The final week in disguise

 

 

Harvest Time

Mo, March 15th

• feed-back workshop with Clare Wigfall >>report & media
• your creative products to be added there, if you don’t mind
• wikipedia.de/en idea: who’d like to write (–> next Tue) ?
• Abi-Klausur example
• some more useful vocab

Wed, March 17th

• marks & more
• arranged marriages/forced marriages >>film
• honor killings >>Kristin’s podcast >>text
• list of links to your Indian & BNW topics/articles in your blogs

Thurs, March 18th

• slum.dog.millionaire

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Mar 9th-Mar 12th: bits & bytes

Mon 9th:

• participles: your homework GRIP p. 107 no.4
• repetition: summary & quotations [handout]
• point of view: phrases & structures
• vocab: relationships; literature

Wed 11th:

• some more useful vocabulary
• your input: topics BNW and HEAT (results from last Thurs)

Thurs 12th: Workshop with Clare Wigfall

Die englische Schriftstellerin Clare Wigfall besucht nächste Woche für drei Tage  das Gymnasium Ulricianum im Rahmen von Lesungen und Workshops.  >>more

March 2nd-4th: India & BNW

Mo, March 2nd:

• grammar: adverbials & participles -
  GRIP pp. 103/104
  @home: p. 107 no. 4
  writing practise: improving a text with adverbials & participles
• vocab: language & style (handout)

click-tip: learning English with viodeo, mp3 & script >>my blog

Wed, March 3rd:

• common mistakes in your Klausuren
• your results from the India topics

>>”Need to Know – Forced Marriages” [teachers' tv]

Worth knowing about India’s history
>>film on ARTE “Great India” 

…and part 2 on ARTE “Ashoka-Der Krieger Buddhas”

Thurs, March 4th:

• working on topics related to “Brave New World”[1] Genetic Risks and IVF, NYT article
  [2] IVF & eight babies in the USA – medicine & moral
  [3] why do Austria and Hungary oppose to allow gm corn?
  [4] Thomas More “Utopia”
  [5] personal data, the state and Orwell’s 1984 – are we already there?
  [6] ?
• working on British History:
  Queen Victoria, Industrial Revolution, Technology & Innovation, etc. >>BBC British History 
• [and there's a bit about "British India and the Great Rebellion" as well]

Outlook:

next week Thurs: workshop with Clare Wigfall >>details on Lady Mi’s blog

Feb 23rd -26th: India revisited

Mo, Feb 23rd:

• experiences: Klausur, topic, tasks
• organisation/dates
• grammar/voc: what do you need?
• adjectives (handouts “A close-up on adjectives”)
• GRIP, pp. 141-142 (adjectives/advers: comparative and superlative forms)
• @home (next Mon): GRIP, p. 146 no.2

Wed, Feb 25th:

• OK, you are writing Klausuren, sorry
• HEAT revisited (bring in novel, please)
• Indian topics >>Zentralabitur 2009
• “Hit British film Slumdog Millionaire has won the top prize at the Academy Awards, winning eight Oscars including best director and best picture. ” >>BBC >>wikipedia

Thurs, Feb 26th:

• how did you like MOON in DEL? >>more
• and this is the Grotowski method the company used on stage >>more
  “Grotowski believed that theater could exist without makeup, costumes, and scenery, but that it could not exist without the actor-spectator relationship of perceptual, direct, and “live” communion. >>about Grotowski
• feed-back: oral participation/marks”
• in five groups:
• [1] Ghandi: handout +film +Rushdie
• [2] Partition: handout + Mumbai attacks
• [3] Religion: handout + details Hinduism, etc.
• [4] Nehru: handout + following Prime Ministers, family, etc.
• [5] Women in India: handout + IT specialists, arranged marriages, etc.

==> results to be summed up on a handout (1 page) and presented in 8mins next Wed @banana ;

reason:

“Folgende Aspekte sind im Rahmen dieses Themas zu berücksichtigen:”
• (e.g. India: Colonial rule and the struggle for independence)
• (e.g. Present-day India: a mosaic of contrasts (political, economic, religious and social aspects)

In the pipeline:

• film “Brick Lane” (unfortunately in German”) >>film-info >>trailer

Feb16th-19th: Klausur week

Handouts:

Franziska: chapter_two: chapter_two1 [word.doc]

Anke H.: comparison street-life/park:
                   comparison_street_-life_park [word.doc]

Maren: chapter 2 maren_chap2 [word.doc]

Venja:  Significance of the moon venja_significance_moon

               Chapter 5 venja_chapter-5

Mo, Feb 16th:

• while I’ll be in Berlin you’ll relax or finish last Thursday’s work

Wed, Feb 18th:

• presentation of last Thursday’s work on associated topics MOON

Thurs, Feb 19th:

• Klausur MOON 4 periods

Tip for the time after your finals:

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>>more Auswärtiges Amt

Anmeldungen ab 20. Februar >>Kulturweit

Feb 9th – 12th: wrap-up MOON

Mo, Feb 9th:

• all the groups’  papers about the MOON chapters + “Three Men in Search of  Their Identity” (Julian Barber, Solomon Barber, Marco Stanley Fogg)
• handout “connectors” and exercises
• handout “close-up on adjectives” ==> worth learning/doing the exercises individually, perhaps instead of next week’s Monday-grammar lesson which we skip as I won’t be in  :-(

Wed, Feb 11th:

Edison & Tesla (Andreas/Daniel) – progress

Arts and the West (Maren/Anke H.)

Lewis and Clark expedition >>more

google.com: images “Utah”, “American West”

Thurs, Feb 12th [bring in "MOON"]:

 In groups/pairs without me, results to be presented next week Wednesday, the day before the Klausur

• the American Frontier –> connection to Destiny, Kennedy, etc.
• Paul Auster: biography and works with reference to MOON >>more
• post-modern novels: what’s typical of them, is MOON one?
• narrative technique of MOON >>glimpse [who actually narrates?] (handout)
• spots on American history and MOON ==> American self-image (handout)
• Abraham Lincoln, the US, Obama & more (SZ  15. + 22. 1. 2009)
• “Neuanfang ist das Leitmotiv der amerikanischen Geschichte” –> MOON, Obama & the American self-image [SZ 22-01-2009]

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Feb4th – 5th: grammar & MOON

Wed, February 4th

• GRIP p. 156 no. 2 was your homework, sigh ==> next Monday, please
• handout “phrasal verbs” >>online exercises for a self-study approach
• clicktip: “Kampf um den Studienplatz” >> Süddeutsche Zeitung
• please bring in 14 € for MOON in DEL 2morrow 

Thurs, February 5th

• MOON chaps 5 , 6 , 7
• wordfield “Geography”
• Manifest Destiny >>wikipedia
• the “frontier” topic (handout “The American Frontier”)

Still to be dealt with:

• Edison/Tesla (Daniel/Andreas)
• Arts % the West (Anke H./Maren)
• City Life ./. Central Park pp. 62-64
• narrative technique
• Paul Auster; biography
• postmodernism/novels

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Jan, 26th – 29th: exercises and practise

Mon, Jan 26th, 2009:

• exercises “sollen”
• definite article: GRIP p. 154
• vocab: “Life in the community” (–> Thurs)
• @home: GRIP p. 156 no. 2 (next Wed)

Wed, Jan 28th, 2009:

• handout “structuring texts”
• writing practise: “Analyze rhetoric means used in Obama’s inauguration address, considering the intended effect on the audience”

Thurs, Jan 29th, 2009:

• MOON chapters 3 & 4
• city vs. nature (chap. 2)
• “open spaces”/the West
• US basics

Enjoy the short, yet nonetheless deserved holidays;
Wednesday: GRIP, grammar and @home: GRIP p. 156 no. 2
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Thursday: MOON chaps 5 & 6 and everybody please read Manifest Destiny >>wikipedia

Needed for short presentations:

• technology topic in chapter 4: Edison & Tesla (good links on learnetix.de) ==> two/but who?
• Manifest Destiny in Arts (good links on learnetix.de)  ==> two/but who?
• ???”Exploration and settlement” and “Indians” necessary???

Jan 19th – 22nd: The Obama week

Mo, January 19th:

• vocab repetition
• apostrophe [handout]
• “müssen”, “sollen” and its proper equivalents [GRIP pp. 77 ff.; rules: pp. 78+79]]
  –> some rules & exercises online
• @home: second handout “‘sollen’ and its equivalents;
  next Mon: GRIP p. 82 no. 4 etc.

Wed, January 21st:

• Obama’s speech: text & video
• contents, rhetoric means, US ‘basics’
• comments & analysis   >>SPIEGEL >>BBC
• @home: comparison to another inauguration speech

Thurs, January 22nd:

• MOON chapters 1 & 2

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