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;
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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:
- What is the dominant mood or atmosphere of the text;
- what, if any, senses (sight, sound, smell, etc.) are evoked in the text;
- 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;
- 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:
- Wednesday 2 October;
- Sunday 6 October;
- The Jounrals of Sylvia Plath:
- "The Earthenware Head";
- Thursday morning: February 20;
- Friday night, February 21;
- Poems by Anne Michaels:
- There is no city that does not dream;
- 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.