Sumários
Literary terms. "Tony's story" by Leslie Marmon Silko.
20 Outubro 2022, 09:30 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha
Literary terms used to analyse short stories: first-person narrator vs third-person narrator; main and minor characters; point of view; climax and turning-point. Dramatised reading of the short story "Tony's story" by Leslie Marmon Silko.
ANIMALS IN LITERATURE 2
19 Outubro 2022, 17:00 • Gaile Parkin
Warm-up: some common errors
Pair work exercise: word formation exercise on a text about
wolves and bears in children’s literature, to practice elements of the word
family table prepared for homework.
Presentation on animal characters from children’s literature
being taken seriously outside of their books in the realms of public art,
royalty, politics and psychology.
Group discussion about the academic article “Pathology in
the Hundred Acre Wood”. Pop quiz online to discover character matches with
Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, etc., followed by same-personality group discussions.
HOMEWORK: Write a review of The Velveteen Rabbit
At home assignment: writing a letter to the editor.
19 Outubro 2022, 08:00 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha
At home assignment: writing a letter to the editor.
Lesson 11
18 Outubro 2022, 11:00 • Katarzyna Dominika Karpowicz Osowska
- "The Kugelmass Episode" - a short story by Woody Allen (pp. 90-97)
“'They don't belong': police called on Native American teens on college tour”. A letter to the editor.
18 Outubro 2022, 09:30 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha
Answering a set of questions about the TEDx Talk by Matika Wilbur: "Surviving disappearance, re-imagining & humanizing Native Peoples” continued.
Reading and discussion of the article “'They don't belong': police called on Native American teens on college tour”.
Letters to the Editor: (a) structure of a letter to the editor; (b) reading two samples of letters to the editor.
HOMEWORK: Writing a letter to the editor expressing your views on the two newspaper article discussed in class: “'They don't belong': police called on Native American teens on college tour”. Detailed instructions were sent by email.