“It seemed like a profitable business turned up, or the kidnapping of a little boy”

(Literature lesson in grade 5 on the story

O. Henry "Leader of the Redskins")

The purpose of the lesson : - to acquaint students with certain facts of the biography and work of O. Henry;

To consolidate the idea of the title image of a literary work and the author's position;

Find and mark the means of artistic expression to create funny;

Get to know the genre of humorous story;

To develop the reading interest of students.

Main activities : creating a presentation, talking about the teacher, working with the text of a work of art, staging episodes, search work, research work.

During the classes :

Teacher: There is a man in an American prison. No, he didn't kill anyone, he didn't rob anyone, he didn't steal anything. That's how fate happened. He never thought about a crime, he worked honestly. He was an apothecary's apprentice, spent two years in Texas - the land of cowboys and adventure, became a quiet accountant in a small bank. And one day there was not a large sum of money in his cash register. To whom will you prove your innocence? The accountant is on the run. What just did not happen to experience during the wanderings in Central and South America! And the places are restless, the people are hot. Quarrels and disputes easily escalated into a shootout. Whoever shoots first is right!

But there, at home, his wife was seriously ill. There was a daughter there. And a man named William Sydney Porter returned home to go straight to jail.

It is always sad in prison, and even more so before the Christmas holidays. Soon there will be Christmas trees on the streets, people will rush from store to store to buy Christmas gifts for children. Then, in the evening, they will put them in a prepared stocking, and in the morning they will be surprised and gasp with the kids: “This is Santa Claus brought!”

It's hard to think about it, knowing that at home the daughter will not wait for the gift. She will get up in the morning, look under the bed ... The wife does not have enough money even for a modest purchase.

Can you make money in prison? Stop!!! You can't send money, but you can send something else. After all, he tried to write stories! .. And it worked out well! .. And he has something to tell about."So I'll do it , - decided Porter, -I'll write a story, send it to a magazine, and then come what may! »

William Porter wrote the story, signed with the pseudonym "O. Henry". The story was printed, and with the money received, a Christmas present was bought for her daughter.

Student : Marina Nikolaevna! This is a real Christmas story with a happy ending!

Teacher : Just not! I told everything as it happened. Where there is literature, there expect miracles. But the happy ending was only the beginning, it was the birth of a wonderful writer-humorist O. Henry.

At home, guys, you got acquainted with his story "The Leader of the Redskins." Today we will work on this work.

(Teacher announces the objectives of the lesson)

Name O. HenryO. Henry, pseudonym, real name William Sidney Porter - English.WilliamSydneyPorter; 1862-1910) - American writer, prose writer, author of popular short stories, characterized by subtle humor and unexpected endings, is known all over the world.

Pupil: ( presentation about individual facts of the biography and work of the writer )

William Sidney Porter was born September 11, 1862 in North Carolina. He is the author of more than 280 stories, short stories, humoresques. At the age of 20, he moved to Texas, changed many professions, worked in a national bank, while also doing journalism.

The fate was difficult: he suffered from tuberculosis, was convicted for embezzlement in a bank for 5 years. Lost his beloved wife.

Porter entered the history of literature under the pseudonym O. Henry, as the creator of tragicomic short stories, imbued with sympathy for the offended and outcast.

In prison, Porter worked in the infirmary and wrote stories, looking for a pseudonym for himself. In the end, he settled on the O. Henry variant (often spelled incorrectly like an Irish surnameO’ Henry- O.Henry). Its origin is not entirely clear. The writer himself claimed in an interview that the name Henry was taken from the secular news column in the newspaper, and the initial O. was chosen as the simplest letter. He told one of the newspapers that O. stands forOlivier(French name Olivier), and indeed, he published several stories there under the nameOlivierHenry. According to other sources, this is the name of a famous French pharmacist. Another hypothesis was put forward by the writer and scientist Guy Davenport: “Oh. Henry" is nothing more than an abbreviation of the name of the prison where the author was imprisoned -OhioPenitentiary. His first story under this pseudonym was Whistler Dick's Christmas Present, published in 1899 in McClure's Magazine (McClear’ sMagazine), he wrote in prison.

His stories are permeated with kindness, humor, optimism and invariably a good ending, which could not be said about those life stories that became the prototypes of his stories and short stories.

O. Henry is called"belated romantic", "American storyteller" XX century. In the world of O. Henry's stories, the author never relieves his heroes of the laws of ethics, humanity and morality, emphasizing, first of all, the inner value of a person, a kind heart, the ability to love and sympathy.

Teacher: Fascinating and witty are short stories by O. Henry. He wrote a great many of them. Drawing real pictures of American life, he strikes the reader with an extraordinary turn of events: the outcomes of these stories are so unexpected that, no matter how hard we try to predict them, we usually get into trouble.

??? What impression did you have after reading the story "The Leader of the Redskins"?(Students share their experiences)

??? What parts of the story did you notice?(Students share

impressions)

Teacher: Guys, the stories of O. Henry attract us not only with sophisticated fiction. In his works there is a great love for ordinary people of America - farmers, cowboys, clerks. To those who are called "little people" in a world where "big business" rules.

Name the main characters of the story?

(Bill Driscoll - "Old Hunter Hank";

Sam - Snake Eye;

Ebenezer Dorset - the boy's father;

Johnny Dorset (Chief of the Redskins)

??? What did O. Henry tell us?

(In the story “The Leader of the Redskins”, two inveterate swindlers kidnapped and hid the 10-year-old son of a wealthy citizen in the hope of getting a solid ransom for him. The boy is not at all scared and enthusiastically starts a multi-day game of Indians. The mischievous “leader of the Redskins” so tortured the kidnappers with his antics that they themselves agreed to pay big money to the boy's father in order to somehow get rid of their tormentor).

??? Where are the events taking place? Show this place on the map.

( In the USA, Alabama, in the city of Vershina).

??? What is the intention of the kidnappers?

( Bill Driscoll and Sam needed $2,000 to run a land speculation scam in Western Illinois. So they, "sitting on the porch of the hotel," conceived a plan to kidnap the son of "the most prominent of the townspeople named Ebenzer Dorset").

The leader of the Redskins ( suddenly appears ): Who remembers me? BUT? How dare you say my name? I am the leader of the redskins! A fan of fighting and throwing stones at street kittens! Once I was kidnapped by two pale-faced people, but it just didn’t go away for them! They wanted to ask dad for money for my ransom, but it didn’t work out: they themselves paid for me!(Takes a slingshot out of his pants pocket and aims)

Teacher: Johnny, is that you?Youall the same tomboy and bully? You know, the guys and I read a story about you. And today we want you to help us sort out some issues. Are you willing to cooperate with us?

The leader of the Redskins ( looking around the audience ): I? Help? Need to think?(He scratches the back of his head, slyly screwing up his right eye. ). True, I do not like to go to school, but I can help. But not for nothing...

Teacher: Okay, my friend!.. Sit back and listen to what we're going to talk about. So, having devised a plan to kidnap the boy, Bill and Sam "one evening, after sunset, we went to the house of old Dorset. They saw Johnny outside throwing rocks at a kitten sitting on the fence.

The leader of the Redskins:(talking to himself ) Well, yes, he was sitting, well, yes, he was throwing. So what?

Teacher: The men did not think that Johnny was a tomboy and a bully, so they decided to "lure" him with a bag of candies and a ride on a charaban. It wasn't there!!!"This boy fought like a medium weight brown bear" (p. 68) Yes, even “lit up Bill in the very eye with a piece of brick ". But still the kidnappers “They stuffed him into the bottom of the chaise and brought him to the cave.” And from this moment it begins such that, reading the pages about the punishments that Johnny came up with for the kidnappers, we die with laughter!

? ?? What were those punishments? ( Bill's scalping, Sam's burning at the stake, Bill's scruff of a hot potato, sling throwing )

? ?? Having kidnapped the boy, the men wanted to get a ransom. At first, their bet was $2,000, but gradually the amount decreased and ...?(After the answer of Ebenzer Dosert, Johnny's father, they decided to give the boy back, because the "leader of the redskins" had so tortured his captors with his tricks that they agreed to pay big money to the boy's father themselves in order to somehow get rid of their tormentor).

Teacher:Johnny Dossert appears before us as a child capable of various types of pranks. He can easily “equate” himself with adults, make a scout horse out of Bill, scare him with a terrible cry,"the squealing that women squeal when they see a ghost or a caterpillar" . But we do not condemn him for this, but only "following the author" laugh at the hero's inventions.

The leader of the Redskins:Yes, I did it without intention. Bill just had to obey the leader of the redskins and not violate the laws of the Indians! Tell me why these hefty men could not answer my questions? How many times have I tried to ask them to pale faces! And they…

Teacher:Johnny, what did you want to ask the adults about?

The leader of the Redskins:About much… (He thinks, but immediately quickly begins to "chatter" questions ) Why does the wind blow? Why is Henk's nose so red? Are the stars hot? Bulls roar or not? Are there beds in the cave? How much is a dozen? Why is there nothing in the holes? Why is the grass green?

Teacher:Yes boy! Interesting questions you ask! And you must get answers, because knowledge is a very necessary thing in life. Johnny's kidnappers also came to visit us. Let's hear what they have to say!

(Bill Driscoll and Sam enter, they are talking about- then they whisper, switch to loud communication)

Bill: Sam, it's great that we got rid of this "little devil ". This "bipedal rocket" nearly drove me to death. Look, the abrasions on my knees have not healed yet! And my back hurts!

Sam: Nothing, buddy! Although we did not get big money, we learned a good lesson! This boy is a real punishment!!!

Bill: Do you remember, Sam, how we became "victims" of this Johnny? After all, they didn’t think, they didn’t guess that some boy could fool us, experienced in these matters, around the finger !!!

Sam: Yes, buddy! I do not wish the enemy what he himself suffered from this"freckled wild cat" !!!

Teacher: Guys, let's leave our heroes for a while and remember how the first night went after the kidnapping of the boy.

Student (retells the episode "First Night in the Cave") : After the kidnappers took Johnny to the cave, which was two miles from the city, they lost their peace. The boy was out of control: he made poor Bill play Indians, he aimed a stick at him, kept looking at the boiling pot of coffee, kicked,“every five minutes he remembered that he was red-skinned ", tracked down scouts,"let out a war cry" (p. 69). But I needed to sleep. Bill Driscoll and Sam“They spread woolen and quilted blankets on the ground, laid the leader of the Redskins in the middle, and themselves lay down on the edge” (p. 69). But they didn't sleep...

Teacher: Why? Let's open page 69 of the work and read out the reason.

Pupil: “For about three hours, not letting us sleep, he kept jumping up, grabbing his gun; at every crack of a twig and rustle of leaves it seemed to his young imagination that a gang of robbers was creeping up to the cave, and he squealed in my ear, then Bill: "Hush, mate!" In the end, I fell into an uneasy sleep and in a dream I saw that I was kidnapped and chained to a tree by a fierce pirate with red hair.

Teacher: But there was nothing to be done: the kidnappers had to carry out their plan. Remember, the original amount they wanted was $2,000. Then it decreased to 1,500. And the final amount that Sam and Bill hoped to receive could not be in their pockets ... After sending a letter to Johnny's father, our heroes received a very strange answer. Let's read it. (P.77-78)

Student: « Two villains. Gentlemen, as of today, I have received your letter in the mail regarding the ransom you ask for the return of my son to me. I think you are asking too much, and therefore I am making you a counteroffer from my side and I believe that you will accept it. You bring Johnny home and pay me $250 in cash and I agree to take him out of your hands. Better come at night or the neighbors think he's missing and I'm not responsible for what they do to the man who brings Johnny home. With perfect respect, Ebenezer Dorset"

Teacher : Quite a strange answer, isn't it guys? Why do you think the boy's father was not at all puzzled by the letter of the two kidnappers? Why didn't he "roll off" the money? On the contrary, did he demand them from the authors of the letter?

Pupil: I think that such a tomboy as Johnny Dorset is tired of his pranks to all the household, and even neighbors.

Teacher: But he's still a child! Small, mobile, restless…

Student: Most likely uneducated!

Teacher: Of course, there is such a point of view! ..And how did those who knew Johnny behave after his abduction?

Sam: Oh, I'm happy to answer that question! So,“I was wondering how people reacted to the kidnapping of the son of such a rich man. I went to Poplar Cove, looked at the post office and the shop, sat there, talked to the farmers. One bearded man said that he heard that the whole town was alarmed because Ebenzer Dossert's boy was missing. And, in general, everything was quiet!

Teacher: O. Henry's short story "The Leader of the Redskins" demonstrates the power of restraint in artistic form. The parents, as you know, decided not to respond to the demands of their son's kidnappers. After some time, the boy became such a burden to the bandits that they offered to pay a ransom if only his parents would take him home. The story illustrates the psychological game that is conditioned by the nature of your reactions. Fundamentally refraining from the reaction, the parents frustrated the plans of the kidnappers.It would seem that a terrible thing is the abduction of a child, and thisdoesn't look scary. Why?

Student: Yes, because the author of the story "The Leader of the Redskins" O. Henry skillfully depicts this incident. He not only tells the story of the kidnapping of a boy, but also uses humorous techniques to create humorous situations.

Teacher: Guys, if I ask you to determine the type of story, then you will surely cope with it!

Pupil: This is a humorous story, because many episodes make you smile.

Teacher: Correctly. And what speech means does O.Henry to make you smile?(Team of researchers speaks)

Research team: We studied the text of the story "The Leader of the Redskins" and came to the following conclusions. To create funny, the author uses such speech means as:

- unexpected comparisons ( "The boy's hair was about the same color as the cover of the magazine that you usually buy at the kiosk, hurrying to the train") ,

- funny turns of phrase "Smirked in the full breadth of his physiognomy") ,

- inconsistencies (« Dad was a respectable and stingy man, a lover of overdue mortgages, an honest and incorruptible church collector.

And we also wrote"happy sayings" from the story of O. Henry "The Leader of the Redskins", which clearly demonstrate these speech means:

Found a temporary clouding of the mind

Small town flat as a pancake

Hillbilly, what fit only to dance around the may pole

The actions of newspapers that send disguised correspondents in all directions

The boy lit up Bill in the eye with a piece of brick

Damned pale-faced, how dare you come to the camp of the Chief of the Redskins?

The circus compared to us is just views of Palestine

Holy martyrs!

You can’t really catch a toad, except with a rope!

"Hush, buddy!"

The roar you would expect from a male vocal cord

Fat, strong, desperate courage man

The search for dastardly kidnappers

God help the wolves!

Heard a kind of war cry that David must have given when he knocked out the champion Goliath

I caught the boy and started shaking him so that the freckles rattled against each other

What kind of person would have the strength to pay $ 2,000 for this freckled wild cat

You can credit me with the difference!

Mr. Bill will help you repel the attack of the ferocious savages.

Cut yourself a little!

An expression appeared in the eyes, like a rabbit caught in a trap

Stop kicking me, or I'll get up and hit you hard!

Smirk at the full extent of your face

There were martyrs in the old days who were more ready to accept death than to part with their beloved profession.

Supernatural torture

Faithful to our predatory charter

Either I go to a madhouse

Bright red physiognomy expresses inexplicable peace and complete contentment

Promised him to portray the Russians in the war with the Japanese

professional kidnapper

I was already sitting in a tree, hiding like a tree frog

In his eyes I noticed such an imploring expression, which I had never seen before in either dumb or talking animals.

The boy raised a howl like a ship's siren and clung to Bill's leg like a leech.

In ten minutes I will cross the Central, Southern and Midwestern states and have enough time to run to the Canadian border.

Teacher: That's right guys! The humor in this story has a national character, reflecting the experience of the people; it is used as a means of emotional and expressive influence on the reader; the most expressive means is hyperbole, and the stylistic device is comparison. O. Henry's laughter is noble, because the writer's humor is based on a deep faith in a person, love for him, hatred for everything that disfigures life and people. With the help of stylistic means, O. Henry seeks to enhance the impression of what is happening, to emphasize the positive or negative quality of the described person or object in order to create a humorous effect.

Let's listen to a group of literary scholars who have prepared the following information for you.

Group of literary critics: In Russia, O. Henry was "discovered" in 1915. The boom of "O. Henryana" began with the publication in 1923 of the collection "American Stories". In the same year, five books were published, the next - 15, and in 1925 - 20. In 1954, Goslitizdat published a two-volume edition of his selected works in very good translations. In 1963, Mosfilm released the feature film Business People (dir. Leonid Gaidai), based on three short stories by O. Henry; and in 1952 in Hollywood based on the story "The Leader of the Redskins" - the film "Full House".

Teacher: Thank you! And now we will check how you learned what was discussed in our lesson. Before you is a table in which you will enter the correct answers to my questions, the result will be a score that will be determined at the end.

A) William Sidney Porter b) O. Henry c) William

2. In what state was the future writer born?

A) North Carolina b) Colorado c) Texas

3. How many stories did he write in his lifetime?

A) more than 280 c) 310 c) 260

4. What are the names of the kidnappers of the boy?

A) Bill Driscoll and Sam b) Hunter Hank and Snake Eyes c) Bill and Sam

5. Name of the city where the events of the story take place?

A) Cliff b) Mountain c) Peak

6. Which of the heroes of the story calls the boy "Devil", "two-legged rocket", "freckled red cat"?

A) Ebenezer Dorset b) Bill c) Sam

7. To create a funny O. Henry uses the following speech means:

A) unexpected comparisons b) Funny turns of speech c) inconsistencies

Teacher: Now let's turn to your drawings and consider what you have drawn. (Commenting by the authors of their drawings).

Teacher: Let's compose cinquain ("blank verse", "five lines"with English ), where there will be introspection, and living and understanding your feelings, knowledge, sensations again.

Creation technologysyncwine.

1 line-1 word - noun, key in the topic, or the topic itself

2 line-2 words - definitions, epithets to the noun in the first line

3 line - 3 words denoting action

4 line-sentence reflecting the essence of the topic, the phenomenon indicated in the first line

Line 5 - 1 word, can be an "emotional" synonym for a noun from the first line or any part of speech.

In this English quintuple, created by each participant of the workshop,

O. Henry's story

funny, kind

Teaches, delights, amuses

Suitable for all ages

Fabulous!!!

Years fly, the world changes, people change along with it, but the interest in history, culture, the life of predecessors, the creators of great works of art, among which the name of O. Henry, a great writer and humanist who believed in a bright future for mankind, shines like an unfading star .

Homework: Writereview to O. Henry's story "The Leader of the Redskins";

Poster for the film "Business People", director Illustration by V Britvin for the story

Leonid Gaidai (1963) "Leader of the Redskins"

The real name of the American writer O. Henry is William Sydney Porter (1862-1910). When William was three years old, his mother died. Porter Sr. was a doctor, but eventually lost his job, and the family began to beg. In his youth, William worked as an assistant in a pharmacy, where there were residents of a small town. He heard many sad and funny stories, which eventually turned into the plots of his short stories. William had to visit the "country" of cowboys, in hot Texas. There he added to his "education" knowledge of cowboy life. There he wrote the first humoresque. After the marriage, William worked for some time as a cashier in a bank. It so happened that he was charged with embezzlement of bank money, and the future writer was forced to seek salvation from prison in various American states. Nevertheless, William still ended up in prison. The news of the illness of his wife and daughter called him to an American town, where he was arrested and convicted. In prison, he found a literary pseudonym - O. Henry.

In order to see the world of the works that were born behind bars, he began to sign them with a pseudonym and send them to freedom. Time passed, and William received the long-awaited freedom. And since that time, he devoted all his strength, all his literary talent to creativity. The writer O. Henry entered the history of literature as an unsurpassed master of short action-packed stories about ordinary "little" people who often find themselves in difficult situations, often cry and laugh through tears, who are unlucky in life, but they do not lose hope for at least one a ray of happiness. “Life is neither a tragedy nor a comedy,” O. Henry wrote in one of his stories. “She was a mixture of both. High above us, almighty hands are pulling the rope, and suddenly our laughter is replaced by weeping, and a strange hum of joy breaks into our deepest sorrow. We - puppets - dance and cry ... ". It seems that in these words there is a key to understanding most of the works of the American writer, in particular - and to the story "The Leader of the Redskins", which you recently read.

Questions and indicative answers:

1. Why did two misfit robbers Sam and Bill end up in Alabama? They decided to kidnap the son of Esquire Ebenezer Dorset and ransom him.

2. Who was the first among them? Who considered himself a leader? Sam was the leader. On his behalf, the story of the kidnapping of the robber Johnny is told.

3. What made the people of the town happy when they heard about Johnny's disappearance? Little Dorset disturbed the peace of the townsfolk, aroused indignation with his hooligan ideas.

4. Is there any mention in the text of the story about these “undertakings” of his? The reader must guess for himself about Johnny's actions. O. Henry helps this with lines from old Dorset's letter: "Better come at night, as the neighbors think he is missing, and I cannot be held responsible for what they will do to anyone who brings Johnny home."

5. Did the "kidnappers" have the opportunity to come to their senses and not commit a crime? There was such a possibility if they understood who was being “kidnapped”. Even at the very beginning of the work, when they had barely arrived in a charabane to the Dorset house, Johnny "hit Bill in the eye with a piece of brick."

6. What game did Johnny come up with? Why was Big Bill worried after this game? Johnny invited Bill to become a member of the game of Indians. Bill, unaware of the consequences for him, agreed. Johnny instantly "turned" into an Indian, stuck two hawk feathers into his red hair. And Bill was supposed to become the "pale-faced" hunter Hank - Johnny gave him such a name. At the end of the game, "hunter Hank" was captured, by the way, very tired, with bruises on his legs, and in the morning the Leader of the Redskins - as little Dorset dubbed himself - had to scalp him.

7. What cruel undertakings of little Dorset led to the fact that big Bill almost went crazy? At night, the Chief of the Redskins, when the kidnappers fell into a deep sleep, “jumped up and grabbed his gun and shouted to Bill: “Hush, mate!”

Sam awoke in the morning to a "terrible, piercing scream" to find that "The Chief of the Redskins was sitting on Bill's chest, grasping his hair with one hand," and in the other hand he was "holding a sharp knife" and "unequivocally trying to scalp Bill, performing the verdict that passed on him in the evening." "He stuck a hot potato" up Bill's collar and then "crushed it under his foot."

If not for Sam, the little robber would have thrown at Bill "a stone almost the size of a coconut." He made a sling, spun it over his head - and "a stone the size of an egg hit Bill behind his left ear," after which Bill "fell right into the fire, on a pot of hot water for washing dishes."

He pulled Bill into the game again ... This time, Johnny "turned" into a scout who was supposed to warn the settlers "that the Indians were coming." And he “turned” Bill into ... a horse, jumped on Bill when he got on all fours, on his back and beat him with his heels in the sides. So he was going to ride the "horse" at least ninety miles!)

8. How could Johnny know about the cruel white conquerors of the Indians? Who told him about the noble scouts who often saved the "pale-faced" settlers from Indian revenge? Where did he hear such names as "hunter Hank", "Snake eye"? (He probably heard from someone about the works of Fenimore Cooper, since it is unlikely that he himself read them, and perhaps he heard about the Indians, their legends, Hiawatha from the Indians themselves, but this is not mentioned in the work of O. Henry).

9. Why are we so sure that Johnny hasn't read Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans? Johnny is almost ten years old, but the questions he poses to the "kidnappers" are too naive for his age. These questions are: “Does the wind blow because the trees sway? Are the stars hot? Why are oranges round? A dozen - how much will it be? And he also asked Bill, "why there is nothing in the holes, why the road goes both ways and why the grass is green." And in addition, Johnny twice said to the "kidnappers": "I hate going to school." And probably didn’t go to classes or missed most of them.

10. Did the "kidnappers" try to rein in Johnny? (“we still pushed him to the bottom of the charaban”; “I took the knife away from the boy and forced him to lie down again”; “I crushed his ear”; “I went out of the cave, caught the boy and shook him until all of his freckles didn’t rattle one against the other”; “Listen, stop kicking me, otherwise I’ll get up and give you pepper!”; “I grabbed him by the collar and dragged him off the mountain”; “I showed him the way to the city and gave him such kick that he was probably eight feet closer to the city").

11. What does Bill call the boy? (“rocket”, “imp”…) This is how this idea sounds without abbreviations: “We all once had fun with an imp that jumped out of a chest. You press it and it jumps. If you press harder, it will jump higher. "Crush" it with a lid - it will open it from time to time. "Imp on a spring" is the conventional name for the funny mechanism that works in O. Henry's story "The Leader of the Redskins." Any physical "influence" on Johnny from the "kidnappers" - and he "jumps" even higher. Let's remember: Bill "knocked his ear" - and Johnny made a sling, after which Bill "fell right into the fire"; Bill "grabbed him by the collar and pulled him down the mountain" - and Johnny bit him three times "on the thumb" and so on. Seasoned Sam and big Bill can't tame the little robber.

"Kidnappers" turned into "fugitives". They not only did not receive a ransom from Dorset for Johnny, but also paid him to agree to take his son home. Sam and Bill took to their heels, followed by laughter. And this laughter was stronger than the Leader of the Redskins: neither run away nor hide from him.

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Tsaturyan Alex

Great Pirates
"found a temporary obscuration of the mind"
The circus compared to us is just views of Palestine in a magic lantern

Harutyunyan Edita

It is terrible to hear a fat, strong man of desperate courage squeal incessantly in a cave at the dawn of the morning.

Amirkhanyan Hovhannes

It must have been, as Bill used to say later, “a temporary obscuration of the mind has found” - only we guessed about it much later.

- Hey boy! Bill said. - Do you want to get a bag of candy and ride?

The boy shone a piece of brick into Bill's eye.

It will cost the old man an extra five hundred dollars,” said Bill, climbing over the wheel.

Then we sat down to supper, and the boy, stuffing his mouth with bread and brisket, began to chat. He gave a speech like this:

I really like it here. I have never lived in a forest; but I had once a pet opossum, and on my last birthday I turned nine years old. I can't stand going to school. The rats ate sixteen eggs from Jimmy Talbot's aunt's pockmarked hen. Are there real Indians here in the forest? I want more gravy. Why does the wind blow? Because the trees sway? We had five puppies. Hank, why is your nose so red? My father's money seems to be invisibly. Are the stars hot? On Saturday I beat Ed Walker twice. I don't like girls! You can't really catch a toad, except with a string. Bulls roar or not? Why are oranges round? Do you have beds in the cave? Amos Murray - six-fingered. The parrot can talk, but the monkey and the fish can't. A dozen is how much?

Every five minutes the boy remembered that he was red-skinned, and, seizing a stick, which he called a gun, he crept on tiptoe to the entrance to the cave to hunt down the scouts of the hated pale-faced.

Leader of the Redskins, I tell him, don't you want to go home?

Well, why didn’t I see them there? he says. - There is nothing interesting at home. I don't like to go to school. I like living in the forest. You won't take me home. Snake Eye?

Not yet, I say. - We'll live here in a cave.

Okay, he says. - That's great! I've never had so much fun in my life.

In the end, I fell into an uneasy sleep and dreamed that I was kidnapped and chained to a tree by a ferocious red-haired pirate.

Although the night was very dark, Bill was very fat, and I could run very fast, I only caught up with him a mile and a half out of town.

Babayan Maria

It has not yet been discovered that the wolves have taken the lamb out of the paddock.
Until we stole that bipedal rocket.

Hakobyan Sarkis

Better come at night or the neighbors think he's missing and I'm not responsible for what they do to the man who brings Johnny home.

Sam, he says, what is two hundred and fifty dollars after all? We have money. One more night with that boy and I'll have to be taken to the lunatic asylum. In addition to being a real gentleman, Mr. Dorset, I think, is also a spendthrift when he makes us such a generous offer. After all, you are not going to miss such an opportunity, are you?

Khachatryan Sona

One more night with this boy and I'll have to be taken to a lunatic asylum
The leader of the Redskins promised to burn me at the stake as soon as the sun rose.

Zoryan Diana

You bring Johnny home and pay me two hundred and fifty dollars in cash, and I agree to take him out of your hands.

Mirzoyan Rafael

PLAN- SUMMARY OF A LITERATURE LESSON FOR STUDENTS OF THE 4th CLASS. TOPIC: Fr. HENRY, “RED SKIN LEADER” (LESSON 2)

GOAL: CONTINUE STUDYING THE STORY "The Leader of the Redskins" by O. HENRY

TASKS:

1. CONTINUE WORK ON THE STORY Plot.

2. DEVELOP THE ABILITY TO WORK WITH TEXT, IN GROUPS, SKILLS OF INTERACTION IN A COLLECTIVE.

3. EDUCATE INTEREST IN THE SUBJECT.

EQUIPMENT: TEXT PART 2 OF O. HENRY'S STORY, DIVIDED INTO PARTS, WORKBOOKS, A4 SHEETS, MARKERS, FLOOR-PENS.

DURING THE CLASSES:

ORG. MOMENT.

Fly, fly, petal,

Through the west to the east

Through the north, through the south,

Come back, make a circle.

As soon as you touch the ground

To be, in my opinion, led!

Tell the children to work in class today

Only on "5"!

2. MOTIVATION.

- Guys, yesterday we started studying the story of the American writer O. Henry "The Leader of the Redskins." Please remember the description of the main character of this story and write a syncwine for the word "Boy". The task is group, you perform it on A4 sheets, the execution time is 5 minutes.

FOR EXAMPLE:

1. Boy.

2. Aggressive, pampered.

3. Throws, rests, does not obey.

4. Fights like a brown bear.

REALIZATION.

- Continuing to study the story "The Leader of the Redskins", today, using the directed reading method, we will get acquainted with the 2nd part of the story.

Students receive 1 piece, read it and answer the question:What did the boy name one of his kidnappers? Why?

The boy liked living in a cave, he forgot to think that he himself was a prisoner. He immediately dubbed me Snake-Eye and Spy, and explained that when his brave warriors returned from the campaign, I would be roasted at the stake as soon as the sun rose.

After working in pairs and groups, students write down nicknames in a notebookSerpent's Eye and the Spy.

Next, the students receive 2 pieces of text, read it and answer the question:Guess why the boy asked so many questions to his captors? Write in your notebook the most interesting, in your opinion, questions.

Then we sat down to supper, and the boy, stuffing his mouth with bread and brisket, began to chat. He made a dinner speech in this way: - I like it here very much. I have never lived in a forest; but I had once a pet opossum, and on my last birthday I turned nine years old. I can't stand going to school. The rats ate 16 eggs from Jimmy Talbot's aunt's pockmarked hen. Are there real Indians here in the forest? I want more gravy. Why does the wind blow? Because the trees sway? We had five puppies. Hank, why is your nose so red? My father's money seems to be invisible. Are the stars hot?

After working in pairs, groups, students write down the general opinion of the group in a notebook.

We believe that the boy was very inquisitive. We liked his questions: Are there real Indians here in the forest? Why does the wind blow? Are the stars hot?

Work continues on the next passage. Students read it and answer the question:Why didn't the boy want to come home? (Write out the abstracts in a notebook).

Every five minutes the boy remembered that he was red-skinned, and, grabbing a stick, which he called a gun, he crept on tiptoe to the entrance to the cave to hunt down the scouts - the hated pale-faced. “Leader of the Redskins,” I say to him, “don’t you want to go home? - Well, why didn't I see them there? he says. - There is nothing interesting at home. I don't like to go to school. I like living in the forest. You won't take me home, Snake Eyes, will you? - While I'm not going, - I say. - We'll live here in the cave. “Well, okay,” he says. -That's great! I've never had so much fun in my life.

After working in pairs, a group, the children write down the general opinion of their group in a notebook and present it to the class:

1. There is nothing interesting at home.

2. I don't like to go to school.

3. I like living in the forest.

4. I have never had so much fun in my life.

Reading the last part of the text, the children answer the question:How did the Chief of the Redskins behave when the kidnappers put him to bed?

We went to bed at 11 o'clock. We spread woolen and quilted blankets on the ground, laid the Leader of the Redskins in the middle, and ourselves lay down on the edge. That he would run away, we were not afraid. For three hours, not letting us sleep, he kept jumping up and grabbing his gun; at every crack of a twig and rustle of leaves it seemed to his young imagination that a gang of robbers was creeping up to the cave, and he squealed in my ear, then Bill: "Hush, mate!" In the end, I fell into an uneasy sleep and dreamed that I was kidnapped and chained to a tree by a ferocious red-haired pirate.

After working with this part of the text and discussing in pairs and groups, an entry appears in the notebooks:kept me awake, jumped up, grabbed my gun, squealed in my ear “Hush, buddy!”

4. REFLECTION.

Now I will ask you to write a mini-essay of 5-6 sentences in 5 minutes on the topic “Would I like to have a friend of the Leader of the Redskins?” Students complete the task, choose the best essay and read it from the group. Willing children read their essays. Homework: draw a filmstrip for part 2 of the story that we read.

Goals:

To form the concept of funny in a literary text as a means of expressing the author's position
Promote aesthetic education.
To promote the development of the ability to see the artistic means of literature, to perceive the work in the unity of form and content.

Equipment:

Portrait of O. Henry.
Drawings of students based on the story.
Posters with statements about humor.
Reference book of linguistic terms, edited by D.E. Rosenthal

Epigraph of the lesson:

During the classes

1. Motivation for learning activities, checking homework

Teacher:

My friends! I am very pleased
Enter your friendly class.
And for me already a reward -
Attention of your smart eyes.
I know everyone in the class is a genius
But without labor, talent is not for the future,
Cross the swords of your opinions
Let's write a lesson together!

Yes, we will compose a lesson together. And the topic of our lesson today is “Sad and funny in the story of O. Henry “The Leader of the Redskins”. You have already met the funny, encountered in life - whether it is a funny incident, someone's story or a literary work.

This year you got acquainted with the works of Gogol - name it.

- Chekhov - what kind?

You met funny things in fairy tales, fables, in riddles. Why can a word cause laughter? How do you understand the epigraph of our lesson?

Laughter keeps a person from bad things, and therefore makes them better.

What works make us laugh? (Humorous, satirical).

– What do you think of O. Henry's story?

STUDENT'S REPORT about the writer:

- The American writer William Sydney Porter, who published his works under the pseudonym O. Henry, began writing stories in a prison cell, where he was unfairly accused of embezzlement. He never killed anyone, stole nothing, robbed nothing. That's how fate happened. Worked honestly. He was an apprentice druggist, spent two years in Texas - the land of cowboys and adventure, became a quiet accountant in a small bank. And one day there was not a large sum of money in his cash register. He could not prove his innocence, and to whom to prove it? The accountant is on the run.

But the little daughter remained at home, and William Sydney Porter returned home to immediately go to prison.

It was very sad, and especially before the Christmas holidays. People rush from store to store to buy gifts for their loved ones, Christmas trees are sparkling, and his daughter will not wait for a gift .. Can you make money in prison? You can't send money.. But you can send another one - and a miracle happened! He wrote a story, signing under the pseudonym O. Henry

The story was printed, a gift was sent to the daughter with the money received. A new writer appeared in literature - a humorist.

A person who knows how to laugh when he is very sad, probably a very strong-willed person, strong-willed, has the gift of creating a good mood for others, this is a very kind person who knows how to truly love.

What is this story that you read at home about?

One student made a plan for the hero's adventures at home:

Rogue plans.
Kidnapping of a boy.
At the cave:

a) the leader of the Redskins and the kidnappers;
b) Bill's suffering;
c) at dawn
d) the decision to reduce the ransom;
e) a letter to old Dorset;
e) dashed hopes;
g) return.

2. Work in groups

The 1st group prepared the characteristics of the heroes.

– What discrepancies did we see in the behavior of crooks?

To get rich, they decided to play on the love of children, confident that their father would pay a large ransom. The father is in no hurry to pay and does not even look for connections with the kidnappers.

Bill, a strong man of desperate courage, squealed like a woman afraid of a caterpillar or a ghost; was not afraid of earthquakes, or dynamite explosions, or policemen, almost crying.

Conclusion: there are many surprises in the behavior of the characters.

The 2nd group prepared quotes from the text: what is funny in the very situation of the story, in the plot?

Kidnapping a child doesn't look terrible

The criminals are not terrible, on the contrary, they even feel sorry for them, the child threw a stone at the kitten, fought, almost scalped Bill, brought the man almost to a heart attack, turned him into a “horse”, forced him to eat oats, put a hot potato in his collar, crushed it with his foot , instead of profit, the bandits themselves are forced to pay a ransom under the cover of night.

The 3rd group observed the language features of the story, with the help of which a comic effect is created.

Reading in the faces of the scene "Playing scouts",

Students: Bill rolled out, the boy crept, grinning; I grab, I drag, I kick, I turn pale, I plop down, I start grabbing at the grass. Cause a smile and comparisons used in the text: The town is flat, like a pancake.

The boy has bulging freckles all over his face.
Hair the color of a magazine cover.
He fought like a “medium weight brown bear”.
Comparison of a boy with a freckled wild cat.
Bill's squeal is "a howl like a ship's siren"
Expressions like: “I wanted to stay true to our predatory charter.
“Lighted” Bill in the very eye with a piece of brick; from time to time he "let out a war cry", "clung to Bill's leg like a leech."

Teacher: Thus, the funny is created by combining the incompatible, the unexpected in the plot, the behavior of the characters and language means.

Accordingly, he received the characteristics from the side of two scoundrel-kidnappers: “devil”, “hooligan”, “two-legged rocket”.

- And what can you say about the character of the leader?

He is active, energetic, very inquisitive, not devoid of fantasy and imagination, he is bold. But at the same time, he is lazy, does not want to go to school, is cruel to animals, people, his pranks are far from harmless, he is selfish, disobedient, unpredictable. Apparently, the uncontrollability of actions on the part of parents who love their child too much, satisfying all his whims, made him a real monster,

Teacher: Guys, would you like to have such a friend? What does the piece make you think about? Why did the boy grow up like this? How to help him? And what will be his future fate?

These questions set us in a sad mood, because how much adults will have to work to eradicate selfishness, laziness, frivolity,
The author managed, by combining the sad and the funny, to say that the upbringing of children is a necessity and a huge work.

3. Vocabulary work:

SHARABAN - light carriage, two-wheeled.

VIEWS OF PALESTINE IN THE MAGIC LANTERN - an idyllic depiction of the places where Jesus spent his childhood,

DAVID KNOCKED GOLIATH - the biblical king of Judea, knockout - victory.

KING HEROD - Bill alludes to the biblical episode in which King Herod orders the slaughter of all male babies,
CONSTABLE - here: village policeman.

ILLINOIS is the name of a US state.

4. Homework

Make up a story about the funniest incident in your life, remembering the ways to create funny.