FINAL MARKS

Artur Andrês 16

Madalena Pereira 14

Michela Saporiti 16

Mariana Poole da Costa 16

Nanci Pinto 10

Rui Antunes 10

FINAL MARKS

The marks have been posted in Secretaria Virtual. Later I'll post the marks you got in assignments 4 and 4, as well as the oral here.



Bear in mind that not having handed in assignments, 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.

FINAL MARKS

I told you I'd be going in today to post the marks, but the server is down and I'm unable to do so.

I'll be going in tomorrow afternoon to post the marks.


Sorry for the inconvenience

Khaled Hosseini on World Book Club

Interview with the author of The Kite Runner:

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

Adjustment to assignment dates

I have decided to postpone the last assignment (nº 5). It is now scheduled for June 18th.

Assignment nº 4 ( in class)

For this assignment please bring exam paper. You may also bring your Eng.-Eng. dictionary and your copy of The Kite Runner.

Added new video on Afghanistan

Check on your left under Afghanistan (videos)

Presentations

As you all know presentations are on Wednesday. After the presentations please start posting them in your group blogs. Please identify when posting who did what ( e.g. Sandra's presentation)

Thanks!

Assignment nº 3-Creative writing (point of view)

Assignment creative writing (point of view) due June 2nd

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 Monday June 2nd.
• Assignment 4-report on chapter of novel (class). Wednesday June 4th.
• RESEARCH PROJECT-REPORT-based on either novel or forum contribution, incorporating contributions to blog discussion and research. Book report due Monday June 2nd.
• Assignment 5-argumentative essay (class) Monday June 9th.
  
  
  

ABSENCES-REMINDER

Unless you are registered as a 'trabalhador-estudante', you must attend at least two-thirds of classes given or you won't pass the course, which in this 'turma's' case is you can only have been absent 7 times until the end of the semester.

Opium abuse in Afghanistan

Kite Running

Research Project-Presentations

TASK 1. BACKGROUND RESEARCH

Presentations (Wednesday May 21st).

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

Book Report Assignment due June 2nd

ASSIGNMENT Nº 2 CAUSE/EFFECT-DUE 28 APRIL

We still need to do a bit more work but the articles we
did in class will help you prepare for this assignment.

Welcome

Hi and welcome to our class blog. You should regularly pay a visit to the blog as it is a good way to always know what's going on in class.

Please refer to this blog:

www.englishc112.blogspot.com

There you'll find everything I did with turma B and which we were not able to do here.