May 27, 2009

Recommendations for Homereading-activities: The Innocent Man

" What was even the reason for my birth? I cursed my mother and dad -it was so bad- for putting me on this earth. If I had it all to do over again, I wouldn´t be born"
Ron Williamson
Learn more about laws and justice regarded to death penalty in the United States.
To do list:
1. Post a comment at the end of the article.
2. Make a comparison between Mexican and American legal system and email it to me.

Recommendations for Homereading-activities: Born on a Blue Day

You can also learn by watching videos!!!!






Recommendations for Homereading-activities: Night

Here you will find some interesting links that will help you to have a better understanding of Elie Wiesel's feelings towards The Holocaust and the experiences he described in his novel.
Glossary
Inside Auschwitz
A trip to a concentration camp
Oprah talks to Elie Wiesel
An inteview published in O Magazine, November 2000.

13 Phrases for Living






Born on a Blue Day

Watch Daniel Tammet's interview at Late Show with David Letterman

A Genius Says Goodbye: Gabriel García Marquez

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Twentieth Century Literature

The literature of the twentieth century is a literature of exploration, as it strives to describe and communicate the experiences of a fast-paced, ever-changing world of technological advances, continual warfare, and changing political and geographical borders. Yet, it is in part because of war, technology and global realignment that twentieth-century literature now includes the voices of writers from emerging cultures and ethnic groups that had previously been silent or been ignored.