work for Fogg "in the hope of living with him a tranquil life" (pg. 3), which is ironic since tranquil is the last thing Passepartout's life will be as he serves Fogg and gets dragged on a madcap journey around the world.”2 Pass sees the irony aforementioned. He says, “That’s good, that is! And I, who wanted to remain quiet!...Was this a joke, then?” Questions and Discussion: • What is the pivotal moment of the book in this chapter? "I'd like to see you do it in eighty days." Mr. Stuart, Reform Club Member—Ch. 3 “This is the very moment that Fogg is challenged to the wager that will drive the entire journey. It comes after they read a claim in the newspaper that the world can be traversed in eighty days.