Friday, October 25th, 2019

This Friday, the teacher continued explaining the main differences between realistic fiction and nonfiction. After that, we made groups of two people. My partner, again, was Luis. The activity was individual indeed. We had to write a story, either about our life, someone else we admire or an important event. It had to be something real; nonfiction to be specific. My story was about "Mallinalli" (I do not really know her name; in fact, she had many names). To be honest, I had a hard time while getting the ideas and writing... what a shame!

October 22nd, 2019

Today we talked about some topics related to real world issues and ourselves. My partner was Luis Osegueda. We answered the questions... the first one was about our favorite singer or band; the second was about how are favorite dish is cooked; then we moved into a local or foreign tragedy; next, we shared some movie titles  that were based in real life; finally, we went through some important moments in our childhool, teenage years... up to now. This activities' main objective was (I guess) to make us see the difference between fiction literature, realistic fiction  and nonfiction literature.

Friday, October 18th, 2019

Quiz Time!

Friday 11th

Tuesday, October 8th, 2019

  This Tuesday we analyzed some aspects about the book "A Matter of Chance". We started with a brief quiz on the book. Then, the teacher explained four of narration which are: the Plot (this can be physical if the book is descriptive concerning the place, or chronological), the characters (1), the conflict (external if they have to deal with the things that surround them, or internal if it is more psychological), and the type of narrator (1st person...). Some classmates shared some books in which the had identify these elements. I remember that one of them mentioned "Cien años de Soledad". Also, Mr Gómez said that there are stories in which either the plot or the character (2) are more important (like people who go to the cinema just for watching their favorite actor or character [3]). Finally, we finished completing our task as you can see in the picture (Was this the first action we did? I can not recall, sorry.); we ate snack doing so!

 

Friday, October 4th, 2019

BOOK PART II

      Mmmm, OK. Not a good ending, but... entertaining. "A matter of chance" was a really nice book. Comparing with the previous one, this is just for reading it in a day when you want to have a relaxing moment with yourself and a good book (with a coffee and repostery?). The whole experience was quite good. I  felt obliged to look for the sceneries on the web. Also, I felt in love with the places the author chose. I even saw myself in Italy with... ahem! that is not for the blog, ups! 

Probably, the penultimate chapters were the most exciting ones (chapters 15 and 16). On the other hand, chapter 17 was a shame. I understand the writer wanted to show that things in life do not always occur as we want (if I´m not mistaken), but it just did not feel right to get them divorced after what had happened to them... I even accepted the easy way Paul Morris overcame Jacky's death! Moreover, I felt it all finished all of a sudden. I would have fancied a more detailed ending, with Paul growing older at Como with Sandra. It is a fiction book, so that could have happened! My point of view stated, I have to say I would recommend the story to other people, why not? It has everything to make you have a great afternoon (love, suspense, action...).

My rate... 8,5/10 

Tuesday,October 1st, 2019

Happy children's day!!

Book part I

        The book we are now reading is just nice! I began reading it before class. By the way, It wasn't difficult for me to be keen on knowing what would happen in the following chapters. I felt like... watching a movie in my mind. In fact, I chose Gwen Stefany and whoever the other guy is from the song "I know we are cool" (watch the videoclip), which looks like a place in Italy (if it isn't Italy).  Here you have some pictures; these ones are exactly how I imagined the scene in Portofino...

                                            She is Sandra (in my mind)

 Here you have Sandra and Jacky (they never talked with each other in the book since Jacky is already dead...)

                                 Here they are in Portofino (in my mind of course)

                This did not happen in the book, but I thought of them just like this.

   Well... Then, the teacher arrived, and we answered a questionnaire about the book. Many students did not attend today's class (so did some of my group); for this reason, we tried to scare our group members telling them this activity was a Pop-up quiz (it was a lie), but in the end, it did not result as planned. Another classmate revealed the truth... What a dull! In the end, we read the handout concerning "fiction narrative". Mmmm, I think that is all for today.

September 27th, 2019

No classes!!