Class Presentations

So, as all of us know, we have got this oral presentation to do. Our day is going to be the 6th June and our theme is the Short Stories.

Now I really need your help to put all the parts together. And I guess we should decide in which order ar we going to present, I mean, we already know that Zé is going to be the first, but who is going to be next?

I am trying to remember our choices from today's "meeting", but I guess I need your help. As far as I remember, it is going to be something like:

Zé - a sort of introduction, talking about the importance of the short stories in nowaday's life

Bernardo - the relationship between the author and the characters/narrator/story (choose the right answer, please)

Bozena - it was something about "Breakfast at Tesco's" and the relationship with the "real" world (am I wrong?)

Artur - I don't quite remember, but it had something to do with "Hello Goodbye", right?

Sandra - the relationship between the film and the chapter we have from "Bend It Like Beckham" (by the way, tomorrow I am going to look for the dvd around the video-clubs here. If I cannot find it, I will buy it from amazon. To be honest, it is so cheap that I am thinking in buying it right now)

Luís - we are waiting for your project. What is it going to be? :)

Corrections are wanted!!!!!

7th May class

And as the poetry classes continue (which is amazing, by the way), I guess today all of us have something to put here :)

I am talking about the "When I am an old woman I shall wear purple" poem we had to "re-invent".

For me it was particularly hard to begin, as I am not the kind of person who likes to think about the future, but once I started I admit I didn't want to stop O_O

Here is my version (each one of us has a different one)

 

When I am an old woman I shall wear purple

I shall be as open-minded as I've been taught

And teach those around me to do the same

My life stories shall be tolded to my grandchildren

Who shall know they had a tough grandmother

Who just loved her life

That should inspire them to never give up,

And tell them to always be themselves

Teaching them that life's what we make of it

I shall help others to be raised happily

And to share their love.

When I am an old woman I shall wear purple

Another Haiku

It would be fun to have here all the "Haiku poems" this group managed to create. As I am no exception (and there are already two posted by my friends), here is mine:

Certain summer nights

Are just as dark as our fights

Trying to keep alive

Free association Poem

As Luis said on the 2nd of May, that class was indeed amazing! He talked (and posted) one of our poems, which means there is another one by us (Luis and Sandra). So here it is:

I love to sleep in the afternoon

I just take the pillow and hold it tight

I don't need a bed, I just turn off the light

And cover me with the covers, I'll fall asleep soon

I forget my book on the loo

And now nightmares are coming

I won't sleep till night comes

Showing it's stared sky

Like a movie on the telie

That I'll watch with some popcorn's company

:-)

I didn't see the preview before publishing... I will put it again here...sorry for that mess:-)

walking the fence line/falling into your safe arms/leaving all the world/on the other noisy side/a bit of courage/needed to look firmly down

Now, my haiku looks more beautiful :-)

HAIKU

walking the fierce line
falling into your safe arms
leaving all the world
on the other noisy side
a bit of courage
needed to look firmly down

Free Association - 2nd May 2007

Our lesson of today was filled with the most amazing brainstorming, free association, fun mixture ever made! From Haiku poetry to paired poems, all was game, and here is the first of our poems. By Sandra Amaral. and Luis Monteiro.

"When curiosity arrives/
I do my research on wives./
I run to the laboratory of the church/
Where I get into my scientist outfit/
Look at the insane look it gives me/
At the hospital I shall be/
Or so it seems with this bleached suit/
But I want to go to the beach and eat some fruit./
And walk on the sand warmed by the sun/
With my feet on dry land all I see is my burned bun."

We also managed to create an Haiku poem.
In order to respect the ancient syllable order 5-7-5 we rearranged it:

"At our last parting/
Leaves yellowed with our grief/
Winter drew closer."