Sumários

The structure and verb tenses of narrative texts

21 Novembro 2018, 10:00 • Cecília Maria Beecher Martins

Finished the screening of Cuker's Gaslight  and discussion of the theme presented in the previous class.

Presentation of The structure and verb tenses of narrative texts (p48 manual). Students did verb tense exercises on p49

Preparing for the debate. Introducing Alice Munro

21 Novembro 2018, 08:00 • EDUARDA MELO CABRITA


Students prepared the second round of debates.

Watching "Alice Munro in her own words", an interview with the Canadian Nobel prize winner .
Watching "Women who changed the world" about female Nobel Prize winners.

Mock Essay peer-review

19 Novembro 2018, 16:00 • Bernardo Manzoni Palmeirim

Correction SCB 89
Mock Essay: reading of model essay + peer-reviews
Organization of Mock Debate
BNW conclusion

Writing activity

19 Novembro 2018, 14:00 • EDUARDA MELO CABRITA


Writing activity on The Guardian Brexit shorts.

Choosing the motion for the second debate.

The arts providing the vocabulary that can permit discussion of hidden or uncharted themes

19 Novembro 2018, 10:00 • Cecília Maria Beecher Martins

This semester the three books selected for discussion all deal with themes of central relevance to contemporary society - migration, displacement, dealing with war and conflict, the rise and consequences of populism to mention but a few. However, because the novels are fictional, they permit exploring avenues that factual texts would not allow. In their oral presentations students pursued these avenues and it was a very powerful exercise.


In this class, I wanted to show students a film that illustrates how the arts, in this case a film, can provide vocabulary that can allow for society to discuss a topic that had always existed but had not been discussed seriously because the vocabulary did not exist that would allow for this discussion - feeding into the theories presented by Miranda Fricker in Epistemic Injustice. 

The film screened was George Cuker's Gaslight (1944) which introduced the term "gaslighting" to describe psychological intimation of another.