Kizzy was made into a TV drama by the BBC in 1976
Image via Wikipedia I just discovered that Rumer Godden‘s story for children, The Diddakoi, was actually made into a TV drama by the BBC in 1976. If you go to this page, and scroll down, you can see some pictures from the original series. I have been trying to find a video or a DVD [...]
Interactive Writing #12: July 10th, 2009
Returned old papers Individual conference with each student to discuss her summary of chapter 3 Homework: Report on chapters 4 & 5 Next week (July 17th): vocabulary test (same as the one in April) summary of chapters 6 & 7 Exam (July 24th): write a 300-500-word book report on “Diddakoi“. You must show me that [...]
Interactive Writing session #8: June 12th, 2009
Review: what are the main themes of “Diddakoi“? A theme is a big idea. There are many smaller ideas in each chapter of the book. For example: Why is Kizzy’s Gran found dead outside the wagon, not inside it? Because gypsies want to die outside under the open sky. Why do the other gypsies burn [...]
Interactive Writing session #7: June 5th, 2009
Image via Wikipedia Rules for email, blog entries, homework: name and date on everything spellcheck blog entries and email deadline – by Wednesday 13:00 one blog entry for each assignment Discussion: what are the merits and demerits of a blog? can edit any time classmates can read each other’s work can leave comments and receive [...]
Interactive Writing session #6: May 29th, 2009
Image via Wikipedia Look at the MLA Guidebook on how to reference a book (page 1) and a movie (page 3). Go back to your blog entry where you wrote about a movie and a book Add a reference to the book and the movie USING THE MLA FORMAT (i.e. exactly the same as in [...]
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