Sense and sensibility EXTENSIVE READING PORTFOLIO

Sense and sensibility 

Jane Austen 

Fiorella Videla Romano 

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STAGE 1
BACKGROUND TO BOOK
August 17 to August 31st
Reading is essential when learning a second language because of the input you
receive.
To understand a book, it is necessary to learn about its background. This implies
learning about the author and the context and setting in which this book was
written.
1. Who is the author of this book? Read about Jane Austen and find out who
she was, when and where she lived. 
 She widely read and best- loved writer. 
 She was born on December 16, 1775 in Stevenson. 
 About 20 years old she began writing spirited paradise of the popular
gothic. 
 1797: First impressions Pride and Prejudice. 
 1811: Publisher sense and sensibility. 
 1813 Publisher Pride and Prejudice.
 1817: Died on July 8

2. When and where was this book written? Find out about the context and
setting of the book.
 Also known as Sense and Feelings, Judgment and Feeling, Judgment and
Sensibility or Sense and Sensibility, it is a novel by British writer Jane
Austen published in 1811. It was the first of Austen's novels to be published,
under the pseudonym "A Lady "(a lady). It has been adapted for film and
television numerous times, notably the version by Ang Lee in 1995.

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3. Make a time line where you include the most salient aspects of the UK and
world history at the time

 700: The poem Beowulf is created; it is an anonymous Anglo-Saxon epic poem

that was written in Old English in alliterative verse. It has 3182 verses.

 1014: York's Wulfstan publishes the book "Wolf Sermon to the Angles".

(Sermo Lupi ad Anglos).

 1066: Migration of Jews to England

 1209:  Cambridge university is founded.

 1348: Black plague or black death is a plague pandemic that affected humanity

in 1347 and 1353. 

 1400 The Canterbury tales: The Canterbury Tales is a collection of twenty-

four tales written in Middle English by the English writer Geoffrey Chaucer
between 1387 and 1400. They were mostly written in verse, although there are
two in prose, tells the story of a group of pilgrims on a journey from London to
Canterbury to visit the Sanctuary of Thomas Becket.

 1401: The new official government language is English.

 1600:  Hamlet is recognized as one of the most powerful plays in the history

of English theatre. 
 1719: Daniel Defoe published “Robison Crusoe”

 1797: First impressions Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.

 1798: English Romanticism. 
 1807: The work of romantic poet Wordsworth was revolutionary. 
 1811: Sense and sensibility by Jane Austen
 1818: Frankstein by Mary Shelley.  
 1837: The Victorian era begins.
He central feature of Victorian-era politics is the search for reform and
improvement, including both the individual personality and society

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