Dieser Plan ist vorläufig, Änderungen sind sehr wahrscheinlich, da im Laufe eines Schuljahres immer wieder durch aktuelle Anlässe eine Abweichung erforderlich werden wird!

Abitur 2009 – course outline

 

12/1 USA: Big Cities – Open Spaces

• ‘Open Spaces’: A place of challenge for people in search of identity and self-realization (extract from: Frederick Jackson Turner, ‘The Significance of the Frontier in American History’, key scenes from a road movie, e.g. ‘Easy Rider’)
• New YorkCity/ ‘The Big Apple’: A place of fulfillment and failure

(Literature: Paul Auster Moon Palace , Frankfurt/Main: Diesterweg Verlag, 2001. ISBN: 9783425040394)

 

12/2 India: Tradition and Change

• India: Colonial rule and the struggle for independence
• Present-day India: a mosaic of contrasts (political, economic, religious and social aspects)

(Literature: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Heat and Dust , Berlin: Cornelsen Verlag, 2006. ISBN: 978-3-06-031786-8)

 

13/1 Science and Technology

• Science, technology and human needs: the historical perspective (e. g. aspects of the Industrial Revolution)
• Developments, achievements and risks: modern life under the influence of science and technology (erhöhtes Anforderungsniveau: cloning, GM food)
• Science Fiction and Dystopia

(Literature: Aldous Huxley, Brave New World , Reclam Verlag, ISBN: 978-3150092842)

 

13/2 The English-speaking world

The complete text of obligatory course work for your “Zentralabitur” can be found at the “Nibis Datenbank” (http://www.nibis.de/nli1/gohrgs/zentralabitur/zentralabitur_2009/02Englisch2009.pdf).
(And if you feel like it: here are other official documents concerning the Abitur and the Oberstufe.)

Additional course book (to be used in all four semesters):

Sicher ins Zentralabitur 2007. Englisch (Arbeitsheft) (Klett Verlag, ISBN:9783125471818)

Requirements:
Regular attendance
Active participation
Preparation of homework, assignments etc.
Classroom language is English

If you are absent from the course, it is your duty to check and catch up on any lesson you have missed.

It is suggested to bring a dictionary to every class – this will make your work easier (or: have some arrangement with your neighbor).