Last week, with two of my friends, I wrote a pastiche of the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet. This scene you all have read ... written by Shakespeare ... is now different ! In fact, wa had to made a pastiche or parody of a text studied this year....
So, now I'm gonna show you a modern pastiche. Watch this website where you will find videos, explications ... The story is inspired by Treasure Island, the novel written in 1882 by Robert Louis Stevenson. You can learn all you mant to about this story...
November, Tuesday 15th, we continued to compare the two love stories. However we particularly work on "the balcony scene". Here a link to see the beginning of the scene : , and after the song they sing : SIMILARITIES DIFFERENCES - They say seven times...
The Raven is a gothic poem written by Poe. You can listen it by clicking on the picture ... It's the story of a man who was napping when a strange noise woke him up. At firts he believed that it was his wife Lenore who is dead ... but it was not ... It...
Wednesday, 7th we had a test on a extract of the Fifth Child. It was quiet the end of the novel and we discovered how much the family suffers from Ben and his awful comportement. So, tuesday 13th we corrected this test and learnt that Harriet and David...
We study by pairs different short stories written by Edgar Allan Poe. Here the links to all these stories ... If you feel ready to read !! (click on the pictures ) The Black Cat ... The Oval Portrait ... The Cask of Amontillado ... The Masque of the Red...
The Tell-Tale Heart is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe which talks about a strange murder. I personnally found it really really scary and it took me a little time to understand what happened exactly because of the narrator's madness. Here you...
We have started a new session talking about writers and writing !! We fisrt learnt some definitions : - an autobiography is a text in which the author is the narrator and she/he tells her/his story. - a first person narrative is a text in which one of...
Tuesday, 29th we continued to study the Fifth Child, we had some comprehension questions. Here, the answers. (go and read the script posted last time) §1 : The main characters are shy, unfashionable, conservatives ... Yet, they considered they are themselves,...
Tuesday, 22nd, November, we corrected a little summary about life during the sixties, that you can see in clicking here : . Are you a hippy ?? lol Then we started with a new couple of lovers who are David and Harriet from The Fifth Child a novel written...
So today I put two timelines dealing with this century. The gaol was to put english and french culture on it. In fact we had to find many thinks such as poetry author, prose or fiction writers, painting, history ... It's interesting to compare both literatures...
We also studied what is a pastiche and a parody ! If you wanna dicover it too ... follow me !! : Here you can discover how to write a pastiche Here you can discover how to write a parody : We then studied differents pastiches and parodies of The Raven,...
The two last tuesday I worked with Maïlis and Marie Athenaïs on a Nadine Gordimer's short story about love and segregation. We first proposed definitions for some words talking about segregation and so on. Apartheid : separation system between black and...
To begin, I invit you to read this summary of the story, not to be lost. December, Tuesday 6th, we worked on a second extract of the story. We had to do a webquest again. Here it is the answer of the questions. The scene takes place around "the" big table,...
November, Tuesday 8th, we studied the differences and the similitaries between these two famous love stories, the old one Romeo and Juliet, and the more recent one West Side Story (WSS). In fact, we rappidly found that WSS has quite the same "story" as...
Here it is the most know scene of Romeo and Juliet ! In fact it's the romantic scene where they confess their love for each other ... Hidden by the darkness od the night ... We worked on it last tuesday, which was the 18th, for that, we watched it and...
Look at this nice picture ... Feel the love ... Tuesday, 11th October, we all worked on Romeo and Juliet, the play by Shakespear. In fact, we had to make a photostory ! It was funny ! click here to see it : After that, we particularly studied the prologue....
First of all, I just think that reading is one of the most important things in my life. It's one of the ways I usually use to escape ... That's why I read many different kinds of books. However I am particularly crazy about adventure and fantastic stories....
You are going to be brighter ... and discover a little bit more about the Elizabeth Age, the Shakespear's era ! Last tuesday, we all learnt about this period, that's why there are differents subjects made by differents groups. In fact, each group had...
So today I put two timelines dealing with this century. The gaol was to put english and french culture on it. In fact we had to find many thinks such as poetry author, prose or fiction writers, painting, history ... It's interesting to compare both literatures...
The family have decided to send Ben in an Institution ... Harriet don't know ... She asks everybody to find the place where her child could be !! Finally, someone tell her ... So she immediatly decide to go and save her son. She arrives in a strange place,...
Hi ! a little new !! So I have got so much homework but I really have to take a little time to tell you something One thursday ... I felt free to be who I am ... In fact, I was at a school tour in Manosque, a little village near Aix en Porvence. It was...
So, more seriously ! You can go in "From the Renaissance to the Elizabethn Age" to see a personnal search made with my Friend Maïlis and talking about religion during this era. Moreover you could discover differents other subjects, studied by class friends,...
Saturday, 8th I was at a dance show made by the Grenade Compagny of Josette Baïz, from Aix en Provence. It was a wonderful moment, full of magic and beauty. Moreover, all the dancers were teenagers, and I know one of them. This ballet of contemporain...
Hey ! Here it is a timeline about the 18th century. A little view of this period ... Have a look on it !
