Sumários

Reading: Michael Morpurgo's The Giant's Necklace

15 Novembro 2021, 17:00 Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

Today we read Michael Morpurgo's  The Giant's Necklace and expanded our vocabulary in the process. 


Writing flash fiction

12 Novembro 2021, 08:00 Cecília Maria Beecher Martins

I returned students corrected reflexive writing worksheets. 

We discussed the corrections.

Writing flash fiction. We explored the elements:
1) How to decide the mood of your story from a prompt
2) How to develop characters and settings


Short short stories

11 Novembro 2021, 08:00 Cecília Maria Beecher Martins

An introduction to the narrative style of short short stories.
Students read and discussed Etgar Keret's "Asthma Attack". Students did a free writing exercise to a prompt arising from this discussion.
We then looked an the short, short story with a narrative style in the manual ("The Call") and examined its elements - exposition, action, resolution. 

Corrected and commented verb tense exercises. 


Writing Workshop - Part 3

10 Novembro 2021, 17:00 Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

Today we carried out the third part of our Writing Workshop.


Tutorial

10 Novembro 2021, 08:00 Cecília Maria Beecher Martins

Extra work with past tenses