Sumários

class cancelled

10 Outubro 2019, 08:00 • Tânia Joesephine Gregg Lopes da Silva

An extra class towards the end of the semester will be offered to students to compensate

writing practice

9 Outubro 2019, 16:00 • Thomas Joe Grigg

5-paragraph essay practice.

Interview with Native American author Sherman Alexie.

9 Outubro 2019, 14:00 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha

Summing up main points made about Native Americans in (a) Angelou’s poem “On the pulse of the morning” and (b) Jaune Quick-to-See Smith's painting “Modern Times”.

Watching an interview with American Indian author Sherman Alexie and completing a short summary of main ideas; discussing Alexie's views on being a Native American and growing up on a reservation.

HOMEWORK: Read the short story “Tony’s story” by Leslie Marmon Silko (pp.17-29).

Descriptive Writing Continued...

9 Outubro 2019, 12:00 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

TP3 carried on learning about Descriptive Writing and improving their vocabulary by analyzing extracts from the following texts:

Barbara Willard's The Sprig of Bloom
Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol
Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities
Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace

The class then got into groups to analyze extracts from Virginia Woolfe's diaries and Sylvia Plath's journals and two poems by Anne Michaels.

Next class: students will continue to analyze their texts in order to present them to the class.

Essay Writing Techniques: The Body

8 Outubro 2019, 14:00 • Ana Rita Martins

Essay Writing Techniques: The Thesis Paragraph. In-class exercise.

Developing the Body

- Structure: Supporting paragraphs (Topic sentence; supporting sentences)