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    Throughout this lats four years we analyze in detail stories from the book "Stories of Ourselves", poems from "Songs of Ourselves" and the play "An Inspector Calls" written by J.B.Priestley.
The stories we read were:

• Sredni Vashtar, by Saki.
• The Phoenix, by Sylvia Townsend Warner 
• The Prison, by Bernard Malamud
• Billenium, by J.G. Ballard
• Ming's Biggest Prey, by Patricia Highsmith
• Games At Twilight, by Anita Desai
• To Da-duh, in Memoriam, by Paule Marshall
• Of White Hairs and Cricket, by Rohinton Mistry
• Tyres, by Adam Thorpe

The poems we read were: 

• The Clod and the Pebble, by William Blake
• Song, by Lady Mary Wroth
• Passion, by Kathleen Raine
• Last Sonnet, by John Keats 
• Love (III), by Geogre Herbert
• Lovers' Infiniteness, by John Donne
• "She Was a Phantom of Delight", by William Wordsworth 
• Tiger in the Menagerie, by Emma Jones
• Lion Heart, by Amanda Chong
• Heart and Mind, Edith Sitwell
• For My Grandmother Knitting, by Liz Lochhead
• Father Returning Home, by Dilip Chitre
• The Lost Woman..., by Patricia Beer
• Stabat Mater, by Sam Hunt

   To conclude with this four years we have a special assigment. We had to work with three stories, three poems and the play and make a thesis statement about two themes of each text and supported with a quotation. Finally we had to ilustrate our ideas throught some pictures. 

"So what's your story?"

   In Literature we had read three different poems, although it talks about the same idea, love. This poems are "Song", "Passion" and " The Clod and the Pebble". Form this poems we have to creat our own poem following the subject of the one you choose. I choose "Song"

I heard too many stories 

how have you found your true love?

Many ways, roads, endings

All differents. 

I think, that's true love

Finding the one,

no matter how, no matter when

the smile, the look, the memories is above that.

It may not end as expected 

But it was yours one time

so care about it when it's there. 

You don't know what might happen.

Billenium

  After reading the story Billenium and analysing it in detail we create a presentation with all this information. I worked with Berenice Cohen and used Prezi.

Games at twilight

    In this case we had to create a presentation about the story we read in Literature, "Games at twilight". I did my work with Berenice Cohen in Prezi.

"Just one look"

   This few months in Literature Poetry we had read three poems. With this three poems of differents topics we had to create our own poem with the following rule: A poem which describes what you find when you are coming home. (As in "Coming home") A poem describing how your parents met and fell in love. (As in "Stabat Mater") A poem which describes someone you really like. (As in "She was a phantom of delight"). I choose A poem describing how your parents met and fell in love. Here is my work:

"Just one look"

A message of help 

A brother in law in need.

A common office

A destiny that no one saw coming

My dad walks in.

A woman walks in.

A look and my dad felt

hundreds of feelings. 

It was love at first sight.

But she was already taken. 

With the work done.

My dad went home.

In his mind,

someone had taken the most important place.

She was the one.

Days passed and the woman was free, 

no boyfriend, no other man.

First,

some chocolates.

Then,

lunch.

Later,

some nights out.

Love had knocked at their doors. 

Wedding bells, a new house, crying babies,

trips, fights, diseases, laughs, memories.

The most important and wonderful years

of their life,

as they describe it.

Now,

twenty years later,

With just one look 

both feel what my dad felt 

the first time.  

True love.

Sredni Vashtar

   In this ocasion we had to make a presentation about a story we read in class. This story was Sredni Vasthar by Saki. In this persentation we include all the importnat information about this stroy. In this ocasion I do it with Berenice Cohen.

Our work:

The Phoenix

   Here I leave you my work that I done it with Olivia Converti. It is about the story The Phoenix by Sylvia Townsend Warner.

Father Returning Home

   We worked with the poem "Father Returning Home" by Dilip Chitre. We analyze the hole poem and with all the information I made a Prezi.
Here is my Prezi.