Lesson 9

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

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

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

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

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.

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REVIEWING A CHILDREN'S BOOK

10 Outubro 2022, 17:00 • Gaile Parkin

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.

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

10 Outubro 2022, 15:30 • Ana Rita Martins

Short Story: "Inextinguishable" by Lucy Caldwell

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MODEL BOOK REVIEW

10 Outubro 2022, 14:00 • Gaile Parkin

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.

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