Sumários
Skype Class - an introduction to summary writing
23 Março 2020, 16:00 • Cecília Maria Beecher Martins
In preparation for the summary writing evaluated exercises that students will now submit on 8th April (the second written evaluated exercise is either a 500-word literary narrative text
or a 500-word summary of the academic essay "Representations of the 'Self' and the 'Other' in Eighteenth-Century Travel Literature" by Birgitt Flohr which is on pages 54-59 of the manual) we did an animated reading followed by summary writing exercises with James Thurber's short story "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty".
Example summary below:
In James Thurber's short story, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”, first published in The New Yorker magazine on 18 March 1939 James Thurber tells the story of Walter Mitty. Thurber humorously presents the protagonist, Walter Mitty as, a nondescript, inept and weak-minded character, who fantasizes about himself as a hero while he is hen-pecked by his overbearing, critical wife as he does mundane tasks. The events occur while Mrs. Mitty is getting her hair done and Mitty has to run errands for her before going to meet her at the local hotel, their agreed meeting point. The tone of the story is quite humorous, even of Mitty shows himself to be inept while performing the smallest tasks like parking the car or remembering what he needs to buy.
This is the type of model to follow for the evaluated exercise.
For Weds class students must read the first page of Flohr's essay.
Verb patterns (II). Shakespeare in BNW (Hamlet) & lgg exs.
23 Março 2020, 12:00 • Bernardo Manzoni Palmeirim
Feedback on homework assignments
23 Março 2020, 10:00 • EDUARDA MELO CABRITA
Providing individual feedback on homework assignments
Task to be done at home
19 Março 2020, 14:00 • Daniel Gregg Lopes da Silva
An extended task was sent out to students on Friday 13 to cover this week's two classes (17 and 19 March)
Imaginary Homelands
19 Março 2020, 12:00 • Zuzanna Zarebska
Students should read Salman Rushdie's "Imaginary Homelands"
Explain the concept of "dealing with broken mirrors"; "cultural displacement"; How would you explain the expression "a scattered concept"?
You should also watch a short documentary on Rushdie and Fatwa: