❦ CL⑰ - The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. 

It is now one of Burnett's most popular novels, and is considered to be a classic of English children's literature. Several stage and film adaptations have been produced.


Plot Summary: 
A young British girl born and raised in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is returned to England to live at her uncle's estate. Her uncle is very distant due to the loss of his wife ten years before. Neglected once again, she begins exploring the estate and discovers a garden that has been locked and neglected. Aided by one of the servants' brothers, she begins restoring the garden, and eventually discovers some other secrets of the manor. Written by Ed Sutton

Link:
The Secret Garden Literature test
category:Libri Vox- The Secret Garden

為下學期開課做廣告：

青少年小說 

movie: Harry Potter 、 分歧者、The Hunger Game、心靈訪客

麥田捕手（麥克阿瑟是從麥田捕手而來）

voc.

disagreeable 顧人願

sour expression

snack charmer 耍蛇人

mockingbird & redbreast

Ayah 女傭的名字像是瑪麗雅的感覺

❦ CL⑯ - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 

▣ by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River.

Link :
page by page books -- The adventures of Tom Sawyer

▣ Samuel Langhorne Clemens 
(November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910)
better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer  (1876)
was an American author and humorist.

Twain in his later years

movie

Helen of Troy 

"was the face that launched a thousand ships. "

A Whole New World 

 

Illium特洛伊外城

vocabulary

warts 疣

topless 很漂亮得女生 

nibble 吃東西發出細碎的聲音

pebble 

pain in the ass 

老師翻譯了兒童詩，竹塹文學獎

❦ CL⑮ - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Original title page

▣ is an American children's novel written by author L. Frank Baum.
▣ is the first American fairy tale and the first fantasy written by an American to enjoy an immediate success upon publication.
▣ The story chronicles the adventures of a young girl named Dorothy Gale in the Land of Oz, after being swept away from her Kansas farm home in a cyclone. The novel is one of the best-known stories in American popular culture and has been widely translated. Its initial success, and the success of the 1902 Broadway musical which Baum adapted from his original story, led to Baum's writing thirteen additional Oz books. The original book has been in the public domain in the US since 1956.

1900 first edition cover,
George M. Hill, Chicago, New York. 

L. Frank Baum
▣ The novel is one of the best-known stories in American literature and has been widely translated. 
▣ The story chronicles the adventures of a young farm girl named Dorothy in the magical Land of Oz, after she and her pet dog Toto are swept away from their Kansas home by a cyclone.
 L. Frank Baum grew up on his parents' expansive estate called Rose Lawn, which he fondly recalled as a sort of paradise. But, his body is not good.

Oz 名字的由來：從圖書館裡的卡片匣由來

Judy Garland (June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969), born Frances Ethel Gumm, was an American singer, actress, and vaudevillian.
There, she made more than two dozen films, including nine with Mickey Rooney, and 1939's The Wizard of Oz. 









Link:
PublicLiterature.Org -- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz 

voc.
warm-hearted 溫暖的
movie: 火樹銀花

比馬龍效應
是指人（通常是指孩童或學生）在被付予更高期望以後，他們會表現的更好的一種現象。皮格馬利翁效應的命名取自希臘神話故事裡面的一位名為皮格馬利翁的雕刻家，他愛上了自己用象牙雕刻出來的女神雕像，由於他每天對著雕像說話，最後那座女性雕像變成一位真正的女神。