LHE 3251 Teaching the Language of Novels

LHE 3251 Teaching the Language of Novels Pensyarah : Juridah Md Rashid Phone No : 03 89468183/0172550212 Email : juridah.rashid@gmail.com Blogspot : www.juridahrashid.blogspot.com Address : Jabatan Pendidikan Bahasa dan Kemanusiaan Fakulti Pengajian Pendidikan UPM 43400 Serdang

Nama Kursus:Teaching the Language of Novels • Kod Kursus:EDU 3215 • Kredit:3 (2+1) • Semester:Kedua 2010/2011 • Pensyarah:Juridah Md Rashid

Objektif: • By the end of the course, students are able to analyze novels from various traditions and develop understanding on language and structure of novels

Sinopsis: • This course offers a general overview of the development of novels from various literary traditions; critical and literary appreciation of language of novels; pedagogy of teaching the various kinds of novels.

Kandungan • Development of novel form. • Aspects of novels • Examining extracts of novels as teaching resource in a language classroom. • Critical study of selected novels. • Teaching novels in the literary classroom

Penilaian • Blogspot Entries(5) 20% • Microteaching 20% • Midsemester Examination 30% • Final Examination 30%

Prescribed Texts • Great Expectations by Charles Dickens • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen • Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë • The Awakening by Kate Chopin • Literature in the Language Classroom by Joanne Collie and Stephen Slater (2001) published by Cambridge University Press

Study Guide • Comprehensive analysis is available on the net for free • Google the title of the novel • Choose Cliff Notes • There are samples of questions and topics for discussion available

Caution • Please read the assigned novels • Nothing can replace reading of the novel itself. • Penguin Popular Classics offer all titles • E-texts are also available. Download e-text • If you want to purchase The Awakening,– please place order as soon as possible – it takes at least a month to reach purchaser

Midsemester Examination • Will be based on 2 novels • 1. Great Expectations • 2. Pride and Prejudice • Format – essay question • You are given 3 questions for each of the novels. • You answer 2 questions for each novels

Blogspot Entries (Assignment 1) • Go to www.juridahrashid.blogspot.com • Select label EDU 3215 PPL • Look out for the current dates. • I will post a topic for our discussion for each of the novels we are doing this semester. • Please adhere to the due date. • 1 day late entry will result in losing 1 point.

Microteaching (Assignment 2) • There are 3 parts to this assignment: • Part 1 – write a lesson plan for 1 complete lesson of a given topic. The lesson could either be for a single or double period (40 or 80 minutes lesson). Topics will be posted on blogspot.com • Part 2 – you are to teach part of the planned lesson, a total of 15 minutes teaching. Teaching will be done on campus. Schedule will be given after 1st meeting and will be published on the blogspot. • Part 3 – 1 week after your microteaching you are to submit a reflection/reaction paper. You are to analyze your own teaching. Do you think it a success? Failure? In what area and at what stage you could further improve your teaching/lesson. • You are to include all the teaching aids that you use when you submit your lesson plan. Lesson plan to be submitted on the day you do your micro teaching.

Discussions on Great Expectations • Bildungsroman/Educational Novel • A novel tracing the life of the protagonist (Phillip Pirrip – Pip • Moralistic Novels – discussion on Victorian moral values • Semi autobiographical of Charles Dickens

Published in series in All the Year Round • Published from December 1860 to August 1861

Flashback • Any scene or episode which takes the narrative back in time from the point the story has reached, to recount events that happened before

Structure • The story is divided into three phases of Pip's life expectations • The first "expectation" is allotted 19 chapters, and the other two 20 chapters each in the 59-chapter work.

In the first expectation, Pip lives a humble existence with his older sister and Joe Gargery, his brother-in-law • He met Miss Havisham and was hired as a companion to Estella • Pip aspires to leave behind his simple life and be a gentleman. • His life changed when Mr Jaggers informs Pip that he is to come into the "great expectations" of handsome property and be trained to be a gentleman at the behalf of an anonymous benefactor

Pride and Prejudice • Comedy of manners • A form of comedy in which attitudes are examined and satirized in the light of high intellectual and moral standards. • The dialogue is witty and sophisticated, and the characters are often measured according to their linguistic and intellectual powers

Satire • An attack on human follies or vices, as measured positively against a normative religious, moral, or social standard

Irony • Language that states the opposites of what is intended – verbal irony • The placement of characters in the state of ignorance – dramatic irony • Emphasis on powerlessness – situational irony

Relationships and love and marriages • Pride and prejudice affect the relationship between Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy • Relationship between Elizabeth Bennet and Wickam • Development of another relationship between Jane and Mr. Bingley

Issues in Pride and Prejudice • Money • Social Position • Love and Marriages • Position of female in the society (the dependency of female)

Literary theories • Feminism • Naturalism • Romanticism • Marxism

Good Luck • All the Best

LHE 3251 Teaching the Language of Novels