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ASPECTS TO DISCUSS "SULA"

Hi guys, the teacher asked me to post the list of aspects she's going to take into account for our discussion about Sula next Tuesday. Here they are:

• Family trees ( The Wright & The Peace family).
• Two adjectives to describe each character.
• Historical events (in the U.S.A., in South America, in Colombia between 1919-1965)
• Main events in the novel.
• Sula’s house vs. Nel’s house ( a description of the environment they were raised in)
  Themes/Political issues
• Style.
• Author.

About The Ones who walk away from Omelas

Hello !

If you want to know more about the story and the author, please click this link

thanks !!

http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/tccampa-182107-ones-walk-away-omelas-leguin-fiction-story-utopia-education-ppt-powerpoint/

Text and audio : The ones who walk away from Omelas

Hello guys !!

In these links you can find the short story and the audio of  ¨The ones who walk away from Omelas¨ by Ursula Le Guin.

Enjoy your reading!

Text:

http://www.kareyperkins.com/classes/445/omelas.pdf

Audio:

http://jlschwennen.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/ones-who-walk-away.mp3

Guide questions

Hello people, here you have some questions for you to have in mind for the discussion:

Do you agree with Benjy’s mother, when she said that he ignores his sister?

Why do you think Benjy didn’t remember his sister name?

What is the meaning of the bird in the story?

Do you think the girl fell through the ice deliberately or accidentally?

Do you think the visitor was scare or embarrassed about Steven?

‘Desperate’, would be a good word to describe what the visitor felt in that house?

Do you think what happened is the girl’s mother and aunt fault because they try to get rid of her for a while?

If Steven would have been family of the narrator, do think things would have been different?           

What do the boy and the girl telling these stories reveal about their own character?

Do you think these stories are a reflection on how society behaves with people like Sheryl and Steven?

Are the mothers unreasonable on forcing the kids to do what they didn’t want?

Do you think the attitudes of the narrators are a natural and instinctive human reaction, or are they a result of parental influence on the child?

The flight of the snowbird by Jean Lively

Hello guys, here is the link for one of the stories we're going to discuss on tuesday, enjoy!

http://literatureforclasseight.wordpress.com/the-flight-of-the-snowbird/

Tomorrow I'll correct the first page for the other story, because is not well done.

A Beautiful Child by Truman Capote

For Tuesday class: here we have some questions that will help us to discuse the text we. Sara and Tatiana, chose "A Beaituful Child" By Truman Capote

• What kind of person do you admire the most: one who has a lot of talent or the one who has not talent, but works a lot to reach the fineness?

• Do you know someone who has to be called “a beautiful child”

• Do you think Marilyn seemed herself as a beautiful child?

• Do you think that Truman Capote was being hypocrite with Marilyn or he was a transparent friend with her?

•  Miss Collier said to Truman Capote: “Somehow I don’t think she’ll make old bones. Absurd of me to say, but somehow I feel she’ll go young. I hope, I really pray that she survives long enough to free the strange lovely talent that’ wandering through her like a jailed spirit.” Actually, Marilyn died at the age of 38. What do you reflect of this coincidence?
•  Have you thought about this personal and not famous side of Marilyn Monroe?

A beautiful child

Pre-discussion task:
Would you like to be remembered as "a beautiful child"?
If not, how would you like people to remember you?
What would you like them to say about you when you are gone?

Some questions for our discussion on Tuesday

Dear students.
For our discussion on Tuesday I would like you to think about the following questions.

Did you feel identified with Miss Brill or with Prue in any aspect?
Do you know anyone who shares any feature with these two characters?
Is there a climax in each of these stories? How is it resolved?
What is the purpose of the fur piece in Miss Brill and the tobacco tin in Prue?
Compare the way the two stories end.
What is the function of the other characters in each story? How do they contribute to reveal the main characters' personalities?
See you on Tuesday!

Dialogue: Sara and Miss Brill

Oh, how fascinating it was! How they enjoyed it! How they loved sitting there, watching it all!

Sara: There is an afro woman... she tries to dissimulate what she is doing… she looks at right and left to ensure no body is looking at her. She started scratching her armpit and after that she did like a dance in order to covertly bring the same hand until her nose… the band did an according sound in this moment… like an Arabic dance.-

But there was something weird in another woman Sara often used to see in that park. That strange woman in a fur coat, who did not say anything for hours and staying just observing everything around her, except those four times a week she reads the newspaper to an old invalid gentleman.

Miss Brill went towards Sara, who did not understand why the stranger was doing that, sat down next to her and said:

Miss Brill: We are all on a stage. We are not only the audience, not only looking on; we are acting.

Hardly had she listened what Miss Brill said Sara understood and said:

Sara: No doubt somebody would have noticed if we had not been here… We are part of the performance, after all.