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Welcome to our virtual classroom!
This is our e-learning space for the advanced class of the Oberstufe. The course meets for five regular sessions per week. Some of these are held as double sessions and some as single sessions. Your attendance in all of these sessions is mandatory. Should you be unable to attend class, please advise your instructor in advance.
Your participation in this class is expected, since we all learn from each other. The more you participate, the more lively and productive our sessions will be. One part of your participation is the completion of course minutes (Stundenprotokoll) for each session or double session, which will be uploaded to this space so that it is accessible for all course participants. You will take turns completing this document according to an order to be determined (I would suggest alphabetical order as the easiest to remember and adhere to).
Our general topic for the Q1, which will also appear on your report card under the subject English, is Ideals and Realities. This general topic consists of one topic with at least two subtopics inthe course of this first half year:
The USA
- The Formation of a Nation
- Living in the American Society
We will be reading one novel in its entirety. Our two topics actually afford us the opportunity to segue very nicely from the USA to the second topic, Living in the American Society. The (mandatory) novel we will be reading is Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, which deals with racial injustice in the American Deep South in the 1930s.
As mentioned above, class participation and attendance are mandatory. Part of your responsibility will also be a class presentation on a topic to be determined with your teacher. Further information about what is expected of you in a presentation like this, as well as list of possible topics, will be provided to you as required.
This course description will be updated as required.
- Teacher: Dietmar Boie