This is it. The school is empty and you guys will never "Rise and shine" for me again. Three years have gone so fast! Thank you for all the kind words on Wednesday, you will all be greatly missed. The video above is my parting gift to you - take a leap and sing your song. Live life to the fullest!
After the Christmas vacation we will start group discussions on the topic "Making a difference" where you will be graded. 10EF: We will be using the KRLE lessons as well - meaning that 10E will already start discussions the first day after Christmas - Tuesday January 5th (10F will start Wednesday January 6th)! It is essential that you come prepared this day - no second chances! 10CD this goes for you as well! We´ll start Tuesday January 5th. You must have read all the texts in Perspectives
Magazine (which is to be found online + you have been given a print-out version as well). Be prepared for a discussion related to the
topic “Making a difference” – take a look at these goals:
To be able to discuss the topic “making a difference”
using a suitable and varied language and vocabulary.
To be able to explain which issue you believe is the
most important to solve in the world today and why.
To be able to explain and discuss the small things you
can do to make a difference.
To be able to discuss both famous and unsung heroes
who have made a difference.
To be able to discuss both fictional and factual texts
connected to the topic “making a difference” (the texts in Perspectives Magazine).
To
know different ways to express your opinion, discuss and argue.
Come prepared - read Perspectives Magazine - making a difference! Look at the questions on it's learning (both the PP and the questions you all answered on it's - all is to be found under Engelsk muntlig).
Rehearse. Discuss the topic with family and friends.
Stay away from gibberish - make sure that you always can give reasons for your answer and that you always have examples related to the topic (please use examples from Perspectives Magazine and others sources from class).
Kjennetegn
på måloppnåelse, samtale/diskusjon
Under middels 1/2
Middels 3/4
Over middels 5/6
Du kan si noen setninger, men mangler ordforråd for å kunne uttrykke
det du ønsker.
Du
snakker stort sett flytende, og har et for det meste tilstrekkelig ordforråd.
Du
snakker flytende og med et variert ordforråd som også er temaspesifikt.
Du snakker utydelig og med mye uttalefeil.
Du
snakker stort sett tydelig og har for det meste god uttale.
Du
snakker tydelig og med god uttale.
Du forstår noe av det som blir sagt, og kan svare på direkte
spørsmål.
Du
forstår stort sett det som blir sagt, og deltar til dels aktivt i samtalen.
Du
forstår det som blir sagt, og deltar i samtalen på eget initiativ.
Du kan i noen grad uttrykke egne meninger, men klarer i liten grad å
begrunne eller utdype påstander.
Du gir i
noen grad uttrykk for egne meninger og kan til dels begrunne/utdype påstander.
Du gir
uttrykk for egne meninger og kan begrunne/utdype påstander.
Du viser i liten grad egen refleksjon omkring oppgavens tema.
Du
presenterer i noen grad egne tanker omkring oppgavens tema.
Du
reflekterer omkring oppgavens tema.
Disse kompetansemålene vil bli dekket:
Mål for opplæringen er at eleven skal kunne
bruke ulike situasjoner, arbeidsmåter og læringsstrategier for å utvikle egne ferdigheter i engelsk
velge og bruke ulike lytte- og talestrategier tilpasset formålet
forstå og bruke et generelt ordforråd knyttet til forskjellige emner
vise evne til å skille mellom positivt og negativt ladede uttrykk som refererer til enkeltindivider og grupper av mennesker
forstå hovedinnhold og detaljer i ulike typer muntlige tekster om forskjellige emner
lytte til og forstå varianter av engelsk fra forskjellige autentiske situasjoner
uttrykke seg med flyt og sammenheng tilpasset formål og situasjon
uttrykke og begrunne egen mening om forskjellige emner
innlede, holde i gang og avslutte samtaler om forskjellige emner ved å stille spørsmål og følge opp innspill
bruke sentrale mønstre for uttale, intonasjon, ordbøying og ulike setningstyper i kommunikasjon
forstå og bruke ulike uttrykk for tall og andre data i kommunikasjon
drøfte levesett og omgangsformer i Storbritannia, USA, andre engelskspråklige land og Norge
gjøre rede for trekk ved historie og geografi i Storbritannia og USA
drøfte ulike typer engelskspråklige litterære tekster fra engelskspråklige land
As you now know the date of the English mock exam is Tuesday November 24. You will get the preparation material the day before + three lessons in class to read and work with the magazine and its topic. The reason for why you get the preparation material only a day before the actual mock exam, is because this is the way it is done on the exam.
In order for you to prepare and practice your writing, we are going spend the next couple of weeks working with this season's issue of Perspectives Magazine and the tasks related to the magazine. The form of these tasks are the same as the form which will be given on the actual mock exam. NB! Both your English lessons and your KRLE lessons will be devoted to mock exam preparation - so no KRLE the next couple of weeks! NB2! If you want feedback on your text about "Making a difference", finish it (both Task 1, Task 2 and Task 3A, B, C or D) by Wednesday night and send it to me in an e-mail: pia.lund@osloskolen.no or sirisstudents@gmail.com
I will also have a conversation with each and every one of you about the subject of English (fagsamtale). I will start the conversations on Monday November 16. This is how you should prepare:
If you have any questions regarding your development and goals in the subject of English - write them down in your notebook!
Make at least three goals for yourself when it comes to your written English - they have to be constructive!
Bring both your corrected text from the writing session (I have a dream) and the assessment sheet.
Preparing for this conversation is homework for Monday November 16!
Due to a small glitch in our planning, Cinema Nordseter was not up and running last week. We beg for your forgiveness!
In order to mend our wrongdoing we have for you this week a truly wonderful film about two aboriginal girls in Australia. The film is based on a true story, and it won many awards after its release in 2002.
You will learn, laugh and cry - the film is powerful and visually beautiful! Come see it tomorrow Thursday November 5 at U11 - bring candy and crisps - bring a friend! You will not regret it :)
Take a look at the trailer above (the resolution of the actual film is much better - we promise)!
Our work with American history is coming to an end for now. A great way to wrap it all up is to see the film "The Butler"!
This film looks at the life of a White House butler who served eight presidents from 1952 to 1986 and had a unique front-row seat during a tumultuous period of American history. The film is loosely built on a true story, and filled with prominent actors such as Oprah Winfrey, Forest Whitaker, Robin Williams, Jane Fonda, Cuba Gooding Jr.and many more.
Come and see it - you will not regret it :) Meet up at U11 on Thursday at 2 p.m.!
One of the things you will be asked to discuss during the writing session on Monday is Martin Luther King Jr.'s world-known speech "I have a dream". Read the excerpt below, make sure you understand it and that you know what the "March on Washington" was. This text will also be handed out in class today. You should also see the video clip above - Martin Luther King Jr. was known for his great speeches and the way he delivered them. If the video does not work - click here!
"I have a dream"
Speech given by Martin Luther King Jr. at the "March on Washington", 1963 (abridged)
"[…]
I say to you today, my friends, though, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up, live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream . . . I have a dream that one day in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today . . .
[…]
This will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with new meaning. "My country, ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim’s pride, from every mountain side, let freedom ring." And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania. Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado. Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.
But not only that. Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia. Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee. Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi, from every mountain side. Let freedom ring.
When we allow freedom to ring—when we let it ring from every city and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last, Free at last, Great God a-mighty, We are free at last."
Read through the timeline you made in the beginning of the semester. Look at the blog, notes from class and homework, and the compendium "American History".
Read the excerpt from Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech "I have a dream". See blog post above.
Read the tasks thoroughly! Make sure that you understand the tasks and that you know what the task is asking you to do.
Show your knowledge, but make sure that you stick to the topic.
Show that you have expanded your vocabulary by using words such as civil rights, independence, abolition, declaration, constitution, segregation, freedom fighter, equality, emancipation correctly.
Read through your text thoroughly before you hand it in. Check for errors, typos, and verb conjugations. Your message must be clear – rewrite sentences if you are unsure. Make sure you don’t do the same mistakes as you have done earlier.
Remember:
That you can bring all the aids you need - but you cannot use the Internet.
That you only have two school hours to complete the task - so come prepared.
The Civil Rights Movement sparked off with events such as the death of Emmett Till. And it truly sparked off when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man. She stood up against an unfair system and government by sitting down! It has been said that the death of Emmett Till and the trial afterwards had made Rosa Parks especially angry, and that he was in the back of her mind when she refused to move.
Read about the Civil Rights Movement in your compendium at page 20 - 21. Then write a summary of the text where you include the most important events and facts. 10EF: This is homework for Wednesday September 23.
Answer the following questions carefully in your book:
1. Why do you think young Malcolm was angry at the American Society?
2. Why did he take X as hs last name?
3. Why did he convert to Islam?
4. How did the pilgrimage to Mecca change his views?
This week's film showing at Cinema Nordseter is "The Help". The film is based on a novel written by Kathryn Stockett. The setting is in Jackson, Mississippi (you know, one of those beautiful Southern states), the year is 1963 (in the midst of the Civil Right era and movement), and we meet white Southern ladies and their help/maids.
Seeing the film is a great way to get an insight on how the period of the 1950's and 60's was in the U.S.A., especially in the Southern states. This was an era where Black Americans started to speak up against the unfair government and their laws. They were fed up. You do not have to be a rocket scientist to understand that the term "separate but equal" is a contradiction...
The film has won several awards, including an Oscar. It is a warm, sad, interesting and, at times, a quite funny story. Come and see it - you will not regret it :)
After the Civil War and the abolition of slavery there was a century in U.S. history where black Americans were free but far from equal. In the Southern states blacks were treated particularly bad. One event that partly sparked the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950's and 60's was the death of a black boy named Emmett Till. The young artist Bob Dylan even wrote a song about it. Listen to the song and read the lyrics below. Then write a summary of what the lyrics are about. 10CDEF: This is homework for Wednesday September 16th
The Death of Emmett Till
’Twas down in Mississippi not so long ago
When a young boy from Chicago town stepped through a Southern door
This boy’s dreadful tragedy I can still remember well
The color of his skin was black and his name was Emmett Till
Some men they dragged him to a barn and there they beat him up
They said they had a reason, but I can’t remember what
They tortured him and did some things too evil to repeat
There were screaming sounds inside the barn, there was laughing sounds
out on the street
Then they rolled his body down a gulf amidst a bloody red rain
And they threw him in the waters wide to cease his screaming pain
The reason that they killed him there, and I’m sure it ain’t no lie
Was just for the fun of killin’ him and to watch him slowly die
And then to stop the United States of yelling for a trial
Two brothers they confessed that they had killed poor Emmett Till
But on the jury there were men who helped the brothers commit this
awful crime
And so this trial was a mockery, but nobody seemed to mind
I saw the morning papers but I could not bear to see
The smiling brothers walkin’ down the courthouse stairs
For the jury found them innocent and the brothers they went free
While Emmett’s body floats the foam of a Jim Crow southern sea
If you can’t speak out against this kind of thing, a crime that’s so unjust
Your eyes are filled with dead men’s dirt, your mind is filled with dust
Your arms and legs they must be in shackles and chains, and your blood
it must refuse to flow
For you let this human race fall down so God-awful low!
This song is just a reminder to remind your fellow man
That this kind of thing still lives today in that ghost-robed Ku Klux Klan
But if all of us folks that thinks alike, if we gave all we could give
We could make this great land of ours a greater place to live
The Ku Klux Klan was formed in 1866 after the Civil War had freed the slaves. Find out why the Ku Klux Klan was formed and give examples of what they did. Write at least half a page.
This is homework for 10EF for Monday September 7th. This is homework for 10CD for Monday September 7th.
Strange fruit was a poem written in 1937 by a teacher named Abel Meeropol. Many singers have performed it as a song - most famous is Billie Holiday's version.
Read the poem below and listen to Billie Holiday's version. Then write a text where you explain what you believe the poem is really about. Give examples from the poem. Write at least half a page.
Strange Fruit
Southern trees bear strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees
Pastoral scene of the gallant south
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth
Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh
Here is fruit for the crows to pluck
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop
Here is a strange and bitter crop
This is homework for 10EF for Monday September 7th This is homework for 10 CD for Monday September 7th
This is Langston Hughes. He was born in 1902. He is a famous poet, writer and playwright.
HW:
1) From what you have learned about American history, what was the USA like in 1902 for black people? Write a short text. Use specific vocabulary. (Ex: civil war, segregation, equality)
The Thursday to come (September 3rd) will be the first showing of a film related to what you are doing in class.
The film is called "Glory" and is about the Civil War. You will follow the first unit of Afro-American soldiers in the Union Army (the army who represented the northern states, Lincoln's army). These men were fighting to keep the U.S.A. united, and most of all they were fighting for the freedom of slaves in the southern states. These men were the true freedom fighters of the Civil War! The film is based on a true story!
The film is old, but golden. It won three Oscars plus many more rewards! Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman make the film even better. Keep in mind though that this is a war movie - there will be fighting and death (some of the scenes are quite brutal).
Nevertheless; this is a film everyone ought to see - it has been named the best Civil War movie ever made! Meet up at U11 at 2 pm on Thursday September 3rd, and enter Cinema Nordseter :)
The American Civil War is one of the most important events in American history. It is very important that you know why it broke out, and what it led to (AND what it didn't lead to).
In addition you should read "The American Civil War" + the text about Abraham Lincoln on page 11 - 14 in the compendium.
2. Explain in your own words what caused the Civil War and how it ended.
3. Choose five words you did not know before, write them down and make new sentences with them.
On Monday you guys interpreted this excerpt from The Declaration of Independence (signed 4th of July, 1776). It is time to jump forward some 75 years and get to know one of the greatest presidents in U.S. history; namely Abraham Lincoln. This is the guy who led U.S.A. through the Civil War (1861 – 1865) - trying to keep the country united while fighting for the freeing of the slaves. He believed that ALL men was created equal – not just the white man. Let’s just call him “Awesome Abe”, because he was truly awesome – THE Freedom Fighter of the 19th century.
Take a look at the video-clip above. Write down 10 facts you find important to know when it comes to “Awesome Abe” and bring them to class.
