Video screening: TED Talk: "My Wish: Protect our Oceans"

4 Abril 2018, 14:00 • Paula Alexandra Carvalho Alves Rodrigues Horta

Discussion about the questions raised in the TED Talk and the documentary Years of Living Dangerously: "Collapse of the Oceans".

Charity

4 Abril 2018, 12:00 • Rui Vitorino Azevedo

Discussion of the short story "Charity". 

Persuasive Writing

4 Abril 2018, 10:00 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

The two final groups presented their descriptive writing analyses (Plath texto 3 and Anne Michaels text 1).

We then went on to learn about the basics of Persuasive Writing and listed some of the techniques used in Persuasive Writing:

1. Personal Pronouns
2. Cause and effect
3. Verb tenses
4. Repetition
5. Alliteration
6. The Power of Three
7. Emotive language
8. Facts and statistics
9. Hyperbole
10. Exaggeration
11. Technical Language
12. Rhetorical Questions
13. Dare the reader to disagree
14. Powerful verbs and strong adjectives
15. Listing.
16. Address objections.
17. Go tribal.
18. Story telling/anecdotes
19. Humour.
20. Reasons why.

We then listened to Winston Churchill's We shall fight on the beaches speech and identified which techniques were used in it to persuade the British people to 'Keep Calm and Carry On'.  Those of you who didn't come to class, listen to this at home and see if you can find any of the above techniques (there are several in the speech).

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4FdMTdR40w

Essay Practice

22 Março 2018, 14:00 • Thomas Joe Grigg

Practice writing with in-text citations.  Feedback.

Introducing a new topic: The Environment.

22 Março 2018, 10:00 • Ana Rita Martins