1st ESO: Love of a Dragon Project

ST JORGE'S PROJECT: Love of a Dragon

We all know the old legend of St. Jorge and the dragon. A courageous knight fights a terrible monster to save the girl. But... we are going to change the story a little...

Imagine that you are a knight or a princess or a school girl or boy and that you fall in love with a monster; how is it? What problems or funny situations would you encounter?

Look at the book by Tim Burton, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy. You can have some inspiration.

Here you can watch a video about the poem "The Girl with Many Eyes"

The girl with many eyes
Tim Burton (EEUU, 1958 - )

One day in the park
I had quite a surprise.
I met a girlwho had many eyes.

She was really quite pretty
(and also quite shocking!)
and I noticed she had a mouth,
so we ended up talking.

We talked about flowers,
and her poetry classes,
and the problems she'd have
if she ever wore glasses.

It's great to now a girl
who has so many eyes,
but you really get wet
when she breaks down and cries.

Here you can watch a video based on "Robot boy"

Robot Boy
Tim Burton (EEUU, 1958 - )

Mr. an Mrs. Smith had a wonderful life.
They were a normal, happy husband and wife.
One day they got news that made Mr. Smith glad.
Mrs. Smith would would be a mom
which would make him the dad!
But something was wrong with their bundle of joy.
It wasn't human at all,
it was a robot boy!
He wasn't warm and cuddly
and he didn't have skin.
Instead there was a cold, thin layer of tin.
There were wires and tubes sticking out of his head.
He just lay there and stared,
not living or dead.

The only time he seemed alive at all
was with a long extension cord
plugged into the wall.

Mr. Smith yelled at the doctor,
"What have you done to my boy?
He's not flesh and blood,
he's aluminum alloy!"

The doctor said gently,
"What I'm going to say
will sound pretty wild.
But you're not the father
of this strange looking child.
You see, there still is some question
about the child's gender,
but we think that its father
is a microwave blender.

"The Smith's lives were now filled
with misery and strife.
Mrs. Smith hated her husband,
and he hated his wife.
He never forgave her unholy alliance:
a sexual encounter
with a kitchen appliance.

And Robot Boy
grew to be a young man.

Though he was often mistaken
for a garbage can.

Tim Burton's first short film: Vincent

Vincent Text

See last year's project