short stories A game of Scrabble has serious consequences. - Length: 4 pages - Age Rating: PG - Genre: Crime, Humor A semi-barbaric king devises a semi-barabaric (but entirely fair) method of criminal trial involving two doors, a beautiful lady and a very hungry tiger. - Length: 7 pages - Genre: Fiction, Humor ‘Bloody hell!’ - Genre: Humor Looking round he saw an old woman dragging a bucket across the floor and holding a mop. - Length: 3 pages Henry pours more coal onto the hearth as a gust of wind rattles through the cracked window frame. - Length: 14 pages - Genre: Horror ulissa Ye relished all the comfortable little routines and quietude defining her part-time job at The Bookery, downtown’s last small, locally-owned bookstore. - Length: 8 pages - Age Rating: U The forest looked ethereal in the light from the moon overhead. - Length: 15 pages - Age Rating: 18 Corporal Earnest Goodheart is crouched in a ditch on the edge of an orchard between Dunkirk and De Panne. - Genre: Fiction - Length: 20 pages
Macbeth de William Shakespeare Intro Biographie Œuvres Liens Macbeth, l’une des plus célèbres pièces de Shakespeare a été écrite en 1606. Résumé de la pièce de Shakespeare Acte I Macbeth et Banquo sont deux généraux au service de Duncan, roi d’Ecosse. Acte II Dans ses songes, Macbeth voit apparaître un poignard qui lui fait songer au crime. Acte III Macbeth a accédé au trône. Acte IV Les sorcières sont réunies autour d’un chaudron . Acte V Lady Macbeth, somnambule, revit les crimes commis à son instigation, et meurt. Aude Sanseverina En savoir plus : Achetez des livres à propos de « william shakespeare » chez l'un de nos partenaires
Gender in Victorian Literature Towards the end of the nineteenth century, literature written specifically for boys and girls became increasingly popular. In fact, the New York publisher, Charles Scribner's 1894 catalog, Popular Books for Young People, separates reading by the sexes and Scribner's selections of book reviews highlights the different manner in which boys and girls were to enjoy their reading. Included in the $1.50 recommendations of Books for Boys are the following: Sou'wester and Sword. With the Sea Kings. In contrast, Scribner presents an utterly different list of reading for girls. Banshee Castle. The Clever Miss Follett. In fact, the reviewers themselves reveal the tone of the volumes they advertise. Adventure and school stories form the bulk of boys magazines. Girls continued to read their brother's books. In fact, even the length of the story lent to this new division. References Drotner, Kristin. Noakes, Richard. Rowbotham, Judith. Warner, Susan.
Limericks A Form of Poetry? Limerick Poems? Limericks the genre? The content of many limericks is often of a bawdy and humorous nature.A Limerick as a poetry form is by nature simple and short - limericks only have five lines.And finally the somewhat dubious history of limericks have contributed to the critics attitudes. Limericks - The History Variants of the form of poetry referred to as Limerick poems can be traced back to the fourteenth century English history. Where does the term 'Limerick' come from? Limericks - The form Limericks consist of five anapaestic lines.Lines 1, 2, and 5 of Limericks have seven to ten syllables and rhyme with one another. Limericks - A Defence - Shakespeare even wrote Limericks! The Limericks of Edward Lear - Limericks are Fun!!
Women Writers in the 19th Century Women writers of nineteenth century history (including the Victorian era): women who have made an impact through their fiction or journalism or poetry. Hannah AdamsHannah Adams, published at the end of the 18th and first part of the 19th centuries, wrote about New England and about religion. In 1832, published her own memoir, which gives valuable insight into the culture of the educated class of New England. Delia BaconDelia Bacon was the first writer to propose the theory that the historical man, William Shakspear, did not write the plays attributed to Shakespeare. Katharine Lee BatesKatharine Lee Bates biography - a biography of pioneer Wellesley educator Katharine Lee Bates, author of the lyrics of America the Beautiful. Anne BrontëA biography of Anne Brontë, author of Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell and of many poems, plus a guide to many more printe and internet resources. Fanny BurneyVirginia Woolf anointed Fanny Burney the "mother of English fiction."
KS2 Literacy Different types of words can be used to make your writing more interesting and easier to read. You need to know when to use them and how to spot them. In writing, words are grouped together into phrases, sentences, clauses and paragraphs. Linking these building blocks together in the right way makes your writing easy to understand and interesting to read. Use your commenting skills to identify what's wrong with these pieces of writing. When you are writing non-fiction it's important to use a style of writing that fits the subject.Use your knowledge of non-fiction writing to group the correct titles, text and pictures together. © v2vtraining.co.uk The Look, Say, Cover, Write & Check is a support tool for learning spellings using a trusted multi-sensory approach. This activity helps prove the rules of changing nouns from singular to plural. This is an activity targeted to Year 4 to help with medium frequency words. An updated version of the traditional word guess game.
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Read literature POETRY IN THE CLASSROOM: 10 FUN ACTIVITIES | ELT-CATION Looking for fun activities to explore the art of poetry and use it to support language learning? Try these simple and fun activities. Is your favourite activity missing from this list? If you are thinking about using poetry in the classroom or looking for some fresh ideas, check out these resources: Enjoy and happy teaching! Like this: Like Loading... ENT Gallery: Bringing Text to Life King Philip Regional School District Bringing Text to Life OVERVIEW The title of this unit "Bringing Text to Life" reminds us that understanding and communicating a literary text is a creative process. "Bringing text to life" emphasizes the distinction between speaking and communicating , between reading and reading for meaning, and between writing and writing for discovery. Bringing text to life implies a layering of language types for reader and audience. This unit is designed to develop speaking, reading and writing for meaning and communicating interpretations of text using videotape technology. During each step of reading, reflecting, and rehearsal, students assess their work using feedback from the members of their acting group. On to: The Context of the Unit
11 Lessons That 'Jane Eyre' Can Teach Every 21st Century Woman About How To Live Well Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre" was published on this day in 1847. While I'm a very big fan of most Victorian literature, "Jane Eyre" made an impression on me that other novels formerly hadn't. "Jane Eyre" is not just a gothic romance novel. It's a bildungsroman, a coming-of-age story. It is the first of its kind in some ways, as it's written by a woman about the interior life of a woman. Female thoughts and feelings were exposed. I love that Jane Eyre is an unconventional heroine. The novel was very shocking for its time. Every time I encounter a woman who hasn't read this book, I advise reading it immediately. This is not to suggest that Jane Eyre didn't have flaws. Still, there's much to be learned from the way she chooses to live. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.
The Obsessively Detailed Map of American Literature's Most Epic Road Trips The above map is the result of a painstaking and admittedly quixotic effort to catalog the country as it has been described in the American road-tripping literature. It includes every place-name reference in 12 books about cross-country travel, from Mark Twain’s Roughing It (1872) to Cheryl Strayed’s Wild (2012), and maps the authors’ routes on top of one another. You can track an individual writer’s descriptions of the landscape as they traveled across it, or you can zoom in to see how different authors have written about the same place at different times. Most interestingly of all, for me at least, you can ruminate about what those differences say about American travel, American writing, American history. A word to close readers: I hand-typed most of these 1,500-plus entries and located their coordinates as best I could. To be included, a book needed to have a narrative arc matching the chronological and geographical arc of the trip it chronicles. These passed the test:
The 100 best novels written in English: the full list 1. The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan (1678) A story of a man in search of truth told with the simple clarity and beauty of Bunyan’s prose make this the ultimate English classic. 2. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1719) By the end of the 19th century, no book in English literary history had enjoyed more editions, spin-offs and translations. 3. A satirical masterpiece that’s never been out of print, Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels comes third in our list of the best novels written in English 4. Clarissa is a tragic heroine, pressured by her unscrupulous nouveau-riche family to marry a wealthy man she detests, in the book that Samuel Johnson described as “the first book in the world for the knowledge it displays of the human heart.” 5. Tom Jones is a classic English novel that captures the spirit of its age and whose famous characters have come to represent Augustan society in all its loquacious, turbulent, comic variety. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22.
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