Sumários

Oral Presentations

4 Dezembro 2017, 12:00 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

The following students carried out their oral presentations:

  • Núria Claro;
  • Ana Luisa Rodrigues, Laura Valadares, Mafalda Bártolo;
  • Isabelle Teixeira;
  • Gabriela Chiarelli;
  • Tânia Alves.
Next class: we're going to hear presentations from:
  • Carla Semedo 
  • Diana Santos + Ana Catarina Gonçalves 
  • Vinicius Silva 
  • Patricia Mota + Barbara Matias 
  • Mohammed 
  • João Pinto

Presentation

4 Dezembro 2017, 10:00 • Rui Vitorino Azevedo

Historical events:

For this presentation I would like you to choose a life-changing event/news story that has captivated the world.

Here are some possibilities:

- Brexit

- Chernobyl

- LA riots

- Same-sex marriage

- September 11th

- Syrian Refugee Crisis

- The 2016 US Election

- The Berlin Wall

- The Great Depression

- The Titanic

- Women’s March on Washington

If none of these entice you, then consider talking about the most important historical event of your lifetime.

While preparing your presentation try to consider some of the following:  

- Give some history and discuss the significance of the event

- Can you include all the senses into your presentation? What can the audience hear, see or feel? In other words, how will your presentation impact your audience?

- Why do you think this is a life-changing event?

- Is there anything new that you can present on this topic?

- Was this news story a shock to the world?

Oral Presentation

29 Novembro 2017, 12:00 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

Unfortunately, only two students appeared to do their oral presentations today.

Class was then dismissed and two tutorials occurred instead.

Next class: more Oral Presentations.

Creative Writing

29 Novembro 2017, 10:00 • Rui Vitorino Azevedo

Guidelines for the creative writing assignment. - The autobiographical short story. 


Writing Workshop!

27 Novembro 2017, 12:00 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

Today, students did the following exercises in the Writing Workshop:

  1. Free Writing
    • For five minutes, students had to write non-stop. 
    • They couldn't take their pen off the paper and they couldn't stop writing until the bell went off. 
    • When they didn't know what to write, they just kept writing the last word they had written over and over again until new words or sentences came to mind. 
      • It didn't matter how often they wrote the word over and over again. 
    • If they made a mistake, they were not allowed to scratch it out – they had to keep writing. 
    • They could write about anything. 
    • What they wrote about didn't have to make sense – it could be abstract. 
    • No one saw this writing (not even the teacher) – it was just for them. 
    • There was no right or wrong in this exercise.
  2. Free Writing - Part 2
    • The students repeated the previous exercise with the following differences:
      • it lasted for 7 minutes;
      • they had to start the text using a word, sentence or extract from the previous exercise.
  3. Focused Writing
    • They had 20 minutes to write a: 
      • short story OR 
      • diary entry OR 
      • memoir OR 
      • letter OR 
      • abstract piece

        …based on one or more of the 8 images displayed in the PowerPoint.

  4. Free Writing to Music
    • Students wrote a piece to Mozart's Lacrimosa. 
    • It could be anything: 
      • A piece of abstract writing; 
      • A poem; 
      • A short story; 
      • A (love or hate) letter; 
      • Etc….