Chapter fifteen of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre lures readers deeper into the mind and character of Mr. Edward Rochester. Throughout the chapter, Rochester begins to show Jane more hospitality and share details about his life with her. While explaining his guardianship over Adela Varens to Jane, he recalls his relationship with her mother, Céline, and how their relationship ended upon his discovery of her involvement with another man. Rochester describes arranging an appointment with the vicomte for "a meeting at the Bois de Boulogne" where he shoots the man in the arm (Brontë ch. 15). The Bois de Boulogne is a large, lush park area on the western edge of Paris, France. Prior to the Revolution of 1789, this mass of land was controlled by the British monarchy and preserved as a private hunting ground (Hopkins...
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Although most of us are drawn to the study of literature by our love of reading and writing alphabetic, printed texts, due to the nature of literature and writing in the twenty-first century, media and digital literacy has also become the special provenance of the ELA teacher. In order to study literature in the light of media and digital literacy, we will focus on one Horry County District-Approved novel: Jane Eyre: An Autobiography (1847) by Charlotte Brontë. Impressively, this novel remains so popular that it has never once gone out of print in one-hundred and seventy-five years. Additionally, scores of authors, directors, and digital producers have adapted, revised, and modernized Bronte’s most famous novel. Throughout this fast-paced semester, we will prepare for your future use of digital tools in the classroom by reading this classic novel, viewing an intermedial adaptation, practicing multimodal composition, and analyzing all of the above. Additionally, we will leverage the COVE’s (Collaborative Organization for Virtual Education) digital tools to foster a collaborative “flipped classroom” learning experience, and you will demonstrate competency in advanced research methods through the production of an annotated bibliography and analytical paper.
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Thornfield Hall is the estate at which Jane Eyre arrives to work as a governess at the onset of Chapter 11 (Brontë ch. 11). Jane travels from Lowood School to the estate of Mr. Rochester in Thornfield. Thornfield Hall is described by Mrs. Fairfax, the manager of the home, as “a fine old hall,” though she notes it is “rather neglected of late years perhaps, but still it is a respectable place” (Brontë ch. 11). The exterior of the hall is “three storeys high, of proportions not vast, though considerable” (Brontë ch. 11). Jane herself describes the halls of the home as “wide,” “dark,” and “cold,” likening certain oak features of the home, such as the staircase and large bedroom doors, to a church (Brontë ch. 11).
As for the history of Thornfield Hall, it is thought to have been inspired by Ellen Nussey’s home at North Lees Hall in Hathersage (“...
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Charlotte Brontë and her sisters attended Cowan Bridge School in Lancashire, England. Cowan Bridge School—now renamed Brontë School House—offered education for clergymen’s daughters for a fraction of the cost of “comparable schools”(Brontë Sisters). The description of the school provided in chapter 5 of Jane Eyre, “The garden was a wide inclosure, surrounded with walls so high as to exclude every glimpse of prospect; a covered verandah ran down one side, and broad walks bordered a middle space divided into scores of little beds: these beds were assigned as gardens for the pupils to cultivate, and each bed had an owner” (Brontë) along with the teachers...
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Charlotte Brontë and her sisters attended Cowan Bridge School in Lancashire, England. Cowan Bridge School—now renamed Brontë School House—offered education for clergymen’s daughters for a fraction of the cost of “comparable schools”(Brontë Sisters). The description of the school provided in chapter 5 of Jane Eyre, “The garden was a wide inclosure, surrounded with walls so high as to exclude every glimpse of prospect; a covered verandah ran down one side, and broad walks bordered a middle space divided into scores of little beds: these beds were assigned as gardens for the pupils to cultivate, and each bed had an owner” (Brontë) along with the teachers...
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Charlotte Brontë and her sisters attended Cowan Bridge School in Lancashire, England. Cowan Bridge School—now renamed Brontë School House—offered education for clergymen’s daughters for a fraction of the cost of “comparable schools”(Brontë Sisters). The description of the school provided in chapter 5 of Jane Eyre, “The garden was a wide inclosure, surrounded with walls so high as to exclude every glimpse of prospect; a covered verandah ran down one side, and broad walks bordered a middle space divided into scores of little beds: these beds were assigned as gardens for the pupils to cultivate, and each bed had an owner” (Brontë) along with the teachers...
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