Students of 4th year of ESO have written reports on the books they read in a collaborative way. By doing this, they have developed a deeper understanding of the stories and, at the same time, they become more engaged readers. Continue reading
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“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
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of loneliness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity… 
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These words, which could have been written in this day and age, were written in the 19th century and certainly provide food for thought.. With one of the most famous and promising opening sentences in literature, Dickens sets A tale of two cities at times of the French Revolution; in an epoch of aristocratic corruption and outrageous luxury while common people starved… It was such an unbearable situation that it led revolutionaries to rise up against the powerful. Continue reading
Set during the French and Indian war, The Last of the Mohicans is an adventure story involving guns and tomahawks, brutal battles for survival, revenge and even romance.
James Fenimore Cooper presents not only a moving portrayal of a vanishing way of life in that great unspoilt wilderness of North America, but also the traumatic clashes between different cultures and races. Continue reading
North and South is a remarkable piece of Victorian literature which features relevant social issues regarding industrialization and class struggle in mid-19th century England.
The author, Elizabeth Gaskell, based the fictional industrial town of Milton and its factory workers´ hardship on Manchester, where she spent many years, and on her own neighbours’ lives. But this book is also a novel of contrasts and she highlights the disparities between life in the smoky and dusty north and life in the refined southern countryside. Continue reading
The French Revolution in France, the Industrial Revolution in England, the French and Indian War in America… Reading English classics can be another way to learn a bit more about noteworthy historical events, as literature and history have always been so closely related.
4th year ESO students at IES Doctor Fleming have just read A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickes, North and South, by Elizabeth Gaskell and The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper. Continue reading
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