Assessment
Comparison
During the assessment students need to compare two novels of their own choice for five minutes. This is a monologue in English and is to be prepared. The comparison should show that they have understood […]
Year: 2018
Assessment
Reading Journal
Students have to keep a reading journal. A reading journal is personal. They decide how to approach the journal, but they need to be able to show it to their teacher. A reading journal contains […]
Assessment
Literature Oral Exam
Students need to read 8 literary novels in two years. Four novels will be assessed with specific projects. Four novel will be assessed with the literature oral exam. During the exam, five minutes will be […]
Dystopia
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World is a dystopian novel set in a futuristic society where citizens are genetically engineered and conditioned for conformity and pleasure. The story follows a man named Bernard Marx who challenges the societal […]
Theory
Narrative Perspective
Narrative perspective is about who and how the story is told. In novels we can have different narrative perspectives with each a different narrator. It is important to know who is talking, because it says […]
Theory
Theory
Characters
A character is a person portrayed in a narrative work. This ‘person’ can also be a personified animal or object, like the animals in Animal Farm and the tiger in Life of Pi. Most main […]
Theory
Assessment
Novel Complexity (Labels)
Labels are a way to indicate the strength of a novel. This is a combination of plot, langugae, ideas, and number of pages. To indicate novels in such a system will always be controversial. What […]
Theory