WHAT DO YOU LIKE READING, MONAN?

Our Student Teacher from the University of Georgia, Monan Lu, has been with for 6 six and she took part in our School's Book Festival. She wanted to share her reading habits and likes with all of us.

Thanks a lot, Monan!

A CLASSIC COLLECTION

Here we are again! This year's Book Festival has been so full of activities and events! And we have worked so hard. We hope you all enjoy our work to celebrate books and reading!

After reading A Classic Collection  retold by Julie Hart, 4th ESO students have chosen their favourite short stories and turned them into comic strips with the help of their Art Teacher, Irene. What do you think? Do you like them? 

The Lottery Ticket by Anton Chekhov

by Jennifer Rodríguez, Oumy Sylla, Lara Vázquez and Joel Mendy

Sredni Vashtar by Hector Hugh Minro (Saki)

By Viviany Feick, Svety Stoicheva and Noel Iglesias

The Thieves in the Cupboard by Thomas Hardy

 By Lucía Pérez, Natalia Rodríguez, Ana Sofía Moreira, Yesenia Muñoz

The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant

By Cecilia Araujo, Carlos Rodríguez and Diego Rojo

WORLD BOOK AND COPYRIGHT DAY

400 years ago two of the most well-known writers of world literature died: Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare. That's why we are celebrating Book Day today! Although in England they celebrate it on the 1st Thursday of March!

The connection between 23 April and books was first made in 1923 by booksellers in Catalonia, Spain. The original idea was of the Valencian writer Vicente Clavel Andrés as a way to honour the author Miguel de Cervantes, who died on this date. 

Vicente Clavel from www.diadellibro.eu

In 1995 UNESCO decided that the World Book and Copyright Day would be celebrated on 23 April, as the date is also the anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega.

Ledicia (3º ESO A) has very kindly recorded a brief podcast about William Shakespeare's life. We hope you like and find it interesting!

PLATERO AND I

Platero and I is world famous book by Spanish writer Juan Ramón Jiménez. He  received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1956, that is 60 years ago. 

Wikipedia

To mark this celebration, we are carrying out a project on this literary work. 2º ESO students together with 6th Primary students have done some research on Juan Ramón Jiménez's biography. We hope you like their work.

OUR YEARLY DATE WITH THE WORLD OF BOOKS IS HERE!

April is a month full of activity in our school because we celebrate our yearly Book Festival. 

Its programme includes a wide variety of activities and events: debates, creative writing workshops, theatre and music performances, interviews to authors and plastic artists, video-conferences, exhibitions and film projections. Here’s the programme for this year’s festival.

23rd April is approaching!

23rd April is approaching! You know that we celebrate Book Day on that day, but something important happened on that day. Do you know it?

It is said that two geniuses of World Literature died on 23rd April, 1616. This means that this year we are celebrating the 400th anniversary of their death. Any ideas?

YES! You're right. They are William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes!

From Wikipedia

From Wikipedia

1º BAC students are reading a book entitled Cervantes Meets Shakespeare by Ramón Ybarra. Before they started reading it, they were shown to Wordles created by 2nd Bac students to help them guess the plot. Can you guess it too?

Worldles created by 2nd Bac students

What happened on April 14th 1912?

On April 10, 1912, the Titanic, largest ship afloat, left Southampton, England on her maiden voyage to New York City. The White Star Line had spared no expense in assuring her luxury. Her passengers were a mixture of the world's wealthiest basking in the elegance of first class accommodations and immigrants packed into steerage.

Four days into her journey, at 11:40 P.M. on the night of April 14, she struck an iceberg. Her fireman compared the sound of the impact to "the tearing of calico, nothing more." However, the collision was fatal and the icy water soon poured through the ship.

If you want to practice your listening skills while learning about this fascinanting event, don't miss the video below.