FINAL MARKS

Adriana Hortense 12

Ana Luísa Xavier 11

Ana Mafalda Veiga 12

Ana Marques Murteira -----

Ana Patrícia Severino 11

Ana Rita Faustino 17

Bernardo Serpa 16

Bozena Ferreira 14

Cátia Caetano -----

Cátia Santos 8

Cláudia Joaquim ----

David Lampreia 14

Filipa Pedro 13

Filipa Correia 14

Helena Angelino 15

Hugo Melo 12

Lavínia Coxi 10

Mª João Carvalhas 13

Patrícia Ramos 7

Pedro Lourenço -----

Rita Santos 13

Romeu Ornelas ---

Rute Almeida 14

Sílvia Brito -----

Susana Filipe 7

Tiago Mendes 14

Vanda Boucinha 10

FINAL MARKS

The marks have been posted in Secretaria Virtual.

Ill post them here later, as well as the marks you had in your assignments 4 and 5 aa well as the oral.




Bear in mind that not having handed in assignments, 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.

ORAL EXAMS

Hi all,

I need to do an oral to worker students of the other class at 10.00 am, so this means alll the orals will be pushed to 15 minutes later.


Thank you.

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 4 (class) June 4th

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 3- Creative writing (point of view)

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 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.
• ORALS: 23rd June.

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

Book Report Assignment due June 2nd

Background Research for Presentations

TASK 1. BACKGROUND RESEARCH
Presentations (Wednesday 21 st May).


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=DbHMnVfuqb0http://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

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:

http://www.englishc112.blogspot.com/

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