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Narrative tenses and creative writing

10 Outubro 2018, 16:00 • Rui Vitorino Azevedo

Reviewed the narrative tenses and had students write a short story in order to put these tenses into practice. Students either finished a "survival" story or rewrote a fairy tale - bringing it up to modern times. 

Descriptive Writing Continued.

10 Outubro 2018, 12:00 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

TP1 finished analyzing descriptive texts and went on to get into groups in order to prepare for their class presentations.

Each group was instructed to choose one of the seven available descriptive texts (these are in your course books):

  • Two texts from Virginia Woolfe's journals;
  • Three texts from Sylvia Plath's journals;
  • Two poems by Anne Michaels.

Once each group had chosen ONE text to analyze, they were instructed to:

  1. detect the mood/tone of the piece;
  2. interpret the hidden message of the piece;
  3. identify the means by which the message is conveyed:
    1. the five senses (sight, sound, smell, taste, touch);
    2. other means as seen in class when analyzing previous texts;
    3. etc.

Each group will be sharing their findings with the whole class.


Next class:  the class will have 15-20 more minutes to prepare and then it will be time for each group to presente.

Analysis of "Tony's story" by Leslie Marmon Silko continued. "Bears Ears is sacred to Native Americans ...".

10 Outubro 2018, 10:00 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha

Analysing the short story "Tony's story" by Leslie Marmon Silko continued. Reading and discussion of the newspaper article "Bears Ears is sacred to Native Americans.But heritage isn't all equal for Trump" (The Guardian). HOMEWORK: Finish reading the article "Bears Ears ..." at home and look up unknown references and vocabulary.

Descriptive Writing Continued...

10 Outubro 2018, 08:00 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

TP1 finished analyzing descriptive texts and went on to get into groups in order to prepare for their class presentations.

Each group was instructed to choose one of the seven available descriptive texts (these are in your course books):

  • Two texts from Virginia Woolfe's journals;
  • Three texts from Sylvia Plath's journals;
  • Two poems by Anne Michaels.

Once each group had chosen ONE text to analyze, they were instructed to:

  1. detect the mood/tone of the piece;
  2. interpret the hidden message of the piece;
  3. identify the means by which the message is conveyed:
    1. the five senses (sight, sound, smell, taste, touch);
    2. other means as seen in class when analyzing previous texts;
    3. etc.

Each group will be sharing their findings with the whole class.


Next class:  the class will have 15-20 more minutes to prepare and then it will be time for each group to present.

Essay practice and the power of three

9 Outubro 2018, 14:00 • Thomas Joe Grigg

Essay writing practice and the power of three.