THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFOWER, by Stephen Chbosky
READING PACE:
9th October: Part One (August 25th 1991-September 29th,1991) 16th October: October 6th, 1991- October 28th 1991 Part Two :November 7th, 1991-December, 7th 1991 23rd October: December 11th, 1991-December,25th 1991 30th October: December 26th, 1991- February 15th, 1992 6th November: Part Three: February, 23rd 1992-April 26th, 1992 13th November: April, 29th, 1992- May, 17th 1992 May, 21st, 1992- June 13th, 1992 20th November: Part Four 16th 1992-June 26th, 1992 27th November: EXAM |
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THE GIVER, BY LOIS LOWRY
Meet the author and find out about her inspiration for the book
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HOLES, by Louis Sachar
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SKELLIG, by David Almond
This is a beautiful, highly emotional story about a young lad who does an angel a good turn and who gets his reward.
The first thing you need to be clear about is that this is not your average
Angel Gabriel. He's a disgusting crumpled-up heap of vermin-ridden, tramp, I
suppose, who Michael finds in the far corner of their derelict garage. He
actually eats the spiders that scramble across him and the mice that scuttle
round the disintegrating lean-to.
But Michael is in a highly-charged emotional state. His life is temporarily on
'hold' while his parents, and he, wait to see whether his new baby sister, born
with a damaged heart, will live. In this super-sensitive state Michael and his
new friend, Mina, take on the burden of care for the shrivelled creature and
Skellig, for that is the name of this creature, thrives as he licks out the
left-overs from Chinese take-away trays.
In fact, Michael is in as much need of healing as his baby sister, and in return
for the gentle care and concern which Michael has shown towards Skellig, Skellig is able to help the quietly desperate family.
To help you understand the meaning of this novel I have prepared the following pack of activities
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,
by Mark Haddon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a 2003 mystery novel by British writer Mark Haddon. Its title quotes the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle's 1892 short story "Silver Blaze". Haddon and The Curious Incident won the Whitbread Book Awards for Best Novel and Book of the Year,the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book, and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.
The novel is narrated in the first-person perspective by Christopher John
Francis Boone, a 15-year-old boy who describes himself as "a mathematician with some behavioral difficulties" living in Swindon, Wiltshire. Although Christopher's condition is not stated, the book's blurb refers to Asperger syndrome, high-functioning autism, or savant syndrome. In July 2009, Haddon wrote on his blog that "curious incident is not a book about asperger’s....if anything it’s a novel about difference, about being an outsider, about seeing the world in a surprising and revealing way. The book is not specifically about any specific disorder," and that he is not an expert on autism spectrum disorder or Asperger syndrome
English Sayings and Proverbs
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10 Best Shakespeare Stories Ever!,
by Terry Deary
Shakespeare's biography
In the book you will find many details about Shakespeare's life, but surf in this website to find out more information
Task 1: Draw a Mind Map with the information about Shakespeare's life
Task 1: Draw a Mind Map with the information about Shakespeare's life
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
You can listen to Willy himself explaining about Theatre in Elizabethean Times!
You can listen to a virtual tour around the Globe Theatre in London today!
Then you can check in the official site what's on?