"I thought it was the most random stuff happening with cards and characters that are really weird." "We got to be creative and draw all these pictures and think with our minds," she said.
Megan Jensen, 13, said it was a respite from the academic rigors of studying for the FCAT. "What makes me feel good is that we worked really hard and put a little bit of us in it," she said. Megan said she liked using her imagination and would highly recommend the book to others, although she initially feared it would be boring. We just had a lot of fun with it."įor example, Megan Borden, 13, likened the queen's "Off with their heads" line to moms yelling at their children for doing something stupid. "I was impressed with the fact that they felt prepared to write a much more difficult essay on their own. "Most chose the latter and did a good job," Kern said. On the students' final exam, they could write an essay on how Alice had changed over the course of the book, or they could interpret the symbolism of three characters or items from a teen's viewpoint. The questions included, "How does Alice start to change emotionally" (She started to speak up for herself) and "What did Alice check the bottle of liquid for before she drank it?" (poison). If they answered correctly, they got to play croquet. The students were divided into groups of four and asked questions about the book. They brought it to life."Ībout that game. This is what reading is all about - to see what it looks like. This is like the coolest thing I have ever seen. Kathleen Murray, a sixth-grade teacher, popped in and exclaimed over and over: "Wow, wow, wow. Meanwhile, the Cheshire Cat, minus his body, flashed his mischievous grin from a nearby tree. They hung a construction paper rose tree from the ceiling and a flamingo or two. Kern's language-art students then painted red rose petals (except for some that were still the despised white), as well as orange, green, yellow and brown leaves. Art students painted them green, as well as history fair display boards representing hedges and shrubs. Kern and the teens removed the furniture and got large plastic tablecloths for a buck each that they draped around the room. "We each took a different theme, but his was the most fabulous," said Catherine Fenner, who did the Hall of Doors. Kern's was so creative that it drew praise and responses of "awesome" from teachers who dropped by last week to take a look. "Besides, it's a real fun read."Īs a culminating event, the school's five language arts teachers decorated their classrooms to depict scenes from the book. "It's mostly to introduce the students to classic literature and discuss figurative language, symbolism and interpretive text," Kern said. At the slightest offense, her favorite line is "Off with their heads!"īut relax, parents, your kids made it safely through the game.įor nine weeks, seventh-grade language arts students at the Hood Road school studied the famous children's book, known for its rich symbolism and quirky characters. It's a croquet field where the balls are hedgehogs, and the mallets are flamingos. Step inside and you're transported into a scene from Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland." The foul-tempered monarch is pictured on the inner door of teacher Jon Kern's seventh-grade classroom at Mandarin Middle School. After all, her soldiers (playing cards, though they may be) have mistakenly planted white roses and are feverishly trying to cover their error by painting them red. The situation still casts some doubt in her husband, Peter (Magnus Krepper), and that's when the remorseless Ann is forced to make a decision between her family/career and Gustav.The Queen of Hearts looks angry enough to chop off their heads. This moody drama has its pinnacle point when Anne’s secret is blatantly exposed. The explicitness of the sex scenes was an object of severe criticism, but they served to make the story more real, painful, and intensely felt. She is Anne, a successful lawyer and mother of two who seduces her 17-year-old stepson, Gustav (Gustav Lindh), recently after he has joined the family. With a razor-sharp performance, Trine Dyrholm can be classified as the director’s secret weapon, contributing heavily for the film’s triumph. Co-writter Maren Louise Käehne and director May el-Toukhy had teamed up before in Long Story Short (2015). Hailing from Denmark, Queen of Hearts is a spellbinding tale of luxury crammed with sexual tension and moral controversy.
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