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

WHAT AND HOW? Task: a newspaper critic article to review Jeanette Winterson’s 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 Winterson’s memoir Materials: Jeanette Winterson’s memoir, texts, videos, a podcast, articles, Pc, the Internet, teacher’s site Text types analysed: argumentative text, essay, interview, article, review Methodology: Group work (cooperative and collaborative learning)

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

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’ve 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.

WORKSHOP 3 CREDITS LICATA Giorgia ROMANO Alice CAVALLARI Piero