(Half a) Story Hour - Episode 11
Episode 11, “Anne of Green Gables: We Finish Chapter Three and Start Chapter Four”
Anne spends the night at Green Gables and wakes to a world of wonders out her gable window, while Marilla and Matthew discuss what to do with their unexpected guest.
Tough stuff in this episode: orphan experience, pipe smoking, dandelions*
*Just kidding.
⭐️ Bonus ⭐️
Follow along here: Anne of Green Gables
Vocabulary: garments, raiment, tempestuous, prim, perturbation, a pretty kettle of fish, wrathfully, predilection, stammered, resolutely, heart-hungry, remembrance, sash (window), glistening, boughs, thickset, blossoms, fragrance, lush, scores, upspringing, airily, suggestive, lingered, comprehensively, radiantly, edgewise, consciousness, pervading
(Inter)active reading: Visualise, make connections
For teachers: Draw the view out Anne’s east gable sash window:
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Discussion question: How do you think Matthew Cuthbert feels about sending Anne back to the orphan asylum? What clues in the text hint at what he really thinks? 💬
Musical interlude: “The Swan” from Le Carnaval des animaux by Camille Saint-Saëns 🦢
Other Stuff…
The story talks about a small wood (in Finnish that’s called a metsikkö) “where scores of white birches grew, upspringing airily out of an undergrowth suggestive of delightful possibilities in ferns and mosses and woodsy things generally…”
This ruin of an old house in the Odenwald Forest in Germany is overgrown with moss (the fuzzy stuff) and sits in a woodsy undergrowth full of ferns (the lacy, frondy things):
(Image: Roman Eisele via Wikimedia Commons)
…and this oak forest understory is full of moss (and is apparently an excellent habitat for millipedes):
(Image: Marek, Shear and Bond via Wikimedia Commons)
…and here’s my boy as a “teenager” by a white birch on one of our cross-country drives: I think we could say it’s “upspringing airily,” don’t you?
Easter 🪺: You tell us!