Wednesday 22 February 2012

Monday 20 February 2012

"Nature's Warning"

Today we had an interesting topic "Nature's Warning". To my surprise, children were very curious with this topic, they thought about the future of our planet. I gave them a task to write poems about the environment. And some of them were really great ^_^ This week I'll try to publish some of them.

Poem


Edgar Allan Poe


Last week I had a lesson dedicated to this great American writer, poet, editor, literary critic. He is considered as an inventor of detective stories. And one of his detective story, "The Gold Bug", was the topic of our lesson. The story involves cryptography with a detailed description of a method for solving a simple substitution cipher using letter frequencies.
To say the truth I'm his big fan. I found some information, that may be useful for other people.
http://www.online-literature.com/poe/
http://www.poe.su/
http://www.mysterynet.com/edgar-allan-poe/
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/eapoe.htm
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/130
http://www.eapoe.org/


Monday 30 January 2012

First World Literature lesson


Today I had my first World Literature lesson. Just think a bit of it: you are standing in front of the class and try not to lose your consciousness. Really, it was scary. But after a few minutes of lesson I got used to children, and they were really friendly with me. Of course, not everything was so good: by the end of the lesson I did everything I planned and I had 10 minutes by the lesson’s end. I brought all my imagination to do something else with them. I hope they didn’t notice my failure ^_^
They did some creative work, so I had something to share you with, enjoy!