Evie’s Learner Portfolio
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Nawal El Saadawi Text Types
Text 1: Nawal El Saadawi: Feminist firebrand who dared to write dangerously Text 2: Nawal El Saadawi: Egypt’s grand novelist, physician and global activist Text 3: An Interview With Nawal El Saadawi Text 4: Why did Nawal El-Saadawi cause all this controversy? What is the text type? How do you know? Text 1 Possibly an… Read more
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Final Thoughts and Review of Balsac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
My Review of the Book I liked the ending of the book. When I first started reading I thought it would just be about a romance and the boys growing up in the Chinese Cultural Revolution but I liked how the ending focused more on the Little Chinese Seamstress. It ended by her kind of… Read more
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Balsac the Little Chinese Seamstress Beginning Tasks
Notes on Video Connect: How is the information presented in the video connected to what you have already read in Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress. Extend: What new ideas did you get that pushed your thinking on the Cultural Revolution in new directions? Challenge: What question and wonderings do you now have about the… Read more
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The Awakening Conclusion
In my opinion I didn’t like the ending. I don’t think it was either option with some critics viewing her suicide as a failure to escape from conventions of society or that it was a final awakening, ‘a decision to give herself to the sea in a show of strength and independence that defies social… Read more
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The Awakening Reading Tasks
Task 1: In Chapter 20, Victor remarked that Edna, in “some way she doesn’t seem like the same woman.” Find two images online to show what you think Edna looks like at the beginning of the book and at this point of the novel. Feel free to include relevant quotes to show changes in her… Read more
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