Sumários
Summary writing. 1. TEXT 7: “Hope and Home”, Freeman’s: Best New Writing on Home, ed. Jonathan Freeman, 2017,
31 Outubro 2017, 14:00 • Maria Teresa Correia Casal
1. Text 7: “Hope and Home”, Freeman’s: Best New Writing on Home, ed. Jonathan Freeman, 2017, pp. 73-87: reading comprehension; discussion.
2. How to write a summary: revision.
3. Summarising information and expressing personal opinion.
Updated plan:
ENGLISH STRONG VANTAGE (B 2.2) – TP 1 - 2017-18
Topic: ‘Whose Home? Natives and Migrants’
Timetable: Tuesday & Thursday – 14h00-16h00, Room 3.1
Teacher: Teresa Casal (mcasal@campus.ul.pt)
Office hours: Thu., 16h00-17h00 (Department of English Studies)
Lesson No. |
Date
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Contents |
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19 Sept. |
1. Introduction. Aims and themes. Assessment: First written test: 30%; Second written test: 40%; Oral presentation: 15%; Attendance and participation: 15%. Test 1: 26 October; Test 2: 12 December. Office hours: Thu., 16h00-17h00, Dept. English. 2. Listening comprehension: “On Being an Unemployed Arts Graduate” & “How to Find Fulfilling Work”. Discussion. 3. Short written assignment (HW). |
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21 Sept. |
1. Feedback on written assignment. Identification of areas in need of revision and consolidation. 2. Text 1 - “What is Human Migration?” 3. A Brief History of Migration – Charting Culture: Listening comprehension: What is migration? 4. Identification of key information. Discussion.
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3 |
26 Sept. |
1. Text 2 - in “Six Shorts”, Freeman’s: Best New Writing on Home, ed. Jonathan Freeman, 2017, pp. 9-13: reading comprehension; discussion. 2. Preparation of role play.
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4
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28 Sept. |
1. Text 2 – Presentation of role play. 2. Text 3 – Bharati Mukherjee, “Imagining Homelands,” in Letters of Transit: Reflections on Exile, Identity, Language, and Loss, ed. André Aciman, New York: The New York Public Library, 1999, pp. 65-86. 2.1. Analysing the essay: identifying key concepts and stories; describing the essay’s structure; 2.2. Discussing the essay; summarizing the key ideas in the discussion; expressing personal opinion.
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5
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3 Oct. |
Text 3 – Summarising: i) the essay; ii) the responses it generated in class.
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6 |
10 Oct. |
Text 4: Savia Viegas, “Girls Are to Be Married”, in Let Me Tell You About Quinta, 2011, pp. 34-46 – reading comprehension; discussion.
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7 |
12 Oct. |
Talk and reading with Indian writer and artist Savia Viegas – Anfiteatro III | Theatre 3.
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8 |
17 Oct. |
Text 4 – Further discussion. Written assignment.
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9 |
19 Oct. |
1. Text 5 - Jhumpa Lahiri, “A Temporary Matter”, in Interpreter of Maladies, 2000, 1-22 – Reading and interpretation; discussion; engaging creatively with the text.
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10
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24 Oct. |
1. Feedback on earlier written exercise. 2. Text 5 - Jhumpa Lahiri, “A Temporary Matter”, in Interpreter of Maladies, 2000, 1-22: creative written exercise. |
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26 Oct. |
Written test 1.
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Lesson No. |
Date
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Contents |
12 |
31 Oct. |
1. Text 7: “Hope and Home”, Freeman’s: Best New Writing on Home, ed. Jonathan Freeman, 2017, pp. 73-87: reading comprehension; discussion. 2. How to write a summary: revision. 3. Summarising information and expressing personal opinion.
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13
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2 Nov. |
1. Australia’s Stolen Generations: Texts and documentaries: 1.1. Text 9 - Stolen Generations Fact Sheet, July 28, 2007. 1.2. Text 10 - “Closing the Gap in Indigenous Disadvantage,” Council of Australian Governments.
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14 |
7 Nov. |
Screening of Philip Noyce’s film Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002). Please be punctual. |
15 |
9 Nov. |
Philip Noyce’s film Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002): summary; discussion. |
16
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14 Nov. |
Text 11 - Sally Morgan, “Daisy Corunna’s Story”, My Place, 1987 (excerpt) – reading comprehension; discussion.
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17
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16 Nov. |
Representations of Home symposium – attendance of panel presentations related to themes under discussion in class – Anfiteatro III | Theatre 3. Please be punctual.
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18 |
21 Nov.
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1. From Philip Noyce to Sally Morgan and the RHOME presentations: summarising; expressing opinion. 2. Writing back: Text 8 – Aicha Bassry, “Woman Swimming in Thirst”; Sarah Clancy, “Poem for a Migrant Poet Waiting to Make Her Crossing” – reading; discussion; writing back. |
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23 Nov. |
Embodied selves: Text 12 - John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me [1962] 1996, 1-9 (excerpt) – students’ presentation; reading comprehension; discussion.
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20 |
28 Nov. |
Embodied selves: Text 13 - Lucy Caldwell, “Through the Wardrobe”, in Multitudes: Eleven Stories, London: Faber and Faber, 2016, pp. 90-99 – students’ presentation; reading comprehension; discussion. |
21 |
30 Nov. |
Embodied selves: summarising and expanding the discussion. Role play.
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5 Dec. |
Embodied selves: Text 14 – Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive, 2015, pp. 1-21 - students’ presentation; reading comprehension.
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7 Dec. |
Embodied selves: Text 14 – Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive, 2015, pp. 1-21 – discussion.
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24 |
12 Dec. |
Written test 2.
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25 |
14 Dec. |
Students’ presentations / interviews.
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26 |
19 Dec. |
Further students’ presentations / interviews.
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26 |
9 Jan. |
Meeting for final assessment.
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Practice essay
30 Outubro 2017, 16:00 • David Michael Greer
Writing to hand in on one of the texts so far: students choose. + Set up 4th text Condoms.
Character Review
30 Outubro 2017, 14:00 • Tânia Joesephine Gregg Lopes da Silva
Practice essay
30 Outubro 2017, 12:00 • David Michael Greer
Writing to hand in on one of the texts so far: students choose. + Set up 4th text Condoms.
Analysis of the film Room
30 Outubro 2017, 10:00 • Paula Alexandra Carvalho Alves Rodrigues Horta
Feedback on the in-class essay.