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One Laptop per Child?-Ne(x)t Generation Learning?
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The Hobbit
- It's over ... we've finished it, and thanks to all those who have participated so well. To all the others .... well, I don't care.
- If you want to see the project and results .... Klick here!
Looking at Narrative Texts
Setting
Basically the setting of a novel/story is the time, place and background that the narrator creates. The setting influences the readers' expectations, especially at the beginning of novels / chapters, and it helps to create a certain atmosphere (adjectives, characters, symbols, connotations of words that are used also contribute to atmosphere)
Characterization
Vocabulary and How-to ....
Flat vs. round characters
E.M. Forster. Aspects of the Novel, Harmondsworth 1976 (11927), pp. 72 and 80
"We may divide characters into flat and round. Flat characters … are sometimes called types, and sometimes caricatures. In their purest form, they are constructed round a single idea or quality: when there is more than one factor in them, we get the beginning of the curve towards the round. The real flat character can be expressed in one sentence …. The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. "
This clearly shows the differences between
Flat Character:
- lack of a realistic personality
- description might be detailed, but reveals no complex personality
- "flat" is not negative, but simply says the character can be summed up in one sentence
- shows little or no development.
Round character:
- complex and realistic
- represents a fully developed, complex personality
- often shows good and bad traits, interior conflicts, may react unexpectedly
- usually true for main characters
- clear development throughout the story
To do list 11c 08/09: What is English good for?
The pupils collected the following list:
What will you need or would you like to use your English for after and outside school?
- English in everyday (German) language
- for travelling
- in the internet
- on the job / for my application
- necessary to speak it because it’s the world language.
- communication/understanding between cultures.
- movies/books in English.
What should you know / learn to do in English for the English Grundkurs, LK or Abitur in the next two years?
- vocabulary
- grammar
- text comprehension
- writing compositions / answer
- give talks / speak freely
- think in/ be fluent in English
Mr. T came up with these lists .... rather similar!
Programme English: 11c – 2009
1. What we will have to do … </span>
a) … for the Lk/Gk and the Abitur:
- reading, understanding texts (fictional done and non-fictional)
- describing and analyzing cartoons done
- working with a dictionary at it!
- characterization done
- building up topical vocabulary + techniques at it!
- writing comments (paragraph, introduction, argument) at it ...!
- explaining effect of rhetorical devices, point of view, plot done!
- translating (general skills, special difficulties)at it!
- presenting a short speech/talk in front of class done
- listening comprehension
b) … due to the curriculum
- read a complete novel done + a short story
- read some poems
- analyze some adverts
c) … due to school regulations:
- 1 x fictional text → novel "The Hobbit" done
- 1 x Test: translation E → G)
Possible Novels:
- Tolkien: The Hobbit done
- Hornby: About a boy
- McCourt: Angela's Ashes
- Orwell: 1984
- Golding: Lord of the Flies
- Lodge: Changing Places
- Haddon: The curious incident of the dog in the night
- Sachaar: Holes
US Politics
- Searching the internet
- Who votes for Obama and McCain
- Campaign 2008 in Cartoons - Now with vocabulary MindMap!
- The role of the media in the presidential campaign
- Lobbyism
Speeches
