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Moon Palace - 3rd lesson

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This week, we studied 3 different critics of Moon Palace. They all gave their opinions on the novel authentically and they dealt with different aspects of Moon Palace. The first critic was called "an Overview of Moon Palace" in which Nathan Hobby shared his opinion. The second one was called "Moon Palace and the art of Paul Auster" and it focused more on Paul Auster's writing style. The last one was called "The Remarkable Journey of Marco Stanley Fogg" and explained how Fogg was an unconventional hero. 

Then, each student was given an extract of the novel and had to analyse it grammatically. Some students had to study "would", while others had to do the "comparative and superlative form", others "If", and the rest "parallel progression (the more...,the more...)". Not only this exercise reinforced  our grammatical knowledge as we're not English Native speakers, but it also made us realise how grammar gives meaning to a text. For instance, Paul Auster used "would" in his novel to describe an action that took place in the past, but also to highlight on its repetition, and that it was part of a routine.

Before knowing that the March exams were cancelled, Mrs Bowley decided to give us a translation test in which we had to translate an English extract of Moon Palace into French. Not all students had the same extracts which gave diversity to the test. Moreover, we could help ourselves with an unilingual dictionnary as if we were taking the exam. 

To dive deeply into Moon Palace, we focused on the different themes Moon palace dealt with and Mrs Bowley divided the class into 4 groups: the first group had to present orally the title of the novel, the second one the story telling, the third one the notion of identity, and the last one the aspect of loss and recovery.

Finally, Mrs Bowley asked each student to gather 10 words we didn't know their meaning while reading Moon Palace. She collected our worksheets and gathered out of all of them 15 words we must learn for a future test. You can check out the 15 words we have to learn: 

 

 

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