Sumários
Descriptive Writing Continued...
18 Fevereiro 2020, 12:00 • 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).
We then analyzed 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]).
Following these analyses, TP10 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.
Descriptive Writing Continued...
18 Fevereiro 2020, 10:00 • 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.
Animals in stories
17 Fevereiro 2020, 16:00 • Gaile Parkin
Correction of common errors in essays. Review and expansion of grammar points. Discussion about why animals are used in children’s stories. Pair work discussion of associations of various animals. Idioms involving animals.
"Bears Ears is sacred to Native Americans. But heritage isn't all equal for Trump". Letters to the Editor.
17 Fevereiro 2020, 10:00 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha
Reading and discussion of the newspaper article "Bears Ears is sacred to Native Americans. But heritage isn't all equal for Trump" (The Guardian).
Letters to the Editor:
(a) how to write a letter to the editor;
(b) in-class individual assignment: preparing to write 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. (To be continued on Wednesday)
Goodbye Grammar...Hello Descriptive Writing!
13 Fevereiro 2020, 16:00 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio
Today we finished off grammar by learning about time prepositions, position prepositions and direction prepositions. Students should ensure that they do ALL of the prepositions exercises for homework:
- https://www.englishpage.com/prepositions/time_prepositions_1.htm
- https://www.englishpage.com/prepositions/time_prepositions_2.htm
- https://www.englishpage.com/prepositions/position_prepositions_1.htm
- https://www.englishpage.com/prepositions/position_prepositions_2.htm
- https://www.englishpage.com/prepositions/direction_prepositions_1.htm
- https://www.englishpage.com/prepositions/direction_prepositions_2.htm
We then went on to learn about Descriptive Writing. Those who missed this class, should read the section on descriptive writing in their course books.
Next class: we will complete our analysis of the exerpt from Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (Knopf, 1976) and, following this, we will then go outsider to Campo Grande to do an outdoor descriptive writing exercise. Those who are late for class should head out to Campo Grande in the event that we are no longer to be found in the classroom.