Leiningen Versus the AntsCarl Stephenson

“Leiningen Versus the Ants”

Carl Stephenson

1938

Short Story

German

Only really “famous” story that he wrote

Conflict Brush UpInternal Conflict: man vs. self

External Conflict: man vs. man man vs. natureMan vs. society

Ant Invasion!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXaaTQztoI

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Consider as you watch: K – what do I know about ants?

W – what do I want to learn about ants and how ants connect to the story we are reading?

L – what did I learn about ants and how they connect to the story we are reading?

Quick Write

Imagine you have just learned that your community is in the path of a tornado. What would you do? Write about steps you and your neighbors would take to avert disaster

Think Big! What are the main ways in which authors create suspense in a story? List three.

*Finished: Turn to Prentice Hall Textbook (blue) pg. 481*

ConflictProvide examples from the story to illustrate these three types of conflict.

Man vs. Man 

Man vs. Nature Man vs. Himself

          

                 

 

 Leniningen vs. the ants: “They’re not creatures you can fight – they’re an

elemental – an ‘Act of God’” (481).

TODWho is the protagonist of the story?

What is the main conflict?

What is one thing that still confuses you about “Leiningen Versus the Ants”?

Questions/Comments

Quick Write

Compare the “plague” of ants in “Leiningen Versus the Ants” to the Black Death from “Masque of the Red Death”. How are each destructive? Which one is more deadly? Why?

*Finished: Turn to Prentice Hall Textbook (blue) pg. 481*

Claymation Videohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

ZRMIBra40kU

How accurate?

Movie Text

TOD 3-2-1

Give three adjectives to describe Leiningen

Name two ways Stephenson creates suspense in his story.

Create one of your own suspenseful sentences.

Comments/Questions

Parallel Structurehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoiW5LWuQGA

Try These! Parallel or no?

The Brazilian official threw up lean and lanky arms and clawed the air with wildly distended fingers.

Ten miles long, two miles wide--ants, nothing but ants!

Leiningen had met and defeated drought, Hood, plague and all other "acts of God”

But so great was the Indians' trust in Leiningen, in Leiningen's word, and in Leiningen's wisdom, that they received his curt tidings, and his orders for the imminent struggle, with the calmness with which they were given.

More Practice! Parallel or not?

They waited, unafraid, alert, as if for the beginning of a new game or hunt which he had just described…

…themselves hunted, outpacing fleet kinkajous, maddened herds of cattle, heads lowered, nostrils snorting, rushing through tribes of loping monkeys, chattering in a dementia of terror…

Then he lay down in his hammock and puffed drowsily away at his pipe.

While he could think at all, he'd flout both death and the devil.

The besieged were therefore able to contemplate at their leisure the thumb-long, reddish black, long-legged insects.

Some of the Indians believed they could see, too, intent on them, the brilliant, cold eyes, and the razor-edged mandibles.

TODWhat was your favorite part of the story?

3 sentences with your vocabulary words 7B

Questions/Comments