ROMAN HSPANIA

The Roman inheritance:

The use of Latin in the scientific name of plants.

Citrus sinensis

Linum usitatissimum

Castanea sativa

Pisum sativum

Triticum aestivum

Juglans regia

Arce Program- Knowing and sharing the Roman Hispania

We won´t search the names of all the plants…

We take this chance to read the work of La dama del Alba, by our countryman Alejandro casona

We take notice of the aforementioned plants. We write down the Act, the page, the name of the

character and the phrase. We look for the scientific name of these plants. we get informed about other aspects of each plant. we showe it in panels and multimedia format We make the test (slides 42-47) We note down the sources.

Alejandro Casona,La Dama del Alba,Centenary edition,Hércules Astur de Ediciones, Oviedo, 2003.

We use the deluxe edition commemorating the centenary of the birth of the author

The illustrations in this carefully edited copy show the importance of nature in the work of alejandro Casona

WALNUT TREEJuglans regia

Rustic walnut furniture and an old clock

First Act, p. 51.

MARTÍN (Rough) – Then, it could be to prune the walnut tree or to yoke the oxen. Do I have to remember how it was?

Third Act, p. 100.

BroomCytisus scoparius

Grandfather (cutting bread) – The loaf is still hot. It smells to florished broom.

TELVA.- Broom and dried vine shoot; There´s nothing best to heat the oven. And what do you think of this golden colour? It´s is the last wheat of the place.

First Act pp. 51y 52.

2nd SANJUANERA.- On the contrary, the genista sparks and squirms at the stake like a green witch.

Third Act, p. 123.

GrapevineVitis viniferaTELVA.- (…) But he always brought me the first cluster of the vine

First Act, p. 56.

MADRE.- Even the grapevines. The evening is beautiful and the fields smell of summer. TELVA.- ¿Did you come to the town?MADRE.- Yes I did. ¡And it is so unfamiliar! The grapevine of the forge reaches the corridor; In the orchard there are new trees

Third Act, p. 101.

WheatTriticum aestivumMother.-Itis not the same. Your dear ones are underground, where the grass grows and the wheat ears too

First Act, p. 56.

ANDRÉS.- (…) She is joung, She has her hair as the wheat and white hands like a real lady.

First Act, p. 61.

ADELA (Collecting her needlework, thoughtfull) – When she looks at the wheatfields she is not that way.

Third Act, p.100.

Maíze - Zea mays

TELVA.- (…) ¿Didn´t you want to make a corn cake?

First Act, p.53.

PILGRIM.- There was once a little town with cows like honey and fields full of apple trees with white flowers between corn fields.

Third act, p. 118.

MARTÍN.- In the fountain, the water flower, and in the corn, the red ear.

Third Act, p. 140

HigueraFicus carica

TELVA.- and at the bottom, a fig tree leave to avoid the embers sticking

First Act, p.53.

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FALÍN.- The other day I threw one to the priest´s fig tree and everybody scoldedme. ADELA.- The

Acto tercero, p. 97

ANGÉLICA.figs must have been unriped- I still see him asleep in my arms with that little smile in his lips like two honey drops on the riped figs

Third Act, p. 138.

FIG TREEFicus carica

RosebushRosa canina

The mill boy enters the farmyard smiling with a rose which places under his ear

First Act, p. 54.PILGRIM.- I would also like to adorn myself with roses like peasant women, living among happy children han have a handsome man to love. But when I go to cut roses all the garden gets frozen.

Second Act, p 83. ADELA.- The queen, very jealous ordered to kill them both. From her a white rose was born; from him a hawthorn. And the branches were growing up till they joined together…

Third Act, p. 95MOTHER.- Even The houses seem whiter. And on the path to the mill whild roses have grown.

Third Act, p. 101.

(The pilgrim, alone, looks with melancholy at the crown of roses (…) she drops the mirror, she takes off the roses and she begins to take off the leaves)

Third Act, p. 133.PILGRIM.- (She puts a crown of roses on her hair)

Third Act, p. 138.QUICO.- Respected by four years of water, crowned with roses

Third Act, p.143

OAK TREEQuercus robur

TELVA.- Like an oak. It would have been hard to plunge an ax, but it flourished every year

First act, p. 56.

QUICO.- Do you like the bouquet? Oal, holly tree and laurel

Third Act, p. 102.

Oak treeQuercus robur

2º BOY.- And those of the mine uprooted the oak with all its roots

Third act, p.122.

PILGRIM.- a moment of courage, and your memory will be rooted in the village like an oak full of nests. Shall we go?

Third Act, p. 138.

SaffronCrocus sativus

MARTÍN.- (…) Eight thin hoofed young bulls with forehead of saffron to be the show of the fair.

First Act, p. 58.

PeasPisum sativum

Telva saves tablecloths and carries the pottery to the kitchen, returning later with a basket of peas.

First Act, p. 58.

TELVA.- ¿do you want to help me to shell the peas?

First Act, p. 59.

Telva, who has finished to shell her peas takes her knitting work.

First Act, p. 64.

Chestnut TreeCastanea sativa PILGRIM.- The river current is near the big chestnut tree, isn´t it?

First Act, p. 65.

PILGRIM.- The handsomest horseman around these mountains (…) next to the chestnut tree(…)

GRANDFATHER (Triumphantl) – The big oak is only half mile away He will have surely passed by!

Second Act p. 81.

2nd SANJUANERA.- The city mayor wants to prune all the chestnut lands

Third Act, p. 122. ANGÉLICA.- Hidden away in the chestnut fields we saw him ridding, with his gun to the back and death in his eyes

Third Act, pp. 136-137.

Oranje TreeCitrus sinensis

DORINA.- In the mountain, an orange tree…

FALÍN.- In the orange tree a branch…

ANDRÉS.- and on the branch four nests…two golden ones and two silver ones…

First Act, p. 72.

FlaxLinum usitatissimum

TELVA (without leaving her work) - ¡What a pity of aman! He seemed a Cristobalón with his crook and his beards of tow; but when he played the pipe, the birds rested on his shoulders.

Second act, p.78

MistletoeViscum álbum

GRANDFATHER.- (…) As beautiful as you want to look like I know you are the weed in the wheat and the mistletoe on the tree.

Second Act, p. 82.

Apple TreeMalus domestica

ADELA.- At night the sheets smelled of apples and the windows were filled with stars

Second Act, p.86

RyeSecale cereale

ADELA.- ¿And when not? The grass is getting rotten because of the damp in the shed, the part of grain is eaten by mice and the barn is not fluff yet

Third Act, p. 93

HawthornCrataegus monogyna

ADELA.- No. The queen, very jealous, ordered to kill them both. From her, a white rose was born; from him, a hawthorn. And the branches grew up till they joined together…

Third Act, p. 95.

Hazelnut treeCorilus avellana

TELVA.- What a relief. There was only left to bite the hand that heals you (Martín leaves) ¡What a pity of hazelnut stick!

Third Act, p. 100

Ash TreeFrascinus excelsior

MADRE.- There is no better timber for the blades of the wheels than the ash tree wood Third Act p. 102.

QUICO.- ¿Do you like the bouquet? Oak, holly and laurel.

Third Act, p. 102.

Holly TreeIlex aquilolium

LaurelLaurus nobilis

QUICO.- ¿Do you like the bouquet? Oak, holly and laurel.

Third Act, p. 102.

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MossBryophyta sensu stricto

PILGRIM.- She was like sleepy, in a misty dream, walking her floating hairs around the gardens full of moss and the slowly tenderness of her weightless hands.

Third Act, p. 119.

Vine ShootVitis vinifera

1st BOY .- Little less. The heiress gave us two cartloads with dried vine shoot.

Third Act, p. 122.

GorseCalicotome spinosa

TELVA.- In the yard there is a cartload of gorse and a couple of good oxen waiting for the yoke. Keep them company Quico.

2nd SANJUANERA- The gorse is the one who makes better fire: It gives a red flame and it sounds like a pair of castanets when they burn.

Third Act, p. 123.

HeatherCalluna vulgaris

3rd SANJUANERA.- I prefer the heather with its purple bellflowers burns more quietly and it smells to summer naps

Third Act, p. 123.

Hazelnut TreesCorylus avellana

MARTÍN.- From hawthorn and cherry. Those who see the bouquet will know who has put them there, and what that white colour means.

Third Act, p. 126.

SloePrunus spinosa

MARTÍN.- From hawthorn and cherry. Those who see the bouquet will know who has put them there, and what that white colour means.

Third Act, p. 126.

GeraniumGeranium …..

ANGÉLICA.- It was me who planted these geranium on the window

Third Act, p. 135.

CloverTrifolium …

1st SANJUANERA.- ¡The four leaves clover!

Third Act, p. 140.

MarshmallowAlthaea officinalis TELVA.- Bah, marshmallow blood. They seem to be eating the world, but when the tambourine chimes, they don´t have breath enough nor can shake the apron to the music."Woe to my days!”

Third Act, p. 142.

Morello cherry TreePrunus cerasus

MOTHER.- There is left in the cupboard cherry brandy for the women.

Third Act, p. 142.

EVALUATION

Check at random on five slides that the appointment of the pages is well.

EVALUATION

CHECK AT RANDOM ON FIVE SLIDES THAT THE SCIENTIFIC NAMES OF THE

PLANTS ARE RIGHT

Complete the phrase with one of the words making clic on the right square

TELVA.- And under a _fig tree leaf_____ not to stick the embers

Acto primero, p.53.

Nogal Fig tree Vid

Ficus carica es:

The broom

The hazelnut tree

The fig tree

Crocus sativus es ….

The saffron

The oak

The geranium

Señal cuál de las siguientes es la más citada y lee los textos:

Rose treeRosa canina

Vine Vitis vinifera

Fig treeFicus carica

-The literary texts are by Alejandro Casona, from La Dama del Alba, Centenario edition, Editions Hércules Astur, Oviedo, 2003.

the posters have been created by the students od Natural sciences of Cangas del Narcea High School, as cited in the explanation of the activity.- The pictures were taken from Internet: /www.agronomia.uchile.clhttp://www.floravascular.com; classicnatureprints.com;,corsarionegro.wordpress.com;jardineriamuerdago.blogspot.com;lanaturaleza.es;sobre el muérdago: http://irlandairlanda.wordpress.com/2008/02/15/tradiciones-celtas-la-magia-del-muerdago/Árgoma: basozaina.com Brezo: http://perso.wanadoo.es/ulados/brezo.html (11-05-2012)

- The power point, Word and the adaptation of the activity to the proyect “Knowing and understanding the Roman Hispania” has been made from the ARCE coordination organized by the MEC, At Cangas del Narcea secondary School.

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