Blackbirds Essential Classics 2024 - Leesbundel (3 titels)

Schooltype: VO bovenbouw havo/vwo (4 havo, 5 havo, 4 vwo, 5 vwo, 6 vwo)

Leeftijdscategorie: vanaf 16 jaar

Leesniveau: B1-C1

De nieuwe Essential Classics zijn absolute ‘must-reads’ door de onvergetelijke indruk die zij achterlaten met hun boodschap, tijdloze relevantie en kwaliteit. Essential Classics zijn werken die van blijvende waarde zijn met thema’s van alle tijden. Met deze nieuwe bundel Blackbirds kunnen leerlingen voordelig kennismaken met klassiekers. De Essential Classics dagen je uit om verder te kijken.

Inhoud set

• Slaughterhouse Five
• A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s Court
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Slaughterhouse Five, auteur Kurt Vonnegut, leesniveau B2

Billy Pilgrim has become unstuck in time, hurtling backwards and forwards between the different stages of his life – senseless violence in World War II, simple monotony as a middle-aged man, and bewildering confusion as an alien abductee. Full of genre-bending inventiveness and wit, Slaughterhouse Five is a novel of political disillusionment, PTSD, and postwar anxiety.

Review

It is one of those essential classics that everyone should read at least once. Though published in 1969, it remains relevant and will remain relevant for many years to come.

Bron: A Librarian and Her Books.

A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s Court, auteur Mark Twain, leesniveau B1

Hank Morgan, skilled mechanic in 19th century New England, is struck on the head in a fight – but when he comes to, he finds himself in King Arthur’s knightly Court at Camelot. He makes it his goal to “boss the whole country inside of three weeks”, planning to modernise Camelot with 19th century industrial inventions like electricity and gunfire. But it isn’t long before all hell breaks loose!

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, leesniveau C1

New Year’s Eve at Camelot. King Arthur and his Court are awaiting the start of an extravagant feast. Suddenly, a strange and frightening Knight bursts into the hall: a mountain of a man, all in green, carrying an enormous axe. He mockingly challenges the Court to a shocking game, proposing an exchange of blows. Only the chivalrous Sir Gawain dares to face the Green Knight. But will this prove his undoing?