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     These were some of the books read by one of the classes in our school. After reading the book, readers had to present the book in an appealing way to motivate others to read.                                                                                                                                                       António

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   We have enjoyed our Literary Colloqium at school!!! It was amazing and we all shared our favourite books and quotes... .I am sharing them with all of you: From one of pur favourite writers: Roald Dahl “We all have our moments of brilliance and glory, and this was mine.”  "The summer holidays! Those magic words! The mere mention of them used to send shivers of joy rippling over my skin"  “When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.”  From the book The Boy   ............................. From Alice in Wonderland   "Winning is not important, the important thing is having fun" " Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves" Lewis Carroll  ............................         https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1gPzvdyACGj2UKbMdWhm5IIL_SdG7H8YDHB1xi39bddk/edit?usp=share_link  

           We invited the writer João Tordo to come to our school and celebrate Book Day.  We read some of his books and have discussed his writing in our classes. We have developed The reader project which promotes reading and cultural and literary criticism among our school community. João Tordo was born in Lisbon in 1975. In 2009, he won the prestigious José Saramago Literary Prize with the novel "As Três Vidas", also shortlisted for the Portugal Telecom Prize in Brazil. He was shortlisted four times for the prestigious Fernando Namora Literary Prize (2011, 2012, 2015, 2016) and twice for Best Novel at the Portuguese Author's Society (2011 and 2015). He was also shortlisted for the European Literary Award in 2012 and received the GQ Magazine Literature Prize 2014. His novels have been published in several countries, including France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Hungary, Mexico, Argentina or Brazil. He has published eleven novels.  English Excer...

Our Basic Vocational Training students celebrated this year's Book Day. They were asked to choose their favourite books, explain their plots and justify why they made that choice. They also made some posters that they stuck on the stairs of the school: