Letter From France

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Letter From France
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Teaching Plan

• Total duration 9 periods
• Background information
• Text analysis 3 periods
• Language points 4 periods
• Discussion and interaction 1 period
• Exercises 1 period

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Objectives
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Objective 1

• to expose students to the concepts of
  autobiography, biography, and fiction as literary
  genres.

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Objective 2

• to enable students to read, study, and analyze
  Maya Angelous autobiographical writing in terms
  of what she intended to accomplish by her
  writings.

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Objective 3

• to encourage students to develop and enhance
  their literary competence by the article which
  focuses on figurative and symbolic language and
  on voice.

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1st Session (3 periods)
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• Duty report (comment and discussion)
• (15 minutes)

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• 2. Discussion on pre-class assignments
• (30 minutes)

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2.1 the Author general information
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• Maya Angelou (1928 -- )

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• Maya Angelou Homepagehttp//www.mayaangelou.com/
• Recommended reading Caged Bird

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2.2 Her Identity

• cook, a streetcar conductor, a cocktail waitress,
  a dancer, a singer, actress, playwright, an
  editor, a lecturer and civil rights activist and
  a successful writer. 
• a symbolic character for every black girl growing
  up in America

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2.3 Her Anecdotes

• How Maya Angelou got her name
• At Bill Clinton's inauguration in 1993

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2.4 Literary Genre autobiography and Maya
Angelou
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• Black writers entered the world of literature
  through the door of autobiography.
• I used myself as a focus to show how one person
  can make it through those times.

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3. Cultural Tour of France (85 minutes)

• 3.1 draw the route of her car trip

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The Route

• New Haven Dieppe Rouen Chartres
• Roanne Lyons Avignon Frejus
• Cannes

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• 3.2 Cultural notes about the places in
• France

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Normandy

• Special Location
• northwest of France, part of ancient Gaul
• on the English Channel
• A historical region
• the Norman Conquest (1066)
• the Hundred Years' War (1337-1453)
• the focal point of Allied landings on
  D-day (June 6,
• 1944) in World War II.

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Burgundy

• Eastern France
• Red or white wines

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The Cathedral of Notre Dame a Gothic Cathedral
in Paris

• Gothic architecture in western Europe, with
  pointed arches, tall pillars, tall colored
  windows.
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame

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Lyons

• In central France
• Silk and rayon center
• Industrial center

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Cannes

• In the southeast of France
• Resort on the Mediterranean Sea
• Cannes Film Festival

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Nice

• In the southeast of France
• Large sea port
• A center of Perfumery industry (parfum)

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3.3 the Well-knowns of France

• Wine
• Art Architecture
• Perfume
• Fashion
• Resort

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3.4 the French Words

• Oui
• Petit
• Cafe au lait
• Chateaux
• Charcuterie
• Boule
• Adieu
• Cannes, Nice

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3.5 Recount what happened during the trip

• Discuss in groups and each group
• chooses a spokesperson to give the
• presentation.

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4. Questions to bear in mind while reading (5
minutes)

• 4.1 the question of voice Can you hear who
• is telling the story, the private self, Maya
• as a person, or the public self, Maya, the
• representation of all Afro-American women?

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4.2 Mayas character?
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4.3 What did she intend to accomplish by
her autobiography?
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4.4 Rhetorical Devices

• Irony
• Foreshadowing
• Imagery
• Metaphor

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2nd Session (3 periods)
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• 1. Duty report (comment and discussion) (15
  minutes)

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2. Language Points (120 minutes)

• Focus on
• structures, vocabulary
• rhetorical devices
• Irony, foreshadowing, imagery, metaphor.

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Irony

• Effect for humor and emphasis
• Forms
• 1. a deliberate contrast between apparent
• and intended meaning
• example line 17, P.147 line 17, P.150
• line 16, P.151
• 2. Incongruity between what might be
• expected and what actually occurs
• example last sentence

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Foreshadowing

• examples
• line 15, P.147 line 26, P.149

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Imagery

• A group or body of related images, as in a
  painting or poem.
• examples
• line 11-17, P.148
• line 4-5, P.149.

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Instructions  Describe a trip you took that
affected your life in a significant way. It can
be a trip across town or a trip to a faraway
place. Describe the trip in 200-400 words and,
if possible, use irony or foreshadowing to add
humor and emphasis to the narrative.
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3rd Session (3 periods)
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• 1. Duty report (comment and discussion) (15
  minutes)

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• 2. Revision of the previously learnt
• language points (15 minutes)

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3. Discussion and interaction (45 minutes)

• 3.1 the question of voice Can you hear who
• is telling the story, the private self, Maya
• as a person, or the public self, Maya, the
• representation of all Afro-American women?

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3.2 Mayas character?

• humorous, sensitive, nostalgic, economic,
  keen, sharp, earthy, imaginative, lyrical,
  spiritually bold, and seems destined for
  distinction

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3.3 How about the effect of her rhetorical
devices?

• to express her feelings of entrapment, anger,
  violation, or nostalgic feelings?

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3.4 What did she intend to accomplish by
her autobiography?
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• 4. Exercises (60 minutes)
• Page 156-166