Quiz #1 Short story
Happy Prince
QUIZ #1
Introduction
In class we have been reading short stories, in
this occasion you should get familiar with story-telling. In this class
students are going to start working with the blogs that during class they
created. In this case you will research about Oscar Wilde and analyze the story
the happy prince.
Task
Students are going to have two weeks to read the
story and prepare the blog entry with the analysis of the story, this analysis
will help you know about Oscar Wilde and all his work, you have to work with
this story to achieve the goals.
Process
This entry on the blog its individual, but the
students have the opportunity to share and comment ideas with one of your
classmates, in order to discuss about the conflict, setting, plot, characters
and in this way generate new ideas or find out parts of the story that you did
not catch.
In the chart below there is some questions and
information that need to be included in your blog entry.
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Your blog entry should be entitle as:
Short story analysis ¨The happy prince¨ |
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Insert the autobiography of the author
Oscar Wilde (including a picture) |
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Provide any kind of illustration related
to the story background, theme or characters. |
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Include a summary of the short story
in 1 paragraph. (With your own words) |
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Analyze the primary and secondary characters
of the story. You have to describe as most as you can about their physical
and psychological characteristics. |
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Analyze the plot of the story, you
must include: · Exposition · Rising action · Climax · Falling action · Resolution |
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Identify the setting of the story,
you have to include place and time. |
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Students must include a minimum of 5
sentences paragraph explaining their personal opinion of the story (Also include
if you liked it or not) |
The teacher provides you with web links here but
feel free to search for information yourself.
Edit correctly your blog entry, grammar and
punctuation mistakes will be penalized.
Resources
To write the autobiography about Oscar Wild visit
the following sites. (Write in your own words, copy and paste information will
not be accepted)
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To read the story and get ideas on how analyze the
story click on the following
Evaluation
To evaluate your Quiz #1, we will use the following
rubric, you can download it below
Conclusion
The idea of this short story analysis it’s for you
to go beyond in the story, and with the blog entry you are using an online tool
that let you express and give opinions.
Best of luck with this
task!
This is rocking good, Mariana. Congratulations! You made me remember a lot about this short story by Oscar Wilde.
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