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(Updated on 16/03/2013)

 


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Search Tools - Calendar - Maps - Pictures - Vocabulary - Reading and Listening -
Great characters - Activities - Conversation questions - Lesson plans - Webquests - Songs - Games

 

Listening :

  • Libraries - Listen! - with the transcript and activities
    (listenaminute.com)

 

 

 

Vocabulary :

 

  • Literature (Wikipedia)
    1 Introduction
    2 Forms of literature
    2.1 Poetry
    2.2 Drama
    2.3 Essays
    2.4 Prose fiction
    2.5 Other prose literature
    3 Somewhat related narrative forms
    4 Genres of literature
    5 Literary techniques
    6 Literary figures
    7 Literature by country, language, or cultural group
    8 Literary criticism
    9 Story elements
    10 Themes in literature
    11 Other
    12 See also
    13 External links
  • Comic strip - Encyclopedia (factmonster.com)
    Introduction - History - American Comic Strips - International Comic Strips -
    Ideological Slants - Comic Books - Modern Trends - Bibliography

 

Pictures :

 

  • Detroit Public Library - Skillman Branch 
    "The fountain of wisdom flows through books."
    + "The wealth of the mind is the only true wealth."
    (Wikipedia)

 

 

 

 

 

Facts :

  • World Book Day[1] or World Book and Copyright Day (also known as International Day of the Book or World Book Days)
    "is a yearly event on 23 April, organized by UNESCO to promote reading, publishing and copyright. In the United Kingdom, the day is instead recognised on the first Thursday in March."
    (Wikipedia)

  • World Book Day (educationscotland.gov.uk)

  • CENSORSHIP :

    • 12 Books That Have (Ironically) Been Banned in the U.S.
      1. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
      2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark Twain
      3. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
      4. Where’s Waldo? by Martin Handford
      5. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
      6. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
      7. The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
      8. Little Red Riding Hood
      9. Sleeping Beauty
      10. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
      11. Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
      12. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
      (neatorama.com)




    • NCTE's Support for the Students Right to Read 
      "NCTE offers advice, helpful documents, and other support to teachers faced with challenges to texts (e.g. literary works, films and videos, drama productions) or teaching methods used in their classrooms and schools...
      NCTE Celebrates Over 25 Years of The Students’ Right to Read. Over these years the Council has voiced its opposition to censorship and promoted intellectual freedom as portrayed in the clip from the NCTE Centennial Film. " 
      + an interesting video


    • Banned & Challenged Books
      "The ALA (American Library Association) promotes the freedom to choose or the freedom to express one's opinions even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox or unpopular and stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of those viewpoints to all who wish to read them."
      (ala.org)


    • Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read - September 24−October 1, 2011 
      "Banned Books Week (BBW) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment. 
      Held during the last week of September, Banned Books Week highlights the benefits of free and open access to information while drawing attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting actual or attempted bannings of books across the United States."
      + Ideas and Resources
      (ala.org)

 

 

  • Council employs bouncer to protect library staff
    "A council spent nearly £1,000 on a bouncer to protect staff at a library from ''unruly'' school children...
    The library in King's Lynn was plagued by children ''running about screaming and shouting''...
    The children terrorised and tormented two female librarians...
    A council spokesman said the guard wore a white shirt, black trousers, black jacket and fluorescent armband. "
    (telegraph.co.uk)


 

  • Dante to dialects: EU's online renaissance
    "Site recording centuries of culture crashes with 10m hits an hour on launch day...
    The EU yesterday launched the prototype of Europeana, its bold project to digitise millions of books, artworks, manuscripts, maps, objects and films from the most important libraries, museums and archives, and provide them free to download from one website."
    (guardian.co.uk)
    + A video that takes a trip through the kind of thing you can find on Europeana
    (dev.europeana.eu)



    (See Lesson plans)

 

 

Conversation questions :

 

 

INTERACTIVE exercises :

 

Exercises TO PRINT :

  • Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read - September 24−October 1, 2011 
    "Banned Books Week (BBW) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment. 
    Held during the last week of September, Banned Books Week highlights the benefits of free and open access to information while drawing attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting actual or attempted bannings of books across the United States."
    + Ideas and Resources
    (ala.org)

  • Book Review Sheet (4 pages)
    Click on ENGLISH: / Other Resources : Book Ideas & Activities / General Activities
    (Primary Resources)

 

 

  • Where in the Book? (tlsbooks.com)
    "Aaron got a new pet turtle.
    He wanted to learn more about his new pet.
    He checked out a book from the library with the following contents..."

Lesson plans :

  • The "Solved" Mysteries of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg 
    "Students have been asked to consider one of the images, its title and its caption and then to propose a possible story that tells what happened before and after the corresponding image."
    (hrsbstaff.ednet.ns.ca)

    The Mysteries of Harris Burdick     (1984)
    "is a picture book by the American author Chris Van Allsburg consisting of a series of unrelated, highly detailed images in the author's distinctive style. Each image is accompanied by a title and a single line of text, which compel readers to create their own stories."
    (Wikipedia)



  • Libraries - Listen! - with the transcript and activities
    (listenaminute.com)

  • Books.
    23 April is World Book and Copyright Day.
    "Take a look at the article, story, cartoon, trivia, links and word games."
    (British Council)

 

 

  • Writing a bilingual short story - un travail proposé par Céline Matus (Ac. Nancy-Metz)
    Objectif : faire écrire une nouvelle en langues anglaise et française
    à des élèves de 4ème section européenne anglais et les regrouper en un recueil qui sera distribué à chaque élève.
    Mode de travail : les élèves travaillent par groupe de trois.

 

 

Webquests :

 

 

 

INTERACTIVE games :

 

Games TO PRINT :

  • Parts of a Book - a crossword (tlsbooks.com)
    (text / bibliography / appendix / dedication / introduction / copyright / index...)

 

Proverbs :

  • You can't judge a book by its cover.

 

  • You Can't Judge a Book by Looking at the Cover by The Monkees :
    "You can't judge an apple by lookin' at the tree.
    Can't judge a honey by lookin' at the bee.
    Can't judge a daughter by lookin' at the mother.
    You can't judge a book by lookin' at the cover."

 

 

Cartoons :

 

Cartoon: The Bush Library
CONTEXT: This cartoon by Bruce Plante from the Tulsa World relates to the opening last week
of the George W. Bush library in Dallas, Texas, an event attended by all five living US presidents (see video and photos).
+ THE CARTOON + VOCABULARY + LINKS + Related articles
(englishblog.com)

 

 

 

 

Stories :

  • Stories from the Web - Illustrated stories you can read and listen to! (storiesfromtheweb.org)
    - for early years :
    Jape Goes to the Doctor's / Jif's Jungle Adventure / Jif and Jape are Friends / Jif and Jape Go to the Library

 

 

Songs :

  • Open Book by The Rakes :
    "You are not an open book
    I can't do nothing 'bout that
    But I'm worried, I'm overdrawn...
    The longer you are far from me
    The more I drift away"
    - with the video (YouTube)
  • You Can't Judge a Book by Looking at the Cover by The Monkees :
    "You can't judge an apple by lookin' at the tree.
    Can't judge a honey by lookin' at the bee.
    Can't judge a daughter by lookin' at the mother.
    You can't judge a book by lookin' at the cover."

 

Videos :

  • OREO - Whisper Fight
    "When grown men whisper-fight about OREO cookies in a library, everyone wins..."
    (YouTube)

 

  • Book People Unite
    "We've brought together some of our most beloved literary characters to rally people behind the Book People Unite movement and help get books in the hands of kids who need them the most. Join the movement at bookpeopleunite.org
    Starring: Pinocchio, Madeline, Greg (Diary of a Wimpy Kid), Rip Van Winkle, LeVar Burton, Three Blind Mice, Humpty Dumpty, Curious George, Big Bad Wolf,
    Little Red Riding Hood, Raggedy Ann & Andy, Goldilocks and the three bears, Captain Ahab, Three Pigs, Clifford the Big Red Dog, Babar the Elephant, Mr Men,
    Little Miss, Mr Tickle, Little Miss Chatterbox, Mr Tall, Peter (The Snowy Day), The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Black Beauty.
    Music produced by: The Roots..."
    (YouTube)

 

  • Reuters Video: The book with 11 different endings + TRANSCRIPT
    "A new digital novel goes on sale on the internet on March 19 which for the first time offers readers the choice of 11 different endings.
    We meet the UK author behind the unique project. Hayley Platt reports."
    (englishblog.com)

  • Funny Library Montage
    "Video supercut of library scenes from popular films and television series..."
    See the list below the video on YouTube.

 

 

 

  • Libraries will survive
    "Inspired by the 1978 disco hit "I Will Survive", the lyrics were rewritten to proclaim support for libraries, particularly
    under the stress of tight budgets.
    It begins with a send-up of a typically hectic day in the life of a professional librarian."
    (YouTube)

     

  • COMMERCIAL :

    New Spice | Study like a scholar, scholar
    "Do you want to be a scholar? Then study at the Harold B. Lee Library. Do your research here, study here, and be a scholar!"
    (YouTube)
    "Hello scholars. Look at your grades. Now look at mine. Now back at your grades. Now back to mine. Sadly, they’re not like mine. But if you stopped studying in a cave and started studying like me, they could be like mine.
    The Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University made this commercial promoting itself in imitation of the popular Old Spice commercials."
    (Neatorama)

 

  • AUTHORS and CREATIVITY :
    Two authors tell about creativity -VIDEOS
    - Elizabeth GILBERT ("an American journalist and writer - a memoirist, a short story writer and novelist")
    - Amy TAN     (novelist)
    (anglais.over-blog.org)

     

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