(Half a) Story Hour - Episode 8
Episode 8, “Anne of Green Gables: To the Last Page of Chapter Two”
In this episode, we learn more about the land and people around Green Gables, and Matthew Cuthbert’s orphan companion looks forward to having a home…
Tough stuff in this episode: orphan experience, historical erasure
⭐️ Bonus ⭐️
Vocabulary: alabaster brow, ingenuously, rose window, cathedral aisle, rapturously, splendo(u)r, reverie, star-led, profound, amber-hued, crocus, ethereal, elusive tintings, translucent, mournfully, ruminated, spade up, heathenish, jackknife, crest, mellow, wistful
(Inter)active reading: Visualise, predict
For teachers: Draw a map of the land and sea near Green Gables based on the descriptions in the story. Extra challenge: try to “zoom in” on a couple of places and draw them in detail… (Remember, stick figures are fine!) 🎨✏️
Discussion question: What do you think will happen to our orphan when she finally reaches Green Gables and meets Matthew’s sister, Marilla Cuthbert? 💬
Musical interlude: “Aviary” from Le Carnaval des animaux by Camille Saint-Saëns 🦜🐦⬛🕊️🦚🦩
Other Stuff…
Diana as Huntress or Diana the Huntress by Bernardino Cametti, now kept at the Bode-Museum in Berlin (image: Yair Haklai via Wikimedia Commons).
This statue of the Roman goddess Diana is made of marble, but it’s about the same colour as the alabaster we talk about in this episode! 🪨
Easter 🪺: Did you catch a visit from a truck - plus someone escaped from the aviary? 🛻🐦⬛