Sumários
Great beginnings, great endings
5 Fevereiro 2020, 08:00 • EDUARDA MELO CABRITA
Students discuss great beginnings (Orwell, Cheever, Melville, Kafka, Salinger, Dickens, Auster, Marquez, Housseini), and great endings (Ishiguro, Fitzgeral, O'Flaherty).
Homework assignment: students bring their favourite beginning and ending to class.
Show/Tell. Myszor
3 Fevereiro 2020, 16:00 • Bernardo Manzoni Palmeirim
Show/Tell
Syllabus and assessment criteria
3 Fevereiro 2020, 08:00 • EDUARDA MELO CABRITA
Assessment criteria are as follows.
Students will be assessed on oral and written work. Weighting will be as follows:
writing test 50%;
individual short story writing
(in class) 25%;
task-based assignments (oral and written)
and active participation in class 20%;
attendance 5%.
Since assessment will be conducted on a regular basis, any task that is not submitted when due will be given a zero. Any form of plagiarism (including representing anyone's work as your own or receiving any unauthorised assistance) will be equivalent to a fail in the Creative Writing course unit.
Worker students may opt for continuous assessment (in which case they will have to comply with all the assessment criteria set for regular students) OR sit an examination to be held at the end of the 2019-2020 academic year. The examination will focus on the contents of the syllabus adopted for English: Creative Writing.
Semester calendar
The writing test will be held on April 27
Guided writing: Students write a story starting with "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen"
Theory 1
29 Janeiro 2020, 16:00 • Bernardo Manzoni Palmeirim
Discuss HW Theory readings & egs
‘On Story’ Saunders video
Characters Writing Exercise 1 (WE1) – Drafting a character from questions – pair work
HW
Read Galef (p.20-39)
Finish WE1 Character drafts