CHARLES DICKENS AND THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

The students of 4E have worked on a Project in Literature and History together, studying the period of the Industrial Revolution through the famous British writer Charles Dickens and some of his works, such as Oliver Twist  and Hard Times.
 Pupils researched about the social classes, chose quotes from Dickens´s works related to the topic and others analysed Child Labour at that time and the conditions nowadays in many countries.
Don´t miss their PowerPoint presentations and the  shocking video one of the groups selected, it makes us all reflect on how many things have to be changed even at present time.

SOCIAL CLASSES
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1gbhVzwYTaDRVo2LWp0UXpXRUk/view?usp=sharing

CHILD LABOUR
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1L-cSYFUULkTPtNTR4SWUEFzNOQ1W4B9BAyVOFObUYz8/edit?usp=sharing

 

 

By Lidia Romero, Sheyla Uribe, Tania Pérez and Angie Maza

 

 

LITERATURE

 CHARLOTTE´S WEB
The bilingual group of 2F read the unabridged book Charlotte´s Web  by E.B.White, this is a classic of children´s literature. You will probably know the story of little pig Wilbur and his friends. A great example of friendship.
Here are some quotes from the book.
"You have been my friend´, replied Charlotte. `That in itself is a tremendous thing."
"Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They´ll believe anything they see in print."
"After all, what´s a life anyway? We´re born, we live a little while, we die."

 The students created their  wonderful comics and posters of vocabulary.

                                          Clara Bobadilla Rodríguez

                                       
                                                    Lidia Pilo Orosa
                                                       

                                                    Angie Maza González
     
            CHARLOTTE´S WEB COMIC

            Sonia Latorre Fernández y Lidia Pilo Orosa

POETRY

POEMS
Students of 2F develop their creativity writing their own poems. You can see some of them in this poster.

 

Emmanuel Gbadegesin

                                                        Álvaro Alonso Angelina        

                        
                   

WHERE I´M FROM (By Emmanuel Gbadegesin) 

BASED ON THE POEM BY GEORGE ELLA LYON

I´m from my mum and dad

and the country I come from

I´m from the country I live in

to the new friends met.

I´m from noisy areas

and chidish shouts

I´m from peaceful phases

And quiet calm nature.

I´m from sweet delicious candy

and fast food

I´m from really smelly food

and bitter vegetables.

I´m from injuiries that made me cry

to sadness I sometimes had

I´m from excessive proudness

and incredible happiness.

I´m from desired stickers

and loved picture cards

I´m from grown kids group

to the realistic boy.

I´m from the past

that goes away

and from the future

that awaits.

                                        

HUMAN RIGHTS PROJECT

Human Rights
This course we decided to go  more in depth with the Project about Human Rights. From the English Literature class, we made our little contribution reading about some well-known people such as Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, who defended the rights for black people. We read the poems `The Balad of the Landlord´ by Langston Hughes and `Tableau´ by Countee Cullen.
If you like poetry, here is a link about social-justice poetry.
http://www.sojust.net/poetry.html

We also learnt to write an acrostic. Enjoy this one written by one of the student of 2F that will make us all reflect. Thank you Olivia