'Through the tunnel' by Doris Lessing

29 Novembro 2017, 14:00 • EDUARDA MELO CABRITA

Unit 3: Four Nobel-prize winners: Voices from the Empire

'Through the tunnel' by Doris Lessing

Cultural references.

Character construction. 

The narrator.

A coming-of-age short story.

Debating

29 Novembro 2017, 12:00 • Cecília Maria Beecher Martins

Students presented a roundtable discussion on the Portuguese Education system 
and an Oxford Union-style Debate on the topic: "This House suggests that people should only be concerned about what is happening in their own countries – if we took care of our own country the world would be a better place.

'Through the tunnel' by Doris Lessing

29 Novembro 2017, 08:00 • EDUARDA MELO CABRITA

Unit 3: Four Nobel-prize winners: Voices from the Empire

'Through the tunnel' by Doris Lessing

Cultural references.

Character construction. 

The narrator.

A coming-of-age short story.

Mock essay. Mock Debate

27 Novembro 2017, 16:00 • Bernardo Manzoni Palmeirim

Unit 3 Four Nobel Laureates: Voices from the Empire

27 Novembro 2017, 14:00 • EDUARDA MELO CABRITA

 Four Nobel Laureates: Voices from the Empire

Discussing 'Red Dress' by Alice Munro.

Cultural references in the short story.

Character construction: the girl, the girl's mother, Lonnie, Mary Fortune.

Discussing how the writer used the narrator to 'chronicle life in a small-town life to reveal the ambiguities and deeper truths in human reationships' (from Munro's biography.

Symbolism.

NB Reading and researching the short story was a homework assignment. Students who had not done their homework were asked to leave the class and read the short story on their own

.REMINDER: Homework assignment for Wednesday: read and research 'Through  the tunnel' by Doris Lessing.