Expository Writing - Oral Exam Preparation Continued...
7 Maio 2018, 10:00 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio
Students received their midterms (both listening and written). We went through the midterm test (written) and addressed any difficult sections (of which there were a few) and any questions or doubts.
Students then went on to finalize their theses/questions for their upcoming oral presentations. The following is a table of students and their respective questions. If there is no question next to your name, then you need to email me one as soon as possible.
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End-of-semester Oral Exams |
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Mrs. Dalloway
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Margarida Simões |
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Sofia Benedito |
The novel Mrs. Dalloway reflects on different kinds of romantic relationships based on social status. Do they differ from present notions of love? |
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Anilton Varela |
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Nuno Dias |
What led Mrs. Dalloway’s Septimus to kill himself? |
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Júlia Xavier |
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Inês Cunha |
How does the class system in 20th century England influence people’s lives and identities as depicted in the novel Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf? |
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Burmese Days |
Iolanda Gomes |
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Maria Madeira |
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Joana Brito |
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Madalena Rodrigues |
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Me Talk Pretty One Day |
Inês Quadrilheiro |
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Tânia de Matos |
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The Edible Woman |
Ana Filipa Barroso |
The Edible Woman serves as an example of how many women in the 60s were unable to accept the submissive roles imposed onto them by society, and how they felt the need to turn the situation around. |
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Inês Palma |
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Francine Maia |
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Roberta Capraro |
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The Virgin Suicides
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Maria Isabel Freitas |
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Patrícia Santos |
Why did the Lisbon girls kill themselves as opposed to running away together? |
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Laura Rocha |
How does religion lead to the parents having certain expectations of the Lisbon sisters? |
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Sara Faísca |
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Sonya Flor |
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Mariana Silva |
Eugenides’ The Virgin Suicides portrays, through voyeurism, what femininity and womanhood seem like to teenage boys. |
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The Outsiders |
Raquel Agostinho |
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Catarina Frade |
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Laura Gil |
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Tamára Rodrigues |
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The First Bad Man |
Marcos Pinto |
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Next class: students will need to write up the arguments for their academic oral essays and find evidence in both the novel and from research.