Thelenberg 2009 11

'AKTUELL' HOMEWORK:Fetter Text Create a short entry in your own user page in this wiki. Use the following formats/forms bold and italic text green or red text a short numbered list of your thoughts on the election in Germany this weekend at least 4 headlines Finally find at least 2 good English articles/webpages on what the Americans expected/hoped for from Obama and if (they think) he fulfills these hopes and expectations. Create a numbered and annotated link collection like this for these two (or more) articles you have found. It could look like this (if the topic was "bananas"): Banana Wikipedia entry on bananas, good basic information and nice pictures http://www.bananas.org/ Everything about sorts of, growing, cooking with and selling bananas. Good forums. Problem Urheberrecht

US Politics

• Qualities of a President

Look at the following two articles! Show/explain the function of the supreme court and the power it has!

• Supreme Court on gun control 1
• Supreme Court on gun control 2

If you want to know a lot more ....

• Wikipedia: Supreme Court

• Supreme Court decides if new laws (by states and districts)or federal governments are constitutional
• Former courts decided that the right to bear arms is not an individual right, but applies to a militia
• Supreme Court can decide what limitations of constitutional rights are ok

Talks

Look into your English books ... there are good texts and info boxes covering these topics.

1. The US Constitution

• Making of the Constitution Bill of Rights
• Branches of government / Division of Power
• Checks and balances (examples, e.g. who can stop a president ….., how are laws made)
• Federalism (Rights of the States)

2. Presidential Elections

• Constitution on elections ….
• Starting/Financing a campaign – How to be elected
• Steps to become the candidate of the Democrats or Republicans
• Unjust electoral System (esp. 2001 election)

3. Citizens’ Initatives, PACs, Lobbying

• Influence of citizens/industry/ ??? on lawmakers, different approaches
• Role in political system
• Examples general (e.g. NRA, Suffrage, ….) and in upcoming presidential elections

Analysing texts

• Tone and mood

Other categories:

• theme/topic
• author's intention (what he wants to do ...)/message (what he says)
• author vs. narrator
• types of irony and their functions

• verbal irony: express something by saying the opposite --> effect: reader enjoys finding irony, reader discovers real meaning, reader discovers contrast between what is said and what is meant
• dramatic irony: the reader or the audience know more than the characters

--> effect 1: reader feels superior, only to show him he is not --> effect 2: the reader feels pity, involvement in story

• irony of situation: sharp contrast between what the characters/readers wish and what real life is like

• types of texts
• line of argument/argumentative structure

1. describe what the author does (e.g. he puts forward his main thesis)
2. explain why he does it at this point
3. show how he tries to do this effectively

• means to make a text interesting / convincing
• attitude of an author

Style

Style (formal vs. informal

Building / Refuting an argument

• Building an argument
  
• Refuting an argument

Immigration, Multiethnicity

• Topics for Talks on Race, Immigration etc.

What is the trend, what are the effects and problems of interracial relationships/marriages?

• | Interracial relationships I

• Interracial relationships II

Big City Life and "The Car Crisis"

Links covering "Big City Life"

• Urban Problems
• Wikipedia: City
• Settlements
• Attractions in Big Cities

Results of "Big City Life - Search on 01/10/07

• revival-of-cities-1.pdf
• revival-of-us-cities.pdf
• urban-divide.pdf

Musterlösung Translation "Four Legs Good ....

Project: US-Solutions to "The Car Crisis"

• Information on Sprawl & Transportation

Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet

Talks: Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet

• Talk 1: Wikipedia: "Elizabethan Era" & "English Renaissance"
  

• Talk 2: http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/Tillyard01.html, http://library.thinkquest.org/C0120460/arte/index.htm
• General: http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/resource_lit.shakespeare.html

http://www.william-shakespeare.info (esp. talks 1, 3, 4, 5, 6)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare (esp. talk 4)

• Talk 6: http://www.bartleby.com/215/index.html#11 (Punkte 1-8)

Shakespeare - Sources and material ...===

• What do you get for 1 p. - The naked truth about Romeo and Juliet!
• The Prologue
• Elements of a Play about Love.doc
• Romeo and Juliet online ....

"Facharbeit"

Just in case you've forgotten: There are some useful links ...

• http://www.theli.de/englisch/
• http://www.theli.de/englisch/inetsearch.pdf or
  
• http://www.theli.de/englisch/style.pdf
• NEU: Word-Anleitung Facharbeit

For more questions, or in order to arrange a quick meeting --> To discuss your progress or problems ==> joerg.thelenberg@gmx.de

An annotated collection of links can also be found in this wiki: Annotated Links for Learners of English

Interpreting symbols

• Online-Dictionary of Symbols
• Colour-Symbols
• Animal Symbolism I
• Animal Symbolism II
• Animal Symbolism in Medieval Christian Sources

Vocab sheet USA at war

usa-war-politics.pdf - produced by LK E2