Wuthering Heights Week 2 (Quiz Chpts 7-14)

Close Reading Practice: POV Lockwood’s Questions of Mrs. Dean Commentary & Direct Characterization 3 Groups: What questions does Lockwood ask? Summarize Dean’s answers 3 Groups Focus on one character What does Mrs. Dean say about them?

Shifts Tone Mood Narrator’s POV and Voice Illuminates bias Feeling of the whole novel, seen through: Dialogue Images Setting Plot Also known as Atmosphere

Gothic Novel European fiction with a primary atmosphere of horror or terror

Homework Read Chpts 15-16

Language Review: Sit with your character groups Do Now Language Review: Sit with your character groups

Jigsaw! In your new groups, read each character’s passage out loud—each person taking one sentence Paraphrase each passage together (one sheet of paper)

Analyze the Language What are the differences between each character’s speaking styles? What can you deduce about each character based on the way he speaks, the metaphors he uses, and his accent (or lack thereof)? Why does Brontë work so hard to characterize each person through speech patterns?

Style Seen Through Can be Diction Syntax Figurative Language Treatment of the subject Formal Informal Objective Colloquial Archaic

Can you tell? He died. He kicked the bucket. He was conveyed to his Maker. The young man, it appears, has passed on to the other world, as it were, that men must all acquire in their finality. Objective Colloquial Formal Archaic

Ghost Chapters What about your own Ghost Chapter? Can we easily tell the POV? Does your language fit appropriately? Do you need to add/change anything?

Homework Read Chpts 17-18

DO NOW Ghost Chapter Competition Sit in groups of five, pass your chapters around the group, and read everyone’s work.

Read Aloud A volunteer will read the group’s winning chapter We will be voting on our favorite Winner gets a special prize

Themes REVENGE NATURE VERSUS CIVILIZATION FAMILY HISTORY AND SIBLING RIVALRY ROMANTIC OR ILL-FATED LOVE     REVENGE NATURE VERSUS CIVILIZATION

Theme Groups Find textual evidence for your theme posters Poster with the most evidence also is a winner!

Homework Read Chpts 19-20

Do Now For each location, add in new characters names, and put a + by their name if they seem to have power.

Is Heathcliff a protagonist or an antagonist? Debate Is Heathcliff a protagonist or an antagonist?

Format Affirmative Constructive 5 mins Negative Cross Ex 4 mins Negative Constructive 5 mins Affirmative Cross Ex 4 mins Negative Rebuttal 4 mins Affirmative Rebuttal 4 mins Judge’s Remarks

The Byronic Hero (Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights— Mr The Byronic Hero (Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights— Mr. Rochester in Jane Eyre)

What is a Byronic hero? The Byronic hero was defined by Lord Byron’s epic narrative poem, Child Harold’s Pilgrimage, published in 1812. [Lord Byron is a famous British Romantic poet.] The Byronic hero is generally a flawed character.

What characteristics to expect? conflicting emotions and moodiness self-criticism a distaste for social institutions and social norms

What characteristics to expect? mysterious origins and a troubled past a loner, rejected by society self-destructive tendencies

Homework Read Chpts 21-22

Author Presentation!

What choices do they make? Do you trust their view? POV of a Director

Homework: Chpt 23-28