English Children's Literature(Week5)

• Bratrix Potter

Helen Beatrix Potter (28 July 1866 – 22 December 1943) was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist best known for her children's books featuring animals, such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit.
Though Potter was typical of women of her generation in having limited opportunities for higher education, her study and watercolors of fungi led to her being widely respected in the field of mycology. In her thirties, Potter published the highly successful children's book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Potter began writing and illustrating children's books full-time.

                                 

• Camomile tea

Chamomile or camomile (/ˈkæməˌmaɪl, -ˌmiːl/ ) is the common name for several daisy-like plants of the family Asteraceae that are commonly used to make herb infusions to serve various medicinal purposes. Popular uses of chamomile preparations include treating hay fever, inflammation, muscle spasms, menstrual disorders, insomnia, ulcers, gastrointestinal disorders, and haemorrhoids. Camomile tea is also used to treat skin conditions such as eczema, chickenpox and psoriasis.
       

• Dante and Beatrice

Beatrice was Dante’s true love: she was a real person, and Dante decided to use her as an important character in his masterpiece, The Divine Comedy.Tradition says that Dante and Beatrice were also neighbors outside the walls of Florence—near the hill of Fiesole, where the Portinari and Alighieri families had two neighboring summer villas. It is plausible that Dante and Beatrice met each other as children there.He meets her again after nine years in an unexpected way: Beatrice was walking with two women on Lungarno (one of the Florence streets along the Arno River).

• Florence

Florence was a centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of the time. It is considered the birthplace of the Renaissance, and has been called "the Athens of the Middle Ages". A turbulent political history includes periods of rule by the powerful Medici family, and numerous religious and republican revolutions. From 1865 to 1871 the city was the capital of the recently established Kingdom of Italy.

• Charlotte's Web

🔼Words

converse➡chat

salutations➡hello 

languishing➡weaken

🔼Greeting

'' My name is _______.'' 

'' What's your name?'' 

''Great name!''

🔼Vocabulary

promise(v.) to +sb

keep/make/break the promise(n.)

🔼Phrase

Ignorance is blessing.

People manipulate the facts to meet the individual demand.

Say grace 謝飯