Y 12 Intro Lesson Unseen Prose Why do

Y 12 Intro Lesson: Unseen Prose Why do we study Literature? What is the best piece of literature you have encountered? What is your favourite book? Do pictures of mine on a slide Do contemporary – why we should read Do historic – inspired quotes

Why do we study literature? Stops you being lonely – Ms Creber A) I love it. B) To enjoy the language, the storylines and the cultural relevance Miss Strachan Pursue the quest for Meaning Mr Kingscote

Why do we study literature? You can learn everything from a book and it allows us to learn outside of our realms of experience Miss Gillow You learn about people and the world Mrs Marshall

What is the best piece of literature you have encountered and why?

Who said it? Famous quotes I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp. Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out. If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood. Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.

What books do you love? • My favourite books

• • Larkin (The Whitsun Weddings) & Duffy (Mean. Time) A Streetcar named Desire & The Duchess of Malfi Shakespeare – Hamlet (most likely) Keats – Selected poems Unseen Prose (1880 – 1910) Unseen Poetry (across time) Coursework – Jane Eyre and Modern 2000+ novel from a selection

Today: A short intro to Unseen Prose • In groups/pairs – we will read as a whole group the short extract from The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James. What’s in a name? ‘The Portrait of a Lady’

Content – What is it telling you? Context– Assumptions you can make about the time? What emotional Responses do you have to this? How the extract is presented? Why you think it is presented in this way? THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY: HENRY JAMES Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circumstances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not — some people of course never do — the situation is in itself delightful. Those that I have in mind in beginning to unfold this simple history offered an admirable setting to an innocent pastime. The implements of the little feast had been disposed upon the lawn of an old English country house in what I should call the perfect middle of a splendid summer afternoon. Part of the afternoon had waned, but much of it was left, and what was left was of the finest and rarest quality.

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