Slumdog Millionaire

Directed by Danny Boyle (British) and Loveleen Tandan (Indian), this film situated in the Mumbai area, India, received so many awards 2009.

Oscar for Best movie 2009: http://www.oscar.com/

BAFTA award for best film 2009: http://www.bafta.org/awards/film/film-nominations-in-2009,657,BA.html

Golden Globe for best film 2009: http://www.goldenglobes.org/

See the trailer:

Film - This is England

The trailer for director Shane Meadow's film This is England.

SP08B "The Wave" discussion week 21

Welcome to join us, Collège Albert Camus, in our discussion about the book The Wave we are reading at the moment.

I would like you all to add a comment here below. SP08B, you are now approximately half way through the book. I would like to read your individual comments on:

- 2 scenes you have reacted on. Describe them, analyse them and compare them to yourself/society today/ your school/ another book / a film etc.

I and Dominique look forward to reading your texts.

English A - SP08B - week 20

Lamb To The Slaughter - short modern school versions

Welcome Collège Albert Camus and SP08B to share our video including 4 versions of Lamb To The Slaughter. We were 6 groups, but when the last 2 were about to perform their versions the video camera broke down. We were lucky to get these four. The quality is unfortunately quite bad due to the camera giving up.

Before writing and performing our plays we read the text and discussed it. We wrote comments on the French weblog and answered questions.

We have after that moved on to the film "Billy Elliot", watching, discussing and writing.

Today we started reading "The Wave". Discussion on French Weblog and/or here.

Novel reading SP08B - BF08

Morton Rhue (Todd Strasser) "The Wave"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wave_(book)

- The English Wikpedia site on the book

http://www.thewave.tk/

- "This page is set up to document the many different appearances of 'The Wave'."

Many links. You can also watch the movie, buy it and the book.

Links to the new German film at the cinemas in December 2008. Look out for it!

Teaching resources as well.

http://www.ronjoneswriter.com/

- the website of the American writer Ron Jones who, in 1967, was the teacher creating the experiment of The Wave at a high school in Palo Alto, California.

http://www.welle.film.de/

- the official website of the German film "Die Welle" of 2008.

SP2B week 38-39

"About a Boy" - Nick Hornby

* Watch the film "About a Boy" based on the novel with the same name by Nick Hornby. The film both begins and ends with the famous phrase "No Man is an Island" and is a modern illustration of John Donne's (1572-1631) Renaissance poem "Meditation XVII".

* Discuss in groups the questions about the film handed out

* Go to the site of The British Council - Arts - Literature - Contemporary writers and read about Nick Hornby

http://www.contemporarywriters.com/

* Go to the site of Indiana State University to understand the origins of the famous phrase and see an example of how modern texts are interconnected with classical ones. There are explanations to the text and it is also possible to listen to the poem.

http://isu.indstate.edu/ilnprof/ENG451/ISLAND/

* Analyze the lyrics, watch the video and sing the song by Simon and Garfunkel " I am a Rock"

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=My9I8q-iJCI



* Write at least 1/2 a page and not more than one page of reflections where you show
how the film illustrates
- the isolation vs. the interconnectedness that John Donne refers to in his poem
- the part from the same poem, "...for whom the bell tolls..."

* Send your text to my e-mail-address at school