Drama Session with Prof. Carlson, Mon 20th.

Yesterday, we had a chance to see The Importance of Being Earnest -the film featuring Rupert Jones, Ms Whitherspoon and a wonderful cast-. On Monday, Prof. Victor Carlson will honour us by conducting a session to further study and analise Wilde's work. Please, be prepared for participating actively. You can download and print the following file as a general guide. Hope you are enjoying these activities and learning something from them. Thanks for your attention.

Click here to open/download/print ---> V Carlson's Notes on Drama

Anglo-Saxon Humour

In our last session we spoke about Cultural/Literary competence. We stated that humour was a good example of how this competence functions. Within that matter I promised to post a "Letter from the Queen of England to the people of the USA". Click on the next hiper-link and you'll be able to read/download the file. Notice how culture plays a crucial role in understanding and enjoying the text.

Click here ---> Letter from Queen Elizabeth II to the People of the USA, on the Financial Crisis

Research Paper (introductory information)

As you were told in the first week of the term, we will be researching on and analysing a couple of novellas (i.e., long short stories or short novels): "The Stone Cipher" by Tony Pi and "By the Waters of the Ganga" by Stephen Gaskel. Both stories were published in 2007 and their authors are almost unknown, therefore the WWW (a.k.a., the internet) won't be of much help, I am afraid.
Start reading/researching as soon as possible and get ready to write your papers. Please, take into consideration all corrections in previous papers and homework, and specially those pieces of advice (available to download) we shared with you on this matter in the past.
The best of lucks to you in this new task.
DD

First Activity!

Just before we start a new blog... let us work on our first activity.
In just one paragraph, give a personal definition of POETRY. You can make it as short/long as you want inasmuch as you keep it as ONE paragraph. Pay close attention to the use of language and try to make your text as effective as possible. Remember the deadline is Saturday (April 4th) by midnight. Let us the rest of Easter to check the blog and give some feed back to our mates (as a group or to separate individuals, or both!), AT LEAST ONCE.
Thanks for participating, see you after Easter, enjoy yourselves and... READ!

New Class! 2009-I

Despite not being scheduled officially, we have opened a new class this term! You might have felt quite disappointed at failing last semester, but try to take it as a negative experience which led to learning. If you did learn the lesson, you must make well now. At the beginning of new term we are all in the highest spirits. Let us keep them high all through the course and hope for the best results. Please, if you notice there are obstacles you find particularly difficult to manage, let us know as soon as possible. Your success is YOURS, but your failure is OURS.
Best wishes!