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:
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NYT article: men-women realationships today
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interesting words & phrases (and 4 text messages from Inder Lal to the narrator)
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the British colonial officials in HEAT; details wanted
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@home: get to know E.M. Forster >>wikipedia.com and his novel “Passage to India” >>wikipedia.com watching out for parallels to HEAT; remember: the script for the film “Howards End” was written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and we watched the exposition
<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
