Sumários
9 Outubro 2017, 10:00
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Zuzanna Zarebska
Reading Imaginary Homelands by Salman Rushdie: travel writing, fiction and memory: home and belonging.
9 Outubro 2017, 08:00
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EDUARDA MELO CABRITA
'Capote' by Bennett Miller
4 Outubro 2017, 16:00
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Bernardo Manzoni Palmeirim
BNW Ch2 - close reading - the discovery of hypnopedia
SCB p.13: ImageryOrganization of some dialogue groups for next class
Grammar - from "Language File" (Reprog. Vermelha) - Review of Verb Tenses, ex.1
HW: When reading Ch3 (for a dialogue writing exercise on Monday) take a note on the margin as to who is speaking/scene pertains to:
A: Mond, DHC, students
B: Henry Foster, Assistant predestinator
C: Lenina and Fanny Crowne
You need to be aware of each scene separately, understand the personality of each character, and what they are discussing.
Next class, students will form/join groups, organized into scenes A, B or C.
Each group will then prepare a dialogue for their assigned scene, which will be enacted in class.
Dialogues should parody the scene, i.e. enact the scene (which means understanding it), but with an added humouristic / critical distance.
4 Outubro 2017, 14:00
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EDUARDA MELO CABRITA
Students compiled information on The Great Depression and Prohibition from the Student's Book and reported on that information..
Listening Comprehension exercise: Christmas during the Great Depression (Living Stories from the collections of the Baylor University Institute for Oral History).
Note: due to the DEA Scientific Committee meeting, students at 2 p.m. did their classwork on their own and will report on their work next Wednesday 11
4 Outubro 2017, 12:00
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Cecília Maria Beecher Martins
Finished viewing Ben Stiller's film version of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
Discussed the way the following topics are presented in the movie, in preperation for the reading of the short story the film is based on and for the essay that students will have to submit on 16th October on the USA and Walter Mitty:
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today's American dream - the key to your success lies within and is
close at hand, it might be just around the corner so you can’t give up. When
you do this you not only become successful, you also change physically and
become sexy
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2) neo-liberalism – if
the key to success lies within, it is you the individual who is responsible for
your own future; governments do not have to provide safety nets for their
citizens
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what it means to be a
successful American today,
– success means being successful at work & play; you can have
idiosyncrasies but
you must be able to make social connections.
•4) role of female characters:
mother, sister, love interest.
Animated reading of Thuber's short story
Students to reread this at home and make notes to prepare for writing a 200-word summary of the short story in the next class.