THURSDAY XIII:2 - Favorite Authors and Books
These are authors that have more than one book or play that I constantly refer to or re-read:
1. G-d (and various others) - The Bible
2. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill - My Early Life
3. P. G. Wodehouse - Everything
4. A.A. Milne - When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six
5. Robert Hardy - The Social and Military History of the Long Bow
6. Jane Austen - Everything especially, Sense and Sensibility
7. Dorothy L. Sayers - Everything especially, The Daughter of Time
8. Lindsey Davis - Everything (Detective series based in ancient Rome)
9. J.R. Rowling - The Harry Potter series
10. Charles Dickens - Everything especially, A Tale of Two Cities
11. Homer- The Iliad and the Odyssey
13. Lewis Carroll - Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
2 comments:
A lovely list......my highschool intern was in my fifth grade class a few years ago. She has been telling my students about our forays into Shakespeare when she was in my class. I usually complete Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Macbeth with them. Sometimes we read A Midsummer Nights Dream. I have wonderful play-versions that are on middle school level.
Thanks so much for your comment; it has struck a chord with me.
As you know this site is dedicated to Educational Student Travel and my main objective is to make teachers aware of new on-site venues and programs which can illuminate their respective teaching plans and curricula.
The Folger Shakespeare Library and Theatre is a marvelous place with an active educational department. Each year they sponsor a children's Shakespeare Festival for elementary schools in the DC/MD/VA.
I design and conduct elementary school programs that have included a workshop on their Elizabethan stage. The students act out scenes from the very plays you mentioned, with HRM Queen Elizabeth I in attendence making suggestions and giving encouragement!
If anyone is interested their URL is: http://www.folger.edu/index.cfm
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