• Thank you to everyone who left me a comment.
• To those students who were absent today and did not hand in their final essay, you can email me your essay – by Friday 1 Feb. 2019.
• 50% off any of these old books of mine for any of my DWC students! Free shipping! Just send me an email telling me the book(s) you are interested in, and I’ll send you them within a few days.

Today’s class

• hand in AND email your final version
• leave a comment about your experience of this class:
  • the good points
  • the “could-be-better” points

Today’s class (final)

Havelok

• Finish your diary entries.
• Hand in all your diary entries.
• Hand in a hard copy of your final project.
• What learning and benefits did you get from taking part in this class (including the Havelok project)?
• You can download the Havelok story from the download page here. 

Non-Havelok students

• Check your final report for formatting (see the sample one here: Model_Essay_MLA_Style
• What learning and benefits did you get from taking part in this class?
• The stories we read came from this book:
• The Japanese version is here:
• Some of the stories have been published as stand-alone books. See all of Prem Rawat’s books here.
• The publisher, Bunya, has a donation project and has given many copies of these books to many orphanages and prisons in Japan. See the details here (in Japanese).
• Prem Rawat will visit Japan in October and give a talk in Hiroshima on Oct. 13th. Students get a special price (￥3,000). Details on the Bunya publisher’s website (in Japanese).

Today’s class

• last-minute check of final essay.
• Quiz on “The Magician’s Nephew”.
• Please email me your final essay if you have not already done so. I must have your essay by Jan. 31st.

Best wishes to you all. Sayonara.

Today’s class

1. Compare and contrast the similarities and differences between the creation of Narnia in TMN and the creation of the world as described in Genesis.
2. Describe ONE main character from TMN. Give examples of the character’s words and behaviour from the story (give page numbers) as evidence to support your claim.
3. C.S. Lewis, the author of TMN, wrote that his Narnia stories are fairy tales. Do you agree? Explain your answer with evidence from the text.

Today’s class

If you were absent on thie last class, please do the quiz and the essay and email them to me by Monday Feb. 20th. The essay must be done within 90 minutes.

TMN quiz (download here:  TMN_final_quiz_001

Final essay.  “There are two events in TMN which are similar to events in the Bible.  Describe the two events. Why does Lewis include these two events in the story?”

Use academic format  (double spaced, etc).

Today’s class

1. Final chapter presentations
2. Textbook comments
3. Presentation comments.
4. Easy reading comments.
5. Movie list comments.
6. English skills improved?
7. Other
8. Grade you feel you deserve.

Enjoy the holidays. Enjoy this life.