Week 11 The final leg...

Good evening sports fans! We are headed into the final leg of class and for you all the last days of ENGLISH CLASSES before you have graduated from this program. I am very excited for you all. 

As a whole you are doing well and all the play practice we will begin on Monday will kick things up another notch!

This weekend you should be getting your portfolios ready to print and put together, a number of you still have not received your final Expository essay grade. I am still working on them every night when I go home, but email me if you have doubts or haven't received it yet. Remember, you must type up all of your writing exams to go into the portfolio as well.

I announced this week that I am going to return to the US because I have to take some family time for my sis who has cancer, but keep in touch. I'll be available to help you with things you may need including letters of recommendation. I would ask that those of you who wouldn't mind write me a letter of recommendation as your teacher.

Here I want you to write about the play!!! Thoughts, complaints, suggestions...

Week 10, Writing Exam III Persuasive Essay #2, The Harbinger

I have spent all of the past four days grading Expository Essays, I am almost blind but I should finish in the next couple days and move on to the next writing exams... 

This week is very short, we will try to finish the second half of the chapter in the Harbinger we started on Wednesday. We'll have to make some real pushes if we hope to finish it in class, otherwise it will become weekend reading for you all.

Tuesday we'll have conversation for 45 minutes with the interns Ana and Leane. Wednesday we will read and prep for the exam on Thursday. You'll want to have a basic outline with the thesis statement and conclusion completed and few of the subtopics listed. 350 words in one hour. 

"In case of unplanned pregnancy which of the two options function best for you; abortion or adoption and why, defending your position and persuading the audience that it is the best choice."

Next week you'll receive the table of contents for your portfolios which are due on November 4th and your scripts for the Plays. I would like to know your thoughts on these topics especially the Plays-we have always done comedies and dramas, but this time I am considering a musical depending on how you all feel about singing and dancing.

Week 9 Less S-T-R-E-S-S, Adoption vs Abortion, Grades, Conversation Fun

This week things should feel a bit calmer, we'll be having conversation groups on Tuesday, getting back into the Harbinger, continuing listening activities and prepping for the next Writing Exam (next Thursday).

Here I would like to see discussion about the next exam topic. 

This is only my opinion, hopefully it will help you to begin the discussion here:

Premartial sex seems to be something considered almost "normal" in this day and age, but along with it comes consequences, personally I believe abortion is murder and there is no "real" reason for this practice. 

In cases of rape when a woman gets pregnant (less than 1% of rape victims get pregnant) or incest where a family member fathers a child with a young woman in their family the child should be "allowed" life while the guilty male should be convicted as the pervert that he is and the young woman needs to be offered all help available within the society--if she cannot raise or love a child she has borne then that child should be offered within the adoption system.

In cases of "accidental" pregnancy the young woman must take responsability for her actions. We, as women are powerful creatures and we have the ability to bear and raise children all by ourselves when necessary. Abortion is simply an easy escape from taking responsability for our actions.