Thursday, 24 December 2015
Monday, 21 December 2015
CHRISTMAS HOMEWORK - 1^C LINGUISTICO
Saturday, 19 December 2015
REMEMBERING EMILY BRONTË
Emily Brontë is best known for writing the novel Wuthering Heights in 1847. She was the sister of Charlotte and Anne
Brontë, also famous authors.
At first, reviewers did not know what to make of Wuthering
Heights, a novel where realism and Gothic symbolism combine to form a work of fiction which is full of social relevance and where themes such as good versus evil, chaos and order, selfishness, betrayal and obsession intertwine as the story unfolds. It was only after Emily Brontë's death that the book
developed its reputation as a literary masterwork. She died of tuberculosis on 19 December 1848.
The parsonage where
Emily Brontë spent much of her life is now a museum. The Brontë Society operates the museum and
works to preserve and honor the work of the Brontë sisters. Read here.
Wednesday, 16 December 2015
HAPPY 240TH BIRTHDAY, JANE AUSTEN!
My idea of good company is the
company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation;
that is what I call good company.
Jane Austen
Saturday, 5 December 2015
REVISING THE ROMANTICS - 5^C LINGUISTICO
In order to revise Romanticism, you can watch these videos.
Thursday, 3 December 2015
REVISING MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN
Frankenstein is a unique novel in the canon of
English literature. The novel seeks to find the answers to questions that no
doubt perplexed Mary Shelley and the readers of her time. Mary
Shelley is intensely aware of the concern that technology was advancing at a
rate that dizzied the mind of early 18th century readers. Perhaps this novel is
addressing that issue of advances created by men, but which fly in the face of
"natural" elements and divine plans. Continue reading here.
Click here to find useful material to revise the novel.
Tuesday, 1 December 2015
Sunday, 29 November 2015
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LOUISA MAY ALCOTT!
Louisa May Alcott was born on 29 November 1832. She was an American novelist best known as the author of the novel Little Women (1868), a
semi-autobiographical account of her childhood experiences with her three sisters in Concord,
Massachusetts.
Here you can read Little Women online.
Saturday, 14 November 2015
Thursday, 12 November 2015
ELIZABETH GASKELL
The novelist
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell is now best-known as the author of Cranford and North and South, and
the biographer of her friend Charlotte Brontë. Her greatest books were written
in reaction to the industrialisation of Manchester, where she lived for much of
her life. ‘I had always felt a deep sympathy with the care-worn men, who looked
as if doomed to struggle through their lives in strange alternations between
work and want’ she wrote in the preface to Mary Barton.
She was born in Chelsea, London on 29 September 1810,
the daughter of two devout Unitarians, William Stevenson and Elizabeth Holland.
After her mother died in 1811, she was brought up by her aunt, Hannah Lumb, in
Knutsford, Cheshire. In 1832, she married William Gaskell, a Unitarian minister
and later a professor of history, literature and logic; both were interested in
new scientific ideas and literature. The couple settled in Manchester.
Shattered by the death of her infant son in 1845, she
turned to writing for solace. Mary Barton, published
anonymously in 1848, won praise from Charles Dickens, who called her his ‘dear
Scheherazade’ and invited her to contribute to his journals. In January 1853
she published the controversial Ruth, the story of a seduced seamstress. Cranford, a
gentle but acutely observant Knutsford-set tale of two spinster sisters, was
serialised in Household Words later
that year. And in 1855, she published North and South, a study of the
tensions between mill-owners and workers.
Elizabeth Gaskell met Charlotte Brontë while on holiday near
Windermere. They became close friends through their letters to one another, and
after Charlotte’s death in 1855, Elizabeth Gaskell wrote a carefully researched and
protective biography of her.
She was still working on Wives and Daughters, a
humorous coming-of-age tale, when she died suddenly of a heart attack on 12
November 1865.
Saturday, 31 October 2015
Thursday, 29 October 2015
WATCHING ROMEO AND JULIET - 4^C LINGUISTICO
This movie is
simply breathtaking! You quickly find yourself enraptured in the gorgeous
Italian setting and time period of such a timeless love story.
Saturday, 3 October 2015
DISCOVERING BUCKINGHAM PALACE
Buckingham Palace has served as the official London residence of Britain's sovereigns since 1837 and today it is the administrative headquarters of Queen Elizabeth II.
Read here.
Read here.
Friday, 2 October 2015
QUEEN VICTORIA AND QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Queen
Elizabeth II became the longest-reigning monarch in British history on 9 September 2015. This documentary compares the lives and the reigns
of two extraordinary women who have dominated periods of
remarkable change: Victoria and Elizabeth II.
Queen Victoria's reign of 63 years and seven months is known as the Victorian era. It was a period of political, industrial, cultural, scientific, and military change within the United Kingdom, and was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire. She was the last British monarch of the House of Hanover. Her son and successor, Edward VII, belonged to the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, the line of his father.
Queen Victoria's reign of 63 years and seven months is known as the Victorian era. It was a period of political, industrial, cultural, scientific, and military change within the United Kingdom, and was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire. She was the last British monarch of the House of Hanover. Her son and successor, Edward VII, belonged to the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, the line of his father.
Thursday, 1 October 2015
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