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Lesson Four - Novel Study

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Course: English Lang Arts 30-2-RVSO
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Date: Friday, 19 September 2025, 3:32 AM

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Introduction

Students will be given two weeks to read a novel.  You have two options for your novel study.  The two options are:

1. The Art of Racing in the Rain (students must have a copy of the novel from their school)

2. Tuesdays with Morrie (PDF provided in Moodle)


Lesson

Art of Racing in the Rain

On the Resources page, read through the links for Garth Stein, providing background as to why he wrote the novel, and for Formula One race car driver, Aryton Senna, who features prominently in the novel.

Read the book - 60 pages per day - 5 days in total!!

Tuesdays with Morrie

On the Resources page, read through the links for Mitch Albom, providing background as to why he wrote the novel.  

Read the book, take 5 days in total!!

Assignment - Tuesdays with Morrie

Open a new PPT document and a Word document. 
Label them both E302U4L4surname 
In this document, complete the assignment outlined below.
Submit this assignment using the Dropbox for U4L4 Novel Study

Choose ONE of the symbols in Tuesdays with Morrie

Pink Hibiscus Plant

Waves on the ocean

Morrie’s Bed

The Media

Reincarnation and renewal

Food

Love or perish

Acceptance through detachment

 

This is a TWO part assignment:

1.    In a PPT document, create a photo essay exploring one of the symbols in Tuesdays with Morrie.

·       You must use at least five quotations and 5 photos.

·       Design your slides to have one quotation, illustrated with one photo, per slide.

What piece of music would you use as the soundtrack for your photo essay?

2.    In the Word document you will post in the dropbox, fully explain the following:

·       How does this particular motif unify the novel?

·       What does EACH ONE of the quotations add to the novel?

·       What did you chose EACH ONE of the graphic images that you did?

·       Why did you place your images in the order that you did?

·       Why did you choose the piece of music that you did?


Assignment- The Art of Racing in the Rain

Open a new PPT document and a Word document. 
Label them both E302U4L4surname 
In this document, complete the assignment outlined below.
Submit this assignment using the Dropbox for U4L4 Novel Study

Choose ONE of the symbols in The Art of Racing in the Rain

  • Rain
  • television
  • Zoe's zebra
  • Ayrton Senna
  • The alpha male
  • Love
  • Illness
  • Loss of control

 

This is a TWO part assignment:

1.    In a PPT document, create a photo essay exploring one of the symbols in The Art of Racing in the Rain.

·       You must use at least five quotations and 5 photos.

·       Design your slides to have one quotation, illustrated with one photo, per slide.

What piece of music would you use as the soundtrack for your photo essay?

2.    In the Word document you will post in the dropbox, fully explain the following:

·       How does this particular motif unify the novel?

·       What does EACH ONE of the quotations add to the novel?

·       What did you chose EACH ONE of the graphic images that you did?

·       Why did you place your images in the order that you did?

·       Why did you choose the piece of music that you did?


Conclusion

“To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live. To feel the joy of life, as Eve felt the joy of life. To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all encounter every day. To say I am alive, I am wonderful, I am. I am. That is something to aspire to.” 
― Garth Stein