Sumários

Class 5 - First Group of Readings

24 Fevereiro 2025, 09:30 • Kathryn Gray Craven

to be discussed in class

Bluets
A Walk in the Mountains
Why Go Out

1 sentence description
Division of the text into segments, number of paragraphs in each
Identify at least three "sexy expressions"

CHARACTER

21 Fevereiro 2025, 15:30 • Gaile Parkin

Group discussion about the Enneagram quiz completed for homework and the results, followed by smaller group discussions with students grouped according to their Enneagram personality type.

Crossword puzzle to practise and test personality/character vocabulary learned for homework.

Tutorial/4th hour work: Grammar practice. Catch-up for students who missed the first 2 weeks of classes.

Homework: Review vocabulary related to character and personality.

Modelling Literary Essay Writing - Second, One Must Plan

21 Fevereiro 2025, 12:30 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

Today, TP9 learned how to plan a literary essay.  Students who missed today's lesson should go through the PowerPoint How to Write an Essay, which is located in the folder entitled 'Essay STuff'.

Homework: students must start reading the first story from Jhump Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies, 'A Temporary Matter'.  Please note that doing the reading homework is very important as this is how you will learn to come up with thesis statements.

Next class: we will look at the final product, the writing, a small literary essay entitled Joyce Carol Oates’s ‘Small Avalanches’:How a Bad Girl Plays It Safe.

CHARACTER

21 Fevereiro 2025, 11:00 • Gaile Parkin

Group discussion about the Enneagram quiz completed for homework and the results, followed by smaller group discussions with students grouped according to their Enneagram personality type.

Crossword puzzle to practise and test personality/character vocabulary learned for homework.

Tutorial/4th hour work: Grammar practice. Catch-up for students who missed the first 2 weeks of classes.

Homework: Review vocabulary related to character and personality.

 


Class 4 - Feb 20th

20 Fevereiro 2025, 09:30 • Kathryn Gray Craven

Formed working groups

Writing Workshop, Part I, I remember