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LITERARY THEORY
PATRICIA CABRERA
ASIC
2014
Literary analysis
Introduction
Literature for children opens a door to new worlds for
Children, it makes them think, and it makes them use
their imagination and encourages them to learn new
vocabulary. They experience new sensations, thanks to
literature they travel to other places and times which
give them knowledge about other people and their
problems. As we know television is the first window to
the outside world children have. Visuals images are
very important to them to learn about their
environment and others cultures. For this reason picture
books are chosen to be childs first introduction to
literary world but then literature is introduce as
didactic literature Literature intended to instruct or
educate.
When we are going to teach literature to children, we
need to include two critical elements. One is
educational: as we are teaching literature we are using
literature as an educational tool. The second is literary:
readers that if they tell lies when they tell the true
nobody will believe them.
Language or style
The shepherd boy and the wolf include good examples
of repetitive and rhythmic patterns of the traditional
stories language. The story is told like a poem; it is
made up of metrical feet. In this case iamb and the
combination of these feet determine a poems meter, in
this case a Dimeter. The next phrase is taken from the
book as an example:
This is Homer,
a shepherd boy.
He loves to play
and laugh with joy.
He takes the sheep
to eat all day up in the hills,
as his parents say.
The story of the shepherd boy and the wolf dates from
6th century BC. First was sung by scopes and then was
written into many languages including English. In
general, all Aesops tales has a moral ending. Although
Lesson 1
Objectives:
Students will be able to enjoy learning literature.
Students will improve reading and listening skills.
Teacher will encourage them to tell stories of their own
experience.
Teacher will encourage oral participation and share
opinions.
Activity 1:
During the class pupils will work in the classification of
animals: Farm, zoo, pets.
FARM
ZOO
PETS
Activity 2:
Teacher will ask students to show their pictures to the rest of the
class and will ask them to say which is their favourite.
Closure/round up:
If you were the shepherd, what would you have done differently?
Lesson 2
Objectives:
Activity 1:
How would you describe the wolf?
Activity 2:
Teacher will ask students to coloured the picture
according to the description given by Homer.
Lesson 3
Objectives:
Teacher will encourage students to identify the conflict
or problem of the story.
Teacher will reinforce the vocabulary learned in
previous lessons.
Students will reinforce the understanding of the tale by
choosing the correct ending of the activity.
two and they will have to work with each other and try to
find the differences.
Task: Your partners picture is very similar to yours, but there are 6 small differences. Can
you find each of them without looking at your partners picture, only by asking questions?
Example questions:
Is there a pear in your picture?
Is it light yellow?
Can you see a TV set?
Before you start: Find the objects and actions below in the picture.
Activity 1:
Choose the correct ending to each sentence
1. Homer does not like:
to be alone
to go to the hills which were far away.
to live on a farm
2. The Homer cries Wolf! Wolf! because:
he does not want to be alone
he wants to have some fun
he wants to keep his sheep safe
3. When the Homer cries Wolf! the third time, nobody
come to help him because:
the people think it is a joke
the people dont believe him
the people dont hear the boys cries
Activity 2:
Teacher will ask students to retell the story with the
beginning, middle, end and put the boxes in order.
Activity 3:
Write a letter to Homer: What advice would you give
to Homer?