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Jane Eyre
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1 Click on the book icon and access the reading material.
2 Click on the book to film icon to download the worksheet.
3 Click on the film icon to access the film material.
Alice´s Adventures in Wondeland
Follow Alice and the white rabbit down the rabbit hole and enjoy the amazing adventures in
WONDERLAND
PLAYS
POEMS
1. Scan the image. Listen and watch twice. Then answer the following questions:
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What type of text is that?
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What´s the title of the poem?
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Who is the author?
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What´s the name of the flowers that the speaker sees? What is the Spanish name for them?
2. Investigate this flower and answer.
3. Now scan the code and read the text. Then answer the questions below.
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What does it look like? Shape and colour.
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Where do they usually appear?
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The flower produces some alkaloids which may be poisonous but there is one of these alkaloids which is being used for treating an illness? Which is this alkaloid and which is the illness?
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What´s this flower associated with?
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What did it represent in Victorian times? What does it represent nowadays?
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What is its botanic name? Why does it bear that name?
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What is described in the poem? Describe the scene the speaker suddenly comes upon in his wandering.
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What effect does the scene have on the speakers while he is present? (how does he feel?)
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What was the speaker's mood before he saw the daffodils? How do you know?
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What "wealth" is he later aware of?
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What is the speaker’s" inward eyes"? Why is it the "bliss of solitude"?
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The author once described poetry as “powerful feelings recollected in tranquility". Explain how this famous phrase relates to this poem.
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Copy the poem, find a photograph of the flowers being described and write two paragraphs in which you include the information provided in the answers to the questions above (Parts 1 and 2)
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Write a third paragraph about the poem. Use the information from your answers for part 3.
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Investigate tne author and design a poster using Canva which must include: at least one photograph of the author, the literary period in the English literature and its characteristics, his literary works and the themes and topics in his poetry.
Let´s analyse the poem. Read the poem and answer these questions
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To what does the poet compare the arrangement of the daffodils in the second stanza?
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According to the speaker, in what activity do the flowers take part?
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Identify 3 examples of personification (what human characteristics are given to nonhuman things?)
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Find two similes in which the comparison is indicated by the word "as". In each simile, what is compared to what? What is suggested by each simile?
Match the words from the poem with their definition
Think and connect ideas
What are the roles of nature and memory in the poem?
Drawing Poetry: focusing on the literal meaning of a poem.
Choose a short poem by English poet
Read and try to understand the literal meaning of it.
Draw a comic strip similar to the one in the presentation besides.
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Scan your drawings.
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Make a powerpoint presentation
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Upload it to Slideshare.
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Embed your presentation on your e-portfolio.
CHILDREN´S BOOKS
Children are often reluctant to read themselves. But who can resist the allure of storytelling? Whether read or told, stories have a powerful soothing effect on children. If the tale is beautifully illustrated, so much the better.
In this section, students will find a wide range of tales (classic and modern ones). Some of them are read aloud, others can be read along. Some show the book´s illustrations, others don´t. Some of them are shown on a video where you can see the reader´s face, others are simply an audio. One way or another, I´m sure students will enjoy the stories and benefit from a good model of pronunciation and fluent and expressive reading. Enjoy!
 Children´s StorybooksIllustrated stories. Some with audio. |  Online StorytimeAuthors read out loud their books showing the illustrations. |  Brightly KidsRead along videos on illustrated books. |
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 StorynoryPlenty of stories with audio to read along. Audios can be downloaded. |  Story before BedRead aloud and along flip books. Beautiful! |  Scholastic: Listen and Read15 nonfiction read along books: jobs, animals... |
 Robert MunschThe Author´s Site where he reads out loud his books. You can also read some of his poems. |  Storyline OnlineRead out louds by famous actors and actresses. Animated video using the book´s illustrations. |  Mrs P. Reading BooksMrs P.´s Youtube channel where she reads classic books. |
 Loyal BooksFree Public Domain Audio Books taken from Librivox. |  Light up your BrainFree audio stories to read along with the text. Audios can be downloaded. |  Storytime OnlineFree Video Read Alouds |
 Mercer MayerStorytime Movies read by Mercer Mayer. |  Just Books Read AloudVideos of books read aloud to you showing the book´s illustrations. |
Fairy Tales ...
with a twist
Promoting Gender Equality and Empowering Women
The Paper Bag Princess is a children's book written by Robert Munsch and illustrated by Michael Martchenko. It was first published on 1 May 1980 by Annick Press and Discus Books. The story reverses the princess and dragon stereotype.
This is a didactic sequence that explores stereotypes in classic fairy tales and how The Paper Bag Princess breaks them.
This is an invitation for students to be creative and provide classic fairy tales with a modern twist.
Need some inspiration?
THE READERS
ORIGINAL VERSIONS
STUDY NOTES
