Урок "Шарлота Бронте"

Тема уроку: Шарлота Бонте – видатна англійська письменниця

Мета: допомогти учням засвоїти факти та основні ідеї, забезпечити якість вивчення нового матеріалу, формувати вміння виділяти головне, актуалізувати, порівнювати, зіставляти, забезпечити диференційований підхід, встановити зв'язки між засвоєними та новими знаннями. Формувати групи компетентностей: соціально-трудову, інформаційну, загальнокультурну, уміння вчитися.

I. First Part

1) Greeting

2)  Warm up “Word race”

Write as many adjectives\definitions as you can

3) The theme of our lesson is “Charlotte Brontë as a classic of English literature ”

Charlotte Brontë was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels have become classics of English literature. She first published her works (including her best known novel, Jane Eyre) under the pen name Currer Bell.

II. Main Part

Reading

1) Pre-reading

Looking at the portrait of the writer and reading her quotes guess what kind of woman was Charlotte Brontë? Try to describe her.

2) Scanning

Read the Charlotte Bronte short biography and tick information according to it. If you are ready put your hand up.

Bronte family ….

_ had 6 children.

_ wasn’t rich and lived in difficult time.

_ was growing up three brilliant writers.

3) While reading

1) Read the biography again and make up 1 statement for the paragraph. Use paraphrase for true statements and negative form for false ones. In pairs write them down the sheets of paper. Be ready to say true or false all statements. You have 7 minutes for it.

2) Checking answers.

Listening

1) And now we’ll watch a piece of  Charlotte Bronte masterpiece “Jane Eyre”. Be ready to answer the  question – What kind of person John ? Jane? Mrs. Reed?

*cruel *educated *bad- mannered *lonely *arrogant 

2) Why do you think John didn’t want Jane lived with them though she was his cousin? Give your versions

III. Reflexing

What kind of woman was Charlotte Brontë? Why do you think so?

Would you like to read  her novel “Jane Eyre”? Why? Why not?

Charlotte Bronte short biography

Charlotte Bronte was born on April 21, 1816, in Thornton, Yorkshire, England.  Patrick Brontë and his wife Maria had 6 children. In 1820 the Brontë family moved to Haworth, Mrs. Brontë dying the following year.

In 1824 the four eldest Brontë daughters were enrolled as pupils at the Clergy Daughter’s School at Cowan Bridge. The following year Maria and Elizabeth, the two eldest daughters, became ill, left the school and died: Charlotte and Emily, understandably, were brought home.

In 1826 Mr. Brontë brought home a box of wooden soldiers for Branwell to play with. Charlotte, Emily, Branwell, and Ann, playing with the soldiers, conceived of and began to write in great detail about an imaginary world which they called Angria.

In 1831 Charlotte became a pupil at the school at Roe Head, but she left school the following year to teach her sisters at home. She returned returns to Roe Head School in 1835 as a governess: for a time her sister Emily attended the same school as a pupil, but became homesick and returned to Haworth. Ann took her place from 1836 to 1837.

In 1838, Charlotte left Roe Head School. In 1839 she accepted a position as governess in the Sidgewick family, but left after three months and returned to Haworth. In 1841 she became governess in the White family, but left, once again, after nine months.

Upon her return to Haworth the three sisters, led by Charlotte, decided to open their own school after the necessary preparations had been completed. In 1842 Charlotte and Emily went to Brussels to complete their studies. After a trip home to Haworth, Charlotte returned alone to Brussels, where she remained until 1844.

Upon her return home the sisters embarked upon their project for founding a school, which proved to be an abject failure: their advertisements did not elicit a single response from the public. The following year Charlotte discovered Emily’s poems, and decided to publish a selection of the poems of all three sisters: 1846 brought the publication of their Poems, written under the pseudonyms of Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. Charlotte also completed The Professor, which was rejected for publication. The following year, however, Charlotte’s Jane Eyre, Emily’s Wuthering Heights, and Ann’s Agnes Grey were all published, still under the Bell pseudonyms.

In 1848 Charlotte and Ann visited their publishers in London, and revealed the true identities of the “Bells.” In the same year Branwell Brontë, by now an alcoholic and a drug addict, died, and Emily died shortly thereafter. Ann died the following year.

In 1849 Charlotte, visiting London, began to move in literary circles, making the acquaintance, for example, of Thackeray. In 1850 Charlotte edited her sister’s various works, and met Mrs. Gaskell. In 1851she visited the Great Exhibition in London, and attended a series of lectures given by Thackeray.

In 1854, Charlotte married Arthur Bell Nicholls, but died the following year during her pregnancy, on March 31, 1855, in Haworth, Yorkshire, England. The first novel she ever wrote, The Professor, was published posthumously in 1857.

Read the Charlotte Bronte short biography and tick information according to it.

Bronte family ….

1) _ had 6 children.                                                                   2) _ wasn’t rich and lived in difficult time.

3) _ was growing up three brilliant writers.

“Jane Eyre”

PLOT

Jane Eyre is this little girl about six years old when the book starts. She is living with the Reed’s at Gateshead Hall and she hates it there. The Reed’s are really mean to her and she thinks they suck. The feeling is mutual and so Mrs. Reed sends Jane to this low budget orphan school called Lowood Institution.

Mr. Brocklehurst runs Lowood and he does not waste one penny on anything for the girls that live there. They are basically starving because they aren’t allowed to eat much food, and it is freezing all the time because he won’t shell out for heat. Jane learns to adjust there and makes friends with Helen and Miss Temple. Then, Helen dies and Miss Temple leaves to get married. Jane realizes she doesn’t like it there alone so she tries to get a job somewhere as a governess. Edward Rochester hires her to teach his bastard daughter Adele. Jane goes to Thornfield and pretty much her whole life changes. A lot of this novel’s action takes place in Jane’s head and with her emotions. For her to go out on her own to an unknown place was a big deal. At Thornfield Jane is treated like a real person by Rochester. They have a weird relationship, but they are always really honest with each other. Rochester tells her about his life and compliments Jane on stuff she cares about, like her paintings. He kind of is setting her up because he knows that he wants to marry her, but Jane doesn’t know and we don’t know that yet either. He messes with her a little by bringing this chick Blanche out to the house and saying he is going to marry her. This throws Jane for awhile. Jane does not like to mess around and play games.

So, Rochester and Jane admit they love each other and they plan to get married. They are at the little church ready to go, and Rochester’s "friend" Mason busts in and breaks up the wedding. Rochester cannot marry Jane because he already has a wife! He keeps his wife locked up in his attic! (This is a big surprise in the book). Jane is pissed and upset so she runs away.

She has no where to go, and not very much money. She travels as far as she can and gets pretty worn out from not eating or resting. She ends up at this little house, and she stops there to see if they would put her up for the night. It is the Rivers’ house and Diana and Mary are really nice to her. St. John is kind of shady but he gets her a job teaching at the local schoolhouse. Her uncle John Eyre dies and leaves all his estate to her. Through this she finds out that the Rivers’ are her cousins. (Jane’s father’s brother was John Eyre, the uncle. John Eyre was also the brother to the Rivers’ mother.) He didn’t leave any money to them because of an argument he had with their father years ago. Jane shares the money with the Rivers’. St. John wants to marry her and take her with him to India to be missionaries. She really doesn’t want to because she still loves Rochester and does not want to be a missionary. She tells St. John ‘no’.

One night Jane has this inspiration that she hears Rochester calling her. She is so moved that she takes off to find him. She goes to Thornfield Hall and it is in ruins. She finds out that there was a fire and that Bertha Mason is dead. Rochester was wounded and blinded trying to save her but he could not. He lives all alone in this other house near by. Jane goes to see him and their love is sparked and they live happily ever after.

Cruel

arrogant

bad-behaved

lonely

bossy

silly

rude

naughty

Еducated

hardworking

confident

honest

witty

kind

modest

patient

The shadows are as important as the light.

Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.

Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.

Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.

God did not give me my life to throw it away.

To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only. It is the sole standard by which you have a right to judge me - the sole ground on which I accept your judgment.

Charlotte Bronte