Children's literature week sixteen

美國大學生沒有學到的核心能力

A large number of US university students fail to develop critical thinking, reasoning and writing skills because of easy classes and too little time spent studying, a study found Wednesday.

Song

Part of your world- the little mermaid   

Maybe he's right.

Maybe there is something the matter with me.

I just don't see how a world that,

That makes such wonderful things...could be bad.

(sung)

Look at this stuff. Isn't it neat?

Wouldn't you think my collection's complete?

Wouldn't you think I'm the girl

The girl who has everything?

Look at this trove, treasures untold

How many wonders can one cavern hold?

Looking around here, you'd think

Sure, she's got everything

I've got gadgets and gizmos a-plenty

I've got who's-its and what's-its galore

You want thing-a-ma-bobs?

I've got twenty

But who cares? No big deal

I want more

I wanna be where the people are[親身經歷]

I wanna see, wanna see them dancing

Walking around on those

What do you call them? Oh, feet

Sara’s ppt

慾望再現:美國與文學中的都市現象

The Age of Innocence 波士顿與紐約的純真年代Boston, New York

It is Edith Wharton's twelfth novel, initially serialized in four parts in the Pictorial Review magazine in 1920, and later released by D. Appleton and Company as a book in New York and in London. It won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making Wharton the first woman to win the prize. Though the committee agreed to award the prize to Sinclair Lewis, the judges rejected his Main Street on political grounds and "established Wharton as the American 'First Lady of Letters'", the irony being that the committee had awarded The Age of Innocence the prize on grounds that negated Wharton's own blatant and subtle ironies, which constitute and make the book so worthy of attention. The story is set in upper-class New York City in the 1870s, during the Gilded Age. Wharton wrote the book in her 50s, after she had established herself as a strong author with publishers clamoring for her work

A Streetcar Named Desire 吸血鬼爵士的欲望之都紐奧良New Orleans

It is a 1947 play written by American playwright Tennessee Williamswhich received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. The play opened on Broadway on December 3, 1947, and closed on December 17, 1949, in the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. The Broadway production was directed by Elia Kazan and starred Jessica Tandy, Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, and Kim Hunter.

Sleepless in Seattle 實習醫生酗咖啡的不夜城西雅圖

It is a 1993 American romantic comedy-drama film directed and co-written by Nora Ephron, based on a story by Jeff Arch. It stars Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, alongside a supporting cast featuring Bill Pullman, Ross Malinger, Rob Reiner, Rosie O'Donnell, Gaby Hoffmann, Victor Garber, and Rita Wilson. The film was a critical and commercial success, grossing over $220 million worldwide.

While You Were Sleeping 芝加哥：欲火重生的風城女郎

It is a 1995 romantic comedy film directed by Jon Turteltaub and written by Daniel G. Sullivan and Fredric Lebow. It stars Sandra Bullock as Lucy, a Chicago Transit Authority token collector, and Bill Pullman as Jack, the brother of a man whose life she saves, along with Peter Gallagher as Peter, the man who is saved, Peter Boyle and Glynis Johns as members of Peter's family, and Jack Warden as longtime family friend and neighbor.

The Wizard of Oz綠野仙蹤的堪薩斯龍捲風

It is a 1910 American silent fantasy film and the earliest surviving film version of L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, made by the Selig Polyscope Company without Baum's direct input. It was created to fulfill a contractual obligation associated with Baum's personal bankruptcy caused by The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays, from which it was once thought to have been derived. It was partly based on the 1902 stage musical The Wizard of Oz, though much of the film deals with the Wicked Witch of the West, who does not appear in the musical.

西北部：翡翠不夜城西雅圖

Basic facts of Seattle

西雅圖官方別稱是翡翠城

常年多雨

擁有青山湖泊，港灣河道，溫潤的氣候

--Enough中的翡翠城[追情殺手]

I always thought you'd come back here with me, but not eight years later.

Well, if I had known how pretty it was...

This place really sparkles!

You know what they call it? The Emerald City.

Isn't that where Dorothy is?

No, sweetie, that’s where Dorothy goes in her dream.

Where is she when she wakes up?

Back in Kansas.

堪薩斯州

巫師隊命名

是美國中部的一個州

全美重要的農牧業州

是首個賦予非裔美國人選舉權的州

University of Kansas (KU)

--Twister (1996 film)

Kansas State University (KSU)

--龍應台

SUNY

CUNY- City University of New York

U of NY-University of New York  

Cyclone vs. Hurricane vs. Twister

Cyclone : a cyclone is a large scale air mass that rotates around a strong center of low atmospheric pressure. A cyclone differs from a hurricane or typhoon only on the basis of location. A hurricane is a storm that occurs in the Atlantic Ocean and northeastern Pacific Ocean, a typhoon occurs in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, and a cyclone occurs in the south Pacific or Indian Ocean.

Hurricane → Tropical cyclone

It is a rapidly rotating storm system characterized by a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain.

Twister→ Tornado

It is a violently rotating column of air that spins while in contact with both the surface of the Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. They are often referred to as twisters, whirlwinds or cyclones,

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Author: L. Frank Baum

Illustrator: W. W. Denslow

Country: United States

Language: English

Series: The Oz Books

Genre: Fantasy

事實上奧茲國並不是「綠色」的，而是有五種顏色：紫、紅、藍、黃、綠，代表著每各國度的顏色，而綠色只是奧茲巫師所統治的翡翠城堡的顏色

Movie 情節片段

Vocabulary

spect: look

inspect

meaning: to look at something or someone carefully in order to discover information, especially about their quality or condition

example: After the crash both drivers got out and inspected their cars for damage.

perspective

meaning: a particular way of considering something

example: Her attitude lends a fresh perspective to the subject.

spectator

meaning: a person who watches an activity, especially a sports event, without taking part

example: They won 4–0 in front of over 40,000 cheering spectators.

The Red Shoes

It is a fairy tale by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen first published by C.A. Reitzel in Copenhagen 7 April 1845 in New Fairy Tales. First Volume. Third Collection. 1845. (Nye Eventyr. Første Bind. Tredie Samling. 1845.). Other tales in the volume include "The Elf Mound" (Elverhøi), "The Jumpers" (Springfyrene), "The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep" (Hyrdinden og Skorstensfejeren), and "Holger Danske" (Holger Danske).

紅色鞋子-視覺[電影]

銀色鞋子-魔力[小說]

Victor Fleming

was an American film director, cinematographer, and producer. His most popular films were The Wizard of Oz (1939), and Gone with the Wind (1939), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Director. Fleming holds the achievement of being the only film director to have two films listed in the top 10 of the American Film Institute's 2007 AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies list.

Yellow Brick Road

指《綠野仙蹤》這個童話故事:桃樂絲前往奧茲王國

(Oz)就是踩在黃磚路上出發的→象徵人們對美好未來的憧憬。

Goodbye yellow brick road 再見黃磚路

When are you gonna come down

When are you going to land

I should have stayed on the farm

I should have listened to my old man

You know you can't hold me forever

I didn't sign up with you

I'm not a present for your friends to open

This boy's too young to be singing the blues

So goodbye yellow brick road

Where the dogs of society howl

You can't plant me in your penthouse

I'm going back to my plough

Back to the howling old owl in the woods

Hunting the horny back toad

Oh I've finally decided my future lies

Beyond the yellow brick road

What do you think you'll do then

I bet that'll shoot down your plane

It'll take you a couple of vodka and tonics

To set you on your feet again

Maybe you'll get a replacement

There's plenty like me to be found

Mongrels who ain't got a penny

Sniffing for tidbits like you on the ground

Gone with the Wind

It is a novel written by Margaret Mitchell, first published in 1936. The story is set in Clayton County and Atlanta, both in Georgia, during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era. It depicts the struggles of young Scarlett O'Hara, the spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner, who must use every means at her disposal to claw her way out of poverty following the destructive Sherman's March to the Sea. This historical novel features a Bildungsroman or coming-of-age story, with the title taken from a poem written by Ernest Dowson.

The adventures of Torn Sawyer

Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived.

Song

Can you feel the love tonight - Elton John

There's a calm surrender to the rush of day

When the heat of a rolling wind can be turned away

An enchanted moment, and it sees me through

It's enough for this restless warrior just to be with you

And can you feel the love tonight

It is where we are

It's enough for this wide - eyed wanderer

That we got this far

And can you feel the love tonight

How it's laid to rest

It's enough to make kings and vagabonds believe the very best

There's a time for everyone if they only learn

That the twisting kaleidoscope moves us all in turn

There's a rhyme and reason to the wild outdoors

When the heart of this star-crossed voyager beats in time with yours

Somewhere over the rainbow

Somewhere, over the rainbow, way up high

There's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby

Somewhere, over the rainbow, skies are blue

And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true

Someday I'll wish upon a star

And wake up where the clouds are far behind me

Where troubles melt like lemon drops

Away above the chimney tops

That's where you'll find me

Somewhere over the rainbow, bluebirds fly

Birds fly over the rainbow

Why then, oh why can't I?

If happy little bluebirds fly

Beyond the rainbow

Why, oh why, can't I?

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