(Half a) Story Hour - Episode 12
Episode 12, “Anne of Green Gables: We Read More of Chapter Four”
Anne spends a morning at Green Gables talking entirely too much, doing the dishes deftly enough, and daydreaming while Marilla resists the spell she has already cast over Matthew.
Tough stuff in this episode: death, sadness
⭐️ Bonus ⭐️
Follow along here: Anne of Green Gables
Vocabulary: bear up under affliction, sorrows, heroically, for pity’s sake, abstracted, mechanically, unswervingly, remote, cloudland, borne aloft, unaccountable, whim, persistency, potent, effectual, reverie, kindred spirit, deftly, discerned, feather tick, threshold, blotted out, extinguisher, martyr, acquainted, hinder, resigned, geranium, handle (as in “name”), cellar, relapsed, pilgrimage, aggravating
(Inter)active reading: Visualise, make connections, ask questions, make inferences
For teachers: Can you draw Anne’s “remote airy cloudland” - where she’s “borne aloft on the wings of imagination?” How about a cloudland of your own? Where do you go when you daydream? 💭✏️🎨
Discussion question: Do you agree with Anne’s statement that “There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them?” 💬
Musical interlude: “Finale” from Le Carnaval des animaux by Camille Saint-Saëns ✨
Other Stuff…
Our candle extinguisher back home: you can see the wax where it has been clapped on many candles to extinguish them (or put them out).
(Image: J&R Photoshop)
Here is an apple-scented geranium like the one Marilla has on her windowsill - apparently they really do smell like apples!
(Image: David J. Stang via Wikimedia Commons)
Easter 🪺: What do we finally hear at the end of the “Finale” of Le Carnaval des animaux?