North and south, Elizabeth Gaskell

Ana Margarida Alves e Diana Gomes, 11º B

The old man and the sea, ernest hemingway

Patrícia Almeida, 11º A

EXTENSIVE READING

Quitters, Inc., Stephen king

Marta Garcia e Inês Amador, 11º B

Murder in Mesopotamia, Agatha Christie

Inês Ceriz, 11º A

Open Days

Someday, Isaac Asimov

João Fontes, 11º B

Quitters, Inc., Stephen king

Catarina Moiçó, Gabriel Abreu e Mariana Monteiro, 11º B

Creative Writing

On March 5,  some of my students went to the School Library to meet  the writer Teresa Lopes Vieira. The writer studied law but has devoted herself to writing. She described how she had written her novels and  at the end she asked the students  to write a text suggested by the  picture that was being  showed.
Two students wrote the following rough drafts:Era uma vez um político, rico e poderoso, ia na sua carroça a dormir quando há uma rebelião e ele é atacado,sequestram-no e pedem uma elevada quantia pelo resgate. A família do político paga essa quantia, e o tal político é deixado sem cabeça à porta da mansão familiar.Manuel do Ó, nº 18, 10º HOnce upon a time there was a little boy who was black as carbon. He lived in a little village, apart from the big town of Bogota, Columbia. He had always difficulties in many ways. The food wasn't always enough and every day at least ten people (old guys or children ) died. Despite the bad living he loved that place, it was his home, where he belonged.Inês Dias, nº 11, 10º H

WORLD DAY OF POETRY

THE TYGER (from Songs Of Experience)

By William Blake

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright 
In the forests of the night, 
What immortal hand or eye 
Could frame thy fearful symmetry? 

In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare sieze the fire? 

And what shoulder, & what art.
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? & what dread feet? 

What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp? 

When the stars threw down their spears,
And watered heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee? 

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry? 

1794

NEWS

George Clooney has been arrested and handcuffed during a protest at the Sudanese Embassy in Washington. Clooney and other protesters, including his father Nick, Virginia congressman Jim Moran, civil rights leader Ben Jealous, Martin Luther King III and Tom Andrews, president of United To End Genocide were placed in the back of a US Secret Service van and taken away.
The group of activists had been given three verbal warnings not to cross a police line as they gathered outside the embassy.  They blame the government of Sudan for attacks that have killed civilians there.
 "When he speaks, people listen,” Niemat Ahmadi, a Sundan-born spokesman for United To End Genocide, said of Mr Clooney. “He is much loved in the US and is our number one advocate. "
THE TELEGRAPH, 17 March 2012

Last Friday our class went to a conference on Globalization, migration and traffic of humans for sexual exploitation. The main speaker, José van Der Kellen, began his speech by diving into the theme of globalization. Many topics were discussed within this theme. The first of these topics was when the globalization phenomenon had started. According to what was shown, people started to migrate in a large scale during The Discoveries and immediately after World War II. Globalization as we know it today is nothing more than the migration of people to countries like The United States or Europe. In fact, there are countries whose population is almost entirely composed by immigrants. An excellent example of that is the melting pot that are The United States of America. This process of migration has, however, led to many different problems, like illegal migrations or the traffic of humans for sexual exploitation. Despite these problems, there are countries that live out of the migration flux that goes through them and, as such, they have developed their own social models. The French model, for example, encouraged minorities to become a part of the dominant culture thus losing their identity. The English model, on the other hand, encourages minorities to integrate themselves in the dominant culture without losing their identity. Fernando Silva, the second speaker, discussed topics like the different security measures related to the migration phenomenon and the role of the Frontex Agency in these measures. During the conference two videos were shown: one demonstrated how to use electronic passports and the other alerted the audience towards the traffic of humans for sexual exploitation. João Fontes, 11º B Catarina Baptista, 11ºB Beatriz Simões, 11º B