ENGLISH NOVELS

Tasks:
a) Read the plot of the following novels and choose that one you like more
b) During the Autumn Holiday look for it. You can find it in the library. Take the Lithuanian version or the English version for students.
c) When you come back from Autumn Holidays bring the book you’ve found at school and show it to your teachers 
d) You have almost 4 months for reading it.
e) After reading, you can choose to work alone or in small groups, plan a presentation.
f) Remember: the aim is to present the novel to your classmates, in the way you feel more suitable.
g) You can prepare a ppt project, you can tell the story, you can prepare a picture or whatever

1. Robert Louis Stevenson “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”
It is about a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll, and the misanthropic Edward Hyde. The work is commonly associated with the rare mental condition often spuriously called "split personality", where in within the same person there are at least two distinct personalities. In this case, the two personalities in Dr Jekyll are apparently good and evil, with completely opposite levels of morality

2. Daniel Defoe “Robinson Crusoe”
Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is a fictional autobiography of the title character—a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being rescued.

3. Kazuo Ishiguro “Never Let Me Go”
It takes place in the late 20th century, in an England where human beings are cloned and bred for the purposes of harvesting their organs once they reach adulthood. These "clones" are reared in boarding school-type institutions: much is made, in the clone community, of the differences between one institution and another. Hailsham is the “college” where the main character grow up.

4. William Shakespeare “Romeo and Juliet”
The play tells about the love of Romeo and Juliet that belong to enemy families. Romeo of the Montague family and Juliet of the Capulet family. Sampson and Gregory, servants to the Capulets and Abraham and Balthasar, servants to the Montagues, start a street fight, which is joined by Benvolio (Montague) and Tybalt (Capulet). Escalus, the Prince of Verona declares a death penalty for further feuding between the two families... Meanwhile Capulet (Juliet's father) is keen for Paris to marry his daughter and plans a party, Romeo and friends deciding to turn up uninvited... At the Capulet party, Romeo disguised by a mask, falls in love with Juliet, both quickly learning that they are the enemies of each other's family...

5. William Shakespeare “The Tempest”
It is set on a remote island, where Prospero, the exiled Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place, using illusion and skilful manipulation. The eponymous tempest brings to the island Prospero's usurping brother Antonio and the complicit Alonso, King of Naples.

6. William Shakespeare “Hamlet”
Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle Claudius, firstly for murdering the old King Hamlet (Claudius's brother and Prince Hamlet's father) and secondly for then succeeding to the throne and marrying Gertrude (the King Hamlet's widow and mother of Prince Hamlet). The play vividly portrays madness – from overwhelming grief to seething rage – and explores themes of treachery, revenge, incest, and moral corruption.

7. Bram Stoker “Dracula”
It is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, the novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England, and the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor Abraham van Helsing.

8. Emily Bronte “Wuthering Heights”
The novel is about the all-encompassing, passionate but doomed love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys them and many around them.

9. Jane Austen “Pride and Prejudice”
The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman, living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertfordshire, near London.

10. Oscar Wilde “The picture of Dorian Gray”
The story is profoundly allegorical; it is a 19th century version of the myth of Faust, the story of a man who sells his soul to the devil so that all his desires might be satisfied. This soul becomes the picture, which records signs of time, the corruption, the horror and the sins concealed under the mask of Dorian's timeless beauty.

11. Charlotte Bronte “Jane Eyre”
Jane Eyre describes passionate love from a woman's standpoint in a way that shocked many readers. The main character, Jane, is intense, imaginative, passionate, rebellious, independent, yet always looking for warmth and affection. She undergoes many struggles such as the conflicts between spirit and flesh, duty and desire, denial and fulfillment.

12. Charles Dickens “Oliver Twist”
The story is about an orphan Oliver Twist, who lives a miserable existence in a workhouse and then is placed with an undertaker. He escapes and travels to London where he meets the Artful Dodger, leader of a gang of juvenile pickpockets.

13. Charles Dickens “A Christmas Carol”
The story tells of sour and stingy Ebenezer Scrooge's ideological, ethical, and emotional transformation after the supernatural visits of Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come.

14. Lewis Carroll “Alice’s Adventures in wonderland!
It is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world (Wonderland) populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as children. It is considered to be one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre, and its narrative course and structure have been enormously influential, especially in the fantasy genre.

15. Herman Melville “Moby Dick”
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, written by American author Herman Melville and first published in 1851, is widely considered to be a Great American Novel and a treasure of world literature. The story tells the adventures of the wandering sailor Ishmael, and his voyage on the whale ship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that on this voyage Ahab has one purpose, to seek out a specific whale: Moby Dick, a ferocious, enigmatic white whale. In a previous encounter, the whale destroyed Ahab's boat and bit off his leg, which now drives Ahab to take revenge.

TOYS

These toys are made by pupils of 3th forms. Write comments and choose the most beautiful toy.

The integrated task for the form 8a

The Food Pyramid of Your Family

1.Go to My wiki ( the link is on the left)
2.Open 'pages' and 'survey'.
3.Have a look at the questions.
4.Ask your family members about their eating habits.
5.Fill the questionnaire.
6.Describe it.
7.Prepare this task until 15 November.

Akiane

Akiane Kramarik is a young prodigy girl. Would you like to know more about her and her creation?Let's have a look at this website. Enjoy her pictures...

http://www.artakiane.com/gallery

The creative task for forms 6a and 6b

Draw the word

26 September we are going to celebrate European Day of Languages.

There are few tasks for you:
1. Choose one word and think how to paint it.
2. Reflect on this word, how can you include it in your small piece of writing
( in Lithuanian or English).
3. The tasks should be done until 26 September.

Jogging - to run slowly, especially as a form of exercise.

Monument – a building or statue that is built to remind people of a famous person or event.

Dangerous – likely to cause injury or damage

Humid – containing a lot of water

Snowflake – one of the small , soft , white pieces of frozen water that fall together as snow

Surprise – the feeling that you have when something happens that you do not expect

Dawn – the early morning, when light first appears in the sky

Wonderful - extremely good, fantastic

Library – a room or building that contains a collection of books

Race – to have a competition with sb/sth to find out who is the fastest or to see who can do the first

Welcome back

Welcome back after wonderfull holidays!

I am presenting your best last year works, just click on these links.

http://tellusmore.wikispaces.com/

Homework

25 February

Dear students,
your home task should be done on 1 March:
1. Review vocabulary presenting personal information, write the presentation, and send it to me. Get ready to present yourself orally to your American friends during a video conference.
2. Finish building up Ming the Minibus ( the scheme you can find below).
3. Finish writing stories for a book ' Ming Visits Lithuania'.

Your English teacher Astra