COMENIUS THE MAGIC OF READING THE POWER OF DISCOVERING OURSELVES READING CLUB HUNGARY

TIMETOPIC / BOOK / POEM TEACHER 25th November 2011 MiklósRadnóti: I cannot know... Federico Garcia Lorca: Selected Poems Ágnes Háda 9th December 2011 Zorba the Greek (film) Erika Medei Katalin Szeder 16th December 2011 Nikos Kazantzakis: Zorba the Greek C.P.Cavafy The Canon – The original one hundred and fifty-four poems Rita Wicher

TIMETOPIC / BOOK / POEM TEACHER 13th January Zahrad: Selected Poems Orhan Pamuk: The museum of innocence Erzsébet Knausz 27th January 2012 Dekameron (Film ) Ágnes Háda 3rd February 2012 Giovanni Boccaccio: Dekameron Carlo Collodi: Pinocchio Ágnes Háda 10th February 2012 Peter Esterhazy : Helping verbs of the heart Mária Varga

TIMETOPIC / BOOK / POEM TEACHER 17th February 2012 Mihai Eminescu: The evening star Mirceaa Eminescu: Bengal nights- film Erzsébet Knausz 24th February 2012 Wislawa Szymborska: Selected poetry Slawomir Mrozek : The elephant Rita Horváth 2nd March 2012 Don Quixote of la Mancha Rita Wicher

Miklós Radnóti - Frederico Garcia Lorca FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA by Miklós Radnóti Because you were loved by Hispania and lovers recited your poetry — they could do nothing else when they came, but kill you — for you were a poet. The people fight their battle now without you, Ai, Federico Garcia!Miklós Radnóti 1937

Shepherd Is it true what I hear? — on the crest of the wild Pyrenees, that blazing muzzles of cannon debate among corpses frozen in blood, that bears and soldiers alike take fright from that place? That armies of women, the child and the aged, run with their tightly-tied bundles and throw themselves down on the earth when death comes circling over? that corpses outnumber any who come there to clear them away? Say, for you knew him, did he that they call Federico survive? Poet No, It's been two years now since they struck him down in Granada. Shepherd García Lorca is dead! and yet there was no one would tell me! Rumors of war travel swiftly; of all men that one, the poet, vanishes thus! and Europe — did Europe mourn for him then? Poet Nobody noticed. Be glad if, finding the shattered lines in the embers where burnt the pyre, the rummaging wind should learn them; and if they inquire, then tell his inheritors nought else remains. (...) (Miklós Radnóti, First Eclogue, 1938, excerpt)

The meaning of the words, art, love, beauty, purity, passion, all this was made clear to me by the simplest of human words uttered by this workman.  The aim of man and matter is to create joy, according to Zorba – others would say ‘to create spirit,’ but that comes to the same thing on another plane. But why? With what object? And when the body dissolves, does anything at all remain of what we have called the soul? Or does nothing remain, and does our unquenchable desire for immortality spring, not from the fact that we are immortal, but from the fact that during the short span of our life we are in the service of something immortal?soulimmortality

“A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is: when I speak of writing, what comes first to my mind is not a novel, a poem, or literary tradition, it is a person who shuts himself up in a room, sits down at a table, and alone, turns inward; amid its shadows, he builds a new world with words.” ― Orhan PamukOrhan Pamuk

The Decameron is a climactic culmination of medieval storytelling. In this work, Boccaccio collects and retells 100 traditional stories with his own personal twist. In the frame to the stories, Boccaccio has ten aristocratic young people meet in the country outside Florence because of the plague that is rampant in the city. To while away the time, the young people decide to tell stories, one story each for each day that they are together in the country. They end up staying together ten days and telling 100 stories (10 days X 10 stories each day).

"Helping Verbs" is about the death of a parent, and its unique construction reinforces the concept that grief--or any emotion--can only be expressed through words, ideas, and forms already spoken. Linguistically and technically brilliant, it's also very moving.

There is no freedom, no culture, without work. Once on a time, as poets sing High tales with fancy laden, Born of a very noble king There lived a wondrous maiden. An only child, her kinsfolk boon, So fair, imagination faints; As though amidst the stars the moon, Or Mary amidst the saints From 'neath the castle's dark retreat, Her silent way she wended Each evening to the window- seat Where Lucifer attended.

Even the worst book can give us something to think about. I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again. Some Like Poetry Some - thus not all. Not even the majority of all but the minority. Not counting schools, where one has to, and the poets themselves, there might be two people per thousand. Like - but one also likes chicken soup with noodles, one likes compliments and the color blue, one likes an old scarf, one likes having the upper hand, one likes stroking a dog. Poetry - but what is poetry. Many shaky answers have been given to this question. But I don't know and don't know and hold on to it like to a sustaining railing.

In 'The Elephant' Mrozek parodied didactic tales. The director of the Zoological Gardens wants to reduce the costs of the establishment. He orders an elephant made out of rubber. Unluckily, it is filled with gas. Next morning children from a school visit the zoo. The teacher tells that "the weight of a fully grown elephant is between nine and thirteen thousand pounds." A gust of wind blows the elephant away. As a result, children start to neglect their studies. The story ends with a sad note: "And they no longer believe in elephants."

“Until death all is life. (Where there's life there's hope.) [Sp., Hasta la muerte todo es vida.]” The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works. The pen is the tongue of the mind.

MORAL VALUES What are Values?  Values are ideals that guide or qualify your personal conduct and interaction with others.  They help you to distinguish what is right from what is wrong and inform you on how you can conduct your life in a meaningful way.  Values are those things that are really important to us. The ideas and beliefs we hold as special.

 Love  Friendship  Appreciate traditions  Loyalty  Patriotism  Helping one another  Being noble  Generosity  Respect and loyal towards parents  Belief  Love for life  Being courageous  Speaking the truth  Wisdom  Politeness  Responsibility  Self-confident

get to know other countries’ literary work motivate students to read challenge students and colleagues co-operate with colleagues from other departments give students the opportunity to express their thoughts and feelings on the books give us –as teachers- the opportunity to see our students from another point of view improve their knowledge of English involve further genres such as films, music have fun

 difficult to meet the deadline ( 14 pieces of masterpiece in less than 5 months)  students are far too busy with their academic work  difficult to fulfil the requirements to read the books in English (short versions, Hungarian translation)  difficult to find a date suitable for a regular meeting  students had to be kept reminded to do what they were expected