(Half a) Story Hour - Episode 6

Episode 6, “Anne of Green Gables: We Keep Reading Chapter Two”

In this episode, Matthew Cuthbert meets the orphaned child whom Mrs. Spencer has escorted over from Nova Scotia - and she is not at all what he and his sister Marilla were expecting…

Tough stuff in this episode: orphan experience, body image

⭐️ Bonus ⭐️

Vocabulary: garbed, wincey, vivacity, expressive, ludicrously, carpetbag, deferred, belted earl, a pick on my bones, lacy, homely, foreign missionary, bliss

(Inter)active reading: Visualise, make connections, ask questions, make inferences

For teachers: Can you write down any of the description words that help you visualise (see, hear, smell, feel, taste - in your imagination!) any of the action from the story today?

For example, the vocabulary word above, “lacy,” is an adjective - it describes a noun, and tells us that something is delicate and looks like it has cut-out patterns (like the fabric, lace)… 💭✏️

Discussion question: Is it right for Matthew Cuthbert to bring the “wrong” orphan home, and leave it to Marilla to figure things out? (What do you think might happen next?) 💬

Musical interlude: “Aquarium” from Le Carnaval des animauxby Camille Saint-Saëns 🪼

Other Stuff…

Did you make a connection between today’s movement of Le Carnaval des animaux and this magical music? (Music supplied to YouTube by Disney Music Group)

And in case you haven’t seen a lot of lace, here is some Venetian raised point lace from the Cleveland Museum of Art:

(Image: Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons)

Easter 🪺: Did you catch today’s visit from a special recording assistant? 🐈‍⬛