Summer reading S/ES & L (classes euro)

S/ES

" Black Beauty" Anna Sewell, édition : Oxford Bookworms
"Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde" : R.L. Stevenson, édition : Oxford Bookworms
"The Fifth Child" Doris Lessing : édition : Harper Perennial (front cover : Doris Lessing
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2007
THE FIFTH CHILD)



L
"Black Beauty" Anna Sewell, édition : Oxford Bookworms
"The Bride Price" Buchi Emecheta : édition : Oxford Bookworms
"The Fifth Child" Doris Lessing : édition : Harper Perennial (front cover : Doris Lessing
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2007
THE FIFTH CHILD)


You will be informed of the last book later.

Summer reading & for next year (terminale L)

"The White Witch of Rosehall" Herbert G.de Lissser, édition : Macmillan Caribbean


"Of Mice & Men" John Steinbeck
"The Boleyn Inheritance" Philippa Gregory

You will be given the editions for "Of Mice & Men" and "The Boleyn Inheritance" soon.

"Of Mice & Men"

 There are many misfits, cripples, and unusual characters in "Of Mice and Men" , do you think they were intentionally created by the author to disguise a true-to-life story?” Discuss (300 words).

Pacifism

1 Do you think pacifism is a good thing ? To what extent (militarism, defencivism, pacificism, absolute pacifism…) ?

2 What do you think about civilian-based defense ?

Always justify your position.

some very interesting links : 

a video about civilian-based defense, 

a document about pacifism by the BBC, 

the Wikipedia article about pacificism

the image I used

 Would you be able to tell us what is  criticism ?  caricature ? irony ? litotes ?

1) Define  criticism .

2) Which meaning would you give to the word « critical »  ? (try to use

examples)

3) What is a caricature ? What is an author ‘s aim when he/she uses it ?

4) Define irony . Where  can we use it ?

     5) Do you kow any other words from the same family ?

     6) what is litotes ?

     7) Does the  word « critique » exists in English ?

        Say what you know about it !

Now make sure you got it right !

Read examples  a, b, c and d , and say which one deals with  irony ,

caricature , litotes or criticism

(one of these is repeated !).

a) For a man who hated war, he would have made a superb war cameraman.

b) This article  points to the  main aspects  of the work, it is an enlightened analysis

which shows  the various literary devices used by the writer to create suspence.

c) The small man with a little moustache ( who reprensents Hitler) dances in his

office trying to play with  a big baloon that looks very much like our planet . (scene

from Charlie Chaplin’s movie« The Great Dictator »)

d) The violation of human rights is simply unacceptable.

e) She is not as young as she was.

Some US states are considering passing anti-LGBT laws

North Carolina, Mississippi, Tennessee and Georgia have passed or are considering passing "religious and moral freedom" laws, that many consider to be discriminative.

Some articles from the Huffington Post :

North Carolina
Mississippi
Tennessee
Georgia

As usual, questions inside

Online Visual Arts

So, for the last couple subjects I have posted, my subjects were accompanied by images from deviantart, like this one : (link)

DA et many other websites, such as CGSociety for example, have great images, that are very different from traditional art. 

What do you think of that ? (details inside)