Mon, March 31st – Thurs April 3rd

  

English colonial society ./. Indian society

Mon:

• up to p. 49: two worlds meet: details, persons, relationships
• the narrative principle
• the narrator and her India & Indians

Please look at the right: you’ll see the link to the list of your HEAT-Blogs there

Thanks to Mrs Kleen:“Chronology of important events in Indian History – Colonial rule and struggle for independence” Timeline India [pdf-file] Wed:

• Klausur back & some remarks

 Thurs:

• exposition of a film [giving an idea of the Victorian society with the script by the author of "Heat and Dust"] >>film “Howards End”  >>novel by E. M. Forster (1910)
• details from the first 49 pages: behaviour, attitudes, gender-roles: men-women in the British and Indian society ==> & how do Olivia and the Nahab behave?
• starting point: picnic with the Nahab and Olivia’s “confusion” – let’s find traits where the development can already clearly be seen and how this is narrated by the author

at home: read on up to roughly p. 120 and write in your reading log (interesting topics: Victorian women; gender roles, vote for women in Germany and GB, etc.; why not some diary entries by Olivia who tries to understand what’s going on?)

Monday: no lesson due to a teachers’ training session from 9-17, so c u Tues

March 27th: HEAT AND DUST

Exposition “Heat and Dust”

“Exposition a technique by which background information about the characters, events, or setting is conveyed in a novel, play, movie or other work of fiction. This information can be presented through dialogue, description, flashbacks, or even directly through narrative. As exposition generally does not advance plot and may impede present-time action, it is usually best kept in short and succinct form, though in some genres, such as the mystery, exposition is central to the story structure itself. The alternative to exposition is to convey background information indirectly though action, which, though more dramatic, is more time consuming and less concise.” >>more wikipedia

For the next couple of weeks you are asked to work with a reading log in a new blog [HOW TO create a new blog with two mouseclicks >>here is the explanation ] which will be marked

• How To Keep a Reading Log or Book Journal >>New York Times
• How to keep a reading log [Cornelsen: word.doc]

March 3rd – March 6th

Mon March 3rd

• some organisational things
• vocab “literature” [pp. 26, 27]
• interpretation “Jeans”
• background: Indians, Pakistani and Bangladeshi in GB

Wed, March 3rd

• producing THE ULRICIANUM TIMES all day long, you are heartily welcome to write, research, contribute, revise, take photos, etc.
• online-edition: http://www.ulricianumtimes.de

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Thurs, March 6th

• Klausur four periods
• good preparation: your error analysis; vocab-pages India-reader (literature); how to write a summary, fact file India

In the holidays you can use the timeslots available

• to start reading “Heat And Dust” as we’ll begin with it right after the vacation
• you’ll be asked to write in a new Blog [HOW TO create a new blog with two mouseclicks >>here is the explanation ] with a new name like danielheat.wordpress.com –> you only have to type in the new name, in this case ‘daniel’ without quoatation marks
• what to write? Everything of interest: contents, characters, background [research], pictures, questions, analysis, interpretation, personal comments, interesting vocab, etc. –> blog will be part of the oral mark