Revision

17 Dezembro 2015, 12:00 • Cecília Maria Beecher Martins

Revision of essay writing techniques applied to subjects studied during the semester

Essay writing techniques

15 Dezembro 2015, 12:00 • Cecília Maria Beecher Martins

Practise of essay writing

Workshop on memoir

10 Dezembro 2015, 12:00 • Cecília Maria Beecher Martins

Students participated in the workshop on memoir writing presented by Fullbright Scholar Sarah Chaves.

Interpretation of music - essay writing work

8 Dezembro 2015, 12:00 • Cecília Maria Beecher Martins

Student presentation on improvisation in music. The different types and how connected to/different from convention production and concerts.

Work with essay writing

Student presentation of Improvisation in Music and Discussion of Essay Writing Techniques

3 Dezembro 2015, 12:00 • Cecília Maria Beecher Martins

Student presentation of Improvisation in Music Discussion of Essay Writing Techniques based on exercises presented in student manual pp 15 - 20.

Essay topics to consider for upcoming test.

1.      What do you think of the way Emma Healey presents the problems of dementia and dealing with dementia in Elizabeth is Missing? Make appropriate references to the text.

2.      Comment on your experience of reading, analysing and doing free associative analysis to Emma Healey’s Elizabeth is Missing?

3.      How does Elizabeth is Missing illustrate that Validation may be a very powerful and positive way of understand how to deal with others.

4.      Comment on the advantages and disadvantages of free associative analysis of the arts

5.      Compare free writing and free associative analysis and what do you think are the advantages/disadvantages of each form of expression

6.      Free associative analysis of the arts cannot be considered a serious form of analysis. Comment.

7.      Discuss Norman Holland’s free associative analysis of the film Casablanca referring to the different types of ideas it presents. Support your answer with appropriate references.

8.      Harriet Scott Chessman’s Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper is considered to offer a unique insight into the relationship between the artist and the model. Do you agree with this idea?

9.      Comment on the ideas presented by Byung-Chul Han in the chapter “Neural Power”

10.  The arts are important because they are languages that all people speak that cut across racial, cultural, social, educational, and economic barriers and enhance cultural appreciation and awareness.

11.  The arts are important because they integrate mind, body, and spirit.

12.  The arts are important because they provide opportunities for self-expression, bringing the inner world into the outer world of concrete reality.

13.  The arts are important because they develop both independence and collaboration.

14.  The arts are important because they provide both immediate feedback and opportunities for reflection.

15.  The arts are important because they make it possible to use personal strengths in meaningful ways and to bridge into understanding sometimes difficult abstractions through these strengths.

16.  The arts are important because they provide the means for every student to learn.