Week 16

Today is my last class of the English course, I'm happy for it (because I have finals and projects)but also is sad know that I won't see a some of my classmates.The activity for today is a questionnaire  about our course that we can do the activity out of our classroom. 

Because the activity can be done in other place, I didn't go to the classroom but...

I just want to thanks to the professor all the effort that he did, I know that be a teacher isn't easy but he really try to do his best. The class is really dynamic, and normally a language course isn't. I enjoy all the different activities and movies that cause and impact in our process to reinforce English.

Also because I learned  that I can live without my cellphone more than 1 hour and the world is still as we know it and to be on time especially on lectures days otherwise I knew that the teacher will ask me what I though about the lectures of the day. 


Regards 
Cynthia

Week 15

The end is almost here, this week we only had one class and it was to present our work about the three American short stories: 

• A Horseman in the Sky by Ambrose Bierce
• Cat in the Rain by Ernest Hemingway
• A Buddhist Tale by Thomas DeMaria

I really enjoy the lectures but my favorite is "Cat in the Rain" by Ernest Hemingway because of the doble meaning that not only the dialogue have but also the objects that is part of the “Iceberg Theory” that Hemingway use telling a story with the minimum required words so this way you can interpret it.

The lecture context is Italy, after the world war 1 but the characters are from USA that is why the languages that you can identify are Italian and English.

The characters' story are the American wife and husband (George), the hotel-keeper, and the maid.

Regards 

Cynthia

Week 14

This week, we watched "The power of one" was a really nice movie. It is about a kid and how just one person can do the change in this case get the union between races. 


The movie “The Power of One “ shows us a perspective of Africa during the second world war through PK's life also shows diverse representative elements of Africa.

I have to confess that I want to cry in the scene of Geel Piet's death, since it includes the situation of inequality and discrimination  that was lived with the wish to look for the better thing as well as the union between the people being the culmination of Piet’s dream of  that was so intense that it gave the life for seeing it to expire.

I REALLY like that the movies that we saw in class were cool ones, that I can recommend and I want to know what happen next or which is the end of the story not like the typical bad ones that are boring but you have to watched because you are in the classroom. 

On Thursday we had a quiz about the movie. I like when you talk with you classmates and they also enjoy the movie and want to share their reflection. 

Regards
Cynthia

Week 13

We are almost done with this semester and to start our week we took a test about the presentations of the last week. It was kind of difficult.

One of the biggest problems nowadays is the plagiarism, but what is it? “Plagiarism is the act of taking another person’s writing, conversation, song or even idea and passing it off as your own.” (The University of Southern Mississippi , 2015)

In our second session, we did a task about plagiarism after read two lectures about it and do a paper that connected it with as what is it? how to avoid? and the consequences of plagiarism.. This activity we had to posted on Blackboard and comment in our classmate works about what we think of it.

This week, we also did a work on teams about three stories that the teacher post on BB.

The Silence                       Love, Love, Love, Alone                              Unto Dust

My favorite story was Unto Dust by Herman Charles Bosman tells a story from South Africa about the equality and oneness of all human beings; that at the end, at our death, all that is left are bones. Also is my favorite one because I consider that is something that you can understand doesn't matter the country where you live, or the language that you talk.