Nov 17th-Nov 20th: GM & more

Mon, Nov 17th:

==> have a look at the sources and read at least one article carefully

words: GM & more

January 18, 2008: Animal-human embryo research is approved >> TIMES online

May 6th, 2008: Embryo research: a source of hope or horror? >> Telegraph

May 18th, 2008: Brown says embryo research is key to life  >> Guardian

embryos and stem cells: recent articles in the Guardian (mammoth as well)

GM food >>BBC Special

cloning & genetic engineering
>>good BBC-pages for British schools with explanations and definitions

STAMMZELLFORSCHUNG: Forschern gelingt therapeutisches Klonen am Rhesusaffen (with loads of background info) >>SPIEGEL 14-11-2007

Tues, Nov 19th

• panel discussion “GM”

Thurs, Nov 20th

• Klausur: article on GM & more
  [re-read the basic production of 'human beings' in BNW; wordfield GM & Co.; what's a good article?]

Nov 10th-14th: BRAVE & GM

Mon, Nov 10th

• anybody not joining the Shakespeare trip to Bremen on Dec 11th?
  19.30 h Shakespeare Company Bremen “Macbeth” >>more
  bus leaves 17.00 h parking lot; performance two hours without any break;
  back about 23.15 h; 9,00 € ticket, 9 € bus = 18 €
• Obama speech and rhetorical means - examples & function
• BRAVE chaps. 12-14
• @home: article “Genetic selection gives girl a brother and a second chance”, CNN Oct 3, 2000 >>online
  

Wed, Nov 12th

• only six of you there, no lesson
• ==>please prepare for Monday >>Mon
• basics: genetics & stem cells
• word-field
• article “Genetic selection gives girl a brother and a second chance”, CNN Oct 3, 2000 >>online
• what Marina found out: “Großbritannien will Chimärenerzeugung legalisieren” >>Focus

 

Thurs, Nov 13th

• good luck with your Klausuren, I’ll be in Moscov

next Mon:

January 18, 2008: Animal-human embryo research is approved >> TIMES online

May 6th, 2008: Embryo research: a source of hope or horror? >> Telegraph

May 18th, 2008: Brown says embryo research is key to life  >> Guardian

embryos and stem cells: recent articles in the Guardian (mammoth as well)

GM food >>BBC Special

cloning & genetic engineering
>>good BBC-pages for British schools with explanations and definitions

STAMMZELLFORSCHUNG: Forschern gelingt therapeutisches Klonen am Rhesusaffen (with loads of background info) >>SPIEGEL 14-11-2007

next Tues:

panel discussion “GM”

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Mon, Nov 3rd - Thurs, Nov 6th: BRAVE & GM

Mon, Nov 3rd

• how did you work on Thurs in your groups?
• grammar training [mistakes Klausuren] ”Both, Either, Neither, Nor and So” >>online exercise
• BRAVE: chaps 11 & 12
• @home: vocab newspaper & gm

Wed, Nov 5th

• President-Elect Barack Obama in Chicago >>video
• grammar training
• BRAVE chaps 13, 14, 15
• vocab GM

Thurs, Nov 6th

• GM groups present results
• wordfield GM
• debate GM pros|cons
• @home: re-read Obama’s speech |video| and find at least three “rhetorische Satzfiguren/Wortfiguren”, please - and the English terms, of course
  Nadine&Nadine: your time-line GM, please; Venja your list of words, please; and
  everybody: foetus/embryo/when does a being start to be a human being?

Interesting: di Caprio & new film version BRAVE >>more but we’ll have to wait >>more

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Oct 27th-Oct 30th: BRAVE & GM

Mon, Oct 27th, 2008:

• getting back in touch, organizational stuff, photos London, reports & more
• pairs for the chapters of BRAVE we haven’t worked on so far ==> we’ll finish BRAVE asap
• @home: finish reading BRAVE

Wed, Oct 29th, 2008: BRAVE chaps 9 & 10

• getting back in touch with the novel & the events
• details chapters 9 & 10
• your Klausuren and some remarks on grammar & mistakes
• @home: read the article of your group, work on details, language etc. (Thurs) and prepare your chapter of BRAVE (Mon/Wed)

Thurs, Oct 30th: cloning/GM:

• four groups, four articles
• 1. analyze article (contents AND style)
• 2. work out author’s position on cloning/GM
• 3. work on the scientific background: explanations needed to understand what scientists actually do there
• 4. web research: what’s the current situation, what has happened since the article was published?
• ==> results to be presented next Thurs, afterwards debate on topic

Helpful material/handouts:

- Focus on Vocab pp. 168/169: necessary words (to be learnt)

- Lernwörterbuch Textanalyse pp. 45-48: vocab, structures, words

- Companion to Texts pp. 43-45; 45/46: keywords and vocab to analyze newspaper articles und to evaluate them

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Sep 29th- Oct 2nd: production & presentation

Presentation of podcasts etc.:

“V for Vendetta”

>>youtube.com

>>podcast

>>written information

“Equilibrium”

>>youtube.com

>> podcast

>>written information

“1984″

>>youtube.com

>>podcast

>>written information

“Children of Men”

>>trailer

>>podcast

>>written information

|your feedback to the podcast & dystopian film experience|

|photos at work on podcasts|

Sep 22nd-Sep 24th: Postcasting/Podcasting :-)

This schedule contains the tasks for the week of Monday, September 22nd to Thursday, September 24th. The schedule gives your group an orientation about when you should be finished with the tasks given on your task-sheet. The dates are only recommended. Feel free to re-organize your time. At the beginning of Thursday’s second lesson every group should be ready to present their podcast to the rest of the course.

Monday

Day Segment Tasks

• Read the article about Podcasting
• Search the web for an interesting English Podcast on BBC Documentary and listen to it for five minutes
• Read the Audacity Tutorial under
  http://www.lehrer-online.de/dyn/bin/563870-563973-2-audacity-tutorial_sie.pdf
• Watch your movie’s trailer and the recommended scenes; you may as well watch the whole movie, if you like to or if you feel as if more information is inevitable.

Wednesday

• Create the outline of your podcast
• write a script and follow the instructions given on your group’s task-sheet
• post your script on your blog.

Thursday

• Record your Podcast
• save it to an mp3 file
• upload it to www.podhost.de  and link it to your blogs.

Presentation

Listen to the other group’s podcasts and leave a comment in their blogs.

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The films & the groups:

“V for Vendetta” >>more

Your task is to record a Podcast about the movie “V for Vendetta”, a modern dystopian action movie.

 Your Podcast should concentrate on the following aspects:

•  ”Why is ‘V for Vendetta’ called a dystopia?” or “What factors make ‘V for Vendetta’ a dystopia?”
•   What is the role of media in V for Vendetta? Can you compare it to today’s media?
•   In a dystopia the question of power is always asked. How does the ruling party in V for Vendetta maintain its power and how did they obtain it?

 Please be creative about the acoustic presentation within your Podcast! Remember, that a Podcast can be anything from an interview to a radio play. Spend at least 5 minutes of time brainstorming what your Podcast should sound like.

Reading a summary of the movie will help you getting an overview.

 Helpful Scenes on DVD:

• The first 20 minutes of the movie
• Scene 24: A Story

 

“Equilibrium” >>more

Your task is to record a Podcast about De Bont’s movie “Equilibrium”, a modern dystopian action movie.

 Your Podcast should concentrate on the following aspects:

•  What is the role of technology in Equilibrium and is that technology fictional or factual?
•  Point out the similarities between Equilibrium and Huxley’s “Brave New World”!
• How do the people of Libria communicate? Please explain the differences in communication between those people and real people.
• Is the dystopia, which is illustrated in Equilibrium, completely unreal?

 Please be creative about the acoustic presentation within your Podcast! Remember, that a Podcast can be anything from an interview to a radio play. Spend at least 5 minutes of time brainstorming what your Podcast should sound like.

 Reading a summary of the movie will help you getting an overview.

 Helpful Scenes on DVD:

•  Chapter 3 (to 10:22): “Father’s” speech
•  Chapter 4 (to 23:40): Imprisonment and the first capsule
•  Chapter 6 (to 28:33): Interview with Mary
•  Chapter 12

“1984″ >>more

Your task is to record a Podcast about Orwell’s 1984. Unfortunately you do not have time to read through the whole book, that’s why you have the DVD to get an idea of what the book is about.

 Your Podcast should concentrate on the following aspects:

•  ”Why is 1984 called a dystopia?” or “What factors make 1984 a dystopia?”
•  What is the role of technology in 1984? Is the technology shown in the movie fictional or factual? Was it factual when Orwell wrote his book?
• In how far do the protagonists act differently from the people of our society? Who or what makes them act that way and for what purpose?
• Is “Oceania” completely unreal?

 Please be creative about the acoustic presentation within your Podcast! Remember, that a Podcast can be anything from an interview to a radio play. Spend at least 5 minutes of time brainstorming what your Podcast should sound like.

 Reading a summary of the book will help you getting an overview.

 Helpful Scenes on DVD:

•  Cinematic Trailer (found on DVD)
•  Scene 1: Introduction
•  Scene 2: Newspeak and the Diary
•  Scene 3: Wakeup and Razorblades
• Scene 10: The Ministry and Goldstein’s book

 
“Children of Men” >>more

Your task is to record a Podcast about the movie “Children of Men”, a modern dystopian action movie.

 Your Podcast should concentrate on the following aspects:

•  In contrast to the other group’s movies, Children of Men concentrates on the fact, that technology has failed mankind.
• Take specific regard on who the government blames first!
• Consider in how far the society shown in Children of Men is reality-based. Do you think that this really could have happened?
• How do people in the movie get along with their situation of being the last human generation?

 Please be creative about the acoustic presentation within your Podcast! Remember, that a Podcast can be anything from an interview to a radio play. Spend at least 5 minutes of time brainstorming what your Podcast should sound like.

 Reading a summary of the movie will help you getting an overview.

 Helpful Scenes on DVD:

• Chapter 1: Baby Diego’s death
• Chapter 2: Jasper’s
• Chapter 7 (33:25 - 36:15): Kee

 

Photos: LK @work @banana 24-09-2008 >>let’s have a look

 

Sep 15th-Sep 18th: Contrasting worlds

Mon, Sep 15th

• soma: its effect & its function [pp. 78 ff.]
• characters & handouts: additions to be exchanged
• reservation: end of chapter 6 - the contrast to BNW
• chapter 7:
  - comparison of Bernard and Lenina’s reactions
  -Indian world & ceremony and meaning [flagellation]
  -Lenina’s perception of Linda
  -Linda’s story
  -Lenina & John (pp.100/101)

@home: read chapter 8 and write: “Linda’s position within the pueblo”

Wed, Sep 17th:

• chapter 8 in detail

Thurs, Sep 18th:

• writing time: Klausur (4 periods)

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Sep 8th - Sep 11th: criticiscm and critics of BRAVE

Mon, Sep 8th

• no lesson, in-service training for all English teachers

Wed, Sep 10th

• hypnopaedia & the Controller: details
• writing time: tasks chapter 4 [pp. 50-61]
• details chapter 4: Helmholtz, Bernard, Lenina
• handout: characters

Thurs, Sept 11th:

• chapters 5 & 6
• the brave new WORLD and its characters
• contrast: “reservation”
• filling in character handouts

@home: chapter 7 (Mon), chapter 8 (Wed)

Dates:

• Am Dienstag, dem 16. September finden um 13:10 die Wahlen für die Abiturausschüsse im 13. Jahrgang statt. Wir bitten alle Schülerinnen und Schüler des diesjährigen Abijahrganges in der AULA zu erscheinen. [Sz]
• Freitag, 19. September ab 15.00 Uhr: Berufs- und Studieninfos >>mehr
• Freitag, 19. September um 19.30 im Foyer: 100 Jahre Nobelpreis Eucken >>mehr
• Dienstag, 24. Februar 2009, 11.00 h Delmenhorst MOON PALACE

Sep 1st - Sep 4th: the first 4 chapters

Mon, Sep 1st:

• vocab chapters 1 & 2
• chapter 3: tasks from handout
• @home: read chapters 4 (Wed) and 5 (Thurs)

Wed, Sep 3rd:

• in depth analysis chapter 3: narration/narrator, actions, additional information about World State

Thurs, Sep 4th:

• back to chapters 1 and 2: the “basics” of the World State [creative approach]
• chapter 4: the critics

Film:

• worth watching: “The Island” (2005) >>more

 

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Aug 25th - Aug 28th: Literary basics & “Brave New World”

Mon, Aug 25th:

• Asimov [1920-1992] “The Fun They Had” [1951]
• basics: point of view, characters & characterization, action & plot
• @home: read the first 20 pages of BRAVE and answer a student’s questionnaire >> here it is

Wed, Aug 27th

• BRAVE: exposition - your first impression, etc.
• cloning: article on cloning lap-dogs: “Mit Freudentränen hat eine US-Amerikanerin in Seoul die Klone ihres verstorbenen Hundes geknuddelt, die zuvor in einer Weltpremiere in einem Labor erzeugt worden waren. “Es ist ein Wunder”, sagte Bernann McKinney, als sie die fünf Pittbull-Babys in den Arm nahm.
  >> more: ZDF

Thurs, Aug 28th

• BRAVE: chapters 1 and 2 in five groups concentrating on
  a) the state - the world
  b) the persons: scientists/students
  c) alpha, beta, etc. system
  d) hatching process
  e) conditioning process
  ==> each group with vocab and point of view, please
  @home (Mon): read chapter 3 and prepare vocab list of 20 interesting constructions

photo: Isaac Asimov >>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asimov