Sumários

From music to portraits... to literary text

4 Abril 2017, 14:00 • EDUARDA MELO CABRITA


   Character construction: from Elgar's music to portraits of his friends (in Enigma Variations 7, 8, 9)

    From character sketches of Elgar's friends  to Celie and Sofia in The Colour Purple by Alice Walker..
   

Crits session

3 Abril 2017, 10:00 • Bernardo Manzoni Palmeirim

Oral Presentations
Round-table feedback on short story drafts

Character construction: character sketches

30 Março 2017, 14:00 • EDUARDA MELO CABRITA


  Discussing other people's behaviour as a way in to character sketches.

   Reading and discussing  character sketches from The London Embassy by Paul Theroux, The Spy who came in from the cold, by John        Le Carré, The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark, 'Taste' by Roald Dahl, The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles , and             Emma by Jane Austen.

Baxter (I)

29 Março 2017, 10:00 • Bernardo Manzoni Palmeirim

Oral Presentations

Reading of Similes exs.

Preparation of groups for Crits session

Discussion of Baxter's "The Disappeared" (I)

Character construction: word portraits. Great Beginning Feedback

28 Março 2017, 14:00 • EDUARDA MELO CABRITA


   Reading and discussing two excerpts, one from Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee, and the other from 'The Lovely Lady' by D.H. Lawrence. 
   Matching descriptions with pictures.

   Providing feedback on the great beginnings students wrote as part of their step-by-step short story writing in class.
   Reading and discussing excerpts from students« work.
   Discussing narrative techniques and stylistic devices.