Sumários

"Jasmine and Other Flowers that make me cry"

4 Outubro 2017, 10:00 • Zuzanna Zarebska

Working with the text: "Jasmine and Other Flowers that make me cry": tael waiting and post colonialism

The Great Depression and Prohibition

4 Outubro 2017, 08:00 • 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

BNW Ch1

2 Outubro 2017, 16:00 • Bernardo Manzoni Palmeirim

Reading

Vocabulary

Glossary (SCB p.9)

Satire (SCB p.11)

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

To kill a mocking bird by Harper Lee

2 Outubro 2017, 14:00 • EDUARDA MELO CABRITA

Reading and discussing an extract from To kill a mocking bird by Harper Lee.

Comparing and contrasting the two texts, Capote's short story and Harper Lee's extract.

Discussing cultural references in both texts: US Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt, the Great Depression, Prohibition.

Screening of film

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

Presented the context of the production of Ben Stiller's 2014 film version of James Thurber's short story "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty".

Instructed students to watch the movie in terms of its 1) presentation of today's American dream; 2) reflections of neo-liberalism, 3) what it means to be American today, 4) portrayal of female characters