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Séquence 13 · « This is my own, my native land »: Scott's Scotland and Joyce's Dublin

How do writers turn a native land or a native city into a literary heritage?

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Les mots importants

native land, heritage, national narrativerhetorical question, apostropherealism, paralysis (Dubliners)personification of a citynostalgia vs critical vision

Ressources de la séquence

Les notions, les repères et les pistes pour aller plus loin, utiles pour toutes les séances.

Les notions à maîtriser

National narrative
A story that a nation tells about itself; Scott shaped the image of Scotland.
Apostrophe
Addressing directly an absent person or a place: « O Caledonia! ».
Paralysis
Joyce's word for the stagnation of Dublin life in Dubliners.

Repères

DateÉvénement
1805Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel.
1820Scott, The Abbot.
1822George IV visits Edinburgh, a pageant organised by Scott.
1914Joyce, Dubliners.
16 JuneBloomsday, celebrated in Dublin in honour of Ulysses (1922).

Pour aller plus loin

Sources et bibliographie

Mon parcours : je choisis mon rythme

Séance 1 · « O Caledonia! »

70 min

Séance approfondie : cours développé, documents sourcés, activités exigeantes avec coups de pouce.

La question du jour

How does Scott make love of the native land a duty?

Mon plan de travail

Le cours à lire · Rhetorical question and apostrophe

Canto VI opens with a rhetorical question: is there a man so « dead » that he never felt love for his native land? Scott then addresses Scotland directly (apostrophe: « O Caledonia! ») and describes a wild, heroic nature. The poem contributed to a romantic national narrative of Scotland.

Document 1 · Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, canto VI

Poem, 1805 (public domain).

Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne’er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand!

[…]

O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires!

Source : Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, 1805, canto VI (full text on Wikisource).

Pour bien lire ce document :

strand: shore; meet: suitable; heath: wild land with low plants; flood: river, water; sires: ancestors.

Activité 1 · Understand

12 min
Essentiel

Supports : Documents

Consigne :

Read and answer.

  1. What does the man without a « soul » never say?
  2. Which name does Scott give Scotland?
  3. Which landscapes are mentioned?

Ce qui est attendu (6 pts) : Comprehension

Activité 2 · Analyse

18 min
Essentiel

Supports : Documents and lesson

Consigne :

Analyse.

  1. Why a rhetorical question?
  2. Find the anaphora.
  3. Which values are attached to the land?

Ce qui est attendu (7 pts) : Analysis

Activité 3 · Speak

20 min
Travail à rendre

Supports : Documents and lesson

Consigne :

Record a 2-minute presentation on a place of the English-speaking world described in a famous text (no personal information required). Sentence starters: This text celebrates… / The author uses… / This place has become….

Ce qui est attendu (7 pts) : Oral production

Trace écrite · document à compléter (papier ou ENT)

Complète la trace écrite avec les mots de la banque, puis recopie-la dans ton cahier.

apostropheheritage

Scott's __________ « O Caledonia! » and the anaphora « Land of… » celebrate a ________.

Séance 2 · North Richmond Street, being blind

70 min

Séance approfondie : cours développé, documents sourcés, activités exigeantes avec coups de pouce.

La question du jour

Is Joyce's Dublin a heritage or a trap?

Mon plan de travail

Le cours à lire · Critical vision of the native city

Joyce describes the street of his childhood with realism and irony: it is « blind » (a dead end), the houses are personified as respectable people who judge each other. In the house of a dead priest, the boy finds old books, among them The Abbot by Walter Scott: a romantic heritage, « curled and damp ». Exam training: write the synthesis of the evaluation in 1 hour.

Document 1 · James Joyce, « Araby », Dubliners (opening)

Short story, 1914 (public domain).

North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers' School set the boys free. An uninhabited house of two storeys stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbours in a square ground. The other houses of the street, conscious of decent lives within them, gazed at one another with brown imperturbable faces.

[…] Among these I found a few paper-covered books, the pages of which were curled and damp: The Abbot, by Walter Scott, The Devout Communicant and The Memoirs of Vidocq.

Source : James Joyce, « Araby », Dubliners, 1914 (full text on Wikisource).

Pour bien lire ce document :

blind: closed at one end; storeys: floors; imperturbable: calm, unmoved; Christian Brothers: a Catholic teaching order.

Activité 1 · Understand

12 min
Essentiel

Supports : Documents

Consigne :

Read and answer.

  1. Why is the street « blind »?
  2. How are the houses described?
  3. Which books does the boy find?

Ce qui est attendu (6 pts) : Comprehension

Activité 2 · Analyse

18 min
Essentiel

Supports : Documents and lesson

Consigne :

Analyse.

  1. What does « blind » suggest symbolically?
  2. Why is the personification ironic?
  3. What does Scott's novel in the house suggest?

Ce qui est attendu (7 pts) : Analysis

Activité 3 · Write

20 min
Travail à rendre

Supports : Documents and lesson

Consigne :

Exam training (1 hour): write the synthesis question 1 of the evaluation and submit it on the ENT. Sentence starters: Whereas Scott… / Joyce, on the contrary,… / To conclude,….

Ce qui est attendu (7 pts) : Written production

Trace écrite · document à compléter (papier ou ENT)

Complète la trace écrite avec les mots de la banque, puis recopie-la dans ton cahier.

blindbooks

Joyce's « ______ » street suggests paralysis; Scott's heritage survives in old ______.

Fiche à trous · je complète

Complète le texte avec les mots de la banque (sur papier ou dans le document de l'ENT).

blindCaledonialandScott

Scott asks if there is a man who never said « This is my own, my native ______! »

He calls Scotland « _________ ».

Joyce's North Richmond Street is « ______ », a dead end.

In the old priest's house the boy finds *The Abbot*, by Walter ______.

Ce que j'ai appris

Les 3 idées que je retiens :
Une phrase en anglais que je veux retenir :
Ce qui reste difficile pour moi / ma question pour le professeur :