Also, Students who never took the summer packet test, you have to take your test tomorrow either before school at 7:15 or after school at 2:15. If you do not make it up by tomorrow, it cannot be made up.
Objective: How does Stevenson create mood in Jekyll and Hyde? How does the mood support the themes of the novel?
1- I introduced students to the Fantastic 30 Book Challenge! This is an opportunity to increase your reading and writing skills, but more importantly, develop a true love for reading!
2- Defined Mood and Irony-
- Mood is the feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader. The use of connotation, details, dialogue, imagery, figurative language, foreshadowing, setting, and rhythm can help set the mood.
- Irony is a contrast between expectation and reality. This incongruity often has left the effect of surprising the reader or viewer.
Why does Jekyll create Hyde? To become free. He can't live with both of his "sides."
What is IRONIC about this? In trying to become free, he becomes enslaved by Hyde.
3- Looked at the first 7 minutes of the film "Coraline." Students watched and identified techniques the director used to establish the mood. Students came up with a variety of answers: weather, characters' actions, music, timing, color, contrast, etc.
4- Next, Students broke into small groups and compiled a similar list for "Jekyll and Hyde."
5-Next, students wrote a group paragraph answering the following prompt:
How does Stevenson use certain techniques to create a mood of terror and or mystery in the novel?
If you were absent, you will have to do this at home.
Homework:
1--Read Elizabeth Bowen's "The Demon Lover." I don't have an electronic copy of this to upload to the blog. Therefore, come into class and pick up a copy of the story as soon as you can.
2--After reading the short story, complete the following prompt:
"How does Elizabeth Bowen use descriptive language and suspense to create a mood of terror in the story "The Demon Lover." What are some specific words and phrases from the text to support your thoughts. Remember to organize your thoughts with a driving thesis/main idea/argument.
Things to consider after today/Class Notes/Main Ideas:
How does Stevenson create the mood for "Jekyll and
Hyde" and how does the mood support the theme?
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The Fog in the opening scene. The fog
functions as a mask- it makes things unclear- it makes it difficult to tell
what is right in front of your face. This relates to the theme "duality of
man" or "duality of society" because they mask their true
intentions.
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Things happen at night- setting-
night time is when people typically act out their "evil" side. This
adds to the theme in that most people want to hide in the dark and not let
their "evil" side show.
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Physical description of Hyde- He's
hard to describe. He has an indescribable face. Evil is also hard to
describe...Hyde is the representation of evil, so Hyde's character supports the
theme of "duality of man."
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Isolation- feeling of eeriness. A
feeling of being alone. This ties back to the original reason Jekyll created
Hyde. He felt alone in his duplicity of life- When in reality, if the
Victorians would haven't talked about it, he would have known that all men have
good and evil within them.
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