Jeanette Winterson’s Perspective in Why Be happy When You Could Be Normal? A Memoir Review A Memoir Review MODULE 1 From the Industrial Revolution to the Postmodern Crisis of Capitalism Manchester: A Case Study in European History

WORKSHOP 1 CREDITS CAVALLARI Piero LICATA Giorgia ROMANO Alice

WHAT AND HOW? Task: writing a newspaper article, reviewing Jeanette Winterson’s Memoir Objectives: discussing a thesis, producing a workshop Materials: Jeanette Winterson’s Memoir, texts, videos, podcast, articles, Pc, the Internet, teacher’s site Text types analysed: argumentative text, essay, interview, article Methodology: Group work (cooperative and collaborative learning)

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

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

FEEDBACK  We have learnt the main features of the Industrial Revolution, its consequences in Post-modernism, the perspective on the world situation through a literary view  A deeper inter-textuality would have discovered extra links between Winterson’ memoir, the Industrial Revolution and its implications in our world  The workshop has pleased us because we have re-read the memoir from an other point of view and we have begun to appreciate it