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Children's Literature -Week 12
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The Ass Eating Thistles

◆be content with:

John Denver -Today

“I can't be contented with yesterday's glory.”

⇨Carpe Diem (a Latin aphorism, usually translated "seize the day")




▲another example:

"To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"

-a poem written by English Cavalier poet Robert Herrick in the 17th century.

-The poem is in the genre of carpe diem, Latin for seize the day.

It goes as follows:

 

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, (metophor)

Old Time is still a-flying;

And this same flower that smiles today

To-morrow will be dying.

The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,

The higher he's a-getting,

The sooner will his race be run,

And nearer he's to setting.

That age is best which is the first,

When youth and blood are warmer;

But being spent, the worse, and worst

Times still succeed the former.

Then be not coy, but use your time,

And, while ye may, go marry:

For having lost but once your prime,

You may forever tarry.

 



mor-, mort-: death

▶mortician

▶mortuary park: a place where a dead person is prepared to be buried or burned, and where relatives and friends can see the body

▶morgue: a building, or a room in a hospital, etc. where dead bodies are kept before they are sent to be buried or burned, sometimes so that they can be examined

▶mortify: to make someone very embarrassed

▶immortal





The Fox without a Tail

◆assemble

drill commands:

assembly

attention

at ease

dismiss

 

◆ad- : toward

advocate

adventure

advanced course

 

◆ornament: decoration

 



Didacticism(Preaching)

Didacticism is a philosophy that emphasizes instructional and informative qualities in literature and other types of art.




The North Wind and the Sun

▶one of Aesop's Fables

▶The moral it teaches about the superiority of persuasion over force has made the story widely known.



Paparazzi

Paparazzi are independent photographers who take pictures of athletes, entertainers, politicians, and other celebrities, typically while going about their usual life routines.


Roman Holiday

It stars Gregory Peck as a reporter and Audrey Hepburn as a royal princess out to see Rome on her own. 



Video discussed in class-Harper Lee



Treasure Island

▶Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold".

▶Treasure Island is traditionally considered a coming-of-age story, and is noted for its atmosphere, characters, and action. It is also noted as a wry commentary on the ambiguity of morality—as seen in Long John Silver—unusual for children's literature.


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