Key purpose:

• To introduce students to the unit on the theme of loss

• To allow students to understand the broad thematic concerns surrounding loss and grief

• To allow students to understand representation as a technique and how it is significant in literature

 

Activity:

• Class discussion

• Charades

• Journal entry as homework

 

Main Teaching Points:

• To relate students’ representation expressed in the game of Charades to the significance of representation as a technique in literature.