Thelenberg 2012 13
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Homework
If you had the money to buy a useful, efficient robot ...
- what kind of robot would you buy?
- what should it be able to do?
- what would be its most important feature?
Explain your decision!
Recent homework
Basic Skills & Information
- Information on homework and oral grades
- Reading and Marking technique - SQ3R Method A useful method to read, mark and annotate texts.
- Working with Cartoons
- A good speech/speaker ...
- Answering questions on the text
- Starting a paragraph
- Starting an Essay/Comment
- Writing an interview
- Mediation
- Characterization
- Building an Argument
Brave New World
Scrapbook/Reading Diary:
Reading over the holidays - BRAVE NEW WORLD
Answer the questions in correct language and in a written form (except where only “notes” are asked)
Keep a simple log-/scrapbook (WIKI?) while reading the novel!
Stop from time (at least after each chapter) to time to think about what you have read!
Take simple but readable notes (in the WIKI?)
- Is there anything that puzzles you? Note down your questions or striking quotations!
- Do you find yourself liking or disliking a character? What is it about them that makes you feel so?
- Make notes (incl. page, perhaps short quotations?) that you can add to (e.g. use one page per character)!
Talks on "Brave New World"
15 Talks on chapters 5-18
Each talk includes
- 2 striking/typical/characteristic quotations + your explanation: what do they tell the reader about the characters involved, the society
- 1 conflict between characters/their views or between a character and the principles of the Fordian Society
- what image/notion/idea and expectation do readers have/get at the end of the chapter and how (quotes) are they led to think so?
- find + explain one passage that either is a good example of direct or indirect characterization or typical of the narrative perspective and point of view.
Here you find the Text of the book
- Chapter 5: Hein Di 25.9.
- Chapter 6: Müller Fr 28.9.
- Chapter 7: Kuhn Fr 28.9.
- Chapter 8: Wudy Di 2.10.
- Chapter 9: Zdzieblo Di 2.10.
- Chapter 10: Herold Fr 5.10.
- Chapter 11: Albert Fr 5.10.
- Chapter 12: Scholl Fr 12.10.
- Chapter 13: Höchner Fr 12.10.
- Chapter 14: Ott Di 16.10.
- Chapter 15: Wagenhäuser Fr.19.10.
- Chapter 16: Morgan Fr. 19.10.
- Chapter 17: Rossmanith J.
- Chapter 18: Hückmann
US Foreign Policy and Relations to Europe
Typically American? A collection of Stereotypes?
Typical Americans are .... / Typically, in America you find ... / In America "they" believe in ... |
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Cartoons on US Cultural Hgemony / Americanization
- Cartoon on Americanization
- Cartoon of President George W. Bush as Cowboy
- Working with Cartoons
- Notes on Cartoon!
Text on US Cultural Hegemony
1. What reasons for anti American feelings in Europe does the text give?
- American culture ousts European culture
- German or other European languages are being flooded with English terms and expressions
- Sense of national identity severly disturbed
- Europeans are afraid of loosing their cultural autonomy
- European culture replaced by American culture
- Vietnam-war
- Guantanamo Bay and Abu-Ghraib
- Americans ignore and don't know about European culture
- American worldview is centered on America
- Americans expect everyone to think and speak American
- Americanization as cultural imperialism
2. Why has Germany been especially quick at embracing American culture?
- America's help after WWII (→ Marshall Plan) ==> Germans felt grateful
- German culture discredited by Nazis, German from "Dichter und Denker" to "Richter und Henker"
- Germans looked for new cultural model → culture of the victoriuos, democratic and successful USA
- Germans were not allowed to have and learned to feel ashamed of patriotic feelings → easy to take over Western/US mass culture
- US culture meant luxury, affluence, freedom, individualism
The USA and Europe - increasingly difficult relations?
The results of your work on the two texts on the relations between the USA and Europe: