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On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl

On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl. Learning Objective. To read and understand the main ideas and themes of the story To analyse the language used. Love:. Discuss with your shoulder partner: Can you measure love? Explain your answer. What does love mean to someone?.

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On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl

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  1. On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl

  2. Learning Objective • To read and understand the main ideas and themes of the story • To analyse the language used.

  3. Love: • Discuss with your shoulder partner: Can you measure love? Explain your answer.

  4. What does love mean to someone? • If ‘love’ were a colour, it would be red because it’s hot and passionate. • If ‘love’ were a song, it would be…because… • If ‘love’ were an animal, it would be a…because… • If ‘love’ were a model of mp3 player, it would be a…because… • If ‘love’ were a day of the week, it would be…because… • If ‘love’ were a website, it would be…because… • If ‘love’ were a celebrity, it would be…because… • If ‘love’ were a high street shop, it would be…because… • If ‘love’ were…

  5. Write your own Love Poem • Use the pattern “If love were…” and write a 6 line love poem to explain what love means. Success Criteria • Start each line “If love were…” • Write 6 lines • You can use rhyme if you want

  6. Listen Write: • Listen to the information about Haruki Murakami. • Write down anything you can remember. • Compare with your shoulder partner. • Answer the questions.

  7. Haruki Murakami: • Born in Kyoto, Japan but grew up in Kobe. • He won a literary prize for his first novel, Hear the wind sing, this encouraged him to keep writing. • He has also translated the works of several American authors into Japanese. • He spent four years in America teaching at the University of Princeton. • As he grew up, he spent a lot of time listening to rock and Jazz music and reading American authors. • He identifies more with western culture rather than the traditional culture of Japan. • Many of his stories combine normality and surrealism and focus on loss, destruction and loneliness. • Other themes are: old and young, past and present, the unlikely crossings in life and the connections between people.

  8. Questions: Think, pair, share: Write in full sentences- • What has influenced Murakami’s writing? • What are the main themes of his writing? • How do you think this links to the story ‘On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning?

  9. The 100% Perfect Partner • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgkRsis3yGY • (Watch to 1.39) What would be your ideal partner?

  10. PREDICTIONS • Write a paragraph explaining what you think happens next – we are only half-way through the story.

  11. The Fairytale Ending? • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flub8vnfFiI&feature=fvst

  12. Which statement is most accurate? • The reader is left confused at the end of the short story. • The reader has to read the story more than once to see the message the author is trying to get across by including the fairy story. • The reader is left feeling sorry for the narrator because he can only imagine his 100% perfect relationship as he missed his chance

  13. Which statement is most accurate? • Murakami is just trying to show off by putting a fairy story within his short story • Murakami is using the fairy story to make a point about how people should not waste opportunities in life • Murakami believes that a 100% perfect relationship can only exist in a fairy story

  14. Write a paragraph in response… • Why does Murakami include a fairytale in his writing?

  15. Read the Story Success Criteria • Read the story by yourself • Make annotations as you read

  16. What do we learn about the narrator?

  17. TASK • Read each statement. • Choose a colour for each statement. • Colour the parts of the fairytale that match the techniques.

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