Sumários
Guidelines for the film discussion project and the individual oral presentation. Discursive essays.
18 Novembro 2019, 14:00 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha
Guidelines for the film discussion project: how to create a film review. Guidelines for the individual oral presentation: how to organise an oral presentation. Discursive essays: (a) the opinion essay; (b) the for-and-against essay; (c) the solutions-to-a-problem essay. Discussing the structure of an opinion essay by analysing the essay "Ideas spread like disease ...": techniques used in the opening and closing paragraphs of an essay; stylistic conventions of a discursive essay. REMINDER: There will be an in-class assignment on Wednesday's class consisting in a discursive essay.
Goodbye Persuasive Writing...Hello Expository Writing
18 Novembro 2019, 12:00 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio
Today we finished our analyses of Barak Obama's 2012 National Democratic Congress Acceptance speech - and they were so good!
Then we started to look at Expository Writing and we went through what is going to be expected for the final essay test and oral presentation.
It is fundamental that everyone come to class from now on, otherwise, it will be extremely difficult for you to carry out your final tests successfully as these lessons will be the ones where you do all of your preparation for these.
You have been warned.
Next class: we will be learning how to come up with a thesis statement.
In order for you to be able to participate effectively in the next lesson, you must have chosen your short story from Joyce Carol Oates's Small Avalanches and Other Stories.
Again...you have been warned.
Oral Presentations
14 Novembro 2019, 10:00 • Tânia Joesephine Gregg Lopes da Silva
Assessed individual presentations based on a critical analysis of a novel or film (5 minutes per student followed by teacher questions).