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'Imagine a morning in late November' by Truman Capote

21 Fevereiro 2017, 08:00 • EDUARDA MELO CABRITA

Writing a short story starting with 


IMAGINE A MORNING IN LATE NOVEMBER

Reading out students' short stories

Presentation and Discussion of !st speaker's role in Oxford Union Debates

20 Fevereiro 2017, 16:00 • Cecília Maria Beecher Martins

We watched the opening speakers of the "Islam is a Religion of Peace" and "Westen Military Action against ISIS" debate to offer students exampes of good, middling and bad opening speeches:

Very good from the perspective of structure and arguments Opening Speaker for the Proposition in the  "Islam is a Religion of Peace" 
Very bad from the perspective of structure and arguments Opening Speaker for the Opposition in the  "Islam is a Religion of Peace" and "Military Intervention" debates.
Middling: Proposition speaker in the "Military Intervention" debate.Open class discussion on the above, and suggestions on how each speaker's intervention could/should be improved.

Correction of inversion exercises. 

Presentation of Oxford Union Debates

20 Fevereiro 2017, 14:00 • Cecília Maria Beecher Martins

We watched the opening speakers of the "Islam is a Religion of Peace" and "Westen Military Action against ISIS" debate to offer students exampes of good, middling and bad opening speeches:

Very good from the perspective of structure and arguments Opening Speaker for the Proposition in the  "Islam is a Religion of Peace" 
Very bad from the perspective of structure and arguments Opening Speaker for the Opposition in the  "Islam is a Religion of Peace" and "Military Intervention" debates.
Middling: Proposition speaker in the "Military Intervention" debate.
Open class discussion on the above, and suggestions on how each speaker's intervention could/should be improved.

Correction of inversion exercises. 

Utopias. Dystopian movies

20 Fevereiro 2017, 08:00 • Bernardo Manzoni Palmeirim

Students presented the Utopias they had invented in the previous class.

Discussion of the assigned dystopian movies.

HW: Read Huxley's Foreword

Assessment criteria

16 Fevereiro 2017, 10:00 • EDUARDA MELO CABRITA


Students introduce themselves to the class and then write a letter to the teacher.

Students will be assessed on oral and written work. Weighting will be as follows:

one writing test -                             50%
individual participation
in debates                                       20%
oral,written task-based
assignments and 
active participation in class             25%
attendance                                         5%

Since assessment will be conducted on a regular basis, any t5ask taht is not submitted when due and/or any form of plagiarism will be given a zero.
Worker students may opt for continuous assessment (in which case they will have to comply with all the assessment criteria set for regular students) 
OR sit an examination to be held after the end of the second semester.

The writing test will be held on May 23. dates for debates willbe set in class.

Tutorials are made by appointment with the teacher by email (mcabrita1@campus.ul.pt)