The class will review the course requirements and the key strategies of conducting a memoir essay. The class will also explore the library and its resources.

In this interactive GooseChase scavenger hunt, students will explore Prague while engaging in fun writing challenges and team-building activities. They will practice descriptive writing, persuasive techniques, creative storytelling, and editing skills through location-based missions. By working together, they will develop collaboration, critical thinking, and communication skills, all while discovering the city in a playful way. The activity encourages engagement with language in real-world contexts, fostering confidence in academic writing. By the end, students will have practiced key composition skills, built connections with classmates, and gained a fresh perspective on writing as an enjoyable, dynamic process.

The class will focus upon the body segments of their drafts.

Students will consider each section of their colleague’s drafts and note common strengths and complications of memoir writing

Considering Strategies for Analyzing Film

Monday at kino Aero at 20:30 - link on a separate page

We will cover the second part of the movie analysis lecture including themes and theories before we watch the movie.

Identify and focus on a meaningful central event, conflict, or theme in order to shape a clear purpose for the narrative essay. Develop the narrative through vivid description, sensory details, and dialogue that bring the experience and characters to life for the reader. Craft a cohesive story structure with a beginning, middle, and end that conveys the significance of the event or theme and leaves the reader with insight or impact.

We will attend an improve comedy show where students will take a story from there and develop it further

On the last lecture before we break for the holidays we will focus on citations and the whole process