Aim 4: Critical Reading

To promote a critical reading of the book, allowing the conclusion that fright and fear are imposed by people. Invitation to watch “The Village”.

Aim 3: Ancient Worlds

Look at the pictures and complete the sentences about each picture:

1 ………………. is a statue with the head of a man and the body of an animal.
2. ……………… a circle made from heavy stones.
3. ………………………. a place with eight hundred statues.
4. …………………………. animal shapes cut into the ground.
5. ………………………… an island under the sea.

Aim 2 : Other Worlds

Watch this video excerpt and try to answer these questions
-Do you believe there are other worlds out there?
-Is there life in those worlds?

- Do you believe in ghosts?

- Do you believe in ghosts? Cyborgs? Monsters? Giants? Aliens? UFOs? And Yetis?

- Ask people about that.
- Why are people afraid of them?

_ What about avatars??? Listen to one of these:

-Go to “voki.com”, create your own avatar and its own powers.e.g.
”I’m a Yeti. I’m very tall. I can stand above all men. I frighten most people".

Aim 1: To predict the student's beliefs

To predict the student’s beliefs about the existence of other worlds.

Is there intelligent life in other worlds? What special powers do our minds have? How can people suddenly disappear? Are there really monsters and ghosts? Read and find out some of the worlds most frightening and exciting mysteries –mysteries that science can not explain, in Chapter 1 ”Other worlds”

My Project of Extensive Reading

Target addressees: Grade 9, Escola Básica do 2º e 3º Ciclos do Viso

Title of the book: MYSTERIES OF THE UNEXPLAINED

Author: Kathy Burk
Editor: Pearson Longman

Starting up extensive reading: Pre-reading stage

Texts Letters and Poems

Motivating for extensive reading with a new tool: Glogster.

S...even reasons why women in technology remain invisible

There are at least seven reasons why women in technology remain invisible (bla bla bla... there she comes again...)
I found out SIX
Let's get things straight! MYTH OR REALITY??

Cutting across cultural differences, the patriarchal system has always defined the place and role of a woman .

MYTH # 1: Women are emotional while tech is strictly logical.As a result, they don't go together.

MYTH # 2: Men are good at maths and machines while women have no clue about these.

MYTH # 3: Men are the providers while women are nurturers.

MYTH # 4: Technical women are unattractive, arrogant and abnormal.

MYTH # 5: Women can't do it because they are made that way: the divine or the evolution argument.

MYTH # 6: Women aren't good at visualizing as men, and hence, don't make good engineers.

(...)When a woman shatters these myths and succeeds in the technical field, she is made out to be an arrogant feminist...

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