The Novel

S2 Homework Task - December

S2 Homework Task - December

Checklist

Section A

Activity 1

Activity 2

Activity 3

Type of Book (Genre)

Importance of novels

Theme

Activity 5 Plot

Activity 4 Character

Activity 6 Setting

Section B

Activity 1 Produce study cards

Activity 7 Conflict

Learning Intentions:

• I can read for enjoyment and interest andexpress how I feel about my choice of text.• I can recognise ways in which the writer creates character/setting.• I can recognise and talk about the theme of the writing.• I can use strategies and resources to spell my words accurately. • I can use punctuation to make the meaning of my sentences clear.• I can structure and arrange my sentences to make their meaning clear.• I can use paragraphs.

LIT 3-19a

LIT 3-11a

LIT 3-22a

Curriculum for Excellence‘Experiences and Outcomes’

LIT 3-21a

Section A – A Close Look at Novels

There are 7 activities to complete in Section A.

2. Genre3. Theme4. Character

5. Plot

6. Setting

1. Why novels are important.

7. Conflict

You should use ‘study cards’ to record the information that you are being asked to think about and write down.

As well as looking closely at the novel youare studying in class, you are also learning the skill of good note-taking.

This month we are looking at why novels can be such an important part of our lives.

Section A - Activity 1

In a short paragraph write down why you think that books are so important…

Genre

Genre:A type of writing similar in the way it has been written (style and form) and what it’s about (subject matter.)

Example GENRES

What makes a GENRE?

• Thriller• Gothic• Realism• Romance

• Fantasy• Science Fiction• Horror • Autobiography

• Recognisable setting• Stereotyped characters• Typical plot• Style of language

• Fiction• Non-Fiction

Jonny EvansManchester United FC(click to watch clip)

Favourite Children’s Book: The Hard Boys – ‘The Tower Treasure’

Favourite Genre: Detective

Joey BartonQ.P.R.(click to watch clip)

Favourite Book: ‘Dracula’, by Bram Stoker

Favourite Genre: Horror

Section A - Activity 2

• Think about your class novel.• What genre is it?• Is this a genre that you particularly enjoy? • Why?

Theme

Theme:

The central idea (or ideas) explored by a piece of literature.

Example Themes

• Desire to Escape

• Evils of Racism

• Love

• Reunion

• Darkness and Light

• Loneliness

• Growing Up

• Honour and Valour

• Selfishness

Match the THEME to each book

Story about girl who pretends to have a much more glamorous life than the one she really has living in a children’s home.

Story about 14 year old spy who works for British Secret Service, MI6.

Story about a boy who learns he is a wizard on his eleventh birthday.

Now match the GENRE to each book

Story about an unhappy and sickly ten year old who gets better when she learns to grow plants in a locked and forgotten garden.

Adventure

Children’s Classic

Fantasy

Realist

Section A - Activity 2.a

Section A - Activity 3

A book can have a lot of different themes.

•Note down what theme(s) there are in your class novel.•Why do you think the writer chose to write about this particular theme? •Is it like your life in anyway?

Character

Character:An imaginary person represented in a work of fiction.

Character propertiesAppearance:

• Looks like

• Dresses like

Actions

• What the character does/does not do

• What others in the story do to the main character

Good Characters are:

• Believable

• Memorable

• Grow or change over timeThoughts and Conversation:

• What the character says/feels

• What other characters say about the character

Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

A London-based "consulting detective”, Holmes is famous for his astute logical reasoning, his ability to adopt almost any disguise, and his use of forensic science skills to solve difficult cases.

Holmes, who first appeared in publication in 1887, was featured in four novels and 56 short stories.

“Holmes was certainly not a difficult man to live with. He was quiet in his ways, and his habits were regular. It was rare for him to be up after ten at night, and he had invariably breakfasted and gone out before I rose in the morning.”

“His very person and appearance were such as to strike the attention of the most casual observer. In height he was rather over six feet, and so excessively lean that he seemed to be considerably taller. His eyes were sharp and piercing, and his thin, hawk-like nose gave his whole expression an air of alertness and decision.”

Friend and colleague, Dr Watson tells us:

Harry Potter

Harry James Potter is the title character (protagonist) of J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. The books' plot covers seven years in the life of the orphan Potter, who, on his eleventh birthday, learns he is a wizard.

He attends Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to practice magic under the guidance of the kindly headmaster Albus Dumbledore and other school professors.

Harry also discovers that his fate is tied with that of Lord Voldemort, the internationally feared Dark Wizard and murderer of his mother and father.

“Perhaps it had something to do with living in a dark cupboard, but Harry had always been small and skinny for his age. He looked even smaller and skinnier than he really was because all he had to wear were old clothes of Dudley's, and Dudley was about four times bigger than he was. Harry had a thin face, knobbly knees, black hair, and bright green eyes. He wore round glasses held together with a lot of Scotch tape because of all the times Dudley had punched him on the nose. The only thing Harry liked about his own appearance was a very thin scar on his forehead that was shaped like a bolt of lightning. He had had it as long as he could remember, and the first question he could ever remember asking his Aunt Petunia was how he had gotten it.”

Wayne RooneyFootballer (Man. UTD)

Favourite Book:‘Philosopher’s Stone’

Anne FrankExtract from The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Wednesday, 5 April 1944My dearest Kitty, For a long time now I didn’t know why I was bothering to do any schoolwork. The end of the war still seemed so far away, so unreal, like a fairy tale. If the war isn’t over by September, I won’t go back to school, since I don’t want to be two years behind…When I write I can shake off all my cares. My sorrow disappears, my spirits are revived! But, and that’s a big question, will I ever be able to write something great, will I ever become a journalist or a writer?I hope so, oh, I hope so very much, because writing allows me to record everything, all my thoughts, ideals and fantasies…So onwards and upwards, with renewed spirits. It’ll all work out, because I’m determined to write!

Yours, Anne M. Frank

*The Secret Annexe: the place where Anne hid with her family

The Diary of a Young Girl (also known as The Diary of Anne Frank) is a book of the diary kept by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.

The Jewish family was discovered in 1944 and Anne Frank ultimately died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

The diary has now been published in more than 60 different languages.

Natalie PortmanActress

Favourite Book:‘Diary of a Young Girl’

Ann Frank – died in a concentration camp aged 15

Section A - Activity 4

Note down the main character(s) from your class novel.

Who was your favourite character and why?

Did you find yourself identifying with any of the characters? In what way?

Describe your character using a ‘character sketch’ diagram like this

Plot

Plot:

The events that make up a story (what happens in the story.)

Plot properties• Opening• Rising Action• Exciting or impressive event (climax)• Falling Action• Final part where strands are pulled together (denouement). • Happy/Unhappy ending

Plot Examples• A Hero’s Quest• Adventure• Escape• Love• Discovery• Revenge/Rivalry

JAWSThe shark is killed

Brody paddles backto shore

Section A - Activity 5

Summarise (or produce a timeline) of the plot of your class novel.

or

Setting

Setting:

Where (location) and when (timeframe) the action takes place.

The Hobbit Chapter 1 – An Unexpected Party

“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.

It had a perfectly round door like a porthole, painted green, with a shiny yellow brass knob in the exact middle. The door opened on to a tube-shaped hall like a tunnel: a very comfortable tunnel without smoke, with panelled walls, and floors tiled and carpeted, provided with polished chairs, and lots and lots of pegs for hats and coats—the hobbit was fond of visitors. The tunnel wound on and on, going fairly but not quite straight into the side of the hill—The Hill, as all the people for many miles round called it—and many little round doors opened out of it, first on one side and then on another. No going upstairs for the hobbit: bedrooms, bathrooms, cellars, pantries (lots of these), wardrobes (he had whole rooms devoted to clothes), kitchens, dining-rooms, all were on the same floor, and indeed on the same passage. The best rooms were all on the left-hand side (going in), for these were the only ones to have windows, deep-set round windows looking over his garden, and meadows beyond, sloping down to the river.”

The Hobbit is a fantasy novel and children's book by English author J. R. R. Tolkien.

It was published on 21 September 1937 to wide critical acclaim, and follows the quest of home-loving hobbit Bilbo Baggins to win a share of the treasure guarded by the dragon, Smaug.

Bilbo's journey takes him from light-hearted, rural surroundings into more sinister territory.

War of the Worlds

Chapter 3

I found a little crowd of perhaps twenty people surrounding the huge hole in which the cylinder lay. I have already described the appearance of that colossal bulk, embedded in the ground. The turf and gravel about it seemed charred as if by a sudden explosion. No doubt its impact had caused a flash of fire. Henderson and Ogilvy were not there. I think they perceived that nothing was to be done for the present, and had gone away to breakfast at Henderson's house.

It was glaringly hot, not a cloud in the sky nor a breath of wind, and the only shadow was that of the few scattered pine trees. The burning heather had been extinguished, but the level ground towards Ottershaw was blackened as far as one could see, and still giving off vertical streamers of smoke. An enterprising sweet-stuff dealer in the Chobham Road had sent up his son with a barrow-load of green apples and ginger beer.

The War of the Worlds (1898), is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells. Written in 1895–97,it is one of the earliest stories about a conflict between mankind and an extra-terrestrial race.

Example Settings

Setting properties

• Future Earth (or Space)• Historical• Present Day• Fantasy Land

• Physical• Time• Societal

Section A - Activity 6

Note down where and when your class novel takes place.

Note down why the author has chosen this time and place – what has it allowed him/her to do with their character and theme?.

Does the writer’s setting remind you of anywhere? Perhaps it is somewhere you like or dislike?

Conflict

Conflict:The struggle that takes place within a character’s mind or between a character and outside forces (usually between the protagonist and the antagonist).

Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author William Golding about a group of British boys stuck on an uninhabited island who try to make their own rules with disastrous results.

Roger gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them. Yet there was a space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw. Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life. Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law.

"Which is better--to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?”

Steven KingAuthor (Horror)(click to watch clip)

Favourite Book:‘Lord of the Flies’

Example Conflicts

Conflict properties

• Man versus Man• Man versus Self• Man versus Society• Man versus Technology• Man versus Nature

• Usually a protagonist versus an antagonist/enemy/villain

• Struggle to succeed or defeat

Section A - Activity 7

Note down the conflict(s) in your novel and why they occur.

Note down how the conflicts affect the characters and the novel’s plot.

Does the novel begin with the conflict?

Or is the conflict left until nearer the middle or at the end of the novel (the climax)?

End of Section A

Section B – Hand in your study cards

Section B - Activity 1

End of Section B

S2 Homework Task - December

Checklist

Section A

Activity 1

Activity 2

Activity 3

Genre

Importance of books

Theme

Activity 5 Plot

Activity 4 Character

Activity 6 Setting

Section B

Activity 1 Hand in your study cards

Activity 7 Conflict

End of homework