Based on class work and on the coursebook, Reason to Write, pages 12 and 14, though remember these examples are relativley simple.
Sunday 25 November 2007
Tuesday 20 November 2007
The begining of the horror loool =P
Brotherhood of Darkness
Prologue
Everything was quiet at S. Avenue 21 in Los Angeles, USA. But Sarah Connelly, a thirty year-old woman couldn’t sleep. Something was disturbing her. Everytime she tried to close her eyes, she dreamed about her deceased friends, brutally murdered by a group of students of her college. She could see their mutilated bodies with a hole on their chest where once there was a heart. Sarah suddenly woke up:
“Oh my god, please”, she cried, “ when is this going to stop!”
The next morning, Sarah woke up and went downstairs to eat her breakfast. She went to the kitchen and prepared herself a nice bowl of cereals. While she was eating, the doorbell rang.
“Sarah, could you open the door, please?”, her mother shouted upstairs from her bedroom.
“I’m coming!”, Sarah answered.
Sarah opened the door and the mailman delivered her an envelope addressed to her. When she looked at the envelope, she saw that there was no sender. That’s strange!
“Is there any problem, miss?”, the mailman asked
“No, not at all. Everything’s fine. Thank you!”, Sarah answered smiling
After this, Sarah went inside to finish her breakfast. While eating her breakfast, she opened the envelope and inside there was a simple computer written message written on it:
“These walls can’t hold us much longer! Someday we will get out of here and finish what we have started. You must die… You have to die...
The Brotherhood of Darkness shall rise again!”
After reading this Sarah almost choked on her meal. Sarah's eyes widened and the images from the previous night came to her once more. Could it be? Could the assassins of her friends have escaped from prison? Impossible…
The California State Prison, Los Angeles County is one of the most secure prisons in the United States... Sarah was now shaking. She rushed to the living room where her mother was watching TV.
“Mom, let me see Sky News!”, the girl said. “Why dear?”, her mother asked.
“Just do it, ok?”, Sarah yelled at her mother.
“Ok calm down lady!!” This girl keeps getting stranger and stranger.
On the Sky News channel both of them saw live footage of the prison that was holding the five elements of the brotherhood. The reporter said to the camera pointing at him:
“This morning, the guards here at the California State Prison, Los Angeles County found the cells of Brian Phoenix, Michael Phoenix, Mark Bennington, Peter o’Connor and Mathew Redford completely empty as you can see behind me. The warden already gave his men the instructions to follow. The warden also said that….”
Sarah was devastated. She fell to the ground and started to cry and scream. From this moment on she knew it…. She knew that she would die!
Chapter I
Los Angeles, October 10th 2018
My name is Michael Phoenix and I'm thirty years-old. I've been in jail for the past ten years. My brother, my friends and I were arrested for the assassination of our college classmates. Murderers, the judge called us....
The fool doesn't know what he's talking about!! He does not know what it's like...
We were condemned to a lifetime in prison. For crimes that we commited for hatred....and love.
Our story begins ten years ago. We were at the begining of college and Mark invited me and my brother to a party in his place to celebrate the end of high school and the begining of college.
Prologue
Everything was quiet at S. Avenue 21 in Los Angeles, USA. But Sarah Connelly, a thirty year-old woman couldn’t sleep. Something was disturbing her. Everytime she tried to close her eyes, she dreamed about her deceased friends, brutally murdered by a group of students of her college. She could see their mutilated bodies with a hole on their chest where once there was a heart. Sarah suddenly woke up:
“Oh my god, please”, she cried, “ when is this going to stop!”
The next morning, Sarah woke up and went downstairs to eat her breakfast. She went to the kitchen and prepared herself a nice bowl of cereals. While she was eating, the doorbell rang.
“Sarah, could you open the door, please?”, her mother shouted upstairs from her bedroom.
“I’m coming!”, Sarah answered.
Sarah opened the door and the mailman delivered her an envelope addressed to her. When she looked at the envelope, she saw that there was no sender. That’s strange!
“Is there any problem, miss?”, the mailman asked
“No, not at all. Everything’s fine. Thank you!”, Sarah answered smiling
After this, Sarah went inside to finish her breakfast. While eating her breakfast, she opened the envelope and inside there was a simple computer written message written on it:
“These walls can’t hold us much longer! Someday we will get out of here and finish what we have started. You must die… You have to die...
The Brotherhood of Darkness shall rise again!”
After reading this Sarah almost choked on her meal. Sarah's eyes widened and the images from the previous night came to her once more. Could it be? Could the assassins of her friends have escaped from prison? Impossible…
The California State Prison, Los Angeles County is one of the most secure prisons in the United States... Sarah was now shaking. She rushed to the living room where her mother was watching TV.
“Mom, let me see Sky News!”, the girl said. “Why dear?”, her mother asked.
“Just do it, ok?”, Sarah yelled at her mother.
“Ok calm down lady!!” This girl keeps getting stranger and stranger.
On the Sky News channel both of them saw live footage of the prison that was holding the five elements of the brotherhood. The reporter said to the camera pointing at him:
“This morning, the guards here at the California State Prison, Los Angeles County found the cells of Brian Phoenix, Michael Phoenix, Mark Bennington, Peter o’Connor and Mathew Redford completely empty as you can see behind me. The warden already gave his men the instructions to follow. The warden also said that….”
Sarah was devastated. She fell to the ground and started to cry and scream. From this moment on she knew it…. She knew that she would die!
Chapter I
Los Angeles, October 10th 2018
My name is Michael Phoenix and I'm thirty years-old. I've been in jail for the past ten years. My brother, my friends and I were arrested for the assassination of our college classmates. Murderers, the judge called us....
The fool doesn't know what he's talking about!! He does not know what it's like...
We were condemned to a lifetime in prison. For crimes that we commited for hatred....and love.
Our story begins ten years ago. We were at the begining of college and Mark invited me and my brother to a party in his place to celebrate the end of high school and the begining of college.
Tuesday 13 November 2007
Friday 9 November 2007
Caixa Geral de Depósitos - cartoon exhibition
A mostra que vai agora estar patente da Sede da Caixa Geral de Depósitos, constituída por cerca de 200 obras e com o título genérico “A globalização do humor”, foi organizada de forma a trazer a Lisboa os principais trabalhos destas duas últimas edições, que contam com o apoio mecenático da CGD.
Informações
Data: de 12 de Novembro a 3 de Dezembro de 2007Local: Átrio Central da Sede da Caixa Geral de DepósitosHorário: todos os dias úteis das 08h00 às 20h30A entrada é livre.
Exhibition - cartoons
Try and get to this exhibition. There is also another one we will be visiting..... Info coming soon.
Saturday 3 November 2007
Assignments and updates – bitter sweet!
1. Wednesday 7th – class assignment 1 – with dictionary.
The work and preparation you did for the class debates will help you in writing either an opinion or argumentation article. Question suggestions on pages 18 and 19 of the coursebook Reason to Write will be worth thinking about in advance. Also read the article in the book on pages 2, 3, 4.2.
Feedback from debates coming on Monday. Congratulations to you all for last week.
3. Creative writing – Either continue on from the debate topics or escape!!! ….. To post in your group blogs (not assessed, but corrected).
How about for Monday 12th.~
Some ideas:
i.) Play around with a sentence taken from a screen play in your short stories: “With each step farther from the Donor Processing Center, Derek feels his movements ease, his pace quicken, his stiffness loosen. A concentrated and increasing happiness sweeps across his face.”
ii.) Finish the sentence… “……and I really thought he would do it.”
iii.) Start with " I always thought we were the same ......."
iv.) Ideas from Bruce Holland Roger’s Creative Writing workshop will also be valuable. Read the specific stories he has suggetsed in his replies to the workshop notice.
4. Cartoons. If anyone has the time to create a PowerPoint with a few well-selected cartoons for use on Monday 5th (short notice –sorry), but will also be of use for the following Monday.
The work and preparation you did for the class debates will help you in writing either an opinion or argumentation article. Question suggestions on pages 18 and 19 of the coursebook Reason to Write will be worth thinking about in advance. Also read the article in the book on pages 2, 3, 4.2.
Feedback from debates coming on Monday. Congratulations to you all for last week.
3. Creative writing – Either continue on from the debate topics or escape!!! ….. To post in your group blogs (not assessed, but corrected).
How about for Monday 12th.~
Some ideas:
i.) Play around with a sentence taken from a screen play in your short stories: “With each step farther from the Donor Processing Center, Derek feels his movements ease, his pace quicken, his stiffness loosen. A concentrated and increasing happiness sweeps across his face.”
ii.) Finish the sentence… “……and I really thought he would do it.”
iii.) Start with " I always thought we were the same ......."
iv.) Ideas from Bruce Holland Roger’s Creative Writing workshop will also be valuable. Read the specific stories he has suggetsed in his replies to the workshop notice.
4. Cartoons. If anyone has the time to create a PowerPoint with a few well-selected cartoons for use on Monday 5th (short notice –sorry), but will also be of use for the following Monday.
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