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• William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)

  24 September 2012 ( #agent, #his, #maugham, #world, #writer )

  Hi readers , Today , I will talk about a novelist that I didn't know ... Here is his biography : Popular British novelist, playwright, short-story writer and the highest-paid author in the world in the 1930s, Somerset Maugham graduated in 1897 from St....

• "The Fifth Child" by Doris Lessing

  27 November 2011 ( #are, #child, #doris, #fifth, #lessing )

  Hi readers ! Last week, we began by talking about England in the 60's and in the 70's. Then, we read the openning scene of The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing. The scene takes place at an Office Party, at the end of the year, in the 60's during the turning...

• The Tell-Tale Heart, by Edgar Allen Poe - 1843

  05 March 2012 ( #eye, #man, #tell, #that, #want )

  Hi readers, Just before the holidays, we had a test concerning a short story, called The Tell Tale Heart : It's the story of a man who is afraid of the vulture eye of a older man. The middle age man is so superstitious that he wants to get rid of the...

• "The Fifth Child" : Welcome To Ben

  03 December 2011 ( #baby, #ben, #buy, #harriet, #she )

  Hi Readers ! Last week, we talked about the middle of the novel, but to understand what happened before, the teacher told us a summary of the beginning of the story : Mrs R. :" Their love was so strong that they decided to marry and to buy a Victorian...

• "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe

  24 April 2012 ( #his, #opens, #poe, #raven, #see )

  Hi readers, Today, I will talk about The Raven , a Poe's Poem : It is midnight on a cold evening in December in the 1840s. In a dark and shadowy bedroom, wood burns in the fireplace as a man laments the death of Lenore, a woman he deeply loved. To occupy...

• P.S : I love you by Cecilia Ahern

  16 September 2012 ( #her, #husband, #like, #she, #that )

  Hi Readers, Today, I will talk about one of my favourite books, which is also an initiatic journey : "P.S : I love you". I hope you'll like it ... The Pattern of this story is likely to unfold like this / like Christopher Booker 's (click on the picture...

• Travels / Return Travels

  16 September 2012 ( #dickens, #into, #new, #travels, #wild )

  Hi Readers, Last week, we worked on a new theme , called : "Travels /Return Travels". A good theme to start the year , isn't it ? So, first of all, we thought about examples of books and authors : "Into the wild" by Jon Krakauer, "L'Odyssé" by Homer,...

• "Waterlily Pond and Japanese bridge" V.S "Show Me The Monet"

  29 May 2012 ( #banksy, #monet, #painting, #parody, #work )

  Hi readers, To illustrate the word "parody", we worked on a painting by Monet and we compared it with a parody of it by Banksy. We were then 2 groups and I was in the group of "Monet" and after some research, we did an oral ! It was very interesting to...

• Theater Workshop

  05 March 2012 ( #one, #our, #played, #say, #then )

  Hi readers, We were about 30 students from Viala ( three of whom were of my form ) to attend the "Quorum Theatre" workshop on friday,february 24th, in the morning with an eye to the actors' perfomance in the afternoon ( only for age 15-16 ). There were...

• Pride And Prejudice,a story by Jane Austen !

  26 December 2011 ( #between, #outside, #prejudice, #story, #two )

  On the same day, I did a prestation concerning Pride and Prejudice. I talked about it for half an hour (OMG!!!). Here is what helped me to introduce the story, that I love sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo MUCH ... Download « pride and prejudice.odp » When...

• Last week, we were Poe !

  29 May 2012 ( #edgar, #last, #pastiche, #poe, #wrote )

  Hi readers, Last week, we were Poe?! Yes, actually, with two friends of mine we wrote a pastiche of the balcony scene of Romeo and Juliet ! But, I'm sure you don't see any link between Edgar Allan Poe and this play ! We created a link... In fact, we had...

• A New Short Story

  23 March 2012 ( #because, #cell, #narrator, #story, #… )

  BOOK REPORT by Hélèna and Maïlis Title : "The Pit and the Pendulum", The Gift Author : Edgar Allan Poe Date of Publication : 1942 Setting : in a cell, in prison Character : an unnamed narrator Main theme : death; prison sentence Summary : An unnamed narrator...

• ♥ Hannah ♥ by Malachi Whitaker

  22 January 2012 ( #boy, #conventional, #hannah, #she, #♥ )

  Last week , Victoria introduced us a story called "Hannah". Hannah is a pretty girl, she is 17 and she is HAPPY and fashionable. She wants to go at a party, actually, she wants to kiss a not conventional boy : Ralph Wellings... There is another boy :...

• The Fifth Child : The 3rd Extract

  06 December 2011 ( #ben, #but, #his, #that, #years )

  Hi Readers ! A new extract, a NEW summary (not very HAPPY:/)!!! "When Ben was two years old, he killed the dog, he killed the cat and he tried to kill his brother Paul... He became dangerous, stronger and violent (some kind of monster). So David and Harriet...

• "Hey Food"

  04 May 2012 ( #food, #hey, #jude, #parody, #song )

  Hi readers, Today, I will talk about a parody of The Beatles' song "Hey Jude"... Here is a presentation of this parody and his original song : Now, I invite you to read the lyrics (click on the pictures below) Hey Jude Hey Food And If you really want...

• The End ...

  26 December 2011 ( #before, #end, #test, #with, #world )

  Hi readers ! The last week before holidays and before Xmas, Mrs R. gave us our test who was about the end of The Fifth child . After we deeply understood this story, we can say that contrary to Romeo and Juliet, Hariet and David don't have problem with...

• West Side Story : THE END

  19 November 2011 ( #are, #last, #side, #story, #west )

  Hi readers ! Last week, we talked about the end of West Side Story , after Bernardo's death. Watching the movie, I picked up one sentence while Maria was talking to Tony : "It's not us , it's everything around us". These words remind us of the question...

• ♥ Country Lovers ♥

  15 January 2012 ( #child, #his, #romance, #that, #thebedi )

  Book Report : Title : "Country Lovers" Author : Nadine Gordimer Publisher : Olga Kenyon Date of publication : in Women Writers talk, in 1989 Setting : In a farm, in South Africa...During The Apartheid. Characters : Thebedi : black girl, a farm worker...

• ---Romeo & Juliet--- V.S--- West Side Story---

  13 November 2011 ( #are, #julet, #romeo, #side, #tony )

  Hi Readers !!! Let start by situate the stories : "Romeo and Juiliet" takes place in Verona in the Middle Ages; while "West Side Story" takes place in New York City in the middle of the 1950s. The plots are also pretty different even if in both of these...

• Edgar Allen Poe

  19 March 2012 ( #allen, #american, #edgar, #know, #poe )

  Hi Readers, I think it's better to know who is Edgar Allen Poe... Edgar Allan Poe ( 1809 – 1849) was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement . Best known for his tales of mystery , Poe was...

• A New T☺pic

  14 February 2012 ( #play, #text, #they, #with, #writer )

  Today, we have talked about our new topic :The "Je" of the writer and "Jeu" of the writing. This is very interesting, isn't it? Well, we began by talking about the "Je" of the writer and the first word we all tought about the autobiography (a text in...

• The Balcony Scene

  29 October 2011 ( #balcony, #download, #odt, #scene, #today )

  On October 18th , I'm going to give you a resume of what we did today : Download « the balcony scene.odt » We talked about the famous Bacolny Scene of Romeo and Juliet and we watched the adaptation of Zefferilli : Very Interesting too ! After that, the...

• Romeo & Juliet

  14 October 2011 ( #juliet, #romeo, #story, #talk, # the )

  On October 11th at the Computer room Today, we talked about the Story of Romeo and Juliet (By Shakespeare), we told a summary of the story : Download « summary.wmv » We talked about The Prologue (which introduce the play) and we watched the beginning...

• My Reading Habits

  20 September 2011 ( #book, #but, #love, #read, #reading )

  What do I like to read ? I'm an addict ofJane Austen's novels. She's the woman of my life. I mean, after my mom. Actually, I 've only read Pride and Prejudice in English; but I also was lucky enough to discover Sense and Sensibility in French. To end...

• TimeLine

  16 October 2011 ( #20th, #century, #download, #timeline, #until )

  Hi readers ! Here is a timeline concerning the 20th century, you'll find some Literature's celebrities of this World Wars' Century : Download « 20th century until ww2.odt » Valérie, Héléna and Me Download « 20th century until ww2-1.docx » / Download «...