Organizándonos (Web Dpto y blogs)

Hola!
Atención, el Camarote de los Hermanos Marx llega a los blogs! :)
Como este mensaje era muy largo, lo he publicado en la web del Departamento (acceso desde la portada o página inicial, o pinchando AQUÍ)

Podéis postear aquí los comentarios a ese mensaje, vale? A ver si así podemos coordinarnos todo el mundo! :)

Draft Webpage & Winning Essays!

Whenever suits you best, please send me the the winning essays and the info about their authors, as a Word doc. You don't need to use complete or real names if you don't want to. It's your decision, just remember this is public. Please, get in touch with your teachers, and send whatever to Michelle. By the way, if teachers at the English Department want, we can create a section to publish students' contributions, and publish some of the comments on these blogs and other essays, whatever. Whatever you all wish.
How are we going to publish the three essays? That's a bit of problem on a blog, so I drafted a Webpage for the English Department. Please, check it out and tell me whatever. Draft Webpage for the English Department

April 25 - Amazing! - Congratulations!

Here are some EXCERPTS mentioning PEOPLE from the comments below (please, read the complete comments!) and then michelle's "Congratulations".
CRISTINAsaid "We all had a delightful evening...but what really touched my heart was THE Y4STUDENTS. The ushers, all perfect in their white outfit, the woman in white roaming around the courtyard as if her mind were elsewhere, the tablecloths with quotations from the novel, the comments from the blog pinned on the noticeboard,the 75 essays,... it was a celebration of the joy of teaching."
PEDRO TOMEY dijo "Álvaro Pombo genial, como es él, brillante y provocador en su conferencia muy trabajada, ameno y cercano con todos en el cocktail. El Decano de Filología de la UCM, Dámaso López, en su intervención y como presidente del jurado dejó patente el rigor aádémico. La presencia de la Embajadora inglesa dió un realce al acto reafirmando la importancia de la iniciativa. La Consejería de Educación de la CAM, representada por la Directora General de Secundaria, contribución indispensable ofreciendo además un cocktail "de diseño" espléndido".
CARMENsaid "I would like to THANK the USHERS, our Anne Catherick, and all my students who attended the event and joined in happily and enthusiastically. You were great."
MARTA said "THANK YOU USHERS!...Thanks to everybody else who helped us, Sara´s cake was really good, Jack and Juliette thanks for your help. Trini we can´t live without you! THANKS TONS YOU ARE ALL WONDERFUL!"
PALOMA said "Congratulations to all the winners, you are our pride. I’m especially happy because of Maria’s prize, she has been one of the biggest contributors to our blogs and she has won the first prize ... The blog has won!".
CLARA said "I could see how happy were all fourth course students, as they have worked so much on the book “The Woman in White” and that day was their AWARD, not only for the winners but also for all of them. These kinds of things make our lives at school much more interesting, and help us to work harder. Thanks to encourage us! (Y3)"

Hello, adorable colleagues and students!
Thanks for your wonderful emails, sms's and calls! I'm overwhelmed! I've been very sorry to miss our adorable celebration (health is first, right?) after all the work and fun we put into it, and I'm very sorry I couldn't meet those courageous Y4 students. On the sunny side, I have enjoyed myself all year through (since we began in September 07!) in your company and learned tons of things, so I'm really happy and satisfied! :D Students are writing, telling me all about what fun they had, how wonderful, interesting and FUNNY Álvaro Pombo was, how impressive the technological presentation was, hahahah (it makes me laugh!) (thanks so much for showing that part with the poem, and for mentioning me, too - if you ever were technophobic, you certainly aren't now - you know how to apply ICTs! Wow! My respect!), AND the food, which was absolutely lovely! Hey, people, culture IS fun! This "Culture is Fun", I have to say, is thanks to my colleagues, who can turn something dull into something full of color, like a little spring, who can turn a school event into a social event full of glamour, culture and passion! My dear colleagues, who can teach & inspire people to love literature! I really hope we can continue working together in this teaching/ learning space we've created as a community on the Internet, and which shows that in state-run education, in spite of meager means, we are eager to do interesting things for everybody's learning and enjoyment! Hurray!
So congratulations, everybody, for helping to make this world a better place filling it with good interesting collaborative work! (This letter continues in a comment.) Lots of love, michelle.
And of course, you are welcome to post here your comments!

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Next April 25, writer Álvaro Pombo is visiting us. He is going to talk about this amazing poem, T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (the grey text is a link), so we thought you might want to read it or listen to it. To listen, check out our YouTube account - we found two amazing versions (one by a man, another by a woman)!
Enjoy it all & feel free to comment here!

Brilliant ideas!

After this year's hard work on the 2007-08 projects (the Contest and on our little blogs, where we have the pleasure to read your words), we wondered if we should start this thread to collect brilliant ideas of things we can do together, in case... there are any! They can be big or small, don't be shy! Ideas move the world! Happy spring!

Idea 1: A Film Club
Students volunteering: María, Natalia, Roberto, Paloma
DRAFT Blog by: EOI Goya English Department, at http://eoigoyainglesfilmclub.wordpress.com/.
Mishy Film Club: you can say things to improve it, certainly!

JOB INTERVIEW 5th A

STAGE 1: Context Information.
Target: Information in the blog March 30th Sunday

STAGE 2: Profile Information.
Target: Information in the blog April 6th Sunday

STAGE 3: Admission of applications, format, interview contents.
Target: Before April 20th Sunday

STAGE 4: Interview.
Target: May 8th Thursday

STAGE 5: Publishing of winners and results.
Target: May 11th Sunday

Please look in this section to do the interview we are not going to do it in Lucky Jim from now on. This is a game, remember, so let´s have fun! Good luck on your first job interview in English. Teresa and Fernando thanks for all your work.

Spring News about "The Woman in White" Project (2007-08)

About our project... What are we doing now? What are we bound to do? How are our great protagonists doing (meaning teachers, students and other supporters of this project)?
Did you finish reading the novel? Are you thinking about what to say in your essay? Are you nervous?
Post your info, questions and comments!
To our courageous writers, be confident on your skills! Enjoy what you do! And... The best of luck to you all!

To be or not to be (Hamlet. Act III, Scene I)

Watch Laurence Olivier and Kenneth Branagh interpreting Hamlet below (both directed their corresponding film version) and read the monologue here. Thank you for posting your comments!

To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action. - Soft you now!
The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons
Be all my sins remember'd.
You are now facing the most famous speech in English Drama and one of the most important ones Humanity has produced. How do you like it? Post your comments, trying to understand what it is about. Good luck and nice holidays!

Hamlet by Laurence Olivier (1948)


Hamlet by Kenneth Branagh (1996)

Creating tags for our blog

Hello, everybody! We found the need to create tags (etiquetas) to add to each of the messages we type (bottom line), so that we can have some categories (see side column "Tags") to group our posts here. The tags created so far are the following: community (for threads related to our on-line life here!, personal communication), poetry, fiction, woman in white project (for everything connected to this amazing project), shakespeare (we can delete this one, if you like). Whenever a teacher types a message to start a thread, he or she will have to remember to fill in the slot just below the box where we type with the tag (the key word) which will identify the topic of the message. For blog users, if you need to find out how many threads we have with poems, for instance, click on "Poetry" under the "Tag" heading and you'll get those results. Please, if my adorable colleagues see that we can create other tags or delete some or reword them, post here! :) Night night

Hi Fidelity, by Nick Hornby

Some Y5's are reading this novel and some people have also watched the movie, with John Cusack. You can all post your comments here.
On the TP website you'll find some links to Nick Hornby and also the movie script. Apparently, last weekend he had a gig in Madrid, with Marah! (Check this out)

Extracts from "King Lear"

CORDELIA (Act 1 Scene 2)
Good my lord,
You have begot me, bred me, loved me: I
Return those duties back as are right fit,
Obey you, love you, and most honour you.
Why have my sisters husbands, if they say
They love you all? Haply, when I shall wed,
That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry
Half my love with him, half my care and duty:
Sure, I shall never marry like my sisters,
To love my father all.
KING LEAR
But goes thy heart with this?
CORDELIA
Ay, good my lord.
KING LEAR
So young, and so untender?
CORDELIA
So young, my lord, and true.
KING LEAR
…………………….I am a man
More sinn'd against than sinning.
FOOL (Act 1 Scene 4)
Have more than thou showest,
Speak less than thou knowest,
Lend less than thou owest
KING LEAR
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child!

Is 't not the king? ( Act 4 scene 6)
KING LEAR
Ay, every inch a king:
When I do stare, see how the subject quakes.
I pardon that man's life. What was thy cause? Adultery?
Thou shalt not die: die for adultery! No:
The wren goes to 't, and the small gilded fly
Does lecher in my sight.
Let copulation thrive; for Gloucester's bastard son
Was kinder to his father than my daughters
Got 'tween the lawful sheets
KING LEAR (Act 4 scene 6)
When we are born, we cry that we are come
To this great stage of fools:

CORDELIA (Act 5 Scene 3)We are not the first
Who, with best meaning, have incurr'd the worst.

KING LEAR (Act 5 Scene 3)
……………………………….. Her voice was ever soft,
Gentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman.
KING LEAR (Act 5 Scene 3)
And my poor fool is hang'd! No, no, no life!
Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life,
And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more,
Never, never, never, never, never!
ALBANY (Act 5 Scene 3)
The weight of this sad time we must obey;
Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.
The oldest hath borne most: we that are young
Shall never see so much, nor live so long.

Vídeos del Reading Club en YouTube

Aquí os presentamos el trabajo realizado en conexión con YouTube (TeleTú, que "tube" es 'tele' en argot): grabar audiovisuales y publicarlos en nuestra cuenta de YouTube tras conseguir la autorización de sus protagonistas. Como parte del Proyecto del Concurso, leer y analizar "The Woman in White" de Wilkie Collins, Marta grabó en clase en noviembre 2007 unos vídeos sobre la discusión de la novela. Acabo de crear una cuenta en YouTube para el Departamento, he puesto el vínculo en nuestra sección de vínculos de este blog (ver abajo derecha), y he seleccionado unos cuantos vídeos, que llevo ¡miles de horas! subiendo, pues resulta que it's terribly time-consuming! Gracias a todo el mundo por su maravillosa participación en este emocionante proyecto. :) (Si hacéis click en la dire YouTube del pie de esta muestra también llegaréis a nuestra web en YouTube)



Si has participado en las sesiones de filmación en clase, cuando se discutían la lectura de Wilkie Collins, por favor, rellena una autorización como la siguiente para que podamos publicar el audiovisual en YouTube:

Bases del I Concurso Lectura Crítica

PREMIO DE CRITICA A UNA NOVELA INGLESA
El Departamento de Inglés de la E.O.I. Goya, lleva realizando desde su creación en 1994 una metodología activa de enseñanza del inglés consistente en la lectura y posterior análisis crítico de una novela relevante de la literatura inglesa. El éxito de esta actividad nos lleva a crear este premio para fomentar el gusto por la literatura, el hábito de la lectura en otra lengua que no sea la materna, y promocionar el uso de la literatura como parte del aprendizaje de un idioma.
Para dar al Premio el mayor significado y proyección, el Departamento tiene el propósito de que el Jurado de cada año esté compuesto por personalidades de relevancia del mundo social, cultural y literario.

1. OBJETIVOS
Con este concurso se pretende lo siguiente:
a) Fomentar la lectura en otra lengua.
b) Reafirmar la eficacia del aprendizaje de idiomas en nuestro país desde la enseñanza pública.
c) Contactar con la literatura de otro país y a través de ella ampliar el conocimiento de la cultura y el pensamiento del mismo.
d) Desarrollar la capacidad intelectual y expresiva de las personas, enriquecer su vocabulario y la arquitectura del lenguaje tanto del idioma que se está aprendiendo como del suyo propio.

2. CONTENIDOS
Descripción del proyecto:
El proyecto se llevará a cabo en la E.O.I. Goya (c/ Santa Brígida 10, Madrid 28004), concretamente en el Departamento de Inglés.
Los alumnos de 4º de inglés leerán la novela “The Woman in White” de Wilkie Collins, durante el año académico 2007-2008. Esta obra se comentará en clase y se harán exposiciones orales sobre ella. Asimismo el alumno realizará varios análisis críticos sobre la obra.
Se ha creado un blog (eoigoyainglesreadingclub.blogspot.com) donde los alumnos podrán intercambiar impresiones sobre la novela.
El Departamento controlará el número de entradas y los comentarios en los blogs ayudando en lo necesario.
Los alumnos serán grabados en sus clases cuando realicen exposiciones y charlas sobre la novela que luego se colgarán en el blog. Se preparará un DVD con estas intervenciones para ver su evolución. (Todo esto será posible con su consentimiento).

3. REQUISITOS
Podrán participar los alumnos matriculados en 4º en la E.O.I. Goya
Realizarán un análisis crítico de entre 580-600 palabras.
Los trabajos serán evaluados por un jurado formado por el Dr. Dámaso López García, Decano de la Facultad de Filología de la UCM, y la Dra. Isabel Durán Giménez-Rico Vicedecana de la Facultad de Filología de la UCM.
El jurado se reserva la potestad de descartar trabajos en los cuales aparezcan referencias críticas de otros autores sin la oportuna cita de fuentes.
En todo momento se respetará el anonimato de los candidatos.
El trabajo se realizará en las aulas respectivas, los días 31 de Marzo y 1 de Abril. Si algún alumno no pudiera hacerlo estos días, lo podrá hacer en la Biblioteca del centro los días 2, 3 y 4 de Abril en el horario de la Biblioteca: de 16,00 a 20,00 horas. El uso de diccionario será optativo.
Los premios se entregarán el 25 de abril de 2008 a las 18´00 horas en el Salón de Actos de la Escuela Oficial de Idiomas Goya.

Este año, por ser el primero, se mantendrá el concurso sólo para alumnos matriculados en la E.O.I. Goya, pero en años sucesivos este concurso podría abrirse a alumnos matriculados en otras escuelas.

4. ENTIDADES COLABORADORAS
Este concurso se puede llevar a cabo gracias a la colaboración de la Consejería de Educación de la Comunidad de Madrid.

5. LECTURA Y OTRAS ACTIVIDADES
La novela escogida es “The Woman in White” de Wilkie Collins.
Se impartirán dos conferencias sobre aspectos críticos y el entorno histórico de la novela, para que los alumnos tengan soporte y bibliografía para su trabajo, y una tercera en el acto de clausura. Estas conferencias se impartirán en el salón de Actos del centro:

La primera será el 20 de Febrero a las 18,00 horas y la dará la Dra. Dª Isabel Durán.
La segunda tendrá lugar el 5 de Marzo a las 18,00 horas y la impartirá el Dr. D. Dámaso López.
La conferencia de clausura y entrega de premios será impartida por el Exmo. Sr. Don Álvaro Pombo, escritor y académico de la RAE, el 25 de Abril a las 18,00 horas

6. PREMIOS
Primer premio...................................200 euros
Segundo premio...............................150 euros
Tercer premio...................................100 euros
Las críticas premiadas serán publicadas en este blog del Departamento de Inglés.

To Autumn, John Keats

1.SEASON of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.


2.Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,
Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;
Or on a half-reap’d furrow sound asleep,
Drows’d with the fume of poppies, while thy hook
Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers:
And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
Steady thy laden head across a brook;
Or by a cyder-press, with patient look,
Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.


3.Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,—
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
And touch the stubble plains with rosy hue;
Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
Among the river sallows, borne aloft
Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft;
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.


See Notes.

Prueba para tarjetas

A ver si os gusta cómo queda. Mi idea es encargar unas cuantas, si os gusta, y ver cómo quedan de imprenta. Feel free to comment! Sí, llevo toíta la tarde luchando con los colores, cáspita, y los pixelados, y es que esto de ser aficionada exploradora me mete en grandes aventuras!!!

The Eve of St. Agnes (John Keats 1795-1821)

ST. AGNES’ Eve—Ah, bitter chill it was!
The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold;
The hare limp’d trembling through the frozen grass,
And silent was the flock in woolly fold:
Numb were the Beadsman’s fingers, while he told
His rosary, and while his frosted breath,
Like pious incense from a censer old,
Seem’d taking flight for heaven, without a death,
Past the sweet Virgin’s picture, while his prayer he saith.


His prayer he saith, this patient, holy man;
Then takes his lamp, and riseth from his knees,
And back returneth, meagre, barefoot, wan,
Along the chapel aisle by slow degrees:
The sculptur’d dead, on each side, seem to freeze,
Emprison’d in black, purgatorial rails:
Knights, ladies, praying in dumb orat’ries,
He passeth by; and his weak spirit fails
To think how they may ache in icy hoods and mails.


Northward he turneth through a little door,
And scarce three steps, ere Music’s golden tongue
Flatter’d to tears this aged man and poor;
But no—already had his deathbell rung;
The joys of all his life were said and sung:
His was harsh penance on St. Agnes’ Eve:
Another way he went, and soon among
Rough ashes sat he for his soul’s reprieve,
And all night kept awake, for sinners’ sake to grieve.

How cold is the weather? How much do you like the extract?
What day is the Eve of St. Agnes? I´ll be waiting for your comments. Happy Xmas and a wonderful New Year!!

Poem by W. Wordsworth

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced, but they
Out-did the sparkling leaves in glee;
A poet could not be but gay,
In such a jocund company!
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

Please post your comments here. Merry Xmas
9 de diciembre de 2007 23:01

FAMOUS POEMS

In this section we would like to show all sorts of poems and/or extracts mainly from literary works in English. We would like you to post your favourite pieces as well and make comments about them all.
thank you for your contributions.

This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall,
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England...
The extract is from Shakespeare´s "Richard II"(Act I, Scene II), we hope that you have enjoyed reading it. Please tell us if it was so.

Designing Our Logo

Hi there! I'm starting this thread so you can leave here your feedback on the drafts for our logo. I'll paste here the comments you left in other threads, OK? Feel free to post your comments, please.

Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis

This is the novel we are reading in 5th A and 5th D, please post your comments here

American Crime Stories

This is the novel we are reading with our Intermediate students. you can post here your comments, opinions, any ideas you want to share with us. Click on the title of the novel to enter this thread and then on "publicar un comentario".

The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins

On this blog and on this thead, specifically... We shall have the opportunity of sharing our thoughts and comments of "The Woman in White", which is the novel we shall be reading with our 4ths. Mine will be the first question: Who thinks that Walter Hartright stands a chance against Mr. Carton? The 5ths can join the discussion as well.
Carmen
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Resources: On the following link you will find the complete novel, which you can download for free, and some information about the author. http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/c/collins/wilkie/
Enjoy your reading!

Welcome!

Bienvenidas y bienvenidos a nuestro Reading Club.
Esperamos poder compartir aquí información, opiniones y análisis sobre las obras literarias que vayamos leyendo.
Un cálido agradecimiento por vuestra participación.

Welcome to our Reading Club!
We hope to share information, our views and analyses of the literature we read.
A warm thank you for your participation.


Girl Reading
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