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1 AS Literature Lesson 4 LO: To understand how to read ‘closely’ and be able to apply the different levels of analysis to the process.

2 Starter Read through the following sentences and select the one you find the most interesting.  They shoot the white girl first. (Paradise, Toni Morrison) It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. (Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell) ALL THIS HAPPENED, more or less. (Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut) You better not never tell nobody but God. (The Color Purple, Alice Walker) A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead. (The End of the Affair, Graeme Greene) WHEN GREGOR SAMSA awoke from troubled dreams one morning, he found that he had been transformed in his bed into an enormous bug. (Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka) The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation. (The Secret History, Donna Tartt)

3 Analyse For each, consider the effect and whether it has been acheived
In pairs or small groups, analyse the winning sentence. Consider the following: The main idea communicated Tone Perspective/voice Sentence type Any non-standard constructions Any unusual vocabulary Literary techniques Linguistic features For each, consider the effect and whether it has been acheived For each prompt, students should first identify the feature, and then explore the effect intended/achieved. Ask them to annotate the sentence with their ideas (providing the sentence on an A3 or A4 sheet would be useful for this purpose).

4 Analyse the winner In groups use the opening sentence of the winning novel to make predictions about what the rest of the novel will be like in terms of GENRE and STYLE, using precise evidence from the sentence.

5 Homework Read the extracts from the resource booklet.
Consider the effect of each as an opening to a novel Would you like to read the rest of the novel? Why? Why not?

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