Welcome to the English culture and literature course (year 1)!

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EDGAR ALLAN POE

THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG… (page)

↑ Le lien vers la page consacrée à l’étude de l’oeuvre

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🏚️SPOOKY HOUSES🦇👻

To what extent can a place provoke fear?

 

LLCE 1 – IMAGINAIRES (imaginaires effrayants)

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INTRODUCTION

🦇KAHOOT – Who lives here?

🦇Diaporama

WordCloud (spooky houses) par MB

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WELCOME 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!

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✅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

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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!

1. What is the typical haunted house? (type/ architecture/appearance).
2. Talk about the history of these houses (2 periods):
   -how and when did they originate?
   -How did they become associated with dread and horror?
3. How did art and pop culture fuel the myth? (inspiration and influence of art: who/ what/how.

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✅LET’S RECAP (Why has the Victorian mansion become a horror icon?)

ICONIC VICTORIAN MANSION par MB

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TO HILL HOUSE

👻Doc 3 (text)

🟢 INTRODUCTION

Beauty & the Beast (challenge)

🖱Cliquez sur l’image pour voir l’extrait

LOST IN THE FOREST

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.
• 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)

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🟢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!

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✅LET’S RECAP (✔️KEY QUESTION: Explain how Hill House emerges as a symbol of evil upon Eleanor’s first view)

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THE OTHERS

👻Film

To what extent does the film's setting help to create an atmosphere of terror?

🔎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.

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🖋EXPRESSION ECRITE

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THE MELANCHOLY HOUSE

👻Doc 4 (text)

THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER BY EDGAR ALLAN POE

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LLCE 1 – Lesson 1 (story time)

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llce anglais par Manuelle