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

Abitur 2011 – course outline

 

Q1 Ireland: Changes and Challenges

• Ireland and England: A historical perspective (overview: Battle of the Boyne, Penal Laws, Act of Union, Potato Famine, Emigration, Easter Rising, Anglo-Irish War, Civil War, Republic, “Troubles”, current developments)
• Ireland’s way into Europe from stagnation to integration (e. g. the Celtic Tiger)

• Roddy Doyle, A Star Called Henry (Klett Verlag; ISBN-10: 3125798523 / ISBN-13: 978-3125798526; € 8.95)

 

Q2 The Media

• Characteristics of media (e.g. quality/popular print media, radio, TV)
• Analysis of media (entertainment, information, manipulation)
• The internet: benefits and detrimental effects (e.g. information, means of communication, presentation of companies/ institutions/ individuals)

• Film: Wag the Dog
• Radio Play: excerpts from Orson Welles, The War of the Worlds (1938)

• The War of the Worlds: Radio Play. Textheft. Schwerpunktthema Abitur Englisch (Cornelsen Verlag; ISBN-10: 3464310213 / ISBN-13: 978-3464310212; € 3.50)

 

Q3 The African-American Experience

• From slavery to civil rights: historical survey including extracts from Frederick Douglass(Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass), Booker T. Washington (Up from Slavery) and William E. B. Du Bois (The Souls of Black Folk) as well as materials concerning the Civil Rights Movement
• African-Americans in the US today
• Film: Finding Forrester

• Richard E. Gaines, A Lesson Before Dying (Cornelsen Verlag, ISBN-10: 306032185X / ISBN-13: 978-3060321858, € 8.25)

 

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.

(This you bought last year – we will continue using it: Sicher ins Zentralabitur. Arbeitsheft mit CD-ROM, Klett-Verlag, 2006. ISBN: 978-3-12-547181-8)

• All books marked in this way will be used in class – please buy them ahead of time.

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

 

Based on: http://www.nibis.de/nli1/gohrgs/zentralabitur/zentralabitur_2011/02englisch2011.pdf
also compulsory: Rahmenrichtlinien für das Fach Englisch http://www.nibis.de/nli1/gohrgs/rrl/rrlengl_go.pdf