Descriptive Writing continued...

20 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: 

• 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

Next class: we will carry on analyzing descriptive writing texts and move on to group work.

The Story of Ferdinand

19 Fevereiro 2020, 16:00 • Gaile Parkin

The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf. Small group discussion of symbols and meanings. Exploration of historical context and why the book was banned (Franco) or burned (Hitler).

In-class individual assignment: writing a letter to the Editor.

19 Fevereiro 2020, 10:00 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha

In-class individual assignment: writing a letter to the Editor expressing your opinion about one of the following news stories about Native Americans: 1. "Bears Ears is sacred to Native Americans. But heritage isn't all equal for Trump";  2.  'They don't belong': police called on Native American teens on college tour: 3. Native Americans offer to educate Covington Catholic staff and students; 4. Dor perfume ad featuring Johnny Depp criticized over Native American tropes;  5. 'This is all stolen land': Native Americans want more than California's apology. 

Descriptive Writing continued...

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

Today we analyzed The Magic Metal Tube, an exerpt from Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (Knopf, 1976).

Following this analysis, TP9 went outside to Campo Grande to do a descriptive writing exercise where they used detailed description of the park via the five senses to convey whatever mood they happened to be feeling at the time.  This exercise can be handed in as one of the options for the upcoming descriptive/narrative homework assignment.  Should anyone wish to hand it in, please ensure that it is typed up, improved, checked and emailed to me around the day of the deadline.

Presentations of role play.

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

1. Presentations of role play (3 groups).