How I live Now reading plan (4ºB)

This is the reading plan for How I live now. The literary circles will take place on Thursdays (except for the last week of October,  when it will be on Tuesday 30). The day the circle takes place you have to hand in the LC worksheet (with the same format as in 3º).

October 4: chapters 1-6 (Literary workshop: you don´t have to bring the LC worksheet done but you are supposed to read those chapters to be ready to do different activities on them in class).
Oct. 11: chapters 7-11
Oct. 18: ch.12-16
Oct. 25: ch. 17-20
Oct. 30 (Tuesday): ch. 21-24
November 8: ch. 25-28
Nov. 15: ch. 29 to the end. 

The exam (10% of the total term mark, 30% min. to pass the term) will be on Nov. 19 (Monday). 

Gender topics for Friday´s presentation (3ºB&C)

Hi all, here you are the topics for Friday 5 presentations. Pick the one you like most:

1.How would you have punished the knight of The Wife of Bath Tale?

2.What is what women most desire? Do you agree with the hag in The Wife of Bath Tale?

3.What is what men most desire?

4.Females and the “glass ceiling”

5. The gender pay gap.

6.Power roles in marriages

7.Woman as victim

8.Toys and play of boys and girls

9.Progress in women's careers

10.Gender and sports

11.Gender violence

12.How appearance affects success: for men and women alike?

13.Gender and leadership

14.Does gender condition the careers we choose?

15. Are we raising sexist sons and men?

Remember the presentation is to be done in pairs (there will be a trio) and must last 1.30 minutes! All of you will do it that day. 

Preparing your literary circle worksheets (3ºB&C)

Hi all, welcome to my blog. Here you are some guidelines on how to make your literary circle worksheets, they are a bit different to the ones you did in 2ºESO (the first one is about The Wife of Bath Tale and it´s for next Wednesday). The better you prepare them, the more interesting the literary circle will be!

-Vocabulary: write five words you didn´t know the meaning of. Write the page where the word is to be found and a definition (if several, choose the definition that applies in the context).

-Summary: no more than 60 words. 

-Quotation: don´t forget to write the page where it is and explain the reason why you chose it (the quotation should be meaningful and significant).

-Question about the story and the answer: again, come up with interesting questions that can trigger a discussion, not simple understanding questions such as Who is the protagonist of the story? or How old is she? but questions like If you were in the same situation as the protagonist, would you do the same as him/her? or What´s the moral of the story?

-Prediction: either develop the story further or think of a new ending . Write at least 80 words. 

And remember:  it´s you who makes the literary circles interesting!