Skellig Literary Circles plan (3ºB,C)

Here you are the planning for the 3rd Term Literary Circles about Skellig. The Thursdays before those dates you must turn in your LC worksheets, except for the first LC (Chapters 1-9), which must be submitted on Mon April 4).

APR 12: CHAPTERS 1 TO 9

APR 19: CH.10 TO 15

APR 26: CH. 16 TO 20

MAY 3: CH. 21 TO 28

MAY 10: CH. 29 TO 34

MAY 17: CH. 35 TO 40

MAY 24: CH. 40 TO 46

"We believe that schools inhibit the natural curiosity , creativity and intelligence of children. The mind needs to be opened out into the world , not shuttered down  inside a gloomy classroom" (Oh my!).

Passive Easter

No, I don´t want your Easter holidays to be passive so here you are a list of links to practice the Passive voice online. Start working out that fabulous third term mark right now! And of course enjoy your holidays and have fun!

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Global again!

For the third year in a row, our students of 3ºESO passed to the final round of Global Classrooms, and also for the third year, one of them will be able to attend a UN conference in the New York headquarters! Congratulations to you and to all the people who made this exciting experience possible.

Intensive preparation at school, here helped by 4º ESO students who won the competition last year

Carlos, Social Science teacher,  with 3ºB students

Working out the Opening Speeches

One for all, all for one:with Teresa, our Fulbright assistant, in the Asamblea

Shakespeare´s quiz

You must have this quiz ready for next Monday (March 7).

A. In  "60 seconds Shakespeare" (with summaries of William Shakespeare´s plays in tabloid format), you will find the answers to these questions:
-How did Macbeth discover he would be king?
-Why did Macbeth kill Banquo, his best friend?
-Which trick did Iago use to make Othello believe his wife was unfaithful to him?
-How did Hamlet find out his father, King Hamlet, had been killed by his brother Claudius?
-How did Ophelia die?
-How did Leonato punish Claudio for rejecting his daughter at their wedding?
-In which play does Touchstone appear? What is his job at the king´s court?
-How could Antonio avoid having to pay Shylock a pound of flesh?
-Why did Portia help Antonio?
-Explain what is happening and the characters involved in this scene of the 2004 film version of The Merchant of Venice:

-Now, which plays are these quotes from?

1."Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps."

2. "Out, damned spot! out, I say!
Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?"

3. "All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts". 

4. "If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?".

5."O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on." 

6."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?"

B. Questions on The Tempest (find the answers here).
1.Why was Prospero in a haunted island? Was he alone?
2.Who were Prospero´s servants?
3. Prospero must have thought that "revenge is a dish best served cold". Why?
4. Say two ways Prospero used his magic to make fun of Antonio and Alonso.
5. What is the final message of this play in your opinion? 
6. Now watch this trailer of the 2010 film version of the play. What´s the main difference with the original play?

  C. Questions on Romeo and Juliet (answers here).
1. Why is Romeo banished from Verona? 
2.  Who marries Romeo and Juliet?
3.  How does Juliet avoid her wedding to Paris?
4.  How does Juliet die?
5. In which act and scene is the duel between Tybalt and Mercutio narrated? 

6. In this trailer of Baz Luhrmann´s version of the play, how is the Prologue presented?