Sumários

Expository Writing

23 Novembro 2020, 18:30 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

Today we learned about the basics of Expository Writing.  Anyone who missed today's lessons should read the section in their course book that relates to Expository Writing.

The teacher then went on to model the first step in preparing for the upcoming Oral Presentations on Joyce Carol Oates' Small Avalanches and Other Stories.  The first step consisted of brainstorming the main themes found in the title story Small Avalanches.  This exercise was carried out as a class and these were the results that TP3 and TP4 came up with:
  • boredom vs. excitement
  • guile vs. innocence
  • intuition/instinct vs. knowledge
  • girlpower
  • childhood/adolescence vs. adulthood
  • curiosity
  • coming-of-age
  • teenage rebellion
  • country life vs. city life
  • stalking: predator vs. prey
  • rape and sexual abuse
  • fear vs. courage
  • adventure & danger
  • etc.
The students from both TP3 and TP4 were placed into breakout rooms according to their story selection and, as a group, were instructed to identify themes in their story. 

Next class: we will continue to learn about expository writing and about the next necessary steps to be taken in preparation for our upcoming oral (i.e. how to write a thesis statement, how to brainstorm arguments, how to rank them according to strength, how to order them in an essay, how to link ideas giving them 'academic fluency'; etc.


Lesson 23

23 Novembro 2020, 15:30 • Katarzyna Dominika Karpowicz Osowska

"The True Cost" - discussion about the movie

Lesson 22

20 Novembro 2020, 15:30 • Katarzyna Dominika Karpowicz Osowska

"The True Cost" - a documentary by Andrew Morgan

Practice test

20 Novembro 2020, 15:30 • Thomas Joe Grigg

Written practice test

Persuasive Writing...

19 Novembro 2020, 18:30 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

Today, TP3 finished their very impressive analysis of Barack Obama's 2012 DNC speech, having identified the techniques and target voters in each of their sections.
Next class: we will begin to look at Expository Writing.  It is important that students come to all lessons from now one as they will be simultaneously learning about expository writing while preparing for their oral examinations.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION: next week's midterm dates have been changed.  The Descriptive/Narrative Writing test (Midterm Test Part 1) will now be held on November 26th and the Persuasive Writing test (Midterm Test Part 2) will now be held on December 3rd.  This is to allow students to have tutorials and homework feedback before each section of the the test.  Descriptive/narrative homework assignments will be returned as soon as possible and tutorials will be held next week.