Carla Crespo Pando
October 2024
So Anne has shone as bright as sun and moon
As long as sun and light can kiss my heart.
As a teacher of literature, I feel that my students cannot really understand the value of what they read until they start trying themselves at writing. In creating this blog, my aim is to offer them some space where they can share their own personal creative response to the texts we read and discuss in class. It should be noted that most of my students do not speak English as their first language. Yet, they are capable of writing amazing stories and poems. Because they are amazing students.
Carla Crespo Pando
October 2024
So Anne has shone as bright as sun and moon
As long as sun and light can kiss my heart.
Teodor Nicolae
October 2024
Flavia Acosta Fernández
October 2024
Dear Students,
I've only known you for a month or so, but I can already say that I am delighted to be your teacher of English Literature. I have fun with you in my classes, and I've just discovered that there are a number of poets among you, and good ones at that!, which pleases me a lot.
So, this is just to say, as William Carlos Williams would put it, that you've stolen my heart, and also that I hope you'll enjoy this introductory course to English Literature and will learn a great deal.
May English Literature become your sweet, and cold, and delicious plums--the forbidden fruit that will grant you hours and hours of pleasure.
Best wishes,
Carolina
Arancha Álvarez Fernández
December 2022
A woman was
waiting, a man was searching for love.
The lady was lost, the boy was looking for a rose,
A rose which tells the way to connect their hope.
Arancha Álvarez Fernández
December 2022
Liza: Here they are, Mr. Higgins, your reindeer gloves and a tie, chosen
by myself as you requested.
Higgins: Brilliant, Eliza. I knew you were going to reconsider your
behavior. I assume you have forgotten to apologize yourself but it is fine. I
forgive your attitude and the horrible words you uttered yesterday.
Eliza exits the room, grumbling in a low voice.
(Several months later)
The Parlor-Maid: Madam, Eliza is here and demands to see you immediately.
Mrs. Higgins: Well, then ask her to come in.
The Parlor-Maid asks Eliza to enter the room.
Liza: (crying) Good morning, Mrs. Higgins. I am sorry to bother
you by breaking this terrible news to you. I don’t know how to start telling
you this.
Mrs. Higgins: What happened?, dear Eliza, I am getting worried!
Eliza: It is about Mr. Higgins. He...he... He has turned up dead in his
bedroom this morning.
Mrs. Higgins sits on her Elizabethan chair and starts crying.
(In the funeral)
Freddy: I have taken care of everything. You do not have to worry about
anything that happened in that bedroom that morning.
Liza: Thank you, Freddy. I am sorry for involving you in this situation
but he deserved it. He underestimated me!
Miguel
Espina Ruiz de la Peña
28 October, 2022
THE TREASURE
The first day of the year in London meant a lot for
Mike Adams. He was very nervous about going to Westminster Abbey with his
parents. He loved the monument because he had learnt a lot of the monument’s history
at school. Mike was an interested boy because every place he visited gave him
knowledge that he could share with his classmates. While he and his family were
inside the Abbey, being interested in the most valuable objects, suddenly, Mike
saw a small object on the floor. An hour later, when they returned home, the
boy searched for information about the object: it was a gold and valuable coin.
His little brother, Sam, was as interested as him and he saw his brother with
the object. He asked Mike: “Oh, that’s incredible, can you show it to me,
please?” Mike was uncomfortable at that moment because he didn’t want to share
things with anybody. Then, his brother added: “I will tell our mom that you
have this object unless you show it to me”. They had to go to school and Mike
took the object with him. Later, his Maths teacher caught him red-handed with
his treasure and called his father. From this moment onwards, Mike must do
community services as a form of punishment.