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Analysing texts
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
- describe what the author does (e.g. he puts forward his main thesis)
- explain why he does it at this point
- show how he tries to do this effectively
- means to make a text interesting / convincing
- attitude of an author
Two Novels
Immigration, Multiethnicity
What is the trend, what are the effects and problems of interracial relationships/marriages?
Art and Artists
Big City Life and "The Car Crisis"
Links covering "Big City Life"
Results of "Big City Life - Search on 01/10/07
Musterlösung Translation "Four Legs Good ....
Hier geht es zur Musterlösung
Project: US-Solutions to "The Car Crisis"
The link above will allow 7 groups to look into 7 possible solutions to the problem of sprawl and commuting in the NorthWest of the USA.
- 3 people per group
- 40 minutes to go
- one member of the group will present the results (which the group has typed as a list or put into a mindmap before!) ON MONDAY!
Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare - Texts for Translation
Six texts for translation!
Topics: Shakespeare's work and adaptations of "Romeo and Juliet"
Open the Word-Document here
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
Style
Building / Refuting an argument
Vocabulary for characterization
LKE2 2006/08 proudly presents a variety of useful collections of words and phrases that are helpful when writing characterizations ....
- 1-physical-features-body-face.doc
- 2-physical-features-expression-gestures.doc
- 3-ways-of-speaking.doc
- 4-attitude-to-treating-others.doc
- 5-experiences-feelings.doc
- 6-job-family-group.doc
- 7a-general-judgements-adjectives.doc
- 7b-general-judgement-nouns.doc
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