Assessment
Novel questions
In the second part of their oral test, students will get questions on their four to eight novels. This will take about ten minutes. Not all novels will be asked, though the questions could be […]
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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 […]
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 […]