Background of A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Shakespeare draws his material from a large body of social background, historical facts and myth: Greek background, May festivities, fairies and spirits.
Mois : juillet 2007
Introduction to A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Discover A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Shakespeare’s comic world of love, illusion, fairies, theatre, transformation, and festive disorder.
The Dramatic Quality in Macbeth: Violence, Prophecy and Stage Tension
Analyse the dramatic quality of Macbeth through prophecy, violence, dramatic irony, stage action, rhythm, disorder and Shakespearean tragedy.
Political Questions in Macbeth: Kingship, Tyranny and Legitimacy
Analyse political questions in Macbeth: kingship, tyranny, legitimacy, rebellion, prophecy, violence and Shakespeare’s vision of power.
Introduction to Macbeth: Plot, Characters, Themes and Tragedy
A clear introduction to Macbeth: plot summary, characters, ambition, evil, witchcraft, guilt, kingship and Shakespearean tragedy.
Lord Jim: how is Conrad’s first-hand experience of seamanship perceptible throughout the Patna episode ?
Conrad was a sailor and gave us a flavour of seamanship: read ch1-20, there are segments that should not be missed.
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad : « A free and wandering tale »
Explore Lord Jim as a free and wandering tale, from narrative frames and moral failure to honour, guilt, colonial spaces, and Conrad’s irony.
Relatives in « Cider With Rosie » by Laurie Lee
Laurie Lee belongs to a large family, due to his father’s two marriages. There are 8 members in the family and Laurie is one of the youngest.
The Short Story and the Novel
Compare the short story and the novel through structure, character, plot, unity, scale, narrative focus, reader effect, and literary form.
Glossary of film terms
Angle: the position of the camera in order to show a certain scene. A camera may be placed straight on to a scene, at a side, high or low angle.
Organisation d’une séance d’Anglais dans une classe polyhandicapée
Introduction Me destinant au métier d’enseignant, c’est en toute confiance que j’ai choisi ce module de préprofessionnalisation. Le Collège de …
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Étude d’une comptine anglaise à l’école primaire : « Here we go round the Mulberry Bush »
Enseigner une comptine au primaire pour développer l’apprentissage d’une langue vivante étrangère et améliorer la réussite des élèves en collège et en lycée
Pédagogie
Tous nos articles consacrés à la pédagogie, l’entrée dans l’enseignement et nos conseils pour le baccalauréat.
Edgar Poe : une Descente dans le Mäelstrom
L’action se situe au sommet d’une montagne, le Helseggen, sur la côte de Norvège dans la province de Nortland. Le panorama est effroyablement désolé…
Edgar Poe : Metzengerstein
Une époque lointaine, moyenâgeuse (châteaux) dans une région centrale de la Hongrie aux mœurs si étranges que l’on croit à la métempsycose.
Électre : tragédie et originalité du drame giralducien
Analysez Électre de Giraudoux : tragédie, mythe antique, ironie moderne, originalité dramatique, justice, vérité et tension politique.
Death of a Salesman : an extended introduction
In Death of a Salesman, the spectator is plunged into the main character’s head. There is no linear onward progression but uninterrupted dramatic tension.
The ordering of events in The Great Gatsby
Literary analysis : The ordering of events in “The Great Gatsby” by Francis Scott Fitzgerald.
Structure and Narration in The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby is the third novel of Fitzgerald, published in 1925 after This Side of Paradise (1920) and The Beautiful and the Damned (1922).
American Modernism in literature
Explore modernism in literature through fragmentation, subjectivity, urban life, experimentation, time, consciousness, and the break with tradition.
The American Renaissance
Emerson’s literary and philosophical importance in the American Renaissance has been associated with his lasting influence in American intellectual life.
American Literature: a Declaration of Literary Independence
Explore America’s declaration of literary independence, from British influence and national identity to Emerson, originality, and cultural freedom.
Puritanism : a New World Vision
English Puritans were divided: some accepted Oliver Cromwell’s Commonwealth, and were persecuted, many Puritans ran away to the New World.
An authentically American Literature
Explore the rise of an authentically American literature through national identity, democracy, language, frontier myths, and cultural independence.
American Literature
Explore American literature through its major periods, authors, works and themes, from Puritan writing to Gatsby, modernism and American drama.
Bilan de l’année scolaire 2006-2007
Et bien voilà que se termine ma première année en ZEP 93. Histoire de passer de bonnes vacances et d’envisager …
Bill Maher, un Américain qui aime les Français
Bill Maher pense que l’administration américaine actuelle pourrait piocher dans les idées françaises parce qu’elles sont souvent bonnes…
L’esprit Jaurès au collège
Tout le monde me parle depuis le début de « l’esprit Jaurès ». C’est vrai que l’équipe des profs est super sympa mais dès que l’année a commencé…