lunes, 7 de agosto de 2017

LAIR 301: Book Presentations, Dates & Teams

Look for your name twice: Once in black, and once in blue. Those are your two teams for the presentations. The rubric is below the table with the teams.


Date
Books for the semester: 301
Team
August 18
“The Scarlet Pimpernel” by Baroness Orczy
Jorge García
Santiago Avril
“Memoirs of a Nun” by Denis Diderot
Paolette Núñez
Tetsuji Tamashiro
August 25
“Silas Marner” by George Eliot
Renata González
Hermione Valdovinos
“Mary Poppins” by P. L. Travers
Ximena Molinero
Omar González
September 1
“North & South” by Elizabeth Gaskell
Montserrat Castañares
Miguel Munguía
Ian Evans
“The Man Who Was Thursday” by G. K. Chesterton
María Fernanda Castro
Balam Bohórquez
Gilberto Rosete
September 15
“Maurice” by E. M. Forster
Adolfo Jasso
Juan Sánchez
“Lady Susan” by Jane Austen
Paola Sollano
Paolette Núñez
October 6
“Sab” by Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda
Tetsuji Tamashiro
Santiago Avril
“Festejos de los empeños de una casa” by Juana Inés de la Cruz
Abigail Espinosa
Balam Bohórquez
October 13
“Around the World in 80 Days” by Jules Verne
Omar González
María Fernanda Castro
“Burmese Days” by George Orwell
Gilberto Rosete
Ximena Molinero
November 3
“Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe
Hermione Valdovinos
Paola Sollano
Abigail Espinosa
“Samskara: A Rite for a Dead Man” by U. R. Ananthamurthy
Ian Evans
Montserrat Castañares
November 10
“The Travels of Lao Can” by Liu E
Miguel Munguía
Renata González
“A Young Doctor’s Notebook” by Mikhail Bulgakov
Juan Sánchez
Jorge García
Adolfo Jasso

Rubric:
Information about the author, the first edition of the book, and a brief plot summary of the book.
20%
Identify at least 3 themes that are present in the novel with direct quotes. Themes are the answers to the question of what the novel is about. They should be specific social issues, political issues, economic issues, and cultural elements.
30%
Give context about the 3 themes: Where are they present in the novel? What do they tell us about the time when the novel was written/published and the time it’s talking about? Include quotes from the book.
30%
Visual presentation on Prezi.
10%
15 minutes. Timing will be strictly enforced.
10%
TOTAL
100%

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