1. Wuthering Heights
Week 2
(Quiz Chpts 7-14)

2. 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?

3. 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

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

5. Homework
Read Chpts 15-16

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

7. 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)

8. 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?

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

10. 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

11. 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?

12. Homework
Read Chpts 17-18

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

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

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

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

17. Homework
Read Chpts 19-20

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

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

20. 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

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

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

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

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

25. Homework
Read Chpts 21-22

26. Author Presentation!

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

28. Homework:
Chpt 23-28