Blog T spe 2020-2021

  Read the text from Midnight's Children and your notes again : A) Write a summary using the following words:  incipit / narrator / independence / birth / reader / Genesis / grandfather / father /  religions / humour / fairy tale / time  /nose / history / story / fictional. B) Explain why this text is the story of different kinds of birth. C) Find what "Magic realism" means (online) and explain why it applies to your text. D) Read a biography of Rushdie and take notes.

  Expression and construction of the self… WRITE ALL YOUR ANSWERS IN YOUR COPYBOOK A)     Use the following words to complete this text about autobiographies: recollection                       omission                          truth                          distortion                                                    sort of     life         ...

  LLCE/ Expression and construction of the self/ Childhood Which vision of Victorian children is given by these different documents? A)   Excerpts from “The Cry of the Children” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1843 Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years? They are leaning their young heads against their mothers, And that cannot stop their tears. The young lambs are bleating in the meadows, The young birds are chirping in the nest, The young fawns are playing with the shadows, The young flowers are blowing toward the west: But the young, young children, O my brothers, They are weeping bitterly! They are weeping in the playtime of the others, In the country of the free. […] "For oh," say the children, "we are weary,       And we cannot run or leap — If we cared for any meadows, it were merely       To drop down in them and sleep. Our knees tremble...