Sumários
Thesis statements
23 Novembro 2020, 09:30 • Rui Vitorino Azevedo
Reviewed students' thesis statements in more detail and reviewed the MLA guidelines in more detail.
Thesis statements
23 Novembro 2020, 08:00 • Rui Vitorino Azevedo
Reviewed students' thesis statements in more detail and reviewed the MLA guidelines in more detail.
Guests/photos
20 Novembro 2020, 14:00 • Thomas Joe Grigg
Interview online guests, continue photo stories
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
19 Novembro 2020, 17:00 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio
Today we finished discussing “What does it mean to be British and does it still matter?” by Yvonne Robert and then went on to discuss
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen.
The story in
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is a story told through an unusual convention: the novel is literally a fictitious government file consisting of diary entries, emails, newspaper articles, official government interviews/interrogations, personal letters, a script for a tv show, etc. All of the documents included in the 'file' tell the story of how a Yemeni sheikh wants to introduce salmon fishing into the Yemen and how Alfred Jones, a British civil servant and scientist, and Harriet Chetwode Talbot, a British solicitor do their best to help him to make this dream a reality. As the experiment fails in tragedy, the government opens up an investigation into the event.
The class identified themes in the novel:
- media;
- public image:
- politics - the desperation to maintain a positive image in the media;
- international politics/affairs;
- war/peace;
- an impossible project in the middle East:
- is peace possible in the Middle East?
- love & hate.
- science/knowledge vs. faith/wisdom
- Fred
- Mary
- Harriet
- the Sheikh
- Jay Vent
- Peter Maxwell
- David Sugden