domingo, 29 de novembro de 2009

Sly and The family stone



Bruna

Sly and The family stone

Sly and The family stone were from San Frascico.







Their members were:

• Sly Stone (Sylvester Stewart) (1967 - 1975): vocals, keyboard, electric guitar, bass, piano, harmonica, among others.

• Freddie Stone (Frederick Stewart) (1967 - 1975): vocals, electric guitar.

• Larry Graham (1967 - 1972): vocals, bass.

• Rose Stone (Rosemary Stewart) (1968 - 1975): vocals, piano, keyboard.

• Cynthia Robinson (1967 - 1975): thrumpet, vocals.

• Jerry Martini (1967 - 1975): saxophone.

• Greg Errico (1967 - 1971): drums.

• Little Sister; Vet Stone (Vaetta Stewart, Sly's sister), Mary McCreary, and Elva Mouton: backing vocals


With Sly´s death the band was over.


Bruna

Sly and The family stone

                Vietnam War, Feminism, Racial Injustices were the context of the Woodstock Festival, which was part of the Counter-culture movement.




Bruna

Sly and the family stone

Their songs talk about peace, love ans social consciouness/ awareness.

Sly and The family stone

Linguist Text Analysis on the song Stand







It is important to observe that what the song asks to do is to STAND for what we believe is right. But it is not said that we should change the system or what was happening. This is really meaninful once this band was part of the Counterculture, which did not purpose nothing (system, way) but the denial of what was happening in the world (Vietnam war, prejudice towards black people and women).

Love,

Bruna    

Sly and The family stone



XOXO,

Bruna

October 27th Class

On this class we talked about theory, motivation and methodologies, and we reflected about what do we believe in and what are our values as English teachers and learners, through the questionnaire below:





This was a really good exercise because it made us rethink what sometimes get as an automatic practice, as it could be seem, the questionnaire makes us pay attention on the learners (questions 2 and 4), language conception (questions 1 and 8), teaching (questions 3, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12 and 13), motivation (question 5) and culture (question 9) .