Mon:
- if computer room is not used: blog-phase in pairs (comments to other posts, corrections of your posts by partner –> improve spelling, grammar and style; technical aspects: allow comments; picture in your Einstellungen, nice for personalized comments)
- vocab in your blogs: share them with partner, how can we get a list of “100 useful HEAT-phrases”?
- ”British Administration” + “British Women in India” –> let’s talk about it with reference to the novel
Wed:
- pp. 127 – 143: present your texts from blogs
- gender roles then and now, influence of society/societies & more
Wanted next week and later:
- Harry & Chid
- parallels in the novel: structure of the novel
- Hinduism
- point of view
Mon, April 21st:
- watching “Passage to India” part II
Wed, April 23rd:
- the end of “Passage to India”
- has Ruth Prawer Jhabvala just written an up-to-date copy of “Passage to India”?
- relationship Indians to Anglo-Indians
- role-play: male Anglo-Indians talk to Adela and/or Olivia
- @home: read handout (“British Administration” + “British Women in India” and the articles at the end of the novel on the same topic–> Monday)
Thurs, April 24th:
- love affairs: Olivia-Nawab & narrator-Inder Lal
- letters (Olivia to sister Marcia) and text messages (narrator – Inder Lal), pregnancies and consequences; parallel scenes in the grove/shrine
- handouts/copymaster 10: pp. 116-127
- @home (Mon): 20 vocab (useful words & phrases when dealing with the novel/the topics) from the 20 pages you’re in charge of in your blogs, please. Aim: a list of useful structures for all
- @home (Wed): pp. 127 – 143 with one of the tasks in your blogs, please
<c> photo & more
Mon, April 14th:
- pp. 90 – 102 narrator’s story/Olivia’s story
film-snippet: German Hippies & India in the early 1980s
>>WDR: “Die Karawane der Blumenkinder“
[comparison to narrator & Chid; Karim & Kitty; Keith & Doreen]- wanted: vocab 90 – 102 and before
- topics to be consideres: parallels Olivia/narrator; details colonial British men & women [role-card for tea-scene]; narrator/point of view in both narrations
- @home: “Flirting by Text Message, Indians Test Boundaries” [NYT/SZ 07-04-2008] >>online
<c> photo; WDR
Wed, April 16th:
<c> photo: wikipedia
Thurs, April 17th:
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please watch “A Passage to India” as far as you get [sorry, I'm off to Athens]
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@home: parallels film – “Heat”, mainly concerning the British colonial society and their attitudes towards the Indians –> in your blogs, please
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worth reading:
Tausche einen Berg Rupien gegen rosige Zukunft
In Indien boomen private Universitäten. Um sich ihre Lebensträume zu erfüllen, zahlen Studenten an luxuriösen Unis zehnmal so viel wie an staatlichen Hochschulen. Aber sie sind voller Hoffnung, dass sich die Investition schon bald auszahlen wird. >>mehr SPIEGEL Online
<c> photo
Yes, forbidden love… 
Wed:
Starting with the picnic scene we’ll look to and fro to work out details, mainly concentrating on Douglas – Olivia – Nawab…
…by help of some handouts (“Plotting the Story”, teacher’s handbook Cornelsen)
@home: prepare one of the tasks on the handout concerning pp. 49-61
Thurs:
- your experiences with the reading logs so far?
- read out your texts pp. 49-61
- two groups: handouts/topics a) pp. 61 – 76, b) pp. 77-90
- oral presentation of results ==> text in your blogs, please
@home: pp. 90 – 102 text on one of the suggested topics in your blogs [bring in printout on Monday]: group a) narrator’s story, group b) Olivia’s story.
Reminder: For SF on Tuesday please prepare SPIEGEL pp. 50-56 >>more
<c> photo
