1. “The Landlady”
Picture this: You’ve just arrived in a lovely new town by train and your looking for a place to stay. You find a bed and breakfast that looks very enchanting (nice) on the outside. You decide to stop and look in the window. What do you think you might see?

2. The Landlady By Roald Dahl
Objective: I will use knowledge of vocabulary, setting and the literary element of foreshadowing to analyze fictional text.

3. Vocabulary
Read each sentence. Try to understand the definition of each word based on the context clues.
Write down each vocabulary word and its definition.

4. The bakery had one of the shabbiest facades on the block.
Facades – appearance of the fronts of a building (sometimes fake fronts)

5. 2. “What tempting smells emanate from there, Tom!” said Jo.
Emanate – come forth

6. 3. The tantalizing smells of fresh pastry lured them in.
Tantalizing – tempting or teasing by making unavailable

7. Congenial – agreeable or pleasant
4. The mean baker was far from congenial.
Congenial – agreeable or pleasant

8. 5. Tom was so rapacious that he took all the money from the jar.
Rapacious - greedy

9. Other unfamiliar words
Porter: a person hired to carry luggage
Trilby hat: soft hat with the top deeply indented
Kippers: fish that have been salted and smoked
Dithering about: acting nervous or confused
Queer: strange
Dotty: crazy
Trifle: British word for little
Masses: British word for lots
Cricketers: people who play cricket
Biscuit: means cookie in Great Britain
Eton: prep school near London
Cambridge: famous university in England

10. Meet the Author Roald Dahl
Born in Wales ( )
He often writes stories with dark humor.
Some familiar stories:
James and the Giant Peach
Matilda
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The BFG

11. Literary Element Used Foreshadowing:
the use of clues or hints suggesting
events that will occur later in the plot.
HINT: As you read “The Landlady” put yourself in the place of the main character (protagonist). Pay close attention to what Billy sees and senses

12. Example of Foreshadowing
“The air was deadly cold.” Pg. 62
This sentence comes from our short story, “The Landlady”.
Why is it foreshadowing? Is it good foreshadowing? Why or why not?

13. Characters Protagonist is seventeen year old Billy Weaver
Antagonist -Owner of the Bed & Breakfast, The Landlady

14. Setting Definition
Setting is both time and place of the story. Many times this is not stated, but can be inferred or guessed by the reader, using context clues.
Context clues are often items like technology, surroundings, dialogue, etc…
The Setting may be an actual room, or better yet, the name of the city, state, or country.

15. Bath, England
Our story is set in Bath, England, a town famous for its Roman baths.
The Romans conquered what is now Great Britain. When the Romans conquered new places, they built the comforts of home that they were used to.
So, they built a public bath house, similar to a modern day spa, complete with soaking pools.
And yes, they all took a bath together!

16. Setting
The story takes place in Bath, England probably mid 1900’s.

17. Bath, England

18. Bath, England

19. Pre-reading information
Billy Weaver arrives in Bath, England after taking the train from London. He's never been to the town before. However, he's due to start a new job there soon, and he's excited at the prospect. He heads toward The Bell and Dragon, which is a pub he's been told he could spend the night at. On the way though, he notices a sign in the window of a nearby house: "BED AND BREAKFAST”. Will it turn out to be what he expects????

20. While baking the cake, wonderful smells came forth from the kitchen.
Question of the Day Using your vocabulary from yesterday, fill in the underlined word blank with the correct vocabulary word facade, congenial, rapacious, emanate, tantalizing
While baking the cake, wonderful smells came forth from the kitchen.
The salesman, who came to the door, was very pleasant.
The house’s front appearance was one of the worst on the block.
My grandmother’s kitchen always had tempting smells coming from it.
The greedy politician was taking money from anyone for his campaign.
emanate
congenial
facade
tantalizing
rapacious

21. Foreshadowing POD time!
Complete the evidence chart (T-chart) independently
Each person will be responsible for elaborating/explaining how this foreshadowing evidence supports ideas
Write in complete sentences!
Share your findings with the other POD members.
Check each other for correctness.

22. Check Test TRUE/FALSE
1. The Landlady answers the door before Billy can remove his hand from the door bell.
2. Billy thought the Landlady’s fee to stay at the bed and breakfast was too much.
3. Billy believes he had heard of the Landlady’s previous guests.
4. The Landlady meant Billy no harm.
5. The tea tasted strange to Billy because it is poisoned
Foreshadowing: List at least one event that helped to foreshadow the ending
TRUE
FALSE
TRUE
FALSE
TRUE

23. Questions
How does the landlady’s speech hint at some future event (“breaking the law at this stage of the proceedings”)- FORESHADOWING?
What clue hints at something strange about the fact the dog is sleeping (FORESHADOWING)?
Why might the names of Gregory Temple and Christopher Mulholland be familiar to Billy?

24. Questions What might the peculiar smell suggest? (FORESHADOWING)
What has the landlady said that seems to contradict the following statement:
“Left?” she said. “But my dear boy, her never left. He’s still here. Mr. Temple is here. They’re on the fourth floor, both of them together.?

25. Questions
What do you suspect has happened to both guests? How did you arrive at that conclusion?
How does the landlady’s statement foreshadow what will happen to Billy? (“I stuff all my little pets myself when they pass away.”)

26. Citing textual evidence
Text dependent Questions
Evidence based answer
On page 62, the author uses the words: brisk, briskly, and briskness in the first full paragraph. Billy states that, "briskness is a common characteristic of all successful businessmen." What does the author mean by this word and what is the significance of being "brisk" in the story?

27. Citing textual evidence
Text dependent Questions
Evidence based answer
On On page 62, the author uses the words: brisk, briskly, and briskness in the first full paragraph. Billy states that, "briskness is a common characteristic of all successful businessmen." What does the author mean by this word and what is the significance of being "brisk" in the story?
The author uses brisk four times in all its forms to indicate the kind of quick, efficient, skipping quality of no-nonsense that a young kid trying to fit into the business world would notice.

28. Citing textual evidence
Text dependent Questions
Evidence based answer
When Billy arrives in the city of Bath, the first thing he needs to do is find lodgings. Why is he debating between staying at pub instead of a boardinghouse?

29. Citing textual evidence
Text dependent Questions
Evidence based answer
When Billy arrives in the city of Bath, the first thing he needs to do is find lodgings. Why is he debating between staying at a pub instead of a boardinghouse?
The Pub would be more fun for him as a young man than the boarding house. At the pub “there would be beer and darts in the evenings, lots of people to talk to, and it would probably be a good bit cheaper.” But, this boardinghouse however, had “pleasant furniture”, and “animals which were usually a good sign and he thought it would be a pretty decent house to stay in”.

30. Citing textual evidence
Text dependent Questions
Evidence based answer
Reread the paragraph on page 63, that begins, “Suddenly, in a downstairs window…” and continue rereading through the next few paragraphs. What words and phrases does the author use to describe the Bed and Breakfast? What inference does Billy make about the Bed and Breakfast based on these observations?

31. Citing textual evidence
Text dependent Questions
Evidence based answer
Reread the paragraph on page 63, that begins, “Suddenly, in a downstairs window…” and continue rereading through the next few paragraphs. What words and phrases does the author use to describe the Bed and Breakfast? What inference does Billy make about the Bed and Breakfast based on these observations?
“beautiful, wonderful chrysanthemums,” “bright burning fire in the hearth,” “pretty little dachshund curled up,” “pleasant furniture,” “plump armchairs,” “animals were usually a good sign in a place like this”
“All in all, it looked to him as though it would be a pretty decent house to stay in. Certainly it would be more comfortable than The Bell and Dragon.”

32. Partner Time
You and your partner will work together to answer the remaining text dependent questions.
Remember to write in complete sentences AT ALL times.
If you are citing directly from the text, you must use quotation marks to document correctly.
Be prepared to share 

33. Theme???
Discuss with your POD what was the moral of the story? What did we learn from this story?

34. Possible Themes Trust your instincts Be aware of your surroundings
Things are not always what they seem
Darkness comes in many forms
Looks can be deceiving

35. Theme Statement (topic sentence)
Write down your theme statement.
Hint: You must include the following:
Title
Author
Lesson learned

36. Example of a proper theme statement
The short story, “The Landlady “ by Roald Dahl is a chilling tale that teaches the reader that when something looks too good to be true, it probably is..

37. POD Activity Each person take one strip
Read your strip aloud to the group
Discuss whether the evidence supports the theme. Why? Or Why not?

38. Support your theme statement
Find three examples from the text to demonstrate how Roald Dahl creates suspense and a sense of foreboding as he drives the reader to discover the moral of this tale.
*Hint: Prove it!!!!

39. Explain your quotes!!!!
After each quote, you will need to explain how the quote supports the theme.
*Hint:
This quote demonstrates…
This quote shows…
This quote proves…
* Hint:
Don’t use the same words as quote. Explain what the words in the quote mean.

40. Conclusion statement You must restate your “say it” or topic sentence.
*Hint:
In & Out ;)

41. Peer edit Trade your constructed response with someone in your POD.
Read the constructed response.
Circle the title, author, and lesson learned in the first sentence.
Highlight textual evidence. Look for “The author says…”
Underline explanation sentences that start with “This quote…”
Circle title and lesson learned in last sentence.

42. Score Constructed Response
One point for each of the following items found in the first sentence: (3 possible points)
Title
Author
Lesson learned
One point for each piece of highlighted textual evidence. (3 possible points) Look for “The author says…”
One point for each underlined explanation. (3 possible points) Look for “This quote…”
One point for each of the following items found in the last sentence: (2 possible points)
Write the score at the top. Out of 11 possible points.

43. Resolution?
As you know, “The Landlady” has left us hanging. We are not sure what has happened to Billy Weaver, because Roald Dahl did not provide a resolution for his reader.
Did Billy escape? Did the landlady finish him off- and if so, how?

44. Your resolution
Write a one-page resolution to the story “The Landlady”. Remember- a resolution provides a solution to the conflict that has built up in the rising action.
You may not say he was having a bad dream. Too easy!
Remember the streets are abandoned and no one is around.

45. Your turn On a separate piece of paper, write a one page resolution.
Follow the plot and keep in mind all the foreshadowing that has occurred.
Use the foreshadowing clues to help complete this story.
You are bringing the story to an end.
Write in a third person point of view. Describe Billy’s thoughts and feelings, but not the landlady’s.
Include dialogue.
Begin your story with the last sentence of the our story.
Use same literary style (British English)
Do not add too much violence and gore. The author would not do this.
Try to combine and lengthen your sentences by using conjunctions, using semi-colons, use dependent clauses with independent clauses.

46. Question of the Day Put the events in order
The Landlady offers Billy strange poisoned tea
Billy arrives in Bath and needs a place to stay
The Landlady asks him to sign the guest book
Billy questions the Landlady about her previous guest
The Landlady answers the door too (strangely) quickly 5 1 3 4 2

47. In your summary include the following:
- A brief summary of what happened in the story. Make sure you include what you inferred happened to the protagonist at the end of the story
- In your summary you must correctly use two of the story’s vocabulary words, but you CANNOT copy the sentence out of the book.
Highlight these two words
- Include two examples of how the author foreshadowed events that occurred in the story. (i.e. T-Chart)

48. Question of the Day Read pg 171, and answer the following questions:
Who is introduced at the beginning of the story
Describe him. Where he is going, and why is he in this town?

49. Question of the Day
What does the landlady ask Billy to do before he goes to bed? Why does she want him to do this task?

50. Adv L.A. Question of the Day
Do you believe Billy realizes the danger he faces at the end of the story? If he does, is it too late to escape (explain all your answers).