Before holidays, we studied during a test a short story written by the master of the short stories, Edgar Allan Poe. The name was The Tell-Tale Heart. ( here is the whole tale) Egdar Allan Poe is a writer and a poet who wrote famous tales like The Gold-Bug...
On tuesday, we had to choose our final file for this section. After hours of thinkng, I finally found what it'll be composed of: 1. The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe. 2. The End of The Raven, a parody by " Edgar Allan Poe cat's" 3. The Test, written by the...
Mailis had on oral on Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin to prepare and it was awesome! The story itself is hard to understand, so Mailis explained it to us really well! So, I hope you will understand this one: "Elizabeth Bennet is a country gentleman's...
L ove is found when you see it, I would even say life is done when you love it, T ears stop when you read it, E ndless friendship when you understand it R are friend that never leaves you, A confidant that will always care you T o the edge of your knowledge,...
Last Tuesday, the work we had to do was to write a pastiche of a text ( we have chosen the blacony scene in Romeo and Juliet). It was already quite hard and it was all the more diffcult that we had to write it in the style of Poe and we had only two hours....
I'm supposed to write a report, taking 3 documents out of all I have studied or learnt. I think I've already chosen: - Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare ( The balcony scene) - Pride and prejudice, Jane Austen - The tenant of WildFell Hall ( begining and ending)...
We studied some small extracts from the 5th Child by Doris Lessing! That was great and it gets a bit freaky but that's okay for me^^. Just to let you have a taste of this book, it takes place in the 1960's and I love the way the author writes !!!! Well...
On the 17th of January, we had to read a short story, named Country Lovers and written by Nadine Gordimer. I worked on this short story with Mailis and Helena. The story takes place during the apartheid, that's to say segregation. We had to define some...
Before Holidays, we studied the second part of the novel, and it was really moving. First, we had to " ask" the text all the questions we found with the expression " How come..." and then try to answer each of them with certain various degrees of probabilty....
Last tuesday, we studied one of the world's most famous authors: Ernest Hemingway. For sure when you hear his name you think about his marvellous stories and also maybe about his tragic ending. But Hemingway was way more than that. That's why our teacher...
one of the most known adaptation of Romeo and Juliet is surely West Side Story!! Synopsis Maria and Tony are members of two different clans in New York, but they fall in love at the first sight. They try to live their love whereas it seems impossible....
Romeo and Juliet is one the most, or maybe the most , famous story that deals with forbidden love. It can seem some kind of annoying 'cause everybody knows about it. But do they really know everyth ing ? Do they really know that Shakespeare was a genius...
Raining. Pouring. Water surrounds me. I'm trapped in this translucent column. Buildings are as grey as the flow that keeps on coming and soaking me. They say it's a beautiful city, it's not. The wind blows and slaps to my hears, as if it wanted to torture...
Last Tuesday, we studied the beginning of Hemingway's most famous novel : The Old Man and The Sea, which tends to be the anticipation stage of Christopher Booker's pattern, because it introduces a character that waits for something to happen. We also...
Last Tuesday, we studied the continuation of Hemingway's novel, and we tried to guess whether or not it could be related to what C. Booker calls the " Frustation Stage", and we concluded that this passage was typical of the frustation stage: First of...
Tuesday, we studied a shortstory, Mabel, by William Somerset Maugham. The scene takes place at Pagam in Burma, a couple of days before the narrator got to Mandalay. The first lines introduce the main characters: the narrator( a man), George, the secretary...
Before vacations, we studied the last passage of the novel (click here if you want to read it) We found a question that was the more accurate on this extract: How far a travel story can change someone? When you first read this passage, there is an impression...
Before going to class, we had to answer the question : The old man's about to enter the nightmare stage, what do you think is going to happen? It was quite hard for me as I already read the book, so I kind of failed in answering the question. Nevermind,...
The Little Mermaid is a tale written by Hans Christian Andersen in 1837. It's a well-known tale today because of the adaptation Disney made. I love Disney's version of the story, with the happy ending, but I do prefer Andersen's. It's way more complex...
(Own this photo, not taken on the net) We're back, from one the most amazing trips we ever did! London, we were in London! The excentric city, the crazyness, and the smog, right, but we didn't care! I want to go back and live there for a while, just to...
Last vacations, I visited Florida, well not the whole state but two principal towns , Miami and Orlando, and some of the main attractions: I went in the Everglades, which are extremely wide swamps, and also the only spot in the world where you can find...
Today, we learned about Elizabethan Era: each group had a webquest to do in order to find out more about this important period in England's History. Here are the results of our quests: - Shakespeare's life ( Valérie & Victoria ) -Historical and social...
The Cask of Amontillado is a novel written by Edgar A. Poe in 1846. The story takes place in Italy, we don't really know where. As in The Tell-Tale Heart, the narrator is the murderer, which is kind of creepy and weird to read. Here is the whole tale...
The Balcony scene is , for once, showing a certain superiority of the woman. I'm not saying it should always be shown, but that's good for once. In those stories, both Juliet and Maria are placed upper than Romeo or Tony. Each one of us can have a interpretation,...
I woke up again, without knowing where I was. As before, I was on the river Thames bank, except that this time the water had turned as grey as a cloud loaded with rain. My impression was confirmed when I looked up to the sky that was a perfect reflection...
