The Pillars of the Earth, written by Ken Follet

It is a book that I really liked, because it tells three stories that started independently but finished together and you can learn a lot about this society and how to life in this time. Each of them relates a kind of life in that time.

The story set in the Medieval Age, with a society divided in levels, in the unequal Great Britain, where there’s a big Civil War to become the successor of the king, who was assassinated. One of these stories narrates the story about a monk and the corruption, the lies and the illegal agreements in the clergy. Another one tells about a noble family, with their help to the king in the war (changing always to who seems it’s going to win), their control of the crowd and the familiar agreements. The last story tells how an artisan family’s life is, in which the father is an architect and his dream is to build a cathedral.

All the stories focus around to village (called by the author “Kingsbridge”) where there’s an abbey, to its cathedral and to a noble family which is the antagonist (they try to destroy Kingsbridge and became powerful join forces with a corrupted bishop. In the book the years pass by quickly, even generations.

I liked this book a lot, and I recommend it to every one. I know it’s very big, but when you start it, you’re trapped by it.

Laro del Río, 4º C

Reading music

Se leen los libros, se leen las revistas, los periódicos y los diccionarios. Pero también se lee la música. En el Aula de Música del IES La Marina llevamos mucho tiempo leyendo partituras e interpretándolas, y como nos gusta compartirlas solemos grabarlas en video para la posteridad. Invitamos a todo el mundo a echar un vistazo a nuestro trabajo. Aquí teneis una muestra: El tema de la película Amelie interpretado por los alumnos de 4 curso. Podeis encontrar mucho más en nuestro canal de youtube.

You can read a book, you can read a magazine, a newspaper or a dictionary. But you can also read music. In our music classroom at IES La Marina we've been reading and performing scores for a long time. And because we like to share, we are used to recording our music in video. We'd like to invite everyone to have a look at our musical work. This performance is from the soundtrack of 'Amelie'. You can check out much more at our youtube channel.