Sumários
5 Outubro 2016, 14:00
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Cecília Maria Beecher Martins
Bank Holiday
3 Outubro 2016, 14:00
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Cecília Maria Beecher Martins
Five students had prepared a close reading of the five different sections of Chapter One of Colm Tóibín's novel Nora Webster. They presented these reading in class and their conclusions about what they had learned about the novel from the presentation of the grammatical, linguistic and stylistic structures they had studied. They discussed their ideas with colleagues.
Students have to read up to Chapter 6 of the novel for the next class because they will watch the film Gaslight which is used by the author in this section of the book. They will watch the movie to prepare a review of it, so they will watch it "pen in hand". They will need to do some background research on the director, George Cukor, and the principle actors, Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Joseph Cotton and Angela Lansbury.
28 Setembro 2016, 14:00
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Cecília Maria Beecher Martins
Reading for Form - Close Reading of Kate Chopin's short story "The Story of an Hour" - students will submit their review of this text on 3rd October
26 Setembro 2016, 14:00
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Cecília Maria Beecher Martins
Students analysed 2 texts from pp 18-21 of the manual (Kate Chopin's short story "Ripe Figs" and W.B. Yeats' poem "Ballon of the Mind") for form. A discussion of their analysis.
21 Setembro 2016, 14:00
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Cecília Maria Beecher Martins
Class broke into groups to discuss point they had selected from the John's Hopkins School of Educations list of "Why the Arts are Important".
They also discussed ""What is Art? What is the purpose of the Arts?" Each group presented ideas from on this point and the subject was opened to the class for general debate.
We watched Stanford Professor of Neurology Robert Sapolsky's video on the role of heirarchy in stress production and the corelation of stress and physical health, with the purpose of adding ideas from this area to the debate on the purpose of the arts, and why we need them today.
Work will continue on this subject in the next class. - Watch the rest of Sapolsky's Class-Day lecture on "The Uniqueness of Humans"