A literary approach in the English class at IES Doctor Fleming
“We don´t read and write poetry because it is cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race, and the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering… these are noble pursuits to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love… these are what we stay alive for.” (Professor Keating in Dead Poets´ Society) Continue reading
On Saint Patrick´s Day we have a look at Irish literature.
In fact, it is remarkable how such a small country has been recognised with the Nobel Prize for Literature on four occasions so far: Yeats, Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett and the last one, Seamus Heaney, who used to spend his holidays here in Asturias. Besides, John Banville was granted the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature a few years ago. Apart from them, who hasn´t heard about James Joyce’s Ulysses, Oscar Wilde’s The Canterville Ghost or The Happy Prince, Jonathan Swift´s Gulliver´s Travels, Bram Stoker´s Dracula or C.S. Lewis´ The Chronicles of Narnia? Continue reading
On this 8th of March, 4th year ESO students have reflected on what it meant to be a woman in the 18th and 19th centuries. They have done it through the eyes of the female characters in the three historical novels they have read:
We all know injustices still sadly being part of our world nowadays. Even though the society has changed, imagine how women´s lives could have been two or three centuries ago. (Lucía Wasiluk) Continue reading
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