“Do Now” – Turn to your neighbor and share your answer to the second Chapter 4 question from your homework last night. Be prepared to share you answer with the class.

MARCH 4, “DO NOW” –COMMENT ON THE NARRATIVESTYLE/NARRATOR IN NORTHANGER ABBEYSO FAR. PLEASE MAKE SURE YOURCOMMENT IS GROUNDED IN THE TEXT ANDTHAT YOU CAN SUBSTANTIATE YOURCOMMENT WITH EVIDENCE AND PAGENUMBERS

Please take out your homework (questions and commentson parody), so that I can come around and stamp them.

Agenda & Reminders

1.Narrative style

2.Role of parody

3.Reading Chapter 7(popcorn style)

4.Group Work

Northanger Abbey chapterquestions are due onMonday. Please make sureto write them on a separatepiece of paper. They shouldbe ready to be passed in atthe BEGINNING of class.

NA Vocabulary Quiz 1 nextFriday.

Continue reading yourindependent reading book.

1) COMMENT: Narrator is critiquing the novel genrein the novel.

2) Next to each comment write down aquotation that demonstrates your point.

QUOTATION: “ “Oh! It is only a novel!” replies theyoung lady; while she lays down her book withaffected indifference, or momentary shame. –”…[i]n short, only some work in which the greatestpowers of the mind are displayed, in which the mostthorough knowledge of human nature, the happiestdelineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions ofwit and humour are conveyed to the world in thebest chosen language” (Austen 32).

3) Effect this narrative technique/narrator has on thereader.

EFFECT ON THE READER: It is ironic because we arereading a novel. It draws your attention to themoment, reinforcing the importance of what Austen issaying. Austen clearly does not feel that novels arefrivolous and shameful - hold no value; she is beingsarcastic. It is humorous.

What exactly is “free indirect speech”?

Free indirect style (also called “free indirect speech or freeindirect discourse) dispenses with tag-phrases (‘she thought’,etc.), and adopts the idiom of the character’s own thoughts,including indicators of time and place, as ‘She’d leave heretomorrow’, rather than ‘She decided to leave that place the nextday’.

Free indirect speech has many of the grammatical features ofindirect speech (tense, use of third person instead of first personpronouns, etc.), but does not consist of a reporting clausefollowed by a that-clause (‘he said that…’) or an indirectquestion (‘she wondered what the outcome would be’).

Free indirect speech looks less like indirect speech and oftenconveys a greater sense of immediacy than indirect speech.

Essentially this means a character’s thoughts or feelings areexpressed in the narration.

Nothing, she declared, should induce her to join the setbefore her dear Catherine. free indirect speech

“Good heavens!” cried Catherine. direct speech

 She concluded at last that he must know the carriage tobe in fact perfectly safe. free indirect speech

Her feelings entirely engrossed her; her wretchednesswas most acute on finding herself obliged to go directlyhome. free indirect speech

It was proposed by the brother and sister that theyshould join in a walk. indirect speech

“My dear, you tumble my gown,” was Mrs. Allen’sreply. direct speech

Parody & Chapter 7

So far, how has Austen used the gothic genre?

Examples of parody that she has found?

Now,

Let’s read chapter 7 aloud.

Please read at least a paragraph before you callon one of your peers

Group 1

What is “society” and what do you learn about thepast-times and concerns of this social group fromthese chapters?

Group 2

Create a character web / profile of Henry Tilneybased upon your reading so far. Consider elementsof characterization such as: appearance, age, socialstatus, relationships, speech and tone, actions andreactions.

Group 3

Create a character profile for John Thorpe

 Consider elements of characterization such as:appearance, age, social status, relationships, speechand tone, actions and reactions.

Consider also:

In what ways is he a foil to Henry?

How does he defy the image of a traditional romantichero?

Group 4

What do you perceive to be the narrator’s opinionof the Thorpe family? Provide evidence to supportyour points. In what ways is this characterizationthematically important?

Multiple Choice homework thisweekend…

Over the weekend you are going to take a samplemultiple choice and open response section of a practiceMCAS exam.

Before you start you should know what kinds of multiplechoice questions you will find:

1.Main idea

2.Elements of fiction (plot, conflict, setting,characterization, etc.)

3.Tone/Mood

4.Author’s purpose

5.Vocabulary (words with multiple meanings; context)

Homework

1.Read Chapters 8-9 in Northanger Abbey andcomplete chapter questions.

2.MCAS multiple choice & open response.