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Lesson4 The Last Lesson part 1- 11th Apr 2020
The Last Lesson: IntroductionHistorical Context of The Last Lesson
Daudet speak of age during the Second French Empire (1852-1870), headed by Emperor Napoleon III (nephew to Napoleon I, ruler of the fifirst empire). This was a time of expansive economic and cultural growth in France, under the Napoleon III’s effective dictatorship. But Napoleon’s emperorship come to an end with the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71. Prussia, (then consisting of Germany, Poland, and parts of Austria), a growing military power at that time had ambitions to unify all of the independent German states of Europe. This was resisted by France, which declared war on Prussia in July of 1870.
The Prussians, however, quickly attacked and won the parts of northeastern France, including Alsace-Lorraine, The French were defeated in 1871, a loss that led to the end of the Second Empire and the reign of Napoleon III. This is the time & place(Alsace) when Daudet’s “Last Lesson” is set upon.

Dear children now read your lesson in the light of following key points.

Part I
1. Dread of scolding -- why? Two reasons
2. What was more tempting than school ?
3. What's it all about bulletin board?
4. “Don’t go so fast,bub; you’ll get to your school in plenty of time!”. Find the irony in it.
5. Unusual scene of school.
6. Unusual scene of class.
7. Most surprising thing.
8. Thunderclap- what it regers to
9.Changes occured in 5he approach of Franz- about learning, study, school, his teacher, his
books
10. Realised/understood- why special dress why villagers in the class, why errie and grave
silence.
Some expressions to be used in certain context.
1.Procastination
2. Negligence
3. Regret
4. Irony
5. Awakening
6. Reassessing
7. Repression of freedom
8. Solemn

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