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.