For Intensive Reading Aloud Practice
In each face-to-face session, learners will read aloud what they have been practicing during the previous week. Practicing reading aloud is crucial for a number of language and communicative skills, and it’s rewarding when you can share what you have practiced because performances are always amazing.
- ❥ Mary Poppins, by Pamela L. Travers. Go to the Internet Archive
(sign up for free and borrow for online reading) - ❥ Kissing the Witch. Old Tales in New Skins (1995), by Emma Donoghue. Go to her website
- ❥ We Should All Be Feminists (2014), by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Go to her website
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Supplementary Materials
For the Books to read aloud together: audio / audiovisual materials so you can you train during the week in reading aloud:
- ❥ For Travers’s Mary Poppins, you can listen online on the non-profit educational website ESL Bits > Novellas > Mary Poppins
- ❥ For Donoghue’s Kissing the Witch, there is a 2014 Audible (Amazon) version read by Maggie Mash
- ❥ For the essay We Should All Be Feminists, improve your pronunciation as you watch the original talk it is based on, Chimamanda Ngozi’s homonymous TED Talk (2012). You can download the video or an audio file
- ❥ For Travers’s Mary Poppins, you can listen online on the non-profit educational website ESL Bits > Novellas > Mary Poppins
Materials for Book Projects
Depending on groups' decisions, whether to choose one book for all to continue reading aloud in class, while working on the book project and tasks at home, or else to choose a book among the three suggested, so that different people work on different books and the whole learns about them all, the materials we would be using are the following...
- ❥ Unbowed. A Memoir, by Wangari Maathai
- ❥ In Extremis. The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin, by Lindsey Hilsum
- ❥ An Indigenous History of the USA, by Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz
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Supplementary Materials
- ❥ For Wangari Maathai, the documentary Taking Root , directed by Lisa Merton & Alan Dater, the illustrated book Wangari Maathai, the Woman who Planted Millions of Trees, by Franck Prévot and Aurélia Fronty, and the Green Belt Movement website
- ❥ For Hilsum's In Extremis. The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin, there is a movie, A Private War, directed by Matthew Heineman, starring Rosamund Pike, some audio stories with the same title, and then it is interesting to check out the Marie Colvin Foundation , to learn about their projects today in the world.
- ❥ For An Indigenous History of the USA, by Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, there is a version for young people, which could be a great buy to learn to summarize and adapt the more complicated text which is a history. Another good resource is the documentary She's Beautiful When She's Angry , by filmmaker Mary Dore, chronicling the events, the movers and the shakers of the feminist movement from 1966 to 1971 and where Dunbar-Ortiz is interviewed. Finally, the Talking People page dedicated and devoted to American Indians
- ❥ For Wangari Maathai, the documentary Taking Root
