Posted by Speakeasy News > Wednesday 26 June 2024 > What's On
Britain’s Women’s Prizes for 2024 have been awarded. The prize for fiction goes to American author V. V. Ganeshananthan for Brotherless Love, set during the Sri Lankan civil war. And the non-fiction prize, awarded at the same time this year, goes to Canadian author Naomi Klein for Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World, about … Continue reading “Women’s Prize Winners 2024”
Posted by Speakeasy News > Tuesday 07 May 2024 > Celebrate Shine Bright Lycée
Although he was one of the most cosmopolitan American authors, Paul Auster will forever remain indelibly linked with New York and specifically Brooklyn. The author of Moon Palace, The New York Trilogy and films such as Smoke, died there on 30 April at the age of 77 from lung cancer which had been diagnosed in … Continue reading “Brooklyn Mourns Paul Auster”
Posted by Speakeasy News > Friday 03 May 2024 > Pedagogy Shine Bright Lycée
There are a few changes in the LLCER Terminale set texts list for 2024-2026 and we’re wondering which of the new works you’re planning to work on, so we can plan our publishing schedule for associated Reading Guides. Which is your priority between Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah and Jane Campion’s … Continue reading “LLCER: Your Choice of New Works for Terminale 2025?”
Posted by Speakeasy News > Monday 19 February 2024 > Pedagogy Shine Bright Lycée
If you are studying the 1961 film of West Side Story with your LLCER 1ère students, our Reading Guide will help them analyse key scenes, explore the background and inspiration to the work, and different iterations of this story of star-crossed lovers. West Side Story is a 20th century retelling of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet set … Continue reading “Our West Side Story Reading Guide Has Arrived”
Posted by Speakeasy News > Friday 26 January 2024 > Ready to Use Shine Bright Lycée
Netflix has released its own version of Poe’s famous Fall of the House of Usher in which gothic becomes horror in a modern-world setting with a whirlwind of characters and action. This is a perfect occasion for LLCER students to not only work on the short story itself but also compare it to the mini-series and … Continue reading “The Fall of the House of Usher TV Series”
Posted by Speakeasy News > Wednesday 24 January 2024 > Shine Bright Collège Shine Bright Lycée What's On
Steven Spielberg’s 1985 film The Color Purple was extremely unusual for having an almost entirely African-American cast. (Alice Walker, whose 1982 novel it is based on, was the first ever African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.) The film is an enduring classic, and the musical-theatre version of the story is now hitting … Continue reading “The Color Purple Returns”
Posted by Speakeasy News > Thursday 04 January 2024 > Shine Bright Lycée What's On
The new Netflix TV series The Fall of the House of Usher is inspired by the famous Edgar Allan Poe story but in a pretty tangential way. The horror mini-series keeps the Usher twins Roderick and Madeline but far from being the last members of a dying family they are the heads of a family … Continue reading “Edgar Allan Poe 21st Century Reboot”
Posted by Speakeasy News > Friday 15 December 2023 > Shine Bright Lycée What's On
Gertrude Stein is probably best known for her “salon” in Paris where she nurtured artistic talents as diverse as Matisse and Braque, Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and James Joyce. But her experimental, minimalist writing has been highly influential on generations of creatives right up to today, as is shown in the Gertrude Stein and Picasso: … Continue reading “Gertrude Stein Multi-talented”
Posted by Speakeasy News > Friday 03 November 2023 > Pedagogy
If you are studying Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 with your LLCER 1ère students, you may want to take them to see this theatre adaptation in French which will be touring the country from January. Bradbury’s dystopian novel about a future world in which firemen don’t put out fires but instead burn books is a new … Continue reading “Fahrenheit 451 In Theatres around France”
Posted by Speakeasy News > Friday 23 June 2023 > Pedagogy Shine Bright Lycée
There are a few changes in the LLCER 1ère set texts list for 2023-2026 and lots of you have been asking if we are going to publish a Reading Guide for Fahrenheit 451. The answer is yes, and we’re also going to publish our first Film Guide for 1ère: West Side Story. The updated list … Continue reading “LLCER Update and Two Upcoming Reading Guides”
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