The Happy Prince - Long Review -

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"The eyes of the Happy Prince are full of tears, and tears are running down his golden cheeks. His face is so beautiful in the moonlight that the little Swallow feels sad.
"Who are you?" he asks.
"I am the Happy Prince.""

This story is also famous in Japan. In Japan, we call the story "Ko-fuku na Ouji". From this story, we can read the kindness both of the Happy Prince's and the Swallow's.  Some thinks it is sad story, I think. But I felt a warm story. I thought this book shows homosexuality because Oscar Wild himself, who was the story's writer, was a homosexual, but homosexuality was prohibited at that time so he wrote he's secret emotion in the story. 



We used this book in the second Literature Circle. I'll show you the member's comments.
Miyu
My favorite scene in the story is the part where the angel appears. The angel delivers the abandoned prince and the dead swallow to God, saying that they are the most beautiful things in the city. God sees the prince and the swallow's kind deeds. It's sad that they died, but I like this scene best.

I found this book interesting, and it reaffirmed to me that kindness to people is important .
Also, it's not that many words, so anyone can read it easily. For these reasons, I recommend this book, The Happy prince.

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Lesson 3

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  Today's lesson is about the effect of native languages. I was surprised that babies get rid of pronunciations which they don't need so we can't speak another languages well. I also think the differences between Japan and other countries in the class. For example, we usually take a lesson so quietly in Japan, but in America, many students tell others their opinions in a class. The culture shock affects learning other languages so we should not only practice to speak other languages but also study other countries' cultures in order to learn other languages. 
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THE CARIBBEAN FILE

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'Take a look at these,' said Naylor.   He put two photos in front of Munro. Two men. There were names on the photos. One man was dark, Asian maybe. His name was Sam Tajik. The second man looked European - German or Scandinavian. Jonas Beck.   ' Sam Tajik. Jonas Beck,' said Naylor. 'Dangerous men. Terrorists.'   Naylor and Munro looked at photos which two men were reflected in. The two men are terrorists and they faced each other in the photos. Naylor and Munro felt that something bad would happen, so they looked for the two terrorists. What would happend? Could they found the terrorists? 
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Lesson 5

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   Today’s lesson was about the way of studying foreign languages effectively. When teacher said repeating was good way, I remembered the way of studying English in high school. When I was a high school student, I had to take reading test in English class. It was we had to change Japanese into English. Of course it was difficult to do it instantly so I practiced many times at home and I took the test. I practiced it very hard at that time because I didn’t want to take the test again in teachers room if I couldn’t pass the test. However, I think the test was so effective to learn English. I don’t want to take the reading test forever but I should practice translating aloud like this test.
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