(Half a) Story Hour - Episode 3

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Written By I.M.N. Vaissi
Title card for (Half a) Story Hour, Episode 3: a cartoon fox looks up at a podcasting microphone in front of a stack of books on a wooden desk; background: a wooden crate, a marquee letter "I," a small toadstool and black-and-white cat curtains.

Episode 3, “Anne of Green Gables: We Keep Reading Chapter One”

In this episode, we keep reading Chapter One of Anne of Green Gables. Our favourite nosy neighbour, Mrs. Rachel Lynde, is astonished by what she learns from her friend Marilla Cuthbert over at Green Gables…

Tough stuff in this episode: hanging (mentioned in a joking way), the British Empire, orphan experience

⭐️ Bonus ⭐️

Vocabulary: patriarchal (of trees), Lombardies, overbrimming, proverbial, bidden, parlour, dissimilarity, conscience, indicative, unaccountably, orphan asylum, stricken dumb, in earnest

(Inter)active reading suggestion: Visualise and make connections

For teachers: Draw what you saw (remember, stick figures are fine!) - challenge: can you draw a picture of Marilla Cuthbert? How about her kitchen? 🎨

Discussion question: based on the “mystery” so far, how do you think we’ll end up with “Anne” of Green Gables? 💬

Musical interlude: “Turtles” from Le Carnaval des animaux by Camille Saint-Saëns

Other Stuff…

Still from an Orchestre de Paris performance of Offenbach's "Galop infernal" (from Orpheus in the Underworld) provided to YouTube by EuroArtsChannel, showing an orchestra pit surrounded by an audience on their feet.

L’Orchestre de Paris performs the « Galop infernal » (the “Infernal Gallop”) from Jacques Offenbach’s opera, Orpheus in the Underworld.

Where else have you heard this musical meme? 🎶

Easter 🪺: Another cough in our musical interlude… people gotta cough!

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