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Stanley Yelnats was given a choice. The judge said, "You may go to jail, or you may go to Camp Green Lake." Stanley was from a poor family. He had never been to camp before. Syfte Att du ska läsa skönlitteratur och delta i samtal och på så sätt utveckla din läsförståelse, ditt ordförråd och flyt i tal och skrift. Under lektionerna kommer du att: Lära dig nya ord från ordlistorna Läsa halva passet (resten hemma) Svara på frågorna skriftligt och muntligt Samt diskutera med klasskompisar kring innehållet I ditt arbete kommer detta att bedömas: Läsförståelsen bedöms utifrån samtal och skrivna svar på frågorna. Du visar att du förstått bokens helhet och detaljer genom att svara, diskutera och kommentera bokens innehåll. Kunskapskrav, se nedan. PLANNER FOR READING HOLES weeks 11-16 You will read the novel Holes during this period. I have divided the book in 5 parts, each part should be read and worked with during a week. You will study and learn words from the book, answer questions on the book and do one task* every week. We are also going to watch the movie! And then compare the two. (Want to listen? Check out: http://esl-bits.net/ESL.English.Learning.Audiobooks/Holes/) *Tasks (Choose one each week) Draw a map or a place that you have encountered in the book Write a postcard from a character in the book Write a song or a poem about what has happened so far Write a short letter to one of the characters in the book where you tell him/her what you think about his/her behaviour. Talk to a friend about how you would feel and what you would have done if you were one of the characters. Draw a comic strip (serie-rad) where you illustrate what you’ve read Draw a timeline with the events that have taken place. Part 1: ch 1-10 pp.3-48 Questions: 1. How much is an inch? A foot? Find out! 2. Why are the nicknames important do you think? What do they mean if you translate them into Swedish? 3. What kind of camp is Camp Green Lake? What do they do there and why? 4. Why is Stanley there? Words Log cabin Warden Lizard Curse, to curse Perseverance Stagecoach Outlaw Dazed Barren Desolate Juvenile correctional facility Assigned to Counsellor Nickname Relieved A water spigot Testify Retrieve Provide Coincidence Humiliating/humiliate Blister Previously Stationery timmerstuga föreståndare ödla förbanna Uthållighet diligens Olagligt Omtöcknad karg Ödslig ungdomsvårdsanstalt tilldelad stödperson/rådgivare smeknamn lättad en vattentapp vittna ta tillbaka förse med tillfällgihet förödmjukelse/förödmjuka blåsa föregående brevpapper Part 2: ch 11-20, pp 52-91 Questions: 1. Who is the warden? How would you describe this person? What do you think of the warden? 2. Why are the boys supposed to tell if they find something? What do you think they might find? 3. The story takes place in two different time periods. Why is that so? 4. Why does Stanley say that he stole the sunflower seeds? Words Bullies, to bully Pick on Compound mobbare, att mobba reta inhägnad Appropriate On account of Glare Tough, -er Snapped Haze Wiggle Wheelbarrow Site Pitchfork Excavate Excess Evict Blankly Gash Callused Throb Burlap Condemn Dread Recede passande på grund av lysa starkt tuff knäppte till dimma, dis vicka skottkärra plats, utgrävning högaffel gräva ut överdrift vräkt uttryckslöst öppet så valkig (händer blir valkiga när man gräver tex.) bulta säckväv fördöma fasa/fasar gå tillbaka Part 3 ch. 21-30, pp. 92-140 Questions: 1. 2. 3. 4. Mention 4 animals that you have met so far! Describe Zero! Who is Katherine Barlow? What happened between Katherine and Sam 110 years ago? Why is it a problem (according to some people)? What are your thoughts? 5. What do you think of the argument on p.138-139? Words Take credit for Worn-out Defiance Spices Brag Obviously Parched Ointments Remedy Resent Concoctions Quiver Punish Poison Equal Jerk Rescue Loot ta äran för uttröttad, utsliten motstånd kryddor skryta uppenbarligen uttorkad, törstig salvor läkemedel, botemedel avsky läkande salva (hopkok) darra, darrning straffa gift jämlik idiot, rucka rädda byte Blotchy Fist Deprive of Riot Investigation Cluster fläckig knytnäve beröva av upplopp undersökning Part 4 ch 31-40, pp. 141-181 Questions: 1. 2. 3. 4. Why does the Warden want to erase all traces of Zero? Whose boat do you think Stanley and Zero have found? What is in the jars? Would you dare to eat it? Why, why not? What does Stanley find out in the last chapter? Words Refuge Required Files Fidget Encounter Cautious Mirage Groan Search party Protruding Gnat Tangle Despair Muddy Ditch Meadow Delirious Confession Relief Leeches skydd krävd filer röra nervöst möta, stöta på försiktig hägring stöna skallgång utskjutande knott härva förtvivlan lerig ditch äng hallucinerande bekännelse lättnad Part 5 ch 41-50, pp. 182-233 Questions: 1. How do Stanley and Zero survive? 2. What is Stanley hoping to find? What is his connection to this place? 3. What happened when he dug out the suitcase? 4. What would you do if you got your hands on a lot of money? Words Improve Layer Contaminate Ward of the state Eventually Sundial Surround Flower petal Buzzard Fugitive Treasure chest Recapture Adjacent Exhale Texture Precarious Strenuous Attorney, attorney general AG Confine Incarcerate förbättra lager, skikt förgifta, smutsa ner minderårig som är omhändertagen av staten till slut solur omge kronblad gam flykting, rymling skattkista återerövra intilliggande andas ut yta (på tyg tex.) försiktig ansträngande advokat, justitiekansler anförtro fängsla The end: ◊ What’s your general impression of the story? Motivate your thoughts. ◊ After seeing the movie: compare the movie and the book! Kunskapskrav och bedömningsmatris Då här bedöms dina svar och boksamtal. Se elevsvar från Charlie and the Chocolate Factory i boxarna som exempel på nivåerna: Nivå1 Läsa och förstå I samtal och i dina svar i skrivboken visar du att du förstått helhet och detaljer genom att: Återberätta det huvudsakliga innehållet och tydliga detaljer ur boken. Charlie Bucket lives with his parents and his grandparents. They live in a small and cold house. They are poor. They eat cabbage every day. Charlie loves chocolate. Diskutera och kommentera I samtal och i dina svar i skrivboken: Diskuterar du översiktligt, begripligt och enkelt kring händelser och vad du tycker om bokens handling och hur den är skriven. The golden ticket was found by Veruca Salt. She is a spoiled girl who is very rich. I really don’t think she deserved to find the ticket. It was not fair! She is stupid. She says “I want” all the time Yuk! I get angry when I read about Veruca . Skriva I dina skrivna svar och i skrivuppgifterna: Skriver du enkel, begriplig och relativt sammanhängande engelska. Se exempel ovan. Nivå2 Nivå3 Återberätta det huvudsakliga innehållet och väsentliga detaljer i handlingen. Återberätta såväl helhet som detaljer på ett välgrundat och nyanserat sätt. Charlie Bucket lives with his parents and his grandparents in a small ramshackle house with cold draughts. They are really poor because they all have to live off Mr Bucket’s salary and eat cabbage for dinner every day. Since Charlie is always hungry, the smell from the chocolate factory in town is pure torture, and he only gets one bar of chocolate each year – on his birthday. Diskuterar du utförligt, tydligt och med visst flyt kring händelser och vad du tycker om bokens handling och hur den är skriven. Du gör även välutvecklade jämförelser med egna erfarenheter. Diskuterar du utförligt och nyanserat, tydligt och med flyt samt kommer med tankar och åsikter som har ”bevis” i texten och gör välutvecklade och nyanserade jämförelser med egna erfarenheter. Veruca finding the ticket was not fair. Her father bought thousands of tickets and let his workers peel off the wrapper. I know that life isn’t always fair, but I would be really angry if one of my friends could buy things like better grades or a prize in lottery or competition. Roald Dahl makes a good job showing the reader how horrible these kids are – especially compared to Charlie. Skriver du relativt varierat, relativt tydligt och relativt sammanhängande engelska. Skriver du relativt varierat, tydligt och sammanhängande engelska med hög korrekthet. From: http://www.louissachar.com/HolesBook.htm Extra: Read these pages, make a short summary and prepare to tell your friends! Stanley Yelnats was given a choice. The judge said, "You may go to jail, or you may go to Camp Green Lake." Stanley was from a poor family. He had never been to camp before. And so, Stanley Yelnats seems set to serve an easy sentence, which is only fair because he is as innocent as you or me. But Stanley is not going where he thinks he is. Camp Green Lake is like no other camp anywhere. It is a bizarre, almost otherworldly place that has no lake and nothing that is green. Nor is it a camp, at least not the kind of camp kids look forward to in the summertime. It is a place that once held "the largest lake in Texas," but today it is only a scorching desert wasteland, dotted with countless holes dug by the boys who live at the camp. The trouble started when Stanley was accused of stealing a pair of shoes donated by basketball great Clyde "Sweetfeet" Livingston to a celebrity auction. In court, the judge doesn't believe Stanley's claim that the shoes fell from the sky onto his head. And yet, that's exactly what happened. Oddly, though, Stanley doesn't blame the judge for falsely convicting him. Instead, he blames the whole misadventure on his "no-good-dirty-rotten-pigstealing-great-great-grandfather." Thanks to this benighted distant relative, the Yelnats family had been cursed for generations. For Stanley, his current troubles are just a natural part of being a Yelnats. At Camp Green Lake, the warden makes the boys "build character" by spending all day, every day, digging holes: five feet wide and five feet deep. It doesn't take long for Stanley to realize there's more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake. The boys are digging holes because the treacherous warden is searching for something, and before long Stanley begins his own search—for the truth. Fate conspires to resolve it all—the family curse, the mystery of the holes, the drought that destroyed Green Lake, and also, the legend of Kissing Kate Barlow, an infamous outlaw of the Wild West. The great wheel of justice has ground slowly for generations, but now it is about to reveal its verdict. Want to spend some more quaity time at Camp Greenlake? Stanley Yelnats' Survival Guide to Camp Green Lake A Holes companion book "If you're reading this book, chances are you've been convicted of a crime and have been sentenced to the Camp Green Lake Juvenile Correctional Facility.... Maybe you're innocent—more likely not," Stanley Yelnats states in the voice his followers have come to love. Should you ever find yourself at Camp Green Lake—or somewhere similar—this is the guide for you. Stanley (Caveman, to some of you) offers anecdotes and advice on everything from digging the perfect hole to identifying and avoiding the wildlife (scorpions, tarantulas, rattlesnakes, yellow-spotted lizards, Mr. Sir) to help make your stay a more pleasant one. HOLES Q&A Holes seems to be as much about a place as about the characters. Is that your feeling? Yes. While every other story I'd written had begun with the characters, to me this story has always been about a place—Camp Green Lake. The story began with the place, and the characters and plot grew out of it. Of course, Camp Green Lake has no lake and hardly anything is green. There once was a very large lake here, the largest lake in Texas. That was over a hundred years ago. Now it is just a dry, flat wasteland. There used to be a town of Greenlake as well. The town also shriveled and dried up. During the summer, the daytime temperature hovers around 95 degrees in the shade, if you can find any shade. There's not much shade in a big, dry lake. The only trees are two old oaks on the Eastern edge of the lake. A hammock is stretched between the two trees, and a log cabin stands behind that. The kids are forbidden to lie in the hammock. It belongs to the warden. The warden owns the shade. When you first start reading the book, however, you don't know it's that kind of camp. You just know that you're going to Camp Greenlake. Where did you get the idea for Holes? No, I didn't live next door to a juvenile correction facility. Actually, I never start with a full idea of what I'm going to write. I usually just start with a piece of a character and then see what develops. In this case, I didn't start with a character; I started writing about Camp Greenlake and it developed from there. I suppose the initial inspiration for writing about the camp came from the heat of summers in Texas. At the time I began the book, we had just returned from the relative coolness of a vacation in Maine to the Texas summer. Anybody who has ever tried to do yard work in Texas in July can easily imagine Hell to be a place where you are required to dig a hole five feet deep and five feet across day after day under the brutal Texas sun. How long did it take you to write Holes? A year and a half. A book like Marvin Redpost: Is He a Girl? is simply written and relatively short, taking four to six months to finish. In contrast, Holes took a year and a half to complete. I went through five rewrites before sending it to my editor. It occurs to me now that Stanley was sentenced to Camp Green Lake for eighteen months, which was exactly how long it took me to write Holes. I arbitrarily chose the length of his sentence early on. Maybe on some unconscious level, I knew how long it would take. Did you find the characters taking on a life of their own as you were writing? It happens every once in a while when you're writing that certain characters seem to leap off the page and take over the book, and that's what happened with the story of Kate and Sam. I had expected to make Kissin' Kate a complete villain, but when I started writing about her I ended up making her someone else entirely; it surprised me. Why do you think book's lead character, Stanley Yelnats, connects with so many children? Stanley isn't a hero-type. He's a kind of pathetic kid who feels like he has no friends, feels like his life is cursed. And I think everyone can identify with that in one way or another. And then there's the fact that here he is, a kid who isn't a hero, but he lifts himself up and becomes one. I think readers can imagine themselves rising with Stanley. What was the hardest part of writing Holes? People often ask me how I managed to tie everything together at the end, but that wasn't the hard part. I knew how everything was going to fit together. The hard part was laying out the strands throughout the story, telling the story of Kate Barlow and of Elya Yelnats and Elya's son, without it getting in the way of Stanley's story. The other problem I had occurred when Stanley was digging his hole for the first time. I wanted the reader to feel what a long, miserable experience this is, digging those 5' by 5' holes. But how many times can you say, "He dug his shovel back into the dirt and lifted out another shovelful?" My solution was to interweave two stories, bringing more variety to the tale. Stanley's anxious first days at Camp Green Lake are set off against the story of his ancestor, Elya Yelnats, whose broken promise to a gypsy results indirectly in young Stanley's bad luck. Holes is sweet and charming, but it is also darker and scarier than your other books. The warden, for example, mixes rattlesnake venom in her fingernail polish and threatens to scratch Stanley. Was it your intention to write a frightening tale? My daughter, Sherre, who was in fourth grade when Holes came out, surprised me when she told me that the warden was scary. I had never really thought of the warden as scary or that the scene as especially disturbing. Rattlesnake venom, well, it's almost cartoonish. It's like a situation from that campy old TV show, Batman. It was never my intention to write a grim story, and I don't think it is. For instance, I came up with the idea of the boys digging holes because I liked the irony, not because it was harsh. While they were ostensibly digging to build character, the camp warden actually had hidden and dishonorable reasons for demanding this chore. I wanted Holes to be fun and adventurous. How did you get the idea of rattlesnake venom in the warden's fingernail polish? It's hard to remember where different ideas come from, but I think it first started when I originally thought the warden was going to be the granddaughter of Kissing Kate Barlow. And Kissing Kate always killed the men she kissed. At the time, I may have even considered that her lipstick might be poisoned. So, I wanted to do something along the same lines. Instead of poison lipstick, the warden had poison nail polish. But then I ended up liking Kissing Kate Barlow, and liking her character. So, instead I made the warden the granddaughter of Trout Walker. How do you decide what is too scary for a child or how far you can go? Aside from the rattlesnake venom, there were other scenes in the book where I really did struggle with this issue. There was a scene where Kate Barlow, a notorious outlaw, is being tortured by these two people who have captured her to find out where she buried the treasure. Most of the time, my judgments are based on instinct and experience. I don't, for instance, experiment with kids to find out if I've gone too far. The book is very funny, but in an offbeat way. Yes. Sometimes when I start reading, people aren't quite sure if this is a humorous book or not, and they're not sure whether to laugh at first, and then gradually, people start laughing. Will you write a sequel to Holes? I don't expect to. I feel like the story is completely finished. I don't really have more to add to it.
