1. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Jeanette Winterson A Memoir Review A Memoir Review From the Industrial Revolution to the Postmodern Crisis of Capitalism Manchester: A Case Study in European History MODULE 1 - GROUP 3

2. WHAT AND HOW? Task: reviewing Jeanette Winterson’s Memoir for a newspaper Objectives: discussing a thesis about a novel, sharing ideas, information and reflection, generating a review Materials: Jeanette Winterson’s Memoir, texts, videos, podcast, articles, Pc, the Internet, teacher’s site Text types analysed: argumentative texts, essay, interview, articles Methodology: Individual Reading of the novel, group work (cooperative and collaborative learning)

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

4. LEARNING SKILLS PRACTICE 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

5. FEEDBACK  We have learnt about the Industrial Revolution, its consequences on the world situation and in the Post-modern period, from different perspectives  We have improved our writing skills  We have worked from an inter-textual perspective (the links between Jeanette Winterson’s view of the Industrial Revolution and its implications in later times)  We have liked the workshop because we have read Jeanette’s memoir again and we have appreciated it from a different point of view

6. WORKSHOP 3 CREDITS  CAVALLARI Piero  LICATA Giorgia  ROMANO Alice