Welcome to the English culture and literature course (year 1)!
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🏚️SPOOKY HOUSES🦇👻
To what extent can a place provoke fear?
LLCE 1 – IMAGINAIRES (imaginaires effrayants)
INTRODUCTION
🦇KAHOOT – Who lives here?
🦇Diaporama
WordCloud (spooky houses) par MBWELCOME TO STRAWBERRY HILL
🦇Doc 1
- use the GUIDELINE🌐in the interactive app below (for a more detailed and in-depth guided comprehension of the document)
- 📝copy every answer in your copybook!
✅LET’S RECAP (What is Strawberry Hill? What makes it a spooky place?)
✔️KEY QUESTION: What is Strawberry Hill? What makes it a spooky place?
Focus on :
– the house, what it looks like
– the creator
– the reason why the journalist has written an article about this place.
Recap the key information from the document in the form of
ICONIC VICTORIAN MANSION
🦇Doc 2
🟢Dictations
🟢Comprehension
- use the GUIDELINE🌐in the interactive app below (for a more detailed and in-depth guided comprehension of the document)
- 📝copy every answer in your copybook!
- What is the typical haunted house? (type/ architecture/appearance).
- Talk about the history of these houses (2 periods):
-how and when did they originate?
-How did they become associated with dread and horror? - How did art and pop culture fuel the myth? (inspiration and influence of art: who/ what/how.
✅LET’S RECAP (Why has the Victorian mansion become a horror icon?)
ICONIC VICTORIAN MANSION par MBTO HILL HOUSE
👻Doc 3 (text)
🟢 INTRODUCTION
Beauty & the Beast (challenge)
🖱Cliquez sur l’image pour voir l’extrait
LOST IN THE FOREST
![](https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.748f3c544ce25314c5a3747102349d63?rik=%2fEVO38b8BPPhWQ&riu=http%3a%2f%2fimages2.fanpop.com%2fimages%2fphotos%2f5800000%2fBeauty-and-the-Beast-disney-5844032-1280-720.jpg&ehk=I3bF68W8MHd28bgU%2bp6X62yBF9JvI%2f415PGdxhL%2b3z0%3d&risl=&pid=ImgRaw&r=0)
What atmosphere does this extract aim at creating?
- What happens to the character? The old man GETS LOST in the woods. His horse has RUN AWAY, it is DARK/NIGHTIME🌕 and he finds himself ALONE in an SCARY UNKNOWN ISOLATED/ REMOTE place! Then he is chased by WOLVES and takes refuge BEHIND A GATE/in an AWE-INSPIRING CASTLE
- Focus on the setting and characters’ feelings – The forest is dark/ GLOOMY : it is stormy, foggy/misty, there is a FULL MOON, dead leaves, bats and owls, creepy noises, OMINOUS trees and THREATENING wolves.
- Which elements in this extract belong to the GOTHIC genre? It is dark (nightime + full moon), the weather: it is foggy/misty/ stormy; the howling of the wolves is scary, the bats getting out of the tree trunk; the massive castle standing in the shadow+ tall gate (turrets, severe angles, vaults etc…)
The setting is EERIE = UNCANNY.
- Which elements in this extract belong to the GOTHIC genre? It is dark (nightime + full moon), the weather: it is foggy/misty/ stormy; the howling of the wolves is scary, the bats getting out of the tree trunk; the massive castle standing in the shadow+ tall gate (turrets, severe angles, vaults etc…)
- What is the aim of this passage? This passage aims at creating FEAR/DREAD😱.
It serves as a FOREBODING/ = a SIGNAL : these elements are a warning that something is not right = it is not safe → we get a foreboding feeling that the old man should run away at once !!! (before it is too late)
🟢DOCUMENT STUDY
- use the GUIDELINE🌐in the interactive app below (for a more detailed and in-depth guided comprehension of the document)
- 📝copy every answer in your copybook!
✅LET’S RECAP (✔️KEY QUESTION: Explain how Hill House emerges as a symbol of evil upon Eleanor’s first view)
THE OTHERS
👻Film
To what extent does the film's setting help to create an atmosphere of terror?
![](https://i0.wp.com/horrorfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Untitled-design-13.png?w=2880&ssl=1)
🔎Focus on
-the house (outside and inside): what makes it a spooky house?
-the characters’ psychology and their feelings
-the film director’s intention and how he achieves his goal.
🖋EXPRESSION ECRITE
THE MELANCHOLY HOUSE
👻Doc 4 (text)
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER BY EDGAR ALLAN POE
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💡 Pour retrouver les documents de début d’année: 🖱ici
llce anglais par Manuelle