Children's literature week five

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Charlotte's web

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

is a British children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter that follows mischievous and disobedient young Peter Rabbit as he is chased about the garden of Mr. McGregor. He escapes and returns home to his mother, who puts him to bed after dosing him with camomile tea. The tale was written for five-year-old Noel Moore, son of Potter's former governess Annie Carter Moore, in 1893. It was revised and privately printed by Potter in 1901 after several publishers' rejections, but was printed in a trade edition by Frederick Warne & Co. in 1902. The book was a success, and multiple reprints were issued in the years immediately following its debut. It has been translated into 36 languages, and with 45 million copies sold it is one of the best-selling books of all time.

The origin of Beatrix

"Beatrix" is a word which is the original of the name "Beatrice".

Beatrice Portinari was Dante's (但丁) ex-girlfriend. He had fallen in love with her before he was exiled from Florence.
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Chamomile tea

which can also be spelled 'camomile' - is a daisy-like herb renowned in folk and traditional medicine for its health, cosmetic, and nutritional benefits.

Walden

is a book by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and (to some degree) manual for self-reliance.

First published in 1854, Walden details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond, amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau used this time to write his first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. The experience later inspired Walden, in which Thoreau compresses the time into a single calendar year and uses passages of four seasons to symbolize human development.

Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore

in English "Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Flowers") is the main church of Florence, Italy. Il Duomo di Firenze, as it is ordinarily called, was begun in 1296 in the Gothic style with the design of Arnolfo di Cambio and completed structurally in 1436 with the dome engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi. The exterior of the basilica is faced with polychrome marble panels in various shades of green and pink bordered by white and has an elaborate 19th-century Gothic Revival façade by Emilio De Fabris.

The cathedral complex, located in Piazza del Duomo, includes the Baptistery and Giotto's Campanile. These three buildings are part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site covering the historic centre of Florence and are a major attraction to tourists visiting Tuscany. The basilica is one of Italy's largest churches, and until development of new structural materials in the modern era, the dome was the largest in the world. It remains the largest brick dome ever constructed.

The cathedral is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Florence, whose archbishop is currently Giuseppe Betori.

Divina Commedia

La Comedìa, conosciuta soprattutto come Commedia o Divina Commedia è un poema allegorico - didascalicodi Dante Alighieri, scritto in terzine incatenate di versi endecasillabi, in lingua volgare fiorentina. Composta secondo i critici tra il 1306/07 e il 1321, anni del suo esilio in Lunigiana e Romagna, la Commedia è l'opera più celebre di Dante, nonché una delle più importanti testimonianze della civiltà medievale; conosciuta e studiata in tutto il mondo, è ritenuta la più grande opera della letteratura di tutti i tempi.

The Divine Comedy by Dante

After Dante went back to Florence, he wrote Divine Comedy.

There are 100 cantos in the book which includes one canto about Virgil and ninety-nine cantos about Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradiso (33 each).

Virgel = Vergil - It is a story of The Aeneid, the legendary of Aeneas. (這是一種故意塑造的神話) This story originated from the story of Augustus Octavius.

a vertical view of the Inferno

What is Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradiso?

Inferno is the red curve and the Paradiso is the blue curve

Vocabulary

al-- the action of to a noun 

principal

meaning: first in order of importance

example: He was principal dancer at the Dance Theatre of Harlem

President V.S. Principal

president--the chief executive officer or the chief of state in a republic

Additional Supplement

Rosemary 迷迭香

Thyme 百里香

Nutmeg 肉豆蔻

Cinnamon 肉桂

Fennel 茴香

Basil 羅勒 

Discussion on movie

break the promise

keep the promise

make the promise
A promise is to be kept.
I promised to Wilbur.[childhood phase] 

Greeting- My name is _______. What’s your name? Great name.

funny wording:

converse

chat

salutations

hello

phrase: have a shot at st.

            Ignorance is blissing

coflict

change-humble

ordinary	regular	plain	arrange
Some pig	miraculous	terrific	radiant

Say grace

A grace is a short prayer or thankful phrase said before or after eating. The term most commonly refers to Christian traditions. Some traditions hold that grace and thanksgiving imparts a blessing which sanctifies the meal. In English, reciting such a prayer is sometimes referred to as "saying grace".

Scarecrow

A scarecrow or hay-man is a decoy or mannequin in the shape of a human. It is usually dressed in old clothes and placed in open fields to discourage birds such as crows or sparrows from disturbing and feeding on recently cast seed and growing crops