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Lesson 1 (from Chapters 1 and 2)

Objective

Setting. This novel is set in the early 1800s during the Napoleonic Wars.

The objective of this lesson is to look at setting.

Lesson

1. Homework. Students will rewrite the basic plot of this novel and set it in another century, explaining how the different setting changes the work.

2. Class discussion. Could Hornblower and the Atropos have been set anywhere? How does the setting make this a unique story? How do the people in Europe in this era differ from the students' hometown? How does the setting affect the characters? The plot? The themes? Why is the setting important?

3. Group work. In groups, students will research a setting that might be similar and discuss the ways in which Hornblower's life would have been different set in another time or place.

4. Class work. Students will write a short paper on how the town in which they reside currently...

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