These are some of our students’ recommendations to celebrate World Book Day this school year.
Tag: history
In Flanders fields, the poppies blow
between the crosses, row by row
First World War ended on November, 11th, 1918, when the Armistice was signed. The poppy’s origin as a symbol of remembrance lies in the devastated landscapes after the war. This flower, which flourished up in this soil ravaged by the fighting, provided Canadian lieutenant John Mc Crae inspiration for his poem In Flanders Fields.
Remembrance Day (Poppy Day) and WWI poetry is a project by 4ESO students from the habLE program.
“Have you ever considered transporting yourself to another era, a totally different life from the one you are used to?” (Celia Sánchez, 4ESO)
“What would you do if you had to live in the middle of the Industrial Revolution?” (Yaiza Mayo, 4ESO) 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
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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