Lesson No.

Date

Contents

1

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).

2

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.

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.

4

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.

5

3 Oct.

Text 3 – Summarising: i) the essay; ii) the responses it generated in class.

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.

7

12 Oct.

Talk and reading with Indian writer and artist Savia Viegas – Anfiteatro III ­| Theatre 3.

8

17 Oct.

Text 4 – Further discussion. Written assignment.

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.

10

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.

11

26 Oct.

Written test 1.

Lesson No.

Date

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.

13

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.

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

14 Nov.

Text 11  - Sally Morgan, “Daisy Corunna’s Story”, My Place, 1987 (excerpt) – reading comprehension; discussion.

17

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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21 Nov.

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.

19

23 Nov.

Embodied selves: Text 12 - John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me [1962] 1996, 1-9 (excerpt) – students’ presentation; reading comprehension; discussion.

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.

22

5 Dec.

Embodied selves: Text 14 – Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive, 2015, pp. 1-21 - students’ presentation; reading comprehension.

23

7 Dec.

Embodied selves: Text 14 – Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive, 2015, pp. 1-21 – discussion.

24

12 Dec.

Written test 2.

25

14 Dec.

Students’ presentations / interviews.

26

19 Dec.

Further students’ presentations / interviews.

26

9 Jan.

Meeting for final assessment.