MARKS (ORALS AND FINAL MARKS)

André Carvalho 15/15

André Pereira 15/16

Barbara 12/13

Daniel 14/11

Hugo 15/15

João Paio 15/15

João Silva 15/14

Jorge 15/11

José Pedro 13/13

Miguel 15/15

Patrícia 15/15,5

Sara 15/15

Tânia 11/11




Bear in mind that not having handed in assignments, not having participated in the debates and not having contributed to the blogs has lowered your marks. in some cases.

Exames de Recurso e Melhoria are on July 2nd, 14.00 - 16.00, room 03.

MARKS

4TH AND 5TH ASSIGNMENTS

André Carvalho 13,5/16,5

André Pereira 14,5/14

Barbara 12,5/12,5

Daniel 17/16,5

Hugo 14/16

João Paio 15,5/15

João Silva 16,5/15/5

Jorge 16,5/16

José Pedro 14,5/15

Miguel 15/15

Patrícia 16/16

Sara 15/15,5

Tânia 9,5/12

FINAL MARKS

I said final marks would be up today, but the server is down. I'll be going in tomorrow afternoon to post the marks.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Debate 12/06/08

Creative Writing Workshop

New Yorker cartoon

Khaled Hosseini on World Book Club

An interview with the author of The Kite Runner:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/world_book_club.shtml

Debate 05/06/2008

From left to right:

Patrícia, Hugo, André, José, Diana and João.

Debates

Please get organized so that on Tuesday we already have the teams set. Please look at the links I posted.

Yet another tie

I noticed we have another tie-euthanasia- so if one of the teams would like to change their topic to Euthanasia, OK by me.

Debates

On your right you'll find under DEBATES a very useful link with everythig you should know about debating (Debating rules). Please read it.

Start preparing your themes (same-sex marriage or forced marriage). I've posted a few links, try finding more so that next class in your teams you can start preparing. You'll have to decide on the MOOT, and also who is going to be the 1st , 2nd , 3rd speaker for or against.

Adjustment to assignment dates

I decided to make some adjustments to the assignment dates.

Our 1st debate session will be on the 5th of June.
The second session will be on the 12th June, which means the 5th assignment will now be on the 17th June.

Yakoobi's Student - Poem

Our young and childish games
Could somehow reveal, tell apart
Those who believed in burning flames
From those who had indeed a good start.

I was taught not to feel ashamed
From the beginning of my time;
No real authority when masters came
But lots of it in my own mind.

Bearded men, a Holy book,
A stage to play along
Was the reality that made us think
About what’s good and wrong.

Our knowledge was immense
And our lives were put at risk
Just to unveil that great light,
That great Holy bright
Instead of a closed fist.

Among all the other girls,
I am blessed to be
As brave as a the birds,
As brave as Yacoobi.

Themes for debating

As you can check from the poll, forced marriages and same-sex marriages are ahead.

I've decided to postpone the debates: our 1st session will be on the 5th, then we will set another
date for the second group. On the 3rd June ,I'd like to do some preparation in view of the debates

Poem on Handout 4.4A

From the womb to the tomb



Morning is here, morning is near
And now it is time to leave
The house which makes my future safe
Seems to be waiting for me

Morning is here, morning is near
But I have no idea
That God has made to wrap my faith
Just like the chadari I wear

Morning is here, morning is near
I cannot breathe, no one can help
That alley is the perfect place
For me to help myself

Morning is here, morning is near
I gasp for breath, I feel relieved
But the hand of the God who wraps my faith
Is coming over to me

I feel humiliation, I feel pain
Red raindrops hit the floor
I feel beaten as I am beaten
Until my heart can beat no more

Morning is no longer near
But I know mourning is here
I wish morning had come for my heir
But he was drowned in my own tears

Morning has turned to night
I knew it was time to leave
As I exposed myself I was exposed to death
But there should have been time to live.

Mourning is here…

Debates

We have decided that one team is doing Forced Marriages, as the other topics are tied will you please vote to see what our 2nd topic will be. On your right, under Debates check the link I just posted on debating rules, it explains all you need to know about debates.

Please vote

Hi all,

Please vote in the poll

Assignment 4 (Class) May 29th

For this assignment please bring exam paper. You can bring your English/English dictionaries as well as your copies of The Kite Runner.

Added new video on Afghanistan

Check on your right under Afghanistan (videos)

Kite Running Tournament

Some pictures related to the kite running tournament, taken from the movie! :)

Big think link

Check the link on the right under debates. It has interviews with experts on several ethical issues.

Debates

In preparation for the debating sessions, please refer to the link on the right (Ethical issues for debating) under debates.

Choose one topic per group (6 students per group). Vote in the poll on the blog.


Thanks!

Assignment nº 3-Creative writing (point of view)

Assignment 3 - point of view (home) due May 27th

ASSIGNMENTS UNTIL THE END OF THE SEMESTER

Our next classes will be dedicated to preparing the following assignments:

• Assignment 3 - descriptive writing - point of view (home). This will be due 27th May.
• Assignment 4 - report on chapter of novel (class) - Thursday 29th May. This is based on an excerpt from The Kite Runner, requiring your interpretation of its relevance and its meanings.
• Debates - 3rd/5th June.
• RESEARCH PROJECT - REPORT based on either on novel or forum contribution, incorporating contributions to blog discussion and research. Book report due Thursday 29th May.
• Assignment 5 - argumentative article (class) - Thursday June 12th
  

Opium abuse in Afghanistan

More Kite Running

Book Report Assignment due May 29th

Kite Running

THE KITE RUNNER-TASK 1.BACKGROUND RESEARCH FOR PRESENTATIONS

TASK 1. BACKGROUND RESEARCH

Presentations (Tuesday 29th April).

In your group blogs, to explore the religions, ethnic groups and cultures, role of men and women, war and politics and immigrants: Prepare a short presentation - 20 minutes maximum per group.

You could include:

1. A quiz to test background understanding of Afghanistan and its peoples.

2. Images/videos /maps of Afghanistan and its peoples.

3. A trip along the paths that the novel The Kite Runner follows.

RESOURCES :

The Outsiders The Hazara People, from The National Geographic – February 2008 :
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/02/afghanistan-hazara/phil-zabriskie-text.html

Afghanistan facts:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/south_asia/2004/afghanistan/default.stm

Hazaras - London http://208.65.153.251/watch?v=DbHMnVfuqb0
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/geopedia/Hazara_People

maps of the regions - ethnic groups in Afghanistan:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/landincrisis/ethnic.html

Country profiles :
http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/places/countries/country_afghanistan.html

Pashtuns :
http://java.nationalgeographic.com/studentatlas/clickup/pashtun.html

Change slow for Afghan Women :
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/03/0312_020312_afghanwomen.html

Now read the article about the woman in the photo!

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/03/0311_020312_sharbat.html

Photograph by Steve McCurry

Grammar Book (might be useful-I'm not calling you dummies ;) !

A CHANCE TO PUT QUESTIONS TO KHALED HOSSEINI

WORLD BOOK CLUB

A chance to put questions to the author of the Kite Runner,

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/world_book_club.shtml.

You need to e-mail your questions well in advance of the programme date.

If you'd like to take part in a future World Book Club, here's your chance.Please send us in questions for Khaled Hosseini discussing The Kite Runner on April 10th.

Go to the link above to find the submission form.

Before you post questions to THE WORLD BOOK CLUB, discuss what you would like to ask the

author in your small group blogs.

ASSIGNMENT Nº 2 CAUSE/EFFECT-DUE 17 APRIL

RECKLESSNESS

For next class, please bring the play by Eugene O'Neill RECKLESSNESS. Just follow the link on the blog and print it out.

Creative Writing Workshop

Cause and effect charts

Joyce Carol Oates ( author of Tone Clusters)

GROUP BLOGS AND RESEARCH PROJECT

Group Blogs

Hi all,

Only ONE group has set the group blog so far, please will the others do the same?

Lisbon Players

Please let me know the dates that would best suit you for our theater trip:


April 4, 5 ,11 or 12.

Group blogs

Hi all,

I would like you to set up the group blogs and have them running before we resume classes after Easter.

Please do not forget to invite me to the blog.

Enjoy your holidays!

ASSIGNMENT Nº 1 (SUMMARY/RESPONSE)

PLEASE NOTICE CHANGES MADE TO COURSE DESCRIPTION

There have been some changes to the course description.

Absence today

Sorry for the absence, but I was sick: my voice abandoned me :(

See you on Tuesday! Do not forget the assignment!

Check the dates for the theater and please let me know if you want to go, we need to book.

Task ONE: e- mail
Write an email to your teacher (using appropriate style and register) expressing your experiences and views about language learning and teaching, and hopes for the course.

Give your e-mail a subject heading: e.g. Marian’s thoughts about learning.
Send to joanar@fcsh.unl.pt before Tuesday 11th March.

Use the points below as a guideline:

How would you characterize an ‘advanced’ language learner?
How close to being an ‘advanced’ language learner are you?
What aspects of using English do you have most difficulty with?
What strategies are you developing to improve your language learning?
What do you feel more confident about since the 1st semester?
What do you hope to gain from this course?

Anything else you want to add.

THE MIRROR IN LITERATURE

TASK


Research interpretations of mirrors across cultures and bring on Tuesday 4th.
Find poems or literature making reference to ‘mirror.’ Perhaps in the titles or within the body of text.

Bring and explain:


Source
Reference made to ‘mirror’
Interpretation of ‘mirror’ in that piece of work
Symbolic meanings

The Elephant Man

Extreme makeover clip

Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There

There was a book lying near Alice on the table, and while she sat watching the White King (for she was still a little anxious about him, and had the ink all ready to throw over him, in case he fainted again), she turned over the leaves, to find some part that she could read, ` -- for it's all in some language I don't know,' she said to herself.
It was like this.

YKCOWREBBAJ
sevot yhtils eht dna ,gillirb sawT`
ebaw eht ni elbmig dna eryg diD
,sevogorob eht erew ysmim llA
.ebargtuo shtar emom eht dnA

She puzzled over this for some time, but at last a bright thought struck her. `Why, it's a Looking-glass book, of course! And if I hold it up to a glass, the words will all go the right way again."
This was the poem that Alice read.

JABBERWOCKY
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
`Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jujub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!'
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum gree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wook,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
`And has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Calloh! Callay!
He chortled in his joy.
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.


`It seems very pretty,' she said when she had finished it, `but it's RATHER hard to understand!' (You see she didn't like to confess, ever to herself, that she couldn't make it out at all.) `Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas -- only I don't exactly know what they are! However, SOMEBODY killed SOMETHING: that's clear, at any rate -- '

ACADEMY AWARDS

So today is the big day for Oscars.

You can have fun and cast your ballot here:

http://movies.msn.com/movies/oscars2008/?GT1=10947

Course overview