Short horror stories

It's been Halloween, but it doesn't mean that fear is gone. So now we are expecting you to tell us about those scary and frightenig facts that you can imagine. We encourage you to participate writing the scariest, the most thrilling and breathtaking short horror story you can imagine. Your story must contain between 120 and 150 words. Send your story in Google Classroom. The best stories will be published here and will get a special award! 

Ideas for pranks

Penguin's April Fools Month

As you may have noticed, our previous post about the flying penguins was just a prank on April Fools Day! 

Here we leave you the making of the prank. 

And here we start the April Fools Month, during which we will show you some other pranks, jokes, ideas for pranks and we also encourage you to contribute showing or practicing with your pranks... But don't mess it up with the teachers. This is, for sure, forbidden!!

Flying penguins (World's Penguin Day)

Watch this shocking new!! You will be amazed!!

Women in poetry (Emily Dickinson)

I’m Nobody! Who are you?

Emily Dickinson, 1830 - 1886

I’m Nobody! Who are you?

Are you – Nobody – too?

Then there’s a pair of us!

Don’t tell! they’d advertise – you know!

How dreary – to be – Somebody!

How public – like a Frog –  

To tell one’s name – the livelong June –  

To an admiring Bog!

Women in poetry (Sylvia Plath)

Mirror

I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.

What ever you see I swallow immediately

Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike.

I am not cruel, only truthful---

The eye of a little god, four-cornered.

Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall.

It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so long

I think it is a part of my heart. But it flickers.

Faces and darkness separate us over and over.

Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me,

Searching my reaches for what she really is.

Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon.

I see her back, and reflect it faithfully.

She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands.

I am important to her. She comes and goes.

Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness.

In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman

Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.

Women in poetry (Gwendolin Brooks)

We Real Cool

Gwendolyn Brooks, 1917 - 2000

                 THE POOL PLAYERS.
                  SEVEN AT THE GOLDEN SHOVEL.



We real cool. We
Left school. We

Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We

Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We

Jazz June. We
Die soon.

Women in poetry (Diane Z. Shore)

Get Out of Bed!

by Diane Z. Shore

"Get out of bed, you silly fool!

Get up right now, it’s time for school.

If you don’t dress without a fuss,

I’ll throw you naked on the bus!"

"Oh, Mom, don’t make me go today.

I’m feeling worse than yesterday.

You don’t know what I’m going through.

I’ve got a strange, rare case of flu.

"My body aches, my throat is sore.

I’m sure I’m knocking on death’s door.

You can’t send me to school—achoo!—

’Cause everyone could get it, too.

"Besides, the kids despise me there.

They always tease and always stare.

And all the teachers know my name.

When something’s wrong, it’s me they blame."

"You faked a headache yesterday.

Don’t pull that stuff on me today.

Stop acting like a silly fool—

The principal cannot skip school!"

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Women in poetry (Rupy Kaur)

"Our work should equip

the next generation of women

to outdo us in every field

this is the legacy we'll leave behind" - Rupi Kaur

https://www.instagram.com/rupikaur_/?utm_source=ig_embed

Women in poetry (Maya Angelou)

Still I Rise

Maya Angelou, 1928 - 2014

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
‘Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I’ll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries?

Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don’t you take it awful hard
‘Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines
Diggin’ in my own backyard.

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I’ve got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I rise
I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.

Manifesto of the shameless woman

Sod the stereotypes

Here we leave you some stereotypes about women which should be avoided

International Women's Day

On March 8th we celebrate the International Women's Day.

Here we leave you the video of this year's campaign (#BalanceforBetter#), and a little explanation related to the history of this festivity, the context and how it all started... 

Thanks and congratulations to all women that have contributed and are still contributing every single day to make a better society!! 

"The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights" Gloria Steinem.

• 1909   The first National Woman's Day was observed in the United States on 28 February. The Socialist Party of America designated this day in honour of the 1908 garment workers' strike in New York, where women protested against working conditions.
• 1910   The Socialist International, meeting in Copenhagen, established a Women's Day, international in character, to honour the movement for women's rights and to build support for achieving universal suffrage for women.
• 1911   As a result of the Copenhagen initiative, International Women's Day was marked for the first time (19 March) in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland, where more than one million women and men attended rallies. In addition to the right to vote and to hold public office, they demanded women's rights to work, to vocational training and to an end to discrimination on the job.
• 1913-1914   International Women's Day also became a mechanism for protesting World War I. As part of the peace movement, Russian women observed their first International Women's Day on the last Sunday in February. Elsewhere in Europe, on or around 8 March of the following year, women held rallies either to protest the war or to express solidarity with other activists.
• 1917   Against the backdrop of the war, women in Russia again chose to protest and strike for "Bread and Peace" on the last Sunday in February (which fell on 8 March on the Gregorian calendar). Four days later, the Czar abdicated and the provisional Government granted women the right to vote.

• 1975 During International Women's Year, the United Nations began celebrating International Women's Day on 8 March.
• 1995  The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, a historic roadmap signed by 189 governments, focused on 12 critical areas of concern, and envisioned a world where each woman and girl can exercise her choices, such as participating in politics, getting an education, having an income, and living in societies free from violence and discrimination.
• 2014 The 58th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW58) – the annual gathering of States to address critical issues related to gender equality and women’s rights — focused on “Challenges and achievements in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals for women and girls”.

We should all be feminists

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian writer who in 2012 gave a speech in a TED event about women and feminism. Here you have the video of that speech:

We should all be feminists- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

 

We can do it!

We finish a shitty month and start a new topic

This is the result of a month's work:

Now we start a new month, and it's going to be about women!

And the Tongue Twisters' Awards go to...

TONGUE TWISTERS CHALLENGE WINNERS:

(YOU CAN GO AND TAKE YOUR PRIZE IN THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT)

1A: ALEJANDRO MORGADES

1B: NÚRIA VILADROSA

1C: POL PASANAU

1D: HASNA EL BINI

2A: BIEL MOLINA

2B: MOHAMED ZAHRANI

2C: NAOMI GÓMEZ

2D: DANIEL PÉREZ

We also want to acknowledge the effort from all the contestants. Congratulations!!!

Artist's shit

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Synonims of poop

Urban dictionary

whoopsie, crap, shoot, sugar, damn, poop, answering the call of the wild, Growing a monkey tail

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