“The Orchestra” by Daniel Barenboi + “20 of your songs that changed the world” – discussion.

24 Fevereiro 2016, 10:00 • Lili Cavalheiro

Continuation of discussion of “The Orchestra” by Daniel Barenboim.

Watching the video "Blood Relations" as an example of other porjects for bringing together people of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

 “20 of your songs that changed the world” – discussion. Examples from students of other songs that have raised social awareness (Part 1).

“The Orchestra” by Daniel Barenboi + “20 of your songs that changed the world” – discussion.

24 Fevereiro 2016, 08:00 • Lili Cavalheiro

Continuation of discussion of “The Orchestra” by Daniel Barenboim.

Watching the video "Blood Relations" as an example of other porjects for bringing together people of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

 “20 of your songs that changed the world” – discussion. Examples from students of other songs that have raised social awareness (Part 1).

Descriptiv

23 Fevereiro 2016, 12:00 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

Students read aloud and analyzed the following descriptive texts:

• Excerpt from Barbara Willard's The Sprig of Broom;

• Excerpt from Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol;

• Excerpt from Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities;

• Excerpt from Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood.

Students then got into groups to prepare for their first peer teaching session.  Each group chooses a descriptive text to anazlye and presente to the class.  The group must ensure that they are familiar with all of the challenging vocabular and must address the following questions:

1. What is the dominant mood or atmosphere of the text;
2. what, if any, senses (sight, sound, smell, etc.) are evoked in the text;
3. if the text is poetry: what does the writer want the reader to experience; if the text is a jornal/diary, what is the writer experiencing;
4. how does the writer make us experience it/convey their experience? what words do they choose? how do they arrange them in the text? how does the sentence structure and punctuation effect us? etc.

There are 7 texts to choose from and these are:

• The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume 5:
1. Wednesday 2 October;
2. Sunday 6 October;
• The Jounrals of Sylvia Plath:
1. "The Earthenware Head";
2. Thursday morning: February 20;
3. Friday night, February 21;
• Poems by Anne Michaels:
1. There is no city that does not dream;
2. Last Night's Moon.

Students will be given an hour next class to prepare.  Presentations/peer teaching will be done in the second hour of the class.

Descriptive Writing - Part 2

23 Fevereiro 2016, 10:00 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

Students read aloud and analyzed the following descriptive texts:

• Excerpt from Barbara Willard's The Sprig of Broom;

• Excerpt from Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol;

• Excerpt from Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities;

• Excerpt from Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood.

Students then got into groups to prepare for their first peer teaching session.  Each group chooses a descriptive text to anazlye and presente to the class.  The group must ensure that they are familiar with all of the challenging vocabular and must address the following questions:

1. What is the dominant mood or atmosphere of the text;
2. what, if any, senses (sight, sound, smell, etc.) are evoked in the text;
3. if the text is poetry: what does the writer want the reader to experience; if the text is a jornal/diary, what is the writer experiencing;
4. how does the writer make us experience it/convey their experience? what words do they choose? how do they arrange them in the text? how does the sentence structure and punctuation effect us? etc.

There are 7 texts to choose from and these are:

• The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume 5:
1. Wednesday 2 October;
2. Sunday 6 October;
• The Jounrals of Sylvia Plath:
1. "The Earthenware Head";
2. Thursday morning: February 20;
3. Friday night, February 21;
• Poems by Anne Michaels:
1. There is no city that does not dream;
2. Last Night's Moon.

Students will be given an hour next class to prepare.  Presentations/peer teaching will be done in the second hour of the class.

Reading: "The Orchestra" by Daniel Barenboim

22 Fevereiro 2016, 16:00 • Paula Alexandra Carvalho Alves Rodrigues Horta

Video screening: Blood Relations & Orchestra brings together Israelis and Arabs for Common Goal