Version vom 24. September 2018, 09:26 Uhr

Homework

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READ ch. 7 for Wednesday 26th September 2018 (READ ch. 8 + 9 + 10 for Monday October 1st)

Basic Skills & Information

• Information on homework and oral grades
• Reading and Marking technique - SQ3R Method A useful method to read, mark and annotate texts.
• Working with Cartoons

• A good speech/speaker ...
• Working with statistics ...
• Writing an interview
• Answering questions on the text
• Starting a paragraph
• Starting an Essay/Comment
• Shaping/refuting an Argument/Comment
• Mediation
• Translation (E→G)
• Characterization
• Review
• General text analysis

The Hobbit

Talks

Each talk on a chapter includes:

• A short summary of the chapter, and its relation to the chapter before
• A short explanation/interpretation of the headline (relation to the chapter, effect on the reader in terms of creating expectation)
• Presentation of one passage (about 20 lines) from the chapter, which is most exciting/characteristic/funny / brings most change for reader ==> Explain why you chose exactly this passage!

Reading Diary / Scrapbook

The basic idea is that of a "reading-diary". That means

• keeping a simple log-/scrapbook while reading the novel
• stopping from time (at least after each chapter) to time to think about what you have read!
• thinking about questions like: "Is there anything that puzzles you?" and noting down questions or striking quotations!
• asking yourself if you like or dislike a character + what makes you feel so?
• making notes that you can add to (e.g. one page per character for characterization)!

The scrap book that you have to hand in is part of the coursework (marked!)

These are the minimum reqirements, that is the questions you need to have readable and reasonable NOTES on:

Chapters 1 and 2:

• Characterize Bilbo and one other character (round or flat, relation to each other?)!
• What kind of story and hero do you expect at the end of chapter one?
• Compare your impressions of Bilbo and the dwarves at the end of chapter II with those at the end of chapter I.

Chapter 3

1. Collect/write out - passages/quotes that create (page)tension /excitement/premonitions (NOTES!!)

Look at the language, narrator's comments/ descriptions or interesting quotes of characters!

1. What image of the elves is created? How is this done? (NOTES)
   What role can the elves be expected to play? (NOTES)
2. What must the travellers expect on their way ……? (NOTES)

Chapters 4 + 5:

• p. 65-70: What rhetorical devices (e.g. symbols, style) and narrative tricks are used to create the special mood, tension and expectations? (NOTES)
• Collect all important information about goblins/orks in a "what travellers ought to know about goblins" profile! (NOTES)
• What are the similarities and differences between Bilbo and Gollum? Look at their appearance, behaviour, relation to other charcters ... (NOTES, ideally a simple table ….)

• How has Bilbo developed in ch. 4+5

Chapter 7 for Wednesday 26th March 2018

• characterize Beorn … (NOTES)
• how does the mood / atmosphere develop from page 158 – 162 … How is this effect achieved? (NOTES)

Chapter 8 (READ 8 + 9 + 10 for Monday October 1st)

• Show and explain, how this chapter reveals Bilbo's heroic qualities (NOTES+lines)
• Compare the different dwarves' (Bombur - Thorin - Kili&Fili) and Bilbo's roles/function in the story in chapter 8! Are the different drwarves flat or round characters? (NOTES)

Chapters 8, 9, 10

• Compare the endings of chapters 8, 9 and 10 (NOTES - perhaps a table)!
  Look at the mood/atmosphere (language, key words), and the expectations for the next chapter that are created? How effective are the three chapter endings?