If you want to have a look at all the final products out of our project on British and American literature, you can visit this google site:
https://sites.google.com/a/iesparquegoya.es/britishpg-literaturey1/home
Tag Archives: literature
literary classics year 1: step 2- infographics about books
The next step in our project is to get to know the basic elements of the book in hand (genre, themes, plot summary, characters), and to be able to summarise them in an infographic. These are two of the examples made by students (click on the picture for full size):
literary classics-year 1: plot summary
Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe:
Gulliver’s Travels, by Jonathan Swift:
Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley:
- plot summary
- character traits– video (click CC for subtitles)
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson:
Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott:
- plot summary (1)
- plot summary (2)
Lord of the Flies, by William Golding:
literary classics- year 1 project. Step 1: biography
The last project of the year has to do with literature. I wanted students to get to know a bit about canonical works of fiction in British and American literature. These are the novels we are working on:
- Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver’s Travels.
- Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe.
- Carroll, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
- Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein.
- Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women.
- Golding, William. Lord of the Flies.
- Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter saga. (at one of my students’ insistence, and it’s a classic by now anyway, so…)
The first step in our literature project was to find out about the writers’ biographies. So, every group had to search for information to fill in a graphic organiser. I pre-selected some websites I wanted them to visit (to avoid Wikipedia), and I shared the links using QR codes for those groups using mobile devices, or shortened links to the only group who are using my laptop.
Then, they had to explain their findings to the rest of the class using Explain Everything. Their explanation was recorded. You can find two examples below:
project 3rd term- literature: form
Please fill in this form to express your preferences about the project we’re going to start next week:
https://goo.gl/forms/81rSY1sRdMVMMPHL2
Holding Out for a Hero
You can listen to the full song with lyrics below (“Holding Out for a Hero”, as sung by Jennifer Saunders in Shrek 2):
And this is the original version sang by Bonnie Tyler:
William Shakespeare’s biography- Edpuzzle
If you can’t watch the Edpuzzle video through Edmodo, watch it by clicking on the picture below, and then answer the questions in your notebook:
