Jeanette Winterson

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Jeanette Wintersons PerspectiveinWhy Be happy
When You Could Be Normal? A Memoir Review
MODULE 1 From the Industrial Revolution to the
Postmodern Crisis of Capitalism Manchester A
Case Study in European History
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WHAT AND HOW?

• Task a newspaper critic article to review
  Jeanette Wintersons Memoir
• Objectives to achieve a literary perspective of
  the cultural shift from industrialization to
  Post-modernism, to discuss a thesis in order to
  produce a workshop, to give an interpretation of
  Wintersons memoir
• Materials Jeanette Wintersons memoir, texts,
  videos, a podcast, articles, Pc, the Internet,
  teachers site
• Text types analysed argumentative text, essay,
  interview, article, review
• Methodology Group work (cooperative and
  collaborative learning)

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WHY?

• Language skills listening, speaking, reading,
  writing, discussing, suggesting, interacting,
  public speaking
• Study Skills and Knowledge structure of
  argumentative text, structure of a newspaper
  article, use of literary code, textual structural
  analysis, critical interpretation of resources,
  spoken and written production, interaction
• ICT skills Office, .ppt, Internet surfing, Adobe
• What to do with the language
• ? Competence
• Writing a review for the newspaper
• Selecting information to discuss the thesis

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SKILLS - STUDY PRACTICE FEED-BACK

• Learning skills
• reading/listening,
• comprehension,
• textual analysis,
• group discussion,
• critical thinking,
• gathering of ideas,
• selection,
• planning,
• drafting,
• redrafting,
• peer proof reading,
• image selection,
• reorganizing,
• generating a .ppt presentation
• public speaking

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FEEDBACK

• Weve learnt the main features of the Industrial
  Revolution, its consequences in Post-modernism,
  the perspective on the world situation through a
  literary view, the differences between a memoir
  and an autobiography, the main features of a
  critic article, the contemporary meaning of
  identity and sexual trends
• A deeper intertextuality would have discovered
  extra links between Winterson memoir, the
  Industrial Revolution and its implications in our
  world
• We liked the workshop because in a very short
  time we had to produce together an article which
  could be published in the cultural section of a
  newspaper.

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WORKSHOP 3CREDITS

• LICATA Giorgia
• ROMANO Alice
• CAVALLARI Piero