Lesson 9

11 Outubro 2022, 11:00 • Katarzyna Dominika Karpowicz Osowska

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- "Doodlers, unite!" - a TED talk by Sunni Brown (pp. 66-67)

"400 Years After the ‘First Thanksgiving,’. TEDx Talk by Matika Wilbur.

11 Outubro 2022, 09:30 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha

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Reading the newspaper article "400 Years After the ‘First Thanksgiving,’ the Tribe That Fed the Pilgrims Continues to Fight for Its Land Amid Another Epidemic" (pages 14-18).

Watching the TEDx Talk by Matika Wilbur: "Surviving disappearance, re-imagining & humanizing Native Peoples".

HOMEWORK: answer a set of questions about The TED talk on page 19.

REVIEWING A CHILDREN'S BOOK

10 Outubro 2022, 17:00 • Gaile Parkin

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Warm-up: some common errors

The three stages of reviewing a children’s book: summarise, analyse, assess.

Introduction to children’s author Shel Silverstein via his poem “Deaf Donald”. Reading of Shel Silverstein’s book The Missing Piece Meets the Big O. Students worked in pairs to write a review of the book.

HOMEWORK: Reading ahead: The Velveteen Rabbit and The Story of Peter Rabbit.

Short Story: "Inextinguishable" (cont.). Essay Writing

10 Outubro 2022, 15:30 • Ana Rita Martins

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Short Story: "Inextinguishable" by Lucy Caldwell

MODEL BOOK REVIEW

10 Outubro 2022, 14:00 • Gaile Parkin

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Warm-up: some common errors

Feedback on reviews of The Missing Piece Meets the Big O. Presentation of a model review of the book, through the medium of an error-correction (find and fix) exercise done in pairs.

Brief class discussion of why animals are so often the characters in children’s books.