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 Week
2: Jan 7th - Jan 13th, 2002
 Tues,
Jan 8th, 2002: Approaching
the topic "Finding something better than death everywhere"
- State of our book
order at amazon's
- Your hopes, wishes, desires,
expectations, ideas & aims in life: "In 15 years I'll..."
(realistically written, please)
 Method:
keep an extra vocab file on this topic, please
- December news from German
newspapers & magazines about fortress Europe
- "The Bremen Town-Musicians"
|online|
(reading & exchanging views)
- "The deadly journey" |online|
(past - present - future)
 Homework
(preparation for tomorrow): My personal interests when working on
the book for the Facharbeit
Wed,
Jan 9th, 2002: Facharbeit - facts & all sorts of information
Homework
(preparation for Friday):
Essay: Germany and immigrants 
Fri,
Jan 11th, 2002: "Finding something better than death everywhere"
Homework
(Tuesday next week): Sum up your results in your words, please
(and if you feel like it, work on
)
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Week
3: Jan 14th - Jan 19th, 2002
Tues,
Jan 15th, 2002: more about "Finding something better than death everywhere"
- a European perspective
- the books are there, finally!
- homework presentation: Your
results in your words
- handout: facts & numbers
Britain (group around Norman)
- more facts: What happens in Greece
- articles Frankfurter Rundschau |Source|
and BBC |Source|
- working on a European map and refugees' routes
Method:
collect new words for the
word-field immigrants... and work out a way for yourself to get
along with all the facts from different European perspectives (perhaps
by help of a map drawn by hand?)
Sorry, I've to go to the B@hnanum
at 10.40 h to show Realschul pupils around, please:
- work together with those reading
the same book: exchange ideas, plans and your interests; talk
about your expectations, methods of working, etc.
- please fill in the handout and
make sure I'll get it at 11.10 in the B@hnanum, thanks!
homework
(Fri): Perspective on Greece and (illegal) immigration
homework
(Wed next week: written test ahead): vocab "Time to close
the door" p. 134 - 135
Wed,
Jan 16th, 2002: Facharbeit - facts & all sorts of information
- formal stuff (format of pages),
how to quote, table of contents, structural aspects
- French and Spanish speakers,
please: prepare key-words for a web-research on immigrants,
refugees, deportation, asylum, etc in French and Spanish
Fri,
Jan 18th, 2002:
- web-research in groups according
to foreign languages
- more European perspectives:
France, Spain and Italy (E-Mail work to be prepared) - and what
about Germany, Scandinavian countries, Eastern European
countries bordering fortress EU?
- details will be on our web-page http://www.ulricianum-aurich.de/en22l/
on Thursday evening
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Week
4: Jan 21st - Jan 26th, 2002
Tue,
Jan 22nd
- cool week ahead, looks like you'll
be off on Friday after the 3rd period?
- we should work on in the b@hnanum
for obvious reasons: Your are still in the middle of working,
need the material you collected and thus access to the server
and the Internet, here we go bananas..
- aim today: sum up the first
results of your research (and research more: group-work, share
the jobs to be done, please)
- method:
use your English to present the results (so you have to chew and
digest the information and produce wonderful sentences coming
from you) and quote where necessary. At the end: Source ( i.e.
link), please - and some pictures to design your page
- here you find your files from
Friday: http://www.ulricianum-aurich.de/en22l/migration/start.htm and
this is what qwe should aim at: http://www.ulricianum-aurich.de/en22l/first_page.htm
- homework:
Work on, find more information outside the Internet as well and
bring in what you find next week, please. You might even write
an article comparing 'your' country to Germany: Find information
on the German situation, if possible...
Wed,
Jan 23rd, 2002: Facharbeit - facts & all sorts of information
- we'll start with the vocab test
(pp. 134 - 135)
- and we'll do some exercises to
learn how to quote correctly
- and we'll talk about your reading
impressions
- and you'll get a list of material
available from my side
Fri,
Jan 25th, 2002: reports for grades 7 - 11, free for you
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Week
6: Feb 4th - Feb 9th, 2002
Tue,
Feb 5th, 2002
- important day, you'll get the
topics for your "topic work" or "negotiated study"
and we'll talk about the topics in detail and in the groups
which share the same novel
- email-addresses for those without
access to today's world of communication have to be created
- methods for your work and my role
in this game have to be worked out
Wed,
Feb 6th, 2002:
- vocab test back
- new vocab with reference to "negotiated
study"
- methods: how to structure your 12
pages and how to cope with time - pages to be read - pages to
write, etc.
Fri,
Feb 8th, 2002:
- let's try to finish your work on
"Fortress Europe"
- bring in final versions of texts,
please
- bring in disk with texts you wrote
about immigration to Britain from Fri, Jan 11th |what
was that?|
- you need a computer & Internet
access? Wednesdays @ Bahnanum for 3 to 5!!!
- introduction: How to work with MS
PowerPoint |sneak
preview|
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Week
7: Feb 11th - Feb 16th, 2002
Tue,
Feb 12th, 2002
Wed,
Feb 13th, 2002
- working with words: no test, but
working with words from pp. 138/139
- word-list "migration -
emigration - immigration": new words, please
- details "negotiated study":
page size, formatting, etc.
Fri,
Feb 15th, 2002
- a guest: Mr. Johannes Erdwiens
will tell us about people from East Frisia who emigrated to the
US in the 19th century
- coffee, tea and biscuits hopefully
available
- afternoon: banana open from 17.00
h - 19.00 h
- during the weekend: Please don't
forget that next Tuesday the first two weeks are over and you
are expected to have a little report (diary etc.) available to
see where you are and how far you got
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Week
8: Feb 18th - Feb 23rd, 2002
from:
Polarstern - 17-02-02: Anyway, I will write soon. Say hello to everybody and tell Mrs Bruins that
I in fact got her email and have replied, too.
All the best Mareike |
Tue,
Feb 19th, 2002
- looks like we can't' use O 5 but
will meet @banana
- will talk with you about your negotiated
studies individually or in pairs: I'd like to see your
working diaries and your table of contents, please
- if you are looking for the
page-size, way of typing, formatting, etc., please click to Facharbeit:
Information
- those who'd like to do research
can do it as long as no other group is in there
- Reeno has got an indecent business
proposal from Nigeria |yes, please|
- you might be interested in Ostfriesen
in America, which I hopefully will be able to finish soon,
as Mr. Erdwiens mailed me
some word-files and pictures |here
is Ostfriesen emigrating to America| - and one of these days
I'll be able to put the pictures
from your Macbeth scenes and the original ones in Emden on a
web-page as well, sigh
- at the end: organizational things
concerning "Erich, the
penguins and more..."
Wed,
Feb 20th, 2002
- looks like most of the time has to
be spent on the Erich performance - penguin songs & dances,
speeches, shows, and more |about
Erich von Drygalski|
Fri,
Feb 22nd, 2002
- working@banana: final polish for
"fortress Europe", finally!!
- preparing a PowerPoint
presentation of your fortress-findings |sneak
preview: PowerPoint & how to work with it|
- let's look & listen to the
first presentation(s), please...
- anybody interested in the
"Ostfriesen - America" topic?
- anybody interested in working on
Scandinavia & (illegal) immigration?
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Week
9: Feb 25th - March 2nd, 2002
from:
Polarstern - 23-02-2002: Hullo Mr
Donath, how is life in Tschörmänie and especially in Aurich?
We are getting ready to pack up again and my facharbeit is ready APART
FROM the appendix. I can only finish that at home because I need to use the
articles which have been published, so I hope it is Ok with you if I keep
it for another week or so. Of course you can have the text version as soon
as you wish. There is one thing I must admit though: I haven't read a
single page of daughter of Fortune. It is not even here, because I lost it
somewhere....
Until then
Mareike |
Tue,
Feb 26th, 2002
Wed,
Feb 27th, 2002
- language work: new words from
novels and your topic "Fortress Europe"
- organization: who contributes
which article for THE ULRICIANUM TIMES - and who'd like to join
the International Newspaper Day on March 13th)
- methods:
How do you individually work on your topic
- order
tickets for "Der Rattenfänger" (Thurs & Fri) with
anybody from the theatre group, the best performance the theatre
group has ever made (with reference to our topic) |here
are the details|
Fri,
March 1st, 2002
- no excuses accepted: 20 mins to
work on your PowerPoint presentation
- and then you present: Oral
presentation with medial assistance - and if you still don't
know how do cope with PowerPoint, you'll present your topic from
"Fortress Europe" just without the computer
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Tue,
March 5th, 2002
- date for a film nite: Polanski
film "Macbeth" |more|
on March 18th at 19.30 h in the freightshed |here|,
to be followed by another film, suggestions welcome!
- lots of new pages to be clicked:
the Powerpoint presentations |here|
- new letter from Nigeria offering
loads of money |here|
- what the medium writes about the
way you are learning |here|
- not exactly what was presented there, neither by me nor by the
other presenters -but that's what media coverage does, compare
RTL at Ulricianum and the statements in the film like "computers
are the only means to learn today, etc.blabla" |here|
- the email Norman sent for us to
Amy's class in the US |here|
Topic of this lesson:
- we'll work on the US immigration
topic to get deeper into the details
- I'll talk to you about your
negotiated study and I'd like to see more than just a table of
contents,please
- if possible we'll go to the banana
to have access to the Internet, Powerpoint, etc.
- 5th/6th period: Aula: welcome back
to the Polarstars |more|
Wed, March
6th, 2002
- vocab work, please bring vocab
book
- methods:
how you work now concerning your negotiated study
- infos: http://www.ulricianumtimes.de
and your role on March 13th
Fri, March
8th, 2002
- I'll not be in |where
is my teacher?|
- you
should meet without me (perhaps even in the banana or in the
Cafeteria) to prepare articles for THE ULRICIANUM TIMES on
"Fortress Europe & more" and book reviews on the
books you are reading for your negotiated study. Books are part
of the competition of the International Newspaper Day |details,
please| - they refer to a "World's Book Day",
perhaps you can find out something about that, and: Marcel &
Steffen have got an article about John Steinbeck (Frankfurter
Rundschau) and an American approach to motivate people to read
(all read the same book at the same time): Good idea to research
this and write an article about it. Model for Germany? Why there
and not here?
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Week
11: March 11th - March 16th, 2002
Tue,
March 11th, 2002
- well, well, a real workload this
week? I'll concentrate on your negotiated studies and talk to
you
- you should have a look at the Green
Card Lottery, read the information form the email, find it
if it is business, fake or reality, find more information about
the Green Card Lottery (which really exists), etc.
- btw: there's another interesting
"Business proposal",
this time from "WIDOW OF LATE PRESIDENT MOBUTU SESE-SEKO OF ZAIRE"
- two older texts from
news-magazines on "The Melting Pot Is Still Simmering"
(TIME, Feb 22, 1993) and "Across the Borderline - In
California, anger over immigrants is widening" (Newsweek,
May 31, 1993) should be read, understood and reflected by
talking about them; maybe they are helpful for your negotiated
studies and if not, they'll at least offer us another (yet
historical?) insight into the topic
- some remarks about the
International Newspaper Day on Wednesday and click http://www.ulricianumtimes.de
, please
- and some questions concerning
articles to be written, we'll see
- any emails from Amy Weigel's class
in Minnesota?
- btw: Thanks for working without me
on Friday and for producing and sending articles to me while I
was in Belgrade
with Edgar
Wed,
March 12th, 2002
- lesson takes place @banana due to
the International Newspaper Day: Your assistance (not only in
that lesson) is really appreciated: corrections, articles,
improvements, corrections, corrections, proof-reading,
spell-checking, help, coffee, hamburger, fotos, articles,
cleaning-up, selling, advertising - just come in as long as you
can, if possible even the whole day....
- http://www.newsday.co.uk
Fri, March
14th, 2002
- reading THE ULRICIANUM TIMES and
feed-back
- finishing whatever has to be
finished
- some tips on searching, working
with the web, software and, and, and
- and of course, I'll hold your
sweating hands to assist you with the negotiated studies as we
are approaching the final phase....
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The
colour game...
= design element & colour of
course-pages
= days & dates
=
methods
= chance for individual portfolio work
= homework
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