Mister James Teaches English

Halloween or Hallowe'en, also known as Allhalloween, All Hallows' Eve, or All Saints' Eve, is a celebration observed in several countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows' Day. In India, one of the most significant festivals is Diwali, or the Festival of Lights. It's a five-day celebration that includes good food, fireworks, colored sand, and special candles and lamps.

Rik Mayall was an explosion of kinetic energy which manifested itself in a unique style of comedy that alienated those who feared life and delighted everyone else. Roald Dahl, meanwhile, was a writer of children's books who managed to conjure up worlds which were highly relatable yet, at the same time, coloured fantastically with surreal and grotesque narratives. And, in January 1986, these two worlds collided when Mayall delivered a one man performance of Roald Dahl's 1981 novel George's Marvellous Medicine for BBC1's Jackanory.

Mr Wolf. Mr Shark. Mr Snake. Mr Piranha. They're bad guys, everybody knows that. They're scary and dangerous and well... just BAD. But these guys want to be HEROES. And they're going to prove it by doing good deeds... whether YOU want them to or not. Buckle up for the funniest, naughtiest and coolest book you'll ever read - it's time to meet the BAD GUYS. You can read more about The Bad Guys here

A story has some basic elements: a beginning, a middle and an end. It has characters, and action. It usual has tension, a climax and a resolution. We will talk about these things mean in class. Here are some websites to give you ideas about how to make a story: The Plot Generator Storybird

"If I can tell you something today, it is that you should never, ever believe your eyes. Or your mind for that matter." -Rat Man (page 56) "I mean, good Lord, how much can these kids take before they'll go crazy on their own?" - Female WICKED worker (page 205) "Too bad we'll never see the end of the Trials.''I know' the man answers. "But the future will thank us.'" -WICKED workers(page 206) "He imagined her having come all this way only to be killed by a vicious man-made creature. He thought of the Grievers..." -narrator (page 332) ” I really liked the concept of the scorch and how it is just miles and miles of desert wasteland. One of the reasons I liked it was because it’s all based on nature; anything dangerous that happens is usually caused by nature and so it wasn’t as though the Gladers could fight off any monsters because everything that’s happening is kind of natural. It’s interesting seeing th...

Making your own comic, either on paper or online is fun and it can teach you a lot about characters, setting and plot -  terms we talked about last week. Check out these sites for tools and templates to make your own comics in English: https://picklebums.com/free- printable-comic-book- templates/ https://picklebums.com/images/ printables/picklebums_ comicpages_big.pdf Comics. Graphic novels.  In   Comics , stories or information are given using pictures, or pictures and words together. In comics, a story is told with many pictures, mostly in   panels . The first panel is supposed to be read first, and takes place earlier in time than the panels that follow it. There are many kinds of comics.  Comic strips  are short comics which are often found in newspapers.  Comic books  are thin comics magazines.  Graphic novels  are books of comics. In  Japan , comics are very popular, and Japanese comics are popular around t...

Brown Girl Dreaming is a biographical work. It contains photos of the family members described in the book. There are many historical figures mentioned in the book too. A biography is a story written about a person. An autobiography is when someone writes about their own life. One of the strong points of Brown Girl Dreaming is how Jacqueline Woodson makes her own early life a symbol, or connects it to, the time she lives in, with its background of the civil rights movement in the United States. Another example of a similar autobiographical story, where the person speaking about their own life connects it to the time they live in is the Swedish Somali hip hop star Cherrie. Here she speaks about how she grew up, what is important to her and where she comes from: What do you belong to; a family, a way of living, or maybe it is about your hobbies and interests. One thing you do belong to is Generation Z. Generation Z or Gen Z , also known by a number of other names, is the demogr...

While it is well known that bees produce honey, many other food sources also rely on bees. Conservative figures show that bees pollinate at least ONE mouthful in every THREE that we eat! Bees around the world, including in Australia, are in serious trouble. Overuse of pesticides and herbicides make bees more vulnerable to disease and pests. Modern agricultural practices and urbanisation are greatly reducing bee habitat and food sources. Scientists are seeing a large decline in bee populations worldwide. This poses a threat not only for our food production but our environment as a whole, as flowering plants rely on pollinators to survive. The good news is we can all do things to help ensure the survival of bees! Waggle dance is a term used in beekeeping and ethology for a particular figure-eight dance of the honey bee. By performing this dance, successful foragers can share information about the direction and distance to patches of flowers yielding nectar and pollen, to wa...

Jacquline Woodson, author of Brown Girl Dreaming speaks about the writing process Brown Girl Dreaming and The American Civil Rights Movement The Civil Rights Movement was a multi-decade movement intended to achieve equal rights and treatment for African Americans. The movement is considered to have taken place from 1954–1968, though it drew on a long history of protest against the mistreatment of African Americans. As Woodson notes multiple times in the book, even after the abolition of slavery in the United States in 1865, Jim Crow laws and general prejudice prevented African Americans from equal treatment in many arenas. Many see the end of World War II as the impetus for the Civil Rights movement. Many African Americans fought in World War II, a war predicated upon the United States's commitment to freedom. This made the blatant discrimination they faced upon returning home to the United States all the more salient. Tensions from the post-war 1940s spilled ...