Jeanette Winterson’s Perspectivein

Why Be happy When You Could Be Normal?

A Memoir Review

MODULE 1From 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 MemoirObjectives: 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 siteText types analysed: argumentative text, essay, interview, article, reviewMethodology: Group work (cooperative and collaborative learning)

WHY?

Language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, discussing, suggesting, interacting, public speakingStudy 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, interactionICT skills: Office, .ppt, Internet surfing, AdobeWhat 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 3CREDITS

• LICATA Giorgia

• ROMANO Alice

• CAVALLARI Piero