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• Passage 4 : passage 2 on the list

  13 December 2009 ( #david, #harriet, #her, #she, #this )

  Passage 4: A difficult pregnancy Page 31 "Even before the crowd gathered before the Christmas of 1973, Harriet was pregnant again." to page 33 "Very well, I suppose I'll have to come then." Intro & situation in the novel : After falling in love at a New...

• Passage 5 : not on the list

  13 December 2009 ( #david, #harriet, #her, #she, #their )

  Passage 5 : From page 35 "Then David went up into the great shadowy bedroom" to page 36 "You bad-tempered cow." Introduction : The passage I'm going to talk about is taken from Doris Lessing's novel “The Fifth Child” whose main characters are Harriet...

• Passage 1 - not on the list

  13 December 2009 ( #are, #david, #made, #meeting, #way )

  Opening passage : Page 3 "Harriet and David met each other at an office party neither had particularly wanted to go to"... page 6 "They were made for each other."Here's a link to Andrew Marr's Modern History of Great Britain : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzrFT4yGnvs...

• Passage 6 : passage 3 on the list

  27 January 2010 ( #harriet, #her, #she, #that, #this )

  Passage 6 From page 43 "Happiness had returned and sat at the table with them" to page 45 "She could not believe that David did not see it." Where in the novel : This passage is situated towards the end of Harriet 's fifth pregnancy which has been extremely...

• Passage 9 : passage 5 on the list

  28 February 2010 ( #ben, #but, #him, #passage, #this )

  Passage 9 I know, this little terrier is really cute and it's difficult to imagine strangling it... but not for Ben ! pages 62, 63 and 64 "Towards the end of the holidays..." to " 'Everything has gone a long way beyond. Period.' Said Dorothy." Facts :...

• passage 7 : not on the list

  28 February 2010 ( #ben, #harriet, #his, #not, #that )

  Passage 7 pages 53 to 55"The adults, Harriet and David, Dorothy and Alice, were around the big table, the children having gone up to bed..." to "Well, let me know how you get on." Facts :The passage falls into 2 parts :- the scene in the kitchen- the...

• Passage 2 - passage 1 on the list

  13 December 2009 ( #house, #passage, #they, #this )

  Passage 2 : Harriet and David have just acquired the Victorian house they had been dreaming of. The passage describes how they take possession of their new home. Facts : H&D use their own key to enter the house and go from room to room imagining their...

• Passage 3 & video about the 60s : not on the list

  13 December 2009 ( #are, #family, #passage, #they )

  passage 3 : A Happy Family ! Page 20 "People came and went, said they were coming for a couple of days and stayed a week"... to page 22 "many people came to immerse themselves in safety, comfort, kindness." Introduction : This passage covers quite a long...

• Passage 8 : passage 4 on the list

  28 February 2010 ( #ben, #her, #his, #that )

  Passage 8 pages 58 and 59 "Then something bad happened." to "They would have to make sure that he was in his room at mealtimes and when the children were downstairs with the adults. Family times, in short." Facts : Ben isn't 6 months old yet. The scene...

• Document inconnu

  16 June 2011 ( #analysez, #chance, #document, #from, #text )

  Petit rappel pour vos révisions : Vous pouvez tomber sur 3 types de documents : - documents audios (peu de chance) - documents iconographiques + texte (souvent) - textes sans autre support (des chances) Analysez bien le document : - identifiez le clairement...

• Describing a painting

  21 September 2010 ( #general, #give, #painting, #portrait, #that )

  When describing a painting, proceed in the following steps : - Identify the painting : portrait, self-portrait, landscape, still life - describe the painting : elements which compose the painting, colours, shapes, textures, lines and vanishing point......

• Passage 10 : passage 6 on the list

  18 February 2011 ( #ben, #family, #harriet, #that, #this )

  Passage 10 p71 “Around the table sat Dorothy, with Amy on her lap...” to p74 “At once. Tomorrow.” This passage is situated in the second half of the novel. Ben is now three years old. He expresses himself with simple straight forward sentences to say...

• passage 8 on the list

  11 April 2010 ( #ben, #family, #harriet, #passage, #this )

  Passage 8 p94 “And where was Ben?” to p96 “The pressure of those inhuman eyes of his had entered her sleep and woken her.” In this passage, Harriet sees Ben outside his home for the first time after taking him home from the institution and it changes...

• the Lovatt' s family tree

  31 January 2010 ( #children, #david, #family, #lovatt, #sarah )

  David's family : Parents Brothers & sisters Step-parents Other members mentioned James Lovatt & Molly Deborah Jessica (married to James) Frederick Burke (married to Molly) Bridget (a schoolgirl, cousin of David's) Alice (a widow, cousin of Frederick'...

• Quotations about the characters

  31 January 2010 ( #her, #his, #not, #she, #with )

  Quotations about the characters : James Lovatt “ His parents had divorced when he was seven.” “ James Lovatt was a boat builder.” “ His real father married one of his kind: she was a noisy, kind, competent woman, with the cynical good humour of the rich.”...

• passage 9

  16 June 2011 ( #ben, #david, #harriet, #his, #time )

  p 125 : "They had not been alone for some time..." to p126 "Leering and jeering and shouting encouragement." This passage is situated at the end of the novel. Ben is now a young teenager and Harriet and David are pictured together for the first time for...

• ABOUT THE EXAM

  13 December 2009 ( #classe, #epreuve, #etrangere, #langue, #vivante )

  Voici les instructions officielles concernant l'épreuve.Bulletin Officiel de l'Education Nationale : Série ES - Épreuve orale de spécialité de langue de complément en langue vivante étrangère 1 (durée 20 min, coefficient 2) et Série L - Épreuves orales...

• Themes

  16 June 2011 ( #60s, #80s, #can, #children, #with )

  Nothing new here, just a recap of the themes we have talked about during the year : - family life ( love/hate relationships / independence / traditional values vs the 60s revolution / what it means to be a mother : do you have to care for your children...

• Aux élèves absents : prière de passer chercher la liste pour l'oral au secrétariat élève

  08 June 2011 ( #edition, #harper, #vintage, # », #– )

  Baccalauréat Session JUIN 2011 Épreuve d'Anglais Langue de Complément Terminales ES et L Oeuvre étudiée : The Fifth Child, Doris Lessing Liste de passages à présenter formant un total de 20 pages conformément aux instructions officielles. 1 « On the afternoon...

• passage 10

  16 June 2011 ( #about, #ben, #his, #novel, #she )

  « And what would happen to Ben now? » to the end (p. 131 / the end Vintage Edition – p.157 / the end Harper Edition) This is the closing passage of the novel. Ben is about to leave home for good and Harriet and David are about to get themselves a new...

• passage 11 : passage 7 on the list

  02 April 2011 ( #ben, #family, #passage, #place, #this )

  Passage 11 p81 “She was at the end of a long ward...” to p83 “ 'None of us have seen anything like it,' said the young man.” This passage takes place several weeks after Ben has been taken to an institution in the north of England. The whole family have...

• Revisions for the bac

  15 November 2010 ( #character, #situation, #text, #this, #what )

  Get ready for the bac! (Bac L LV1) The exam : You will have to read a text, answer questions about it, write an essay which will or will not be related to the content of the text (14 points total) and translate a part of this text (6 points). Revision...

• ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  02 October 2010 ( #her, #lessing, #moved, #she, #then )

  Doris Lessing is a British writer. She was born in Persia (Iran nowadays) in 1919 and moved to Southern Rhodesia when she was 5. She left her family when she was still very young. She moved to Britain in 1949 and has lived there ever since. She is the...

• Anticipation

  02 October 2010 ( #document, #groupe, #mise, #roman, #what )

  Étude de document iconographique : la couverture du roman au rétroprojecteur. En groupes, identification du type de document, description rapide en se concentrant sur les couleurs dominantes et le style.Mise en commun des observations faites en groupe....

• Liens vers des lexiques de termes utiles pour le commentaire

  12 January 2011 ( #lexique, #lien, #petit, #termes, #vers )

  http://www86.homepage.villanova.edu/seth.whidden/analyse.html http://lewebpedagogique.com/anglarene/wp-content/blogs.dir/107/files//vocabulaire-du-commentaire-de-texte.pdf