Wednesday 27 January 2016

HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY





At Auschwitz, not only man died, but also the idea of man. To live in a world where there is nothing anymore, where the executioner acts as god, as judge-many wanted no part of it. It was its own heart the world incinerated at Auschwitz.
Elie Wiesel

Read here.

Wednesday 20 January 2016

STUDYING A CHRISTMAS CAROL


Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, published on 19 December 1843, met with instant success and critical acclaim. It tells the story of a bitter old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation into a gentler, kindlier man after visitations by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come.

After celebrating the joy and charity of Christmas, A Christmas Carol is above all a condemnation of 19th-century Victorian England's division between the rich and the poor. London was a great world power, rich from industry and colonial influence, yet poverty devastated its streets and factories.  Continue reading here.






Sunday 17 January 2016

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ANNE BRONTË!


Born on January 17, 1820, in Thornton, Yorkshire, England, Anne Brontë wrote a book of poetry with her sisters Charlotte and Emily. She worked as a governess too. Her 1847 novel, Agnes Grey, was inspired by her experiences. Her subsequent novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, the story of a woman leaving her abusive husband, was published the following year. Anne died of tuberculosis on May 28, 1849, in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England.  
Continue reading  here.
Here you can read an interesting article about her books.


“I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. All novels are or should be written for both men and women to read, and I am at a loss to conceive how a man should permit himself to write anything that would be really disgraceful to a woman, or why a woman should be censured for writing anything that would be proper and becoming for a man.” 
Anne Brontë,
 
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall


Saturday 16 January 2016

ELINOR AND MARIANNE TAKE BARTON




"Elinor and Marianne Take Barton" is an updated online adaption of "Sense and Sensibility" by Jane Austen, produced, filmed and created by students at the University of Warwick (England). Enjoy!


Wednesday 13 January 2016

LORD BYRON - 5^C LINGUISTICO


George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron Byron (1728-1844) with his aristocratic behaviour, personal charm and unquestionable beauty stands out as a rock star poet and the prince of passionate people’s perceptions during the so-called Regency era in England (1792 – 1830).  
He is an immense poet, combining the best of Augustan wit and intellect with the best of sensuously and politically charged Romanticism. 
Lord Byron was described in his own time as ‘a child of passion and the fool of fame‘.



Tuesday 5 January 2016

THE ART OF POETRY - 3^C LINGUISTICO

Risultato immagini per poetry quotes






Here you can find a PDF presentation of the elements of poetry.