Sumários

Descriptive Writing Contined...

27 Fevereiro 2020, 12:00 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

TP10 carried on learning about Descriptive Writing and improving their vocabulary by getting into groups and analyzing extracts from the following their choice of extract from the journals of Sylvia Plath, the diaries of Virginia Woolf or the poems of Anne Michaels.  

Next class (March 3rd): TP9 will carry out its grammar quiz.

The following class (March 5th): TP9 will present their analyses of their descriptive texts to the class.

Descriptive Writing

27 Fevereiro 2020, 10:00 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

TP9 carried on learning about Descriptive Writing and improving their vocabulary by analyzing extracts from the following texts: 

  • Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities
  • Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace
They then got into groups and went on to analyze their choice of extract from the journals of Sylvia Plath, the diaries of Virginia Woolf or the poems of Anne Michaels.  

Next class (March 3rd): TP9 will carry out its grammar quiz.

The following class (March 5th): TP9 will present their analyses of their descriptive texts to the class.

Descriptive Writing Continued...

20 Fevereiro 2020, 16:00 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

TP11 carried on learning about Descriptive Writing and improving their vocabulary by analyzing extracts from the following texts: 

  • Inside District School #7, Niagara County, New York by Joyce Carol Oates, a paragraph originally published in The Washington Post's Book World and reprinted in Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art [HarperCollins, 2003])

  • Barbara Willard's The Sprig of Bloom

  • Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol
  • Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities

Next class: TP11 will carry on analyzing descriptive texts and then go on to do group work.

Role play (continuation). Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive, 2015, Chapter 1.

20 Fevereiro 2020, 14:00 • Maria Teresa Correia Casal

1. Role play: presentations by two groups.

2. Memoir: Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive, 2015, Chapter 1. Reading, comprehension and discussion.
3. Personal essay. 

HW: write a personal essay on "fear". Deadline for submission of draft: Tuesday, 3 March.

Descriptive Writing Continued...

20 Fevereiro 2020, 12:00 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

TP10 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

Next class: TP10 will get into groups and analyze descriptive texts.