Sumários

Student led discussions

2 Outubro 2019, 16:00 • Cecília Maria Beecher Martins

Students had read the texts in the manual on the role of the arts and imagination (p 21-28) and had prepared a 3-minute talk on points from a particular text. Students presented their individual talk and this was followed by a general discussion of the themes presented in the texts.

The talk was an evaluated assignment.

Exile

2 Outubro 2019, 12:00 • Zuzanna Zarebska

We read and discusse Emanuel Melo´s "Exile" as well as discussed the documentary from the Examined Life series, with Judith Butler and Sunny Taylor.

We spoke about: exile, imapirment and disability, movement, interabled relationshipd, interdependence, belonging.
To be read for the next class: "Teach yourself Italian: For a writer , a foreign language is a new kind of advenure" by Jhumpa Lahiri.

Lesson 6

2 Outubro 2019, 10:00 • Katarzyna Dominika Karpowicz Osowska

- Economic or economical? Adjectives with -ic and -ical endings - exercise 


- "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck - reading an excerpt + writing and vocabulary exercises: descriptive language in narratives 

Homework:
   1) write a descripption of a scene (based on classwork) 
   2) read "Powder", a short story by Tobias Wolf (coursebook, Reprografia Verde)
   3) (extra) read "What animals can teach us about politics?" ( https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/mar/12/what-animals-can-teach-us-about-politics)

"One Christmas" by Truman Capote

2 Outubro 2019, 08:00 • EDUARDA MELO CABRITA

Reading and discussing "One Christmas" by Truman Capote.
Discussing the reliability of the narrator of "One Christmas" against the narrator of  "A Christmas Memory"
Discussing the social background in both stories: the Great Depression, Prohibition.


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1 Outubro 2019, 14:00 • Bernardo Manzoni Palmeirim

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