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A Christmas Carol Unit Study 4 years 10 weeks ago

The classic story "A Christmas Carol" ~ a famous author, Charles Dickens ~ creative animation genius, Walt Disney Productions ~ & one uniquely facinating actor, Jim Carrey ~ what else can I say!? With the new Disney Christmas Carol movie out, what a great time for educators and families to learn more about this timeless work of literature! Lesson plans, multi-curricular subject activities, teaching and learning resources, books, worksheets, videos, and games have been collected to teach an interesting unit on "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens!

100 Days of Fantasy, Day 88: The Return of The King 3 years 11 weeks ago

The world of Middle Earth created by author J.R.R. Tolkien is quite complex, especially considering it's only a fictional world. Tolkien's stories themselves show the complexity, but appendices at the end of the novel "The Return of the King" truly show just how immersed Tolkien was in his own works, and how immersed the readers could become as well.

Quenya, the Elvish Tongue 4 years 7 weeks ago

It is difficult to establish how many people speak Quenya today. Frequently evening classes are offered and sci-fi and fantasy conventions always have their groups of people speaking Elvish as though it were, as Tolkien put it, a cradle tongue. Perhaps it’s the Mythos around the language that Tolkien created that gives it such an appeal. It cannot be denied that Tolkien himself declared that he had set out to build a beautiful language. He seems to have succeeded.

100 Days of Fantasy, Day 57: Great Expectations 3 years 16 weeks ago

Charles Dickens was one of the most prolific authors of the 19th century, and most of his works are still best sellers to this day. Great Expectations was just one of his many books, but it is one that had relevance for its time and still has relevance for reading audiences of the 21st century.

Charles Dickens 3 years 7 weeks ago

There is something about Charles Dickens' imaginative power that defies explanation in purely biographical terms. Nevertheless, his biography shows the source of that power and is the best place to begin to define it.