Case Study- TSL 752

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Prepared For : Assoc. Prof. Dr Shariff bin Omar

Prepared By: Rahmawati Othman - 2008705137

Providing better

answers to the

literature question:

Section C- Paper 2

(PMR)

Based on the novel Dr

Jekyll & Mr Hyde

Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde-we don’t know what the story is

about!Reading done since March, 2009

Rely mostly on the teacher to be a storyteller

Setting of the novel-classic, unfamiliar to the Ss

Vocabulary – difficult to comprehend

Plain lazy!

They don’t understand, therefore…

They only answer based on the novel ‘The Phantom of The Opera”

They do not really answer the question asked.

Their answers lack elaborationsNo evidence from the textNo own opinion-in certain questions

Answer a) Based on novel Dr Jekyl and Mr Hyde the theme did I get is friendship.

Answer b) Based on the novel that I have chosen Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde-R.L. Stevenson. The theme that I like is a friendship. The really good friend that I found in the novel is Mr Utterson. He is good to Dr Jekyll. Mr Utterson also keep a letter from Dr Jekyll to Dr Lanyon.

Before

Answer #1: Based on the novel Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde the theme did I get is friendship. Dr Jekyll have many good friends like Mr Utterson, Dr Lanyon. Mr Utterson keep his secret from anyone to know that he become Mr Hyde. Dr Lanyon keep his letter and never give anyone to read. They are friendship.

After

Answer #2 : Based on the novel Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by R.L. Stevenson, I found the theme of friendship. Mr Utterson is a really good friend I found in the novel. For examples, he did not tell anyone that Dr Jekyll changed to Mr Hyde in the lab. Besides that, Mr Utterson also keeps Dr Jekyll a secret which is Dr Jekyll is also Mr Hyde. He is keep friendship when he did not open a letter that he got from another friend Dr Lanyon.

Detecting the issue:Students read (halfway, full text or maybe a few chapters) but they fail to grasp the meaning of the vocabulary used : e.g.: In Chapter 2-The Signature

“He looked at his prisoner, who was very conscious of that circle of hate, and yet who stood there, filled with a kind of black scorn–” (P.15)

In Chapter 3-Blackmail House

“It chanced on one of these excursions that their way led them into a rather dismal part of town, in which there stood one street of clean and neat little houses” (P.24)

The Remedy:Group work : - assigned them to be in groups of 3 to 4

Each group reads 2 chaptersThink of own device to visualize the events etc.Prepare for presentation

Class discussion : -Each group presents their workAids: Mind-map, charts, notes

Teacher’s guide : -Reinforce and add to certain areasEncourage them to write about any area of their understanding pertaining to the novel.