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Cine foro sobre cine americano : aspectos a considerar durante la visualización de la película para el posterior debate
LA CONQUISTA DEL OESTE – Es una superproducción de la Major Metro Goldwyn Mayer, planteada a primeros de los años 60 para superar la decadencia creativa y artística que comenzaba a sufrir el Western, tras su esplendor en los años 50. Pregunta: ¿Crees que la película aporta algo a la producción previa de westerns?
ENGLISH READING CIRCLE – SHORT STORY OF THE MONTH ANALYSIS: “EVERYDAY USE” BY ALICE WALKER
This month’s story is Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use,” first published in 1973. While this story is predicated on an understanding of the state of the African-American community in the early 1970s, it isn’t necessary that you be completely up-to-date on this history in order for you to register its impact. The lessons of “Everyday Use”
Reader’s Theater for Adults – Session Script Background
Father Knows Best is an American radio and television comedy series which portrayed a middle class family life in the Midwest. It was created by Ed James in the 1940s. The series began August 25, 1949, on NBC Radio. It’s time slot was 8:30 p.m. (Eastern) on Thursday nights. It ran on radio from 1949
ENGLISH READING CIRCLE – POETRY AND PROSE POETRY: “ESSAY ON DEPARTURE” / “PANTOUM POEM” /“A MAN WITH SONS” BY MARILYN HACKER
Autumn is well under way, and we have some delightful seasonal poems to read as the days get shorter, the nights get a little spookier, and we spend more time indoors. For me, Marilyn Hacker’s “Essay on Departure” (2006) evokes that feeling of ghostliness that marks the change of season from summer to autumn. The
Calendario de lecturas y fechas de encuentro: Club de lectura en español – ciclo 2015-2016
CLUB DE LECTURA EN ESPAÑOL CICLO 2015-2016: “Narrativa Norteamericana contemporánea” 24 de septiembre: Submundo, de Don DeLillo (1997), 904 págs. 29 de octubre: Ejercicios respiratorios, de Anne Tyler (1988), 400 págs. 26 de noviembre: Trama nupcial, de Jeffrey Eugenides (2011), 536 págs. 17 de diciembre: Beloved, de Toni Morrison (1987), 368 págs. 28 de enero:
Calendario de lecturas y fechas de encuentro: English Reading Circle on Poetry and Prose Poetry
READING CIRCLE ON POETRY AND PROSE POETRY Cycle: American Women’s Writing October 26 th: Marilyn Hacker. “Essay on Departure” November 23rd: Anne Bradstreet, “To My Dear and Loving Husband” December 14th: Emily Dickinson, “They shut me up in Prose” January 18th: Emma Lazarus, “By the waters of Babylon” February 22nd: Gwendolyn Brooks, “A Sunset of
Calendario de lecturas y fechas de encuentro: English Reading Circle on Short Stories
ENGLISH READING CIRCLE ON SHORT STORIES Cycle 2015-2016: American Women’s Writing October 27th: Alice Walker, “Everyday Use” November 17th: Edith Wharton, “The Angel at the Grave” December 15th: Lorrie Moore, “How to become a writer” January 19th: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, “A New England Nun” February 23rd: Leslie Marmon Silko, “Yellow Woman” March 15th: Kate
Listado de títulos y fechas para el Library Storytelling Morning 2015 – 2016
Library Storytelling Mornings 2015-2016 “Tall tales with an American Twist” 26 SEPTIEMBRE – “Apples to Oregon” by Deborah Hopkinson &Nancy Carpenter [Kate & Trisha] 24 OCTUBRE – “Paul Bunyan & Sweetheart” by Marybeth Lorbiecki & Renee Graef [Brian & Carrie] 28 NOVIEMBRE – “Swamp Angel” by Anne Isaacs & Paul O. Zelinsky [Trisha &Carrie] 19
ENGLISH READING CIRCLE – POETRY AND PROSE POETRY: “MARGARET” BY SPENCER REECE
Summer is over, autumn is here, and our monthly poetry reading group is back! This year brings us some exciting new developments. We are now called the English Reading Circle: Poetry and Prose Poetry (sister group to the English Reading Circle: Short Stories); and as this new name indicates, we will be expanding our reading
ENGLISH READING CIRCLE – SHORT STORY OF THE MONTH ANALYSIS: “WHY I LIVE AT THE P.O.” BY EUDORA WELTY
Welcome to the inaugural session of the 2015-2016 English Reading Circle! This year’s cycle is entitled “American Women’s Writing,” and it opens with a story by a woman whose stature, demure though it may be, casts a long shadow over the American literary landscape: Eudora Welty. Her story “Why I Live at the PO,” first
