THE BLUEBERRY STORY

Do you know why schools shouldn't be run as businesses? Read here a clear-cut article about this controversial issue.

JOHN STEINBECK

John Steinbeck, American author and winner of the Nobel Prize in 1962, was a leading writer of novels about the working class and was a major spokesman for the victims of the Great Depression in the 1930s, during which time millions of people lost their jobs.

He was born in Salinas, California, on 27 February 1902.   

He was the type of author who liked to know his material firsthand. He didn't want to narrate a story which had no basis in fact. Thus, many of his works take place in California, where he lived, and they deal with subjects which he thoroughly understood. Within his novels are characters who seem to breathe the very reality of life itself. Read here.

REVISING BEOWULF - 3^C LINGUISTICO

Here you can find my previous post about Beowulf, the longest epic poem in Old English, the language spoken in Anglo-Saxon England before the Norman Conquest. More than 3,000 lines long, Beowulf relates the exploits of its hero, and his successive battles with a monster named Grendel, with Grendel’s revengeful mother, and with a dragon which was guarding a hoard of treasure. 
Here you can download a PDF presentation.

It is to be noted that there are many similarities between J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and Beowulf.  

Tolkien uses many concepts found in Beowulf.  In fact, he was a professor of Anglo-Saxon, and an expert on the Anglo-Saxon epic poem. Read here.

ANCIENT BRITAIN - 3^C LINGUISTICO

Stonehenge

The Celts 

The Romans in Britain 

An overview of Roman Britain 

Ancient Britain PDF presentation 

THE TEMPEST - 4^C LINGUISTICO

Here and here you can find my previous posts about this delightful Shakespearean play.  
You can read The Tempest here and you can find a fascinating interpretation of the play here   -  it contains echoes of Shakespeare’s earlier plays, and the powerful art that Prospero possesses can be compared to the playwright’s theatrical art.

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