Welcome back, folks and off into a new year
Mon, Jan 7th
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Klausuren back & comments
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please continue your “error analysis” and bring it in next Monday for both Klausuren
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some hints at grammar: s-genitive today
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prepare: your “special topic” of MOON PALACE –> Wed
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bring in SUMMIT on Wednesday
Wed, Jan 9th
The American self-conception and how the US is seen & was seen from outside
basis: J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur [1735 - 1813]
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SUMMIT pp. 112/113
Key-terms: American frontier, American Dream, self-determination, equal opportunity, American identity, lifestyle, religious freedom, melting pot, pride, freedom
Thurs, Jan 10th
The West, the American frontier |wikipedia.com|
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leading questions: what is this mysterious “westward, ho!”, what’s the West standing for [apart from Indians], why are there so many Hollywood westerns, what’s Manifest Destiny, what is the spirit of the frontier? What does all this mean for the American self-conception, the American ideal?
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to be worked out/researched and explained in four groups
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with reference to the West in MOON, please
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@home: text, please: The West and the American self-conception
