Working with literary texts

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• Working with literary texts
• Anglia Members Meeting
• November 21, 2007
• Syb Hartog
• UOCG

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First page of a novel

• Read the first page(s) of a novel in class.
• Individually speculate on
• In pairs speculate on
• Theme
• Style
• Category
• Next episode

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Mrs ONeill

• 1 On her small TV because
• 2 She was eighty
• 3 And when she died
• 4 To the nice announcer
• 5 He never even went to her funeral
• 6 Mrs ONeill said goodnight
• 7 Every evening before she went to bed
• 8 And very much alone

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Carl Sandburg Get Off This Estate

• - Get off this estate!
• - What for?
• - Because its mine.
• - Where did you get it?
• - From my father.
• - Where did he get it?
• - From his father.
• - And where did he get it?
• - He fought for it.
• - Well,

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Roger McGough, An Acrostic

• A favourite literary devi
• Ce is the one whe
• Re the first letter
• Of each line spell
• S out the subject the poe
• T wishes to write about.
• I must admit, I
• Cant see the point myself.

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Pearls Before Swine

• Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless
  sea, but sad mortality o'er-sways their power,
  how with this rage shall beauty hold a plea,
  whose action is no stronger than a flower?

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Sonnet 65

• Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless
  sea,But sad mortality o'er-sways their
  power,How with this rage shall beauty hold a
  plea,Whose action is no stronger than a
  flower?O, how shall summer's honey breath hold
  outAgainst the wreckful siege of battering
  days,When rocks impregnable are not so
  stout,Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time
  decays?O fearful meditation! where, alack,Shall
  Time's best jewel from Time's chest lie hid?Or
  what strong hand can hold his swift foot back?Or
  who his spoil of beauty can forbid?
• O, none, unless this miracle have might,
• That in black ink my love may still shine
  bright.

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Short story

• Read the first part of the story.
• Individually speculate on
• In pairs speculate on
• The end of the story
• Bruce Holland Rogers Little BrotherTM

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Texts materials

• Jay Bennett, Sing Me a Death Song
• David Mitchell, Black Swan Green
• Mrs ONeill
• Carl Sandburg, Get Off This Estate!
• Roger McGough, An Acrostic
• Pearls Before Swine, Sonnet 65
• William Shakespeare, Sonnet 65
• Bruce Holland Rogers, Little BrotherTM