English 6: Lamb to the slaughter

Working with Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl

Lamb to the Slaughter - Roald Dahl (1919)

 

For the next couple of weeks we are going to be working with the short story Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl. 

Roald Dahl

Dahl was a British novelist, short-story writer, poet, screenwriter, and wartime fighter pilot. His books have sold more than 250 million copies worldwide and he is one of the world's best-selling authors. He has been referred to as "one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century" (The Independent, 2010).

Dahl's short stories are known for their unexpected endings, and his children's books for their unsentimental, macabre, often darkly comic mood, featuring villainous adult enemies of the child characters (Wikipedia).

Assignment

Goals: To familiarize yourself with the author and his typical style of writing.
To practice the skill of reading between the lines. 

To practice different reading strategies.

To familiarize yourself with different skills to use to develop your written language. 

First, you are going to read, listen, and watch a short animated film of Lamb to the Slaughter. It is important that you understand the text!  

• What strategies do you use to understand the text? Skimming? Searching for information? Looking up difficult words? 
  
  

Second, you are going to answer questions based on the text. You do this in Classroom in a google document. Develop your answers. 

Timetable

week	Tuesday	Wednesday
35		Homework: Understand the text for next lesson!
36	Talking about reading strategies. How to work with a text.  Answering the questions	Answering the questions Homework : Finish the questions for next lesson
37	Going through the questions  Discussing the text

Here you can find links to the questions, the text, the audio and the movie

questions for Lamb to the Slaughter

short story

Listen to Lamb to the Slaughter

watch Lamb to the Slaughter

Läroplanskopplingar

Centralt innehåll

• Teman, motiv, form och innehåll i film och skönlitteratur; författarskap och litterära epoker.
• Talat språk, även med social och dialektal färgning, och texter, även komplexa och formella, som är berättande, diskuterande, argumenterande, rapporterande och redogörande, även via film och andra medier.
• Samtida och äldre skönlitteratur, dikter, dramatik och sånger.
• Texter av olika slag och med olika syften, till exempel formella brev, populärvetenskapliga texter och recensioner.