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ENGLISH READING CIRCLE FIRST SHORT STORY OF THE MONTH ANALYSIS: “Hills like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemmingway
This month we close the 2014-2015 Reading Club cycle with two short stories that deal with a shared set of themes: gender and language. The first story is Ernest Hemmingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants,” published in 1927 and included in the collection Men Without Women. At a mere three and a quarter pages long, this
POETRY READING CLUB- POEM OF THE MONTH ANALYSIS: “AMERICA” BY ALLEN GINSBERG
Visionary. Dreamer. Wanderer. Poet. The question is, who are we talking about, Walt Whitman or Allen Ginsberg? If we allow ourselves a little bit of poetic license to imagine a meeting between these two men, it’s not hard to picture the disciple sitting down at the feet of the spiritual teacher, or the younger brother
Bilingual Family Forum with Anna Steele
The first Bilingual Family Forum this past Saturday, May 23rd was a big success. Several parents from bilingual families came together over coffee and snacks to chat, share experiences and ask questions about bringing up bilingual children. Anna Steele talked about her own experience as a mother in a large bilingual family, and shared lots of
Las novedades destacadas de la biblioteca: “Her” dirigida por Spike Jonze
“En un futuro cercano, Theodore, un hombre solitario a punto de divorciarse que trabaja en una empresa como escritor de cartas para terceras personas, compra un día un nuevo sistema operativo basado en el modelo de Inteligencia Artificial, diseñado para satisfacer todas las necesidades del usuario. Para su sorpresa, se crea una relación romántica entre
POETRY READING CLUB- POEM OF THE MONTH ANALYSIS: “O Me! O Life!” by Walt Whitman
This month, the star of our Poetry Reading Club is America’s first “celebrity poet”: Walt Whitman. Born in 1819, on Long Island, New York, Whitman lived through the great events of nineteenth-century America, i.e., the Civil War, the end of slavery, and the assassination of President Lincoln; westward expansion and the settling of the American
ENGLISH READING CIRCLE SHORT STORY OF THE MONTH ANALYSIS: “THE CALIFORNIAN’S TALE” BY MARK TWAIN
This month’s story is Mark Twain’s “The Californian’s Tale,” published in 1893. Twain rates among the most celebrated and iconic of all American writers, and has achieved that rarified air of an author whose characters (Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer in particular) have come to embody the mythos of the country they reflect. With his
Poetry Month in Young Learners 3
Young Learners 3 experimented with writing some poems in their English classes in April. They looked at some examples and then wrote their own poems following the model. For the first poem, the students brainstormed ideas about things they can and can’t do. They used picture dictionaries to help them with more varied ideas.
CLUB DE LECTURA EN ESPAÑOL: ONCE AÑOS Y MÁS DE CIEN LECTURAS COMPARTIDAS
Con la primera sesión del 2015 el Club de Lectura de la Biblioteca del Instituto cumplió once años y sobrepasó la década de existencia. En todo este tiempo se ha celebrado sin interrupción durante los meses de septiembre a junio y siempre los últimos jueves de cada mes, para poner en común opiniones y debatir
NUEVA ACTIVIDAD EN LA BIBLIOTECA: GROUP DISCUSSION FOR TEENS
La Biblioteca ha iniciado en los últimos años un programa de actividades destinado a atraer nuevos públicos. El primer objetivo fue el público infantil (de 4 a 8 años), consolidado en la actualidad como un grupo creciente gracias a los “Storytellings” y después la franja de 9 a 13 años con la actividad “Reader’s Theater”.
Poetry from Young Learners 2, “I’m from Madrid…”
I’m from Madrid…. April is poetry month in the United States and the Young Learners 2 class celebrated this by reading and learning about poetry. At the end of the month, they created visual poems about their hometowns. This activity started with a review of the five senses and how they can build our experiences
