Key to FR and HR
Fast Reading: dccab, cdbca, cdccd
Home Reading: abccd, cbdbb
Text for Home Reading
About the author
Jane Yolen has authored or edited more than 200 books, mostly for children. Some of her titles include the Caldecott Medal book Owl Moon, the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award novels Cards of Grief为什么警察对闯红灯的汽车司机视而不见 and Briar Rose (both for adults) and the "Young Merlin Trilogy" (for young readers). She has also written the "Books of Great Alta" including Sister Light, Sister Dark and White Jenna for adults. Perhaps for her short stories, Jane has been called a Hans Christian Andersen for our time.
About the story
If you haven't read Sleeping Ugly by Jane Yolen you are missing out on one of the best m
odern fairy tales of all times. Yolen's sophisticated sense of humor fills page after page of this twisted tale. Girls and boys alike will be happy to see the rightful victor for once at the end of this story.
Consider how Yolen creates her characters. They all have distinctive looks, personalities and backgrounds. Students can experiment with just creating their own characters and sharing these creations. Also compare Sleeping Ugly to Sleeping Beauty and practice making statements and backing them up with examples.
Consider how Yolen creates her characters. They all have distinctive looks, personalities and backgrounds. Students can experiment with just creating their own characters and sharing these creations. Also compare Sleeping Ugly to Sleeping Beauty and practice making statements and backing them up with examples.
More comments on the story
In this story (which is not to be missed!) many of the usual things happen but it is all jumbled up into a frothy tale-with a gentle moral about beauty. This story does have a beautiful Princess, a sleeping curse and a wake-up kiss! It is about the antics and misfortunes of Princess Miserella who is beautiful on the outside and ugly on the inside a
In this story (which is not to be missed!) many of the usual things happen but it is all jumbled up into a frothy tale-with a gentle moral about beauty. This story does have a beautiful Princess, a sleeping curse and a wake-up kiss! It is about the antics and misfortunes of Princess Miserella who is beautiful on the outside and ugly on the inside a
nd Plain Jane who is ugly on the outside and beautiful on the inside and a Fairy godmother who gets so angry at both of them that she casts a sleeping spell that puts everyone asleep - including herself! Enter an impoverished prince who had read his share of fairy tales so that he knows just what he is supposed to do - except he has never kissed anyone before! So who will he kiss And then what?
This is one mean, rotten princess, ladies and gentleman. She kicks kittens and she throws pies in the cook's face. She's beautiful on the outside, but wickedly, wickedly cruel on the inside. She is Princess Miserella, and she is about to have a Very Bad Day.
We are also introduced to Miss Plain Jane, a sweet, kind and righteous soul who lives in a small cottage in the woods. Jane has many, many animal friends. So many, in fact, that unfortunately her little cottage stinks. Yet, through it all, she is a good and kind person!
While galloping through the woods one day, kicking her horse, Princess Miserella was thrown from the steed and left to her own affairs within the thickets. She comes across an old woman sleeping under a tree, who is in fact a fairie. She gives her a good, hard kick on the soles of the feet to wake her up, and the Fairy realizes at once that this is going to be a Very Bad Day for Princess Miserella.
The remainder of the book is devoted to Princess Miserella getting her just desserts. The Good Miss Jane is offered three wishes, and misuses them all by bailing out the horrible Miserella each time she annoys or angers the Fairy. All three people are accidentally put t
o sleep when the Good Fairy makes an error in judgment with her wand, and they are awoken hundreds of years later by-guess who? You guessed correctly-a handsome prince! I love the thought processes running through the Prince's head as he observes the three creatures and wonders who to kiss first, all the time calling himself a "pauper with absolutely nothing to offer".Not to mention he had never kissed anyone else before, except for his mother, but that didn't count. Nor his father, since he had a scratchy beard.
This book is all about opposites and paradox and done so well to achieve that flabbergasting reverse effect in our mindsets.
会计准考证打印This book is all about opposites and paradox and done so well to achieve that flabbergasting reverse effect in our mindsets.
The concept of Good versus Evil and what is beautiful on the outside not necessarily being beautiful on the inside is illustrated quite well in this book. The prose is very funny, with witticisms from both the good fairy and Plain Jane bound to tickle the funnybone of any third or fourth grader. I would recommend this book for the ages 6 to 12, since the universal appeal of a Princess Ugly rather than Beautiful is bound to intrigue the children.
Language notes
1. In that very same kingdom, in the middle of the woods, lived a poor orphan named Plain Jane.
(在同一个王国,在树林深处,住着一个贫穷的孤儿，叫普莱恩·简。)
The word 我为党旗添光彩演讲稿plain is an euphemistic expression to describe a person, especially a woman, who is not pretty or good-looking or rather ugly. The name Plain Jane informs the reader immediately of the girl's not good-looking appearance.
2. One day Princess Miserella rode out of the palace in a huff.
In a huff is originally a phrase meaning in a state of bad manner. Here the author relates a huff to a carriage for humorous effect.
好看的爱情片排行榜3. But Jane made the best of it.
(简却充分利用了小屋。)
Make the best of means to make the best use of.
e.g. They made the best of the situation.
4.Plain Jane smiled a thin little smile.个人博客申请
(普莱恩 简淡淡地笑了笑。)
Thin here means lacking in strength and fullness.
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5. Just to be mean, Miserella stamped her foot again.
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