MB UNIUD

 Consider the title and see if it suggests possible associations, conjectures andthe like. Poetry 1   

Ex: Beowulf

Donat says it makes him remember the word wolf that is

any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs

Other possible meanings

entity ╚object; physical object ╚living thing; animate thing ╚organism; being ╚animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna ╚chordate ╚vertebrate; craniate ╚mammal ╚placental; placental mammal; eutherian; eutherian mammal ╚carnivore ╚canine; canid ╚wolf ╚coyote; prairie wolf; brush wolf; Canis latrans ╚red wolf; maned wolf; Canis rufus; Canis niger ╚white wolf; Arctic wolf; Canis lupus tundrarum ╚timber wolf; gray wolf; Canis lupus

Additional title

Ex: Us and Them

Teacher: the title seems to hint at a difference between two different groups of people, something that divides and distinguish us from  ...

Wuthering Heights

Sguassero and Del Sal have different responses: del Sal translated the title into Italian, Miss Sguassero told us that the title made her think about a very difficult situation.

To tell the truth heights refers to:

natural height of a person or animal in an upright position

elevation especially above sea level or above the earth's surface; "the altitude gave her a headache"

the vertical dimension of extension; distance from the base of something to the top

Teacher: wuthering recalls to my mind a progressive aspect so that I think of something dynamic that changes that is not stable

Now I can make some conjectures about the possible CONTENT of the text

Hypothesis

- The novel might be about some people's   problem

- Some people with a strong personality

- A terrible storm

- The mountains

-  A wide range of difficult situations

Home Practice

Read the titles below and make conjectures about the possible content of the text with that title

Scaffolding

Digging

Se questo è un uomo

The Dove per Miss Bonetto Beltra

Write at least 30 lines (90 lines all together)