SO SORRY!!

I ´ve made a terrible mistake.The date is wrong.

We will meet for dinner on THURSDAY, June 6th!!  

Let´s have a dinner!

We should all get together for an end of  the season dinner! 

Let us meet on Wednesday, June 6th in Fame Negra.

Ramón has offered to do the cooking (with a little help from his friends). It will be 10 euro per person and we will have starters, main course and dessert .

I if you want to come, please let me know.All of you are invited, even those who didn´t attend the last sessions!

cfr.ferrol.linguasestranxeiras@edu.xunta.es

Don´t Forget!!

We´re meeting today at 6:15!!!!! Try to bring your book with you please! And I hope everyone can come; it´s the last bookclub of the year!

Last Meetingof the Season

Just a reminder that our next meeting is tomorrow, May 15th.

Free Choice! May 15th

Hi Everyone!

I hope a good weekend. Just a few reminders:

Our next meeting will be the 15th of May.

And you have free choice for reading materials. BUT, please post on this blog the book you have chosen, so hopefully we will have a variety of books to talk about in class. If you can´t post on the blog, e-mail Gabriela.

And here are some reading options, if you can´t think of a book to read:
The Great Gatsby (New movie coming out in mid May)
The Little Prince (I´m sure you´ve read it in Spanish, so read it in English!)
Heart of Darkness (A classic, very well written)
To Kill A Mockingbird (About racial issues in the United States, written from the perspective of a child)
1984 (Futuristic distopia)
Farhenheit 451 (Another futuristic distopia, but the best in the genre in my opinion)
Of Mice and Men (About friendship, set during the Great Depression)
Night (Short, very easy-to-read TRUE account of living through the Holocaust)
The Sun Also Rises (Hemingway in Spain)
The Call of the Wild (Jack London in Alaska)
Into the Wild (True, journalistic account of a young man that disappeared in Alaska)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (About high school, written from the perspective of a teenager)

Most of them are on the shorter side. Also, most are available free on the internet, or they are very cheap because they were released a while ago.

You can also try reading a graphic novel (Maus and Persepolis are good choices) or another Shakespeare play!

Good Luck!

P.S. We are trying to plan some sort of dinner for May/June, so think of when you are available and what you would like to do!

Tomorrow!

Hi Everyone!

We are meeting TOMORROW! Don´t forget! And I hope you had fun reading Romeo and Juliet.

See you!

March 20th

Thanks to everyone that came yesterday! We had a good time talking about Twelve Angry Men. Here's the link to the Simpsons episode we watched, just in case you wanted to watch all of it. It's season 5, episode 20, and it's called "The Boy Who Knew Too Much."

We decided that for next time we're going to be reading Romeo and Juliet, and the previous post has a lot of good links for you to check out. Here's another one, called No Fear Shakespeare, which shows the original text of the play alongside a version in modern English.

Also, it's not super important to read the whole play. I recommend reading the important scenes and watching either the Leonardo DiCaprio version of the movie and/or the 1968 version . That way, you get a sense of the whole play and the language without being overwhelmed.

What are the important scenes? It's partly your decision and opinion which scenes to read, but a good place to start is reading these scenes:
Act 1, Prologue (the opening sonnet)
Act 1, Scene 5 (the first meeting of R and J)
Act 2, Scene 2 (R&J at the Balcony)
Act 5, Scene 3 (the final scene)
And try to pick a few scenes that you enjoy as well!

We'll be meeting April 17th at 6:15! See you then!