Unit 5: Europe II Unit Overview. ENG10A Download the Unit Test Study Guide from the Class Website

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1 Unit 5: Europe II Unit Overview ENG10A Download the Unit Test Study Guide from the Class Website

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3 What you need to know Unit Objectives You will continue to read selections that express some of the hopes, disappointments, and fears of the writers and of the citizens of the European states. You will read a fable, short stories, one short story adapted from a play, and poetry from European writers. Texts and Authors "The Black Sheep by Italo Calvino "The Balek Scales by Heinrich Böll "A Contribution to Statistics by Wislawa Szymborska And Yet the Books by Czeslaw Milosz "Alone by Tomas Tranströmer "The Nobel Prize by Boris Pasternak "The First Frost by Andrei Voznesensky "Forbidden Fruit by Fazil Iskander

4 Unit Assignments For this unit please focus on the readings and activities within the lessons. There will be Quick Checks for vocabulary and grammar and a quiz based upon the readings. The unit test is heavy with serval questions regarding the readings and its elements. Portfolio (U5L4 & L11) DROPPED It will still show up in your lessons, but know that you are NOT doing the portfolio. Instead, focus on redoing any portfolios from U2 or U3.

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6 The Literature of Italy The Black Sheep by Italo Calvino, pages An honest man moves into a town of thieves. Before his arrival, nobody was rich and nobody was poor because everyone stole from everyone else. However, the honest man s refusal to steal disrupts this equitable social system. The thieves become divided into rich and poor classes, while the honest man dies of hunger. The story uses allegory, hyperbole, and satire as literary techniques to emphasize the author s point of view and to give the reader an opportunity to think about deeper meanings in the tale. Be able to identify the narrator Be able to identify the type of conflict portrayed Man vs. Man; Man vs. Nature; Man vs. Society; Man vs. Self

7 The Literature of Germany The Balek Scales by Heinrich Böll, pages The narrator s grandfather lived in a feudal village, where the accuracy of the scale the Baleks the overlords used to weigh their purchases from the villagers went unquestioned for generations. When young Franz Brücher proves the scale weighs short, the village revolts. Armed men put down their attempt to get justice, and the Brüchers have to leave the village. Heinrich Böll points out economic injustice and the toll it takes on hearts and minds. As a young man, Heinrich Böll ( ) was conscripted as a German soldier during World War II. He was later taken as a POW by the Americans. Horrified both by war and Nazism, Böll faced the frightful fate of being a soldier and having to wish that the war might be lost. Be able to identify the speaker

8 The Literature of Poland A Contribution to Statistics by Wislawa Szymborska, pages The poet catalogs several ways that people are different. After providing several statistics about how many people out of a hundred will be self-assured, helpful, or cruel, she contrasts these varying numbers with one final statistic: one hundred out of one hundred are mortal. There are two types of people those who divide people into types and those who don t. The poet provides several statistics about how many people out of a hundred will be selfassured, helpful, or cruel. In which categories do you fall? Quiz Short Response U5L3 - What does the author achieve by mixing exact and approximate numbers in "A Contribution to Statistics? Examples of exact numbers include fifty-two and seventy-seven. Examples of approximate numbers include four, well maybe five and sixty, give or take a few. Perhaps the poet is mocking professional statisticians who present hard numbers to represent things that can t really be defined, like emotions. The exact numbers give the poem an authoritarian tone while the approximate numbers give the impression that nothing can really be too certain.

9 The Literature of Poland, cont d. And Yet the Books by Czeslaw Milosz, pages The speaker reflects that books will survive in spite of barbaric tribes on the march that try to destroy them. Even if they are burned, the ideas on their pages are more durable than the people who create them. Do you agree? What is a key theme in this poem? One key theme is that books are timeless.

10 The Literature of SWEDEN "Alone by Tomas Tranströmer, pages The first section of the poem describes a near-fatal auto accident. The second section recounts the speaker s thoughts during a long solitary walk. The two are united by the speaker s sense of being one individual among many and his realization that solitude is a necessary condition for him. Tomas Tranströmer (1931 ) is both a poet and a psychologist. As a psychologist, he has worked with young offenders, the disabled, convicts, and drug addicts. He is known for his experimental verse forms and unusual images.

11 The Literature of RUSSIA "The Nobel Prize by Boris Pasternak, pages Lyric Poetry - the author speaks directly to the audience about his feelings, thoughts, and perceptions on a subject. After the speaker s work gains international recognition, he feels hunted by those who brand him a wrongdoer for the way he writes about his country. But even as he recognizes their malice, he hopes that good will triumph.

12 The Literature of RUSSIA "First Frost by Andrei Voznesensky, page 253 The poet compares the first frost of a young girl s disappointment to the first frost of winter. Author uses imagery to express the theme. The reader is quickly drawn in because of Voznesensky s use of alliteration and imagery.

13 The Literature of RUSSIA Forbidden Fruit by Fazil Iskander, pages, A young Muslim finds that the ban on eating pork makes it seem intensely desirable, yet he refuses to indulge his longing for this forbidden fruit. When his sister eats pork at a neighbor s, he uses his knowledge of her transgression to torment her. But when, overcome by a sense of injustice, he reveals her offense, he learns that treachery is a worse sin than breaking the taboo. Be able to identify the speaker's tone Be able to identify the type of conflict portrayed Man vs. Man; Man vs. Nature; Man vs. Society; Man vs. Self

14 Looking ahead Next LiveLesson October 31 11:00am U5 Test Review November 7 11:00am U6 Overview November 14 11:00am U6 Test Review Lesson Completion - 61% overall Alarms - Make sure you are staying out of alarm Contacts: call a teacher (me!) Attendance: get 28 hours a week and enter daily Participation: go do a lesson!