Children's Literature (Week Sixteen)- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

1. Before the lesson
(1) The usage of writing down a name of a book or a story
     a. The name of a short story-->  using the quotation  eg. "The Little Mermaid"
     b. The name of a whole book--> using the underline  eg. Charlotte's Web

(2) Bildungsroman: It is a german word. Bild means like cultivate and roman means novel. It is 

     novel of education. However, it is not going to educate the readers.

(3) Initiation: Ini- is a prefix which means start or begin. In an extended sense it can also signify a 

      transformation in which the initiate is 'reborn' into a new role. 
(4) Creativity is not something that can be imitated or reproduced.

(5) The Everlasting Childhood in a Picaresque Bildungsroman: Understanding Mark Twain’s The 

      Adventures of Tom Sawyer  Author: T. Sara Sun 

      Quotation: 「《湯姆歷險記》的確擁有許多兒童文學經典的共通特質：諸如
    爭取小讀者認同的孩童主角(child protagonist)、弱勢族群的集結以挑戰權
    威、領導統禦(leader)與兄弟情誼(brotherhood)、追求夢想與冒險等暢銷
    元素。」

(6) Literature form Western are not that care about moral lessons. Most of the time, they 
      just reflected or told the truth.

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2. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz 

(1) The author of this book is L. Frank Baum and the illustrator is W. W. Denslow.

(2) This name is actual an ironic name because there is no wonderful thing happened in Oz and the 

      Wizard is not a wizard, either. He is just a magician who was took here from Tornado. 

(3) The main conflict in this book is to find the wizard Oz. As for the wonderful and wizard, then we 

      don't have to discuss them again.

(4) Through this book and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, we can find out that the main roles 

      in adventure fantasy have something in common－Their parents would never be mentioned 

      in the books. 
(5) Describe a character with three objects.
      eg. Tin Man- oil can (because of rust), axe, no heart

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3. Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Academy Awards 2011 video)

Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high
There's a land that I heard of
Once in a lullaby

Somewhere over the rainbow
Skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream
Really do come true

Some day I'll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where troubles melt like lemondrops
Away above the chimney tops
That's where you'll find me

Somewhere over the rainbow
Bluebirds fly
Birds fly over the rainbow
Why then, oh why can't I?
Some day I'll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where troubles melt like lemondrops
Away above the chimney tops
That's where you'll find me

Somewhere over the rainbow
Bluebirds fly
Birds fly over the rainbow
Why then, oh why can't I?

If happy little bluebirds fly
Beyond the rainbow
Why, oh why can't I?

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4. Vocabularies and Phrases

(1) baptism 受洗禮

(2) confirmation 堅信儀式

(3) commencement 畢業典禮

(4) cowardly (adj.) 形容詞的-ly結尾: friendly, elderly, deadly (eg. seven deadly sins) 

(5) emerald 綠寶石