Teaching GuideTerm
Faculty of Philology
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Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios
 Subjects
  North American Literature through its Texts
   Personalized attention
Methodologies
Oral presentation
Guest lecture / keynote speech
Long answer / essay questions
Workshop
Description
In general, oral presentations are a tough task for most students.
To facilitate their planning and identify specific problems, students need to meet with instructor before they start working on their respective topics. In case they have difficulties finding a topic, instructor will help students to sort it out.
All presentations are in power point format and students receive specific information on how to organize, develop, and conclude presentation. After the oral presentation students will hand a "Making of" in print where they include the following: Table of Contents; Motivations; Difficulties or problem solving; Bibliography; Brief personal comment (10-15 lines, double spaced) and reader's response. More information to be included in class Syllabus.

Comparative Essay. It is a written text where students have to organize their own ideas about topic chosen and provide evidence from respective texts. Some students lack critical abilities, tend to be descriptive and plot-oriented, thus, in preparation for the long comparative essay, instructor would ask them to work on a take-home short essay (two-three pages long and double space). This initial assessment would help them prepare for the more in-depth, longer, and more challenging comparative essay.

"Work-shop" on quotations from texts required.
Some students find very hard to read critically and come up with their own ideas. This activity is class oriented. By pointing at the particular aspects that are relevant, and need to be analized, students get the grasp of what a "close reading" means at the same time they develop their own ideas from the given text. If time allowed, we tend to work in small groups (max. 4 students) where students are given a list of quotations, and the group is assigned a particular quote to fully analyze. After fifteen minutes (aprox.) each group provides their own interpretation. To prove their points, students are asked to provide evidence from the text.
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