Educar High School

Teacher: Luiz Carlos Silva

Name: ____________________________ number____ Date: ____/____/____ 9^th grade

- Carol: I’m glad you could come, Nancy.

- Nancy: No problem, Carol. Tell me what’s going on.

- Carol: It’s Jennifer. She’s always in her bedroom. I don’t know that teens want to be alone sometimes, but we used to do a lot of things together.

- Nancy: You should be patient. Teens go through a lot of stuff. It’s a difficult time in their lives… too many changes…

- Carol: I know. She complains that her face is covered in pimples. She always has headaches and never has meals with us.

- Nancy: Is she still doing a lot of extra curricular activities after school?

- Carol: Yeah. She has ballet, tennis and Spanish classes every day.

- Nancy: Every day? You daughter must be stressed out. You should try to reduce the number of activities she has.

- Carol: I don’t know. I feel I have to keep her busy while I’m at work. Besides, she loves these activities.

- Nancy: Does she? You should as her how she feels.

- Carol: maybe you’re right. But I must talk to my husband first. 

                                                                                                                       (MUST 4. Richmond Publishing, Unit 4, page 30 – 2010)

                               Elementos de uma “Short Story”

     Para começo de conversa vamos esclarecer o que é uma “short story”. É considerado uma “short story” um conto com menos de 10.000 palavras. É um pedaço de uma escrita menor do que uma novela.

     Mas em uma ‘short story’ há os mesmos princípios de uma novela, ou seja, início, meio e fim.

     Para analisar uma ‘short story’ existem certos elementos que são essenciais para se entender o desfecho da história. Veremos agora esses passos para se entender uma ‘short story’.

1.      The Plot

Plot significa trama, enredo. É algo artificial, i.e., a construção de um encadeamento de eventos que têm início, meio e fim, sem haver a necessidade de seguir uma ordem cronológica. Em uma ‘short story’ sempre perguntamos “por quê?”, por haver uma causa e um efeito para tudo.

1.1  Tipos de ‘plot’

a.       Trama aberta: a que não possui uma resolução no final.

b.      Trama fechada: a que possui uma resolução no final.

c.       Tramas duplas ou múltiplas tramas: ocorre em novelas por haver um enredo onde ocorrem muitas situações, ou seja, história em cima de histórias ou uma história paralela à outra. Normalmente, novas complicações são inventadas.

d.      “Hourglass” Plot: é a trama onde os personagens mudam de posição, como em “O Príncipe e o Mendigo”, de Mark Twain.

e.       Há também a trama onde os personagens saem à procura de algo, como uma auto –descoberta, ou alguém, como um amor perdido.

1.2   Elementos de uma trama

Toda trama possui elementos que a compõem formando um todo. Vejamos quais são esses elementos:

a.       Exposição: é o início. É a introdução da história e normalmente termina quando o conflito inicia. Contudo, observe que às vezes o conflito pode ser encontrado já na exposição.

b.      Conflito: pode ser interno ou externo. O  interno pode descrever um conflito mental, emocional ou moral. Já o conflito externo pode ser baseado em um conflito do homem contra a natureza ou contra o próprio homem. As tramas mais complexas são aquelas construídas em trono de conflitos emocionais, mentais e morais.

c.       Complicações: são os incidentes que constróem o progresso da história. Em uma ‘short story’ não há muitas complicações.

d.      Crise, clímax: às vezes a trama de uma ‘short story’ envolve uma  inversão (crise). É o ápice da história, onde ocorre o suspense, o auge da história, os conflitos entre os personagens.

e.       Foreshadowings: (presságio). São os momentos que revelam algo que possa acontecer no decorrer da história, seja no início ou no meio da mesma. Deve-se tomar cuidado, pois muitas vezes ocorrem falsos ‘foreshadowings’.

f.        Flashback: ocorre quando os personagens relembram algo que ocorreu no passado.

Referência:

BLAIR, FARMER, HORNBERGER, WASSON (Eds.). The United States in Literature.

      America Reads. Illinions: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1968.

PASOLD, Bernadete. Elements of a Short Story (Handout). Florianópolis: UFSC, 1997.

OXFORD WORDPOWER. Dictionary for learners of English. 2005.

Tradução: Prof. Luiz Carlos Silva

VÍDEO AULA 9º ANO - PRESENTE PERFEITO

Olá Alunos do Terceiro. Iremos muito em breve trabalhar o filme a A Cor Púrpura. Abaixo segue dois "treilers" do mesmo. O filme já está disponível na Biblioteca do Colégio Educar ou com o Professor Luiz.

Treiler do filme A Cor Púrpura (II)

TREILER DO FILME A COR PÚRPURA (I)

“Love me do” foi o primeiro sucesso dos Beatles. Lançada em 1962, em apenas uma semana chegou a posição de número 17 nas Paradas de Sucesso. Na semana seguinte, já ocupava a 1ª posição.  

Love me do

Love, love me do.
You know I love you,
I'll always be true,
So please, love me do.
Whoa, love me do.

Love, love me do.
You know I love you,
I'll always be true,
So please, love me do.
Whoa, love me do.

Someone to love,
Somebody new.
Someone to love,
Someone like you.

Love, love me do.
You know I love you,
I'll always be true,
So please, love me do.
Whoa, love me do.


Love, love me do.
You know I love you,
I'll always be true,
So please, love me do.
Whoa, love me do.
Yeah, love me do.
Whoa, oh, love me do.

                                          (By Beatles)

INFINITIVO OU GERÚNDIO (-ING)

Há alguns verbos em inglês que pedem infinitivo com to ou sem to ou ainda  –ing. Observe alguns exemplos abaixo:

O tempo Presente Perfeito em Inglês

Essa estrutura quando usada na Língua Inglesa indica uma situação que iniciou em algum ponto no passado e ainda continua a ocorrer no presente.

Ex: I have worked at this restaurant since 2005. (Tenho trabalhado nesse restaurante desde 2005)

A estrutura é formada por:

have/has + verbo no particípio

Ex: Peter has done his exercises.

      We have fixed this car for years.

Como é uma estrutura que possui um auxiliar (have ou has), a negação e interrogação é feita com o próprio auxiliar. Veja:

Has she made har bed?

Have you worked in a market?

She has not finished her homework yet.

I have not read Machado de Assis.

The Color of Purple - The Characters II

The Mayor

An arrogant, power-wielding white man; he is responsible for putting Sofia in prison.

Miss Millie

The mayor's wife; a dithery white woman who fancies herself a champion of black people.

Corrine

Reverend Samuel's wife. She and her husband buy Celie's babies from Fonso.

Samuel

A missionary who takes Nettie with him and his family to Africa; after his wife, Corrine, dies, he marries Nettie.

Olivia

Celie's daughter; she is reared in Africa by Samuel and Corrine.

Adam

Celie's son; he is also reared in Africa by the missionaries. He marries Tashi.

The Color Purple - Characters I

Celie

A young black Georgia girl who faces adulthood believing that she has been raped by her father and that he killed both of their babies. The novel examines her struggle to find love, self-esteem, and continuing courage despite harsh setbacks.

Nettie

Celie's sister. Celie loves Nettie more than anyone else in the world.

Fonso

Celie and Nettie's stepfather; shortly after their father is killed, he marries their widowed mother.

Mr. Albert

The moody, vicious man whom Fonso chooses as Celie's husband.

Celie's Mother

She loses her mind after her husband is lynched, mutilated, and burned. After she marries Fonso, she is constantly pregnant and ill.

Annie Julia

Albert's wife who is killed by her boyfriend while coming home from church.

Shug (Lilly) Avery

A blues singing, no-nonsense woman who teaches Celie about love and self-esteem.

Harpo

Albert's misguided, immature son; Sofia's husband

Kate and Carrie

Albert's sisters who come to "inspect" Celie and her housekeeping.

Sofia

The outspoken and independent wife of Harpo.

Bub

Albert's son; he is in and out of jail frequently.

Albert's Daddy

A carping, prejudiced man; he dislikes Albert's relationship with Shug Avery.

Tobias

Albert's toadying brother; he is fascinated by Shug.

Odessa

Sofia's sister; she, Shug, and Squeak are able to get Sofia out of prison.

Jack

Odessa's husband.

Alice Walker

(February 9, 1944 - )

 Author, activist

     Alice Walker, best known perhaps as the author of The Color Purple, was the eighth child of Georgia sharecroppers. After a childhood accident blinded her in one eye, she went on to become valedictorian of her local school, and attend Spellman College and Sarah Lawrence College on scholarships, graduating in 1965.

     She volunteered in the voter registration drives of the 1960s in Georgia, and went to work after college in the Welfare Department in New York City. She married in 1967 (and divorced in 1976); her first book of poems came out in 1968 and her first novel just after her daughter's birth in 1970. Her early poems, novels and short stories dealt with themes familiar to readers of her later works: rape, violence, isolation, troubled relationships, multi-generational perspectives, sexism and racism.

     When The Color Purple came out in 1982, Walker became known to an even wider audience. Her Pulitzer Prize and the movie by Steven Spielberg brought both fame and controversy. She was widely criticized for negative portrayals of men in The Color Purple, though many critics "Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender."

     Alice Walker admitted that the movie presented more simplistic negative pictures than the book's more nuanced portrayals. Walker also published a biography of the poet, Langston Hughes, and worked to recover and publicize the nearly-lost works of writer Zora Neale Hurston. She's credited with introducing the word "womanist" for African American feminism.

     In 1989 and 1992, in two books, The Temple of My Familiar and Possessing the Secret of Joy, Walker took on the issue of female circumcision in Africa, which brought further controversy: was Walker a cultural imperialist to criticize a different culture?

     Her works are known for their portrayals of the African American woman's life. She depicts vividly the sexism, racism and poverty that make that life often a struggle. But she also portrays as part of that life, the strengths of family, community, self-worth, and spirituality.

     Many of her novels depict women in other periods of history than our own. Just as with non-fiction women's history writing, such portrayals give a sense of the differences and similarities of women's condition today and in that other time. She continues not only to write, but to be active in environmental,

Feminist/womanist causes, and issues of economic justice.

Uso e "Do" e "Does" como auxiliares

A interrogativa e negativa da maioria do verbos em Inglês é realizada através dos auxiliares "do" e "does". Lembro que esses auxiliares não posuem qualquer significado em Português. Veja alguns exemplos do uso desses auxiliares:

Do you like me?

Do we stay at home all holiday?

Does she work in a bank?

Does he miss the French Classes?

OBS: usamos "do" para os sujeitos I, you, we they e "does" para os sujeitos he, she e it.

Olá. Chegou em Biguaçu SEW - Sistema de Ensino Washington. Venha falar e escrever Inglês com facilidade. Alunos do professor Luiz terão desconto especial, mas só nas primeiras turmas.