In literary criticism, a Bildungsroman,novel of formation, novel of education, or coming-of-age story is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood (coming of age), and wherein character change therefore is extremely important.
(1)To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was immediately successful, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and has become a classic of modern American literature. The plot and characters are loosely based on the author's observations of her family and neighbors, as well as on an event that occurred near her hometown in 1936, when she was 10 years old.
The novel is renowned for its warmth and humor, despite dealing with the serious issues of rape and racial inequality. The narrator's father, Atticus Finch, has served as a moral hero for many readers and as a model of integrity for lawyers. One critic explains the novel's impact by writing, "In the twentieth century, To Kill a Mockingbird is probably the most widely read book dealing with race in America, and its protagonist, Atticus Finch, the most enduring fictional image of racial heroism.
2.Initiation
Initiation is a rite of passage marking entrance or acceptance into a group or society. It could also be a formal admission to adulthood in a community or one of its formal components. In an extended sense it can also signify a transformation in which the initiate is 'reborn' into a new role.
Examples of initiation ceremonies might include Hindu diksha, Christian baptism orconfirmation, Jewish bar or bat mitzvah, acceptance into a fraternal organization, secret society or religious order, or graduation from school orrecruit training. A person taking the initiation ceremony in traditional rites, such as those depicted in these pictures, is called an initiate.
3. adventure / journey
(1)The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a children's novel written by L. Frank Baumand illustrated by W. W. Denslow. Originally published by the George M. Hill Company in Chicago on May 17, 1900, it has since been reprinted numerous times, most often under the name The Wizard of Oz, which is the name of both the popular 1902 Broadway musical and the well-known 1939 film adaptation.
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 acyclone. 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 more Oz books. The original book has been in thepublic domain in the US since 1956.
(2)Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alicewho falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar,anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. It is considered to be one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre.
Its narrative course and structure, characters and imagery have been enormously influential[3] in both popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre.
4.Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears
A West African Tale is a picture book told in the form of a cumulative tale written for young children, which tells an African legend. In this origin story, the mosquito lies to a lizard, who puts sticks in his ears and ends up frightening another animal, which down a long line causes a panic. In the end, an owlet is killed and the owl is too sad to wake the sun until the animals hold court and find out who is responsible. The mosquito is eventually found out, but it hides in order to escape punishment. So now it constantly buzzes in people's ears to find out if everyone is still angry at it.
*Mother Owl won't wake the sun so that the day can come.
5.Quiz
(1) Shirley Temple
Shirley Temple Black is an American film and television actress, singer, dancer, and former U.S. ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia. She began her film career in 1932 at the age of three, and in 1934, found international fame in Bright Eyes, a feature film designed specifically for her talents. She received a special Juvenile Academy Award in February 1935 for her outstanding contribution as a juvenile performer to motion pictures during 1934, and film hits such as Curly Top and Heidi followed year after year during the mid-to-late 1930s.
A West African Tale is a picture book told in the form of a cumulative tale written for young children, which tells an African legend. In this origin story, the mosquito lies to a lizard, who puts sticks in his ears and ends up frightening another animal, which down a long line causes a panic. In the end, an owlet is killed and the owl is too sad to wake the sun until the animals hold court and find out who is responsible. The mosquito is eventually found out, but it hides in order to escape punishment. So now it constantly buzzes in people's ears to find out if everyone is still angry at it.
(16)Retell the story and make conflicts. (17)The Sleeping Beauty
ex. Oedipus conflict : the plague climax (turning points) :
he find out the cause of plague when the truth finally revealed
2. Mosquito作業檢討
(1)How do the iguana's action lead King Loin to call a council meeting?
He frightened the python , who scared the rabbit , who startled
the crow , who alarmed the monkey , who killed the owlet and now Mother Owl won't wake the sun so that the day can come.
(2)Why does the mosquito have a guilty conscience?
Because iguana doesn't want to talk to me , I thinks I do the something wrong.
Do you think the mosquito meant to do harm? No, I don't think mosquito mean to be harm.
(3) guilty conscience 良心不安
3. What is myth ?
A myth is a story with a purpose. It tries to explain the way the world is. Myths also try to explain the relationship between gods and humans. Even though the events in a myth are usually impossible, they try to send a message that has an important social or religious meaning.
People have always tried to figure out common questions like who made the universe or questions like what causes a storm. Religion, gods, and myths were created when people tried to make sense out of these questions. For early people myths were like science because they explain how things work. They also explained other questions that are now answered through modern science.
farmer digging a yawn almost as I am (big lie / talk tale)
(2)Iguana :deaf (two sticks)
(3)Python:Why he won't speak to me ?
(4) It was the ________ 's fault.
(nobody)
mosquito annoyed iguana
iguana frightened the python
rabbit startled the cow
crow alarmed the monkey
the monkey killed the owlet
→Only Normal :
You need to say good morning to every person.
→frame story (story within story)
5.onomatopoeia
onomatopoeia is a word that phonetically imitates or suggests the source of the sound that it describes. Onomatopoeia refers to the property of such words. Common occurrences of onomatopoeias include animal noises such as "oink", "meow", "wasowuso" , "roar" or "chirp".
6.Retell the story and make conflicts.
(because the mother owlet won't wake the sun that the day can come. )
7.Song : Today by John Dener
8.聖誕節=主顯節
(1)The Twelve Days of Christmas (song)
On the first day of Christmas
my true love sent to me:
A Partridge in a Pear Tree
On the second day of Christmas
my true love sent to me:
2 Turtle Doves
and a Partridge in a Pear Tree
On the third day of Christmas
my true love sent to me:
3 French Hens
2 Turtle Doves
and a Partridge in a Pear Tree
On the fourth day of Christmas
my true love sent to me:
4 Calling Birds
3 French Hens
2 Turtle Doves
and a Partridge in a Pear Tree
On the fifth day of Christmas
my true love sent to me:
5 Golden Rings
4 Calling Birds
3 French Hens
2 Turtle Doves
and a Partridge in a Pear Tree
On the sixth day of Christmas
my true love sent to me:
6 Geese a Laying
5 Golden Rings
4 Calling Birds
3 French Hens
2 Turtle Doves
and a Partridge in a Pear Tree
On the seventh day of Christmas
my true love sent to me:
7 Swans a Swimming
6 Geese a Laying
5 Golden Rings
4 Calling Birds
3 French Hens
2 Turtle Doves
and a Partridge in a Pear Tree
On the eighth day of Christmas
my true love sent to me:
8 Maids a Milking
7 Swans a Swimming
6 Geese a Laying
5 Golden Rings
4 Calling Birds
3 French Hens
2 Turtle Doves
and a Partridge in a Pear Tree
On the ninth day of Christmas
my true love sent to me:
9 Ladies Dancing
8 Maids a Milking
7 Swans a Swimming
6 Geese a Laying
5 Golden Rings
4 Calling Birds
3 French Hens
2 Turtle Doves
and a Partridge in a Pear Tree
On the tenth day of Christmas
my true love sent to me:
10 Lords a Leaping
9 Ladies Dancing
8 Maids a Milking
7 Swans a Swimming
6 Geese a Laying
5 Golden Rings
4 Calling Birds
3 French Hens
2 Turtle Doves
and a Partridge in a Pear Tree
On the eleventh day of Christmas
my true love sent to me:
11 Pipers Piping
10 Lords a Leaping
9 Ladies Dancing
8 Maids a Milking
7 Swans a Swimming
6 Geese a Laying
5 Golden Rings
4 Calling Birds
3 French Hens
2 Turtle Doves
and a Partridge in a Pear Tree
On the first day of Christmas
my true love sent to me:
12 Drummers Drumming
11 Pipers Piping
10 Lords a Leaping
9 Ladies Dancing
8 Maids a Milking
7 Swans a Swimming
6 Geese a Laying
5 Golden Rings
4 Calling Birds
3 French Hens
2 Turtle Doves
and a Partridge in a Pear Tree
(2)The Twelve Days of Christmas
"The Twelve Days of Christmas" is an English Christmas carol that enumerates a series of increasingly grand gifts given on each of the twelve days of Christmas in the manner of a cumulative song. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 68. The tunes of collected version vary. The standard tune now associated with it is derived from a 1909 arrangement of the traditional folk melody by English composer Frederic Austin, who first introduced the now familiar prolongation of the verse "five gold rings".
Aesop was an Ancient Greek fabulist or story teller credited with a number of fablesnow collectively known as Aesop's Fables
(3)Aesop's Fables Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica is a collection of fable scredited to Aesop, a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BCE. Of diverse origins, the stories associated with Aesop's name have descended to modern times through a number of sources.
(4)Fable
Fable is a literary genre. A fable is a succinct fictional story, inprose or verse, that features animals, mythical creatures, plants, inanimate objects or forces of nature which are anthropomorphized , and that illustrates or leads to an interpretation of a moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be added explicitly in a pithy maxim.
(5)inanimate objects
a. Prodigal Son
(6)Aesop's Fables
a. The Wolf and the Crane
b.The Boy crying Wolf
(7)The Ass Eating Thistles (各花入人眼)-57則
(8)onomatopoeia
onomatopoeia is a word that phonetically imitates or suggests the source of the sound that it describes. Onomatopoeia refers to the property of such words. Common occurrences of onomatopoeias include animal noises such as "oink", "meow", "roar" or "chirp".
Old Mother Hubbard Went to the cupboard, To give the poor dog a bone; When she came there, The cupboard was bare, And so the poor dog had none.
She went to the baker's To buy him some bread; When she came back The dog was dead!
She went to the undertaker's To buy him a coffin; When she came back The dog was laughing.
She took a clean dish to get him some tripe; When she came back He was smoking his pipe.
She went to the alehouse To get him some beer; When she came back The dog sat in a chair.
She went to the tavern For white wine and red; When she came back The dog stood on his head.
She went to the fruiterer's To buy him some fruit; When she came back He was playing the flute.
She went to the tailor's To buy him a coat; When she came back He was riding a goat.
She went to the hatter's To buy him a hat; When she came back He was feeding her cat.
She went to the barber's To buy him a wig When she came back He was dancing a jig.
She went to the cobbler's To buy him some shoes; When she came back He was reading the news.
She went to the sempstress To buy him some linen; When she came back The dog was spinning.
She went to the hosier's To buy him some hose; When she came back He was dressed in his clothes.
The Dame made a curtsy, The dog made a bow; The Dame said, Your servant; The dog said, Bow-wow.
This wonderful dog Was Dame Hubbard's delight, He could read, he could dance, He could sing, he could write; She gave him rich dainties Whenever he fed, And erected this monument When he was dead.
Three little kittens they lost their mittens, And they began to cry, Oh, mother dear, we sadly fear Our mittens we have lost. What! lost your mittens, you naughty kittens! Then you shall have no pie. Mee-ow, mee-ow, mee-ow. No, you shall have no pie.
The three little kittens they found their mittens, And they began to cry, Oh, mother dear, see here, see here, Our mittens we have found! Put on your mittens, you silly kittens, And you shall have some pie. Purr-r, purr-r, purr-r, Oh, let us have some pie.
The three little kittens put on their mittens, And soon ate up the pie; Oh, mother dear, we greatly fear Our mittens we have soiled. What! soiled your mittens, you naughty kittens! Then they began to sigh, Mee-ow, mee-ow, mee-ow. Then they began to sigh.
The three little kittens they washed their mittens, And hung them out to dry; Oh! mother dear, do you not hear, Our mittens we have washed! What! washed your mittens, then you’re good kittens, But I smell a rat close by. Mee-ow, mee-ow, mee-ow. We smell a rat close by.
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe. She had so many children, she didn't know what to do; She gave them some broth without any bread; Then whipped them all soundly and put them to bed.
Old King Cole was a merry old soul And a merry old soul was he; He called for his pipe, and he called for his bowl And he called for his fiddlers three. Every fiddler he had a fiddle, And a very fine fiddle had he; Oh there's none so rare, as can compare With King Cole and his fiddlers three.
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