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 
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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:
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:
Tip for the time after your finals:
Kostenlos ins Ausland/Freiwilligendienst:
“Mit dem neuen Freiwilligendienst „kulturweit“ fördert das Auswärtige Amt interkulturelle Kompetenz und Weltoffenheit von jungen Menschen. Als „Schlüsselkompetenzen in unserer globalisierten Welt“ bezeichnete Staatsminister Gernot Erler diese Fähigkeiten in seinem Eingangsstatement.”
>>more Auswärtiges Amt
Anmeldungen ab 20. Februar >>Kulturweit
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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Wed, February 4th
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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