Fearless and therefore powerful
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What to read
Hello!
Some of you asked me to provide you with a list of books you could choose to read.
As I told you in class this is a very personal decision and I'm trusting in your judgement when selecting a book :)
However, and if you do need a list, I found this one which mentions the Top 100 Middle School Must Reads.
Some of you asked me to provide you with a list of books you could choose to read.
As I told you in class this is a very personal decision and I'm trusting in your judgement when selecting a book :)
However, and if you do need a list, I found this one which mentions the Top 100 Middle School Must Reads.
Percy Jackson and the Lighting Thief
Hello!
As you know, these next few months we will be reading the book "Percy Jackson and the Lighting Thief".
This is the trailer of the movie which was made based on the book.
As you know, these next few months we will be reading the book "Percy Jackson and the Lighting Thief".
This is the trailer of the movie which was made based on the book.
How to get famous
Last month we read in class the book How to get famous. Take a look at his author's website
Literature for 4th ESO
Hello!
This is the list of subjects from which you can choose to make the Literature presentation. Remember that we will start after we come back from the holidays.
This is the list of subjects from which you can choose to make the Literature presentation. Remember that we will start after we come back from the holidays.
LITERATURE PRESENTATIONS:
1.
Romanticism in the USA:
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General characteristics.
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Prose:
Washington Irving, John Fernimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne,
Herman Melville, Stephen Crane.
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Poetry:
Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman.
2. Victorian Era:
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General
characteristics.
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Popular
novel: Brontë sisters, Charles Dickens, R. L. Stevenson.
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Theatre:
Oscar Wilde.
3. Realism:
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General
characteristics.
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Henry
James
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Mark
Twain
4. Modernism in the UK (1):
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General
characteristics.
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Prose:
Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, W. Somerset Maugham, Virginia Woolf, James
Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell.
5. Modernism in the UK (2):
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Characteristics
of the poetry and theatre
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Poetry: “War Poets”: Siegried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Thomas
Hardy, William Butler Yeats, T.S. Eliot.
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Theatre:
George Bernard Shaw, Sean O’Casey, J.M. Synge, Noël Coward.
6. Modernism in the USA (1):
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General
characteristics.
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Prose:
“The Lost Generation”: John Dos Passos, Henry Miller, F. Scott Fitzgerald,
Richard Wright, Eudora Welty, J.D. Salinger, etc.
7. Modernism in the USA (2):
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General
characteristics of the prose and theatre
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Poetry:
Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Ezra
Pound, E.E. Cummings, Langston Hughes, etc.
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Theatre:
Sophie Treadwell, Eugene O’Neill, Elmer Rice, Thornton Wilder, Lillian Hellman,
etc.
8. Postmodernism in the UK (1):
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General
characteristics.
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Prose:
Graham Greene, Roald Dahl, Doris Lessing, Kingsley Amis, “Angry Young Men”,
John Fowles, A.S. Byatt, Ian McEwan, etc.
9. Postmodernism in the UK (2):
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General
characteristics of poetry and theatre.
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Poetry:
Robert Graves, Sterne Smith, John Betjeman, W.H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, Philip
Larkin, Seamus Heany, etc.
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Theatre:
Samuel Beckett, Robert Bolt, J. Osborne, Harold Pinter, Arnold Wesker, Tom Stoppard,
Theatre of the Absurd.
1.Postmodernism in the USA (1):
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General
characteristics.
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Prose:
Ralph Ellison, “The Beat Generation”, Toni Morrison, Harper Lee, Cormac
McCarthy, Philip Roth, Alice Walker, etc.
11. Postmodernism in the USA (2):
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General
characteristics of the poetry and theatre.
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Poetry:
W.H. Auden, Theodore Roethke, Elizabeth Bishop, John Berryman, Maya Angelou,
Sylvia Plath, etc.
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Theatre:
Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, James Baldwin, Edward Albee, Lorraine
Hansberry, Sam Shepard, David Mamet, etc.
12. Postcolonial Literature:
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Prose:
Michael Ondaatje, Arundhati Roy, Nadine Gordimer, J.M. Coetzee, Salman Rushdie,
Margaret Atwood.
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Poetry:
Grace Nichols, Benjamin Zephaniah, Fred D’Aguiar, etc.
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