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The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

William Shakespeare's Anniversary

Punctuation Marks We Should Be Using

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World Book Day 2017

Visit the World Book Day website to access books, resources, 

videos, games and lots of news on this date.

What about having a literary kind of coffee?

The Life and Works of Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl, who was born almost 101 years ago, has sold more than 250 million books worldwide. What made his writing so successful?

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100 Years of Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl, who was born 100 years ago today, has sold more than 250 million books worldwide. What made his writing so successful?

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The New Digital Age...

For further information or for buying this incredible book written by Google's Executive Chairman and by the Director of Google Ideas, access: The New Digital Age - Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business

Portuguese version, here.

The Importance of Reading

Reading Week @ Pine Tree

This week at Pine Tree School is dedicated to reading, either it is in our mother tongue or in foreign languages. It is an incredible opportunity to get in touch with different authors, literature and creative approaches to the chosen topic - Sailing the Sea! One of the activities (you can check the whole programme in the previous link) students are enjoying most is poem-reading in the beginning of each language class - high time to train accent, pauses and attitude in front of the whole class. Here are two poems read by the 9th forms (Beyond the Sea) on Wednesday and by the 7th forms (The Little Island) on Tuesday... Why don't you exercise your reading skills, too?

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       BEYOND THE SEA

Beyond the sea, beyond the sea,

My heart is gone, far, far from me;

And ever on its track will flee

My thoughts, my dreams, beyond the sea.

Beyond the sea, beyond the sea,

The swallow wanders fast and free:

Oh, happy bird! were I like thee,

I, too, would fly beyond the sea.

Beyond the sea, beyond the sea,

Are kindly hearts and social glee: 

But here for me they may not be;

My heart is gone beyond the sea.

                                                           Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866)

THE LITTLE ISLAND 

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The dark sky

hovered above

the island,

small and tiny.

Stars twinkled

and the moon smiled,

The water swayed

back and forth,

sending treasures

onto its shore,

shells, bottles, and little

things.

A wave crashed,

taking it all back.

Gretchen, 8th grade

@ Teen Poetry

The importance of Books

Reading

Just because reading really feels like home, even when we are far away :)

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"Semana da Leitura" 2012

March 12 to March 16 was the Reading Week at Escola Básica e Secundária de Pinheiro! This year, under the motto "Cooperation and Solidarity", students prepared their favourite texts, songs and drama moments and presented them to the whole school community, in Portuguese, in English or in French.

To all the students who made it happen so well, my deepest thank you! I'm really proud of YOUR work!!!

World Poetry Day - March 21

World Poetry Day was declared by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) in 1999 and is celebrated today. The aim is to promote the reading, writing and teaching of poetry. According to UNESCO: "World Poetry Day is an invitation to reflect on the power of language and the full development of each person’s creative abilities."
If you are a teacher and want to encourage your students to read or write a poem, check The Guardian Teacher Network's suggestions and resources, follow this link:
The Guardian Teacher Network
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Literature Map

Literature-Map is a site that gives you a diagram of authors that it thinks you might like based on the author you put in the search bar. The closer to the original author the new one is, the more closely related they are to your search author. Here is an example for J. K. Rowling. Check it for yourself, it's great!