Dear all,

Here is the list of students who should make their presentation on Monday 3:

Sebastián
Sergio
Bárbara
Patricia
Pablo
Jorge

and on Wednesday 5:

Claudia
María José GH
Cristina
María José A.
Javiera
Wladimir
Paulina

Tomorrow I will bring two articles which deal with the use of literature in the EFL class. I hope you find them useful.

Below you will find a link to the famous play "Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Becket. We will read it and discuss it in class tomorrow.

http://samuel-beckett.net/Waiting_for_Godot_Part1.html

Claudia

Dear all,

Tomorrow´s session will be devoted to discuss the poem by Auden that we started reading last class. I will also introduce you to Stephen Spender´s poetry.

The presentions will take place on the week of November 3, Monday and Wednesday, so you´ll have another week to prepare. The idea is that in about ten minutes you make a presentation based on one of the authors that we have studied this term. You may decide to choose one particular poem, chapter, book, article, etc.

Some recommendations:

1. Use pictures, quotations, references to other authors if necessary

2. Provide contextual factors

3. The presentation should be made having in mind how you would use literature in an English language class

4. Explain what strategies you would use to teach the piece of work you are presenting

I will upload the marking criteria and further recommendations on Tuesday.

Finally, I want to congratulate you all for the presentations on Virginia Woolf (some of you have already uploaded very interesting posts too!!). You should be very proud of yourselves. Just remember to correct the language when you upload the presentations to the virtual campus, ok?
Well done!!

See you tomorrow,
Claudia

Dear all,

This session and next will be devoted to study of one of W.H.Auden´s most famous poems "September 1, 1939" . You´ll find the poem in the following link


http://www.poemdujour.com/Sept1.1939.html



After reading it discuss the following questions:
1. What do you think the last two lines of the second stanza refer to?
2. What political and historical events does the poems address?
3. What attitudes towards patriotism does the poem take?
4. What do you think the poet means by

"The strength of Collective Man"
"Out of the mirror they state, Imperialism´s face. And the international wrong".
"There is no such thing as the State"

5. What is the relevance of this poem to our times?

See you,
Claudia

Dear all,

For your presentation on Virginia Woolf´s famous essay "A room of one´s own" I have uploaded an article to the virtual that can help you understand the context and the political events that were taking place at the end of the the 1920s when Virginia wrote the essay.

Read the article and relate it to your presentation. Why is the picture I have chosen relevant?. Your presentations should discuss the main issue/thesis of the chapter you are going to present. Support it with relevant citations and pictures if you wish. Provide your own interpretation and conclusions.

Also, remember to choose two of your previous posts and correct them, taking care not to erase the original version!!

Good luck!!

Claudia

Dear all,

As a reminder, please write your post on "The Waste Land" by T.S. Eliot before tomorrow´s class. You may choose to use this picture, which was used in class on Monday, in your analysis. Or else, read the following review
http://www.arionpress.com/catalog/more/079essay.htm

and discuss the poem in relation with the picture found in the link. Those of you who have already posted, well done!!

See you tomorrow,

Claudia

Dear all,

I have just uploaded an article about the concept of the "objective correlative" by T. S. Eliot to the virtual campus. We will discuss it along with "The Wasteland" on Monday.

Also, in the following link you´ll find the famous essay "A room of one´s own" by Virginia Woolf.
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91r/index.html.

Please read it for Wednesday.

Jorge, here is a link to a timeline of British literature that might be helpful
http://www.studyguide.org/brit_lit_timeline.htm, take a look.

See you soon,
Claudia

Dear all,

Today´s class will be devoted to the reading of the "The Wasteland" by T.S. Eliot. You will find the poem in the follow the link

http://www.bartleby.com/201/1.html

Read it, think of the title, sub-titles, images, characters, date in which it was written....
Let´s now discuss it.
Claudia