Sumários

Open City

16 Outubro 2017, 10:00 • Zuzanna Zarebska

Introduction to Nigerian literature. Chimamanda Adichie and Teju Cole. Students presentation; discussion about post colonialism. 

Debating guidelines

16 Outubro 2017, 08:00 • EDUARDA MELO CABRITA


First debate motions: TP1 students voted for motion A while TP 4 students voted for motion B (page 84 Student's Workbook).
Teams for the first debate were formed.and all team members came up with arguments for and against the motion.
Next class, on October 18, students shall be divided into Proposition  and Opposition teams.
The first debate shall be held on October 23 ad 25 (if need be). 
Reading and discussing 'The power of photojournalism' (pages 25-26). (TP 1)
Discussing Dorothea Lange's 'Migrant Mother' (TP1)
Listening Comprehension Exercise: Christmas during the Great Depression. Living Stories' (pages 21-22) TP 4


Dialogues (II). Ch4. Lgg file

11 Outubro 2017, 16:00 • Bernardo Manzoni Palmeirim

Presentation of 2 dialogues
Discussion of Ch4 highlights
Language file - Verb Tenses. Verb Patterns.

HW:
Read till end Ch9 for next week's classes

'Capote, the film

11 Outubro 2017, 14:00 • EDUARDA MELO CABRITA

Discussing 'Capote, the film.
Reading and discussing an article from The New York Times about the film.
Reading and discussing the guidelines  for parliamentary debates to be held in class.
TP 4  reported on the elements they had compiled on the Great Depression and Prohibition.
Speakers on behalf of AIESEC,  the world's largest non-profit youth-run organization, talked about their volunteer programmes for university students.

Thesis Statements

11 Outubro 2017, 12:00 • Cecília Maria Beecher Martins

Purpose and function of thesis statments:•is one of the greatest unifying aspects of an essay.  •It holds  the various bricks of the essay together,  •summarizing the main point of the paper "in a nutshell,"  •and pointing toward the paper's development.  •to do this, the thesis statement must have two parts.  •these can be two phrases in one sentence or  two sentences. 

Writing a thesis is a first step in the writing process, remember that you may need to tweak this when you have finished because your main idea has changed, but it is a good place to start your writing from even if you have to move away a little from the initial claim because of new evidence found through your research.


The thesis suggests an order or direction for the essay's development. 

We read Judy Syfer's essay "I want a wife" to show how a literary text could be used to support a thesis ideas (which is what they will be doing with Walter Mitty. 

A possible thesis statement could be:  "While, Judy Syfers’ essay "I Want a Wife" humorously exaggerates the marital expectations facing women in our society today, it also draws our attention to how, still today, women can be expected to integrate multiple roles include managing a household, a career, and having a good relationship with a spouse, while the spouse can just concentrate on one thing." because it says what you are going to do and how you will do it.

We then did exercises with bad thesis statements which students worked on to improve and they then worked on their own - either revising it or writing it for the first time. 

We also did a free writing exercise to show how this could help getting original ideas for the essay. 

Students must submit their essay on the theme "Walter Mitty and the USA" on Monday 16th Oct.