Homework for Tuesday (21/06/11)

Practicing Monologues

Choose one passage (about 1-2 pages) that gives interesting insights into one of the characters in the novel.

1) Sum up this passage in your own words and put it into the context of the novel.

2) Characterise the character that is mentioned in your chosen passage. Take notes and be prepared to present a monologue in which you explain how you (would) characterise xy with the help of this passage.

You will get 10 minutes time to practice the monologue with your partner in class on Tuesday. Then be prepared to present your results in class!

Prüfungszeiten der mündlichen Prüfung am 5. Juli

SuS	Prüfungszeit	Präsenszeit
Anna Lena / Maleen	8.10 – 8.40	7.40 – 8.40
Sophie / Alina	8.50 – 9.20	8.20 – 9.20
Ines / Leonie	9.35 – 10.05	9.05 – 10.05
Mona / Christina	10.15 – 10.45	9.45 – 10.45
Kevin / Christian	10.55 – 11.25	10.25 – 11.25
Marlene / Marc	11.35 – 12.05	11.05 – 12.05
Carolin / Sophia	12.15 – 12.45	11.45 – 12.45
Alexander / Dominik	13.15 – 13.45	12.45 – 13.45
Ann-Kathrin / Annika	13.55 – 14.25	13.25 – 14.25
Jan-Philip / Dustin	14.35 – 15.05	14.05 – 15.05
Fabian / Christopher	15.15 – 15.45	14.45 – 15.45

Task for Thursday (09/06/2011)

Reading p. 139 -160




For those who have not done that already:

Mind Map Feelings: 

• Make a mind map or a list of the feelings the characters have in different situations. Add new feeling to your mind map as you read on. Use different colours for positive and negative feelings. For each word, include the noun/verb/adjective as  appropriate.

Task for Tuesday (7/06/2011)

• Reading p. 99-135 

• Imagine you are Miles. You are writing a letter to your parents after the Thanksgiving break at the end of November. Tell your parents that you are looking forward to coming home over Christmas. Write down Miles letter and put it online on your blog.  

• Mind Map Feelings: 
• Make a mind map or a list of the feelings the characters have in different situations. Add new feeling to your mind map as you read on.Use different colours for positive and negative feelings. For each word, include the noun/verb/adjective as  appropriate.

Bewertung mündlicher Sprachproduktion

Lieber Englischkurs,

Anfang Juli ist es soweit: Ihr werdet eure mündlichen Prüfungen zum Roman

"Looking for Alaska" ablegen.

Damit ihr euch bereits jetzt besser darauf einstellen könnt, was in der Prüfung von euch erwartet wird, sind hier die Bereiche, die wir beurteilen werden.

1. Aussprache und Intontation

2. Einsatz sprachlicher Mittel und Sprachrichtigkeit (Grammatik und Lexik, d.h. Wortgebrauch)

3. Strategie und Interaktion (wie gestaltet ihr eure Monologe und Dialoge, sind diese strukturiert, wie geht ihr miteinander im gemeinsamen Prüfungsteil um?)

4. Aufgabenerfüllung und Inhalt

Über die genauen Kriterien im Detail sprechen wir im Unterricht.

Preparing a talk

Task for Tuesday (31/05/2011)

• Reading p. 84-99 
• Look at the list of key words from the next reading unit and put them in the correct order.  

Being thankful * buried wine * excellent cook * fake ID * falling asleep * porn movies * messing things up

• Use the words to prepare a short talk of the reading unit (p. 84-99). Your talk should be at least 2 minutes long.

Characteristics and Effect of the three main narrative perspectives

	First-person	Third-person limited	Third-person omniscient
Character-istics	z.B. ¯      Narrator identical with one character in the story  (in most cases protagonist) ¯      Knows feeling and thoughts of this character	z.B. ¯      Story told from outside ¯      Narrator knows only about the feelings and opinions of one particular character a but narrator is not identical with this character	z.B. ¯      Story told from outside and inside ¯      Narrator knows feelings and thoughts of different characters

Effect

z.B. ¯      Reader has got access to this characters’ feelings and thoughts ¯      emotionally strongly involved and likely to identify with the narrator a identification figure (L-Ergänzung) ¯      reader is constantly informed about the protagonist’s thoughts and feelings

z.B. ¯      limited, possibly biased/unreliable information about events and other characters ¯      not enough information a may create suspense and encourage interpretation

z.B. ¯      reader gets comprehensive characterisations and interpretations