V4entl6 - lessons 1 and 2 wk 41

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 4

Today's objectives

• Listening/social-cultural knowledge

• Reading your first novel/literature > 1945

• Writing an essay

Building paragraphs/building sentences

• Homework: Vocabulary/Grammar/Writing

Covid Potus & Flotus

Watch the following video

What jokes are being made & what do they refer to?

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Jimmy Kimmel jokes

• To throw my ballots in the river (to cast a ballot/to cast a vote = to vote in an election) - useless vote after useless debate Trump/Biden

• False news -> Fake news (Trump's pet peeve)

• He couldn't smell his McGriddle (McDonald's bacon/egg/cheese sandwich - referring to Trump's trashy eating habits/being overweight)

• He does have Obamacare (US citizens finally received health insurance under the Obama administration and Trump vowed to strip it away during his presidency)

• People wondering does he really have the virus or is it a ploy (referring to Trump's fake news rants)

• Trump making fun of Joe Biden wearing a mask (making him look like an unreliable person)

Jimmy Kimmel jokes

• The White House is now a summer camp with lights on - Covid connecting the dots (referring to the discussion on reopening  summer camps + "connecting the dots" -> finally come to a logical conclusion)

• Mike Pence the vice poodle (as the Vice President, he doesn't have any say, just follows Trump)

• I would ask my money back at the fundraiser (Trump visiting the fundraiser and not wearing a mask, knowing he might be contagious)

• Mike Lee giving hugs on the lawn - he's what's called a stupor spreader (stupor = near unconsciousness or insensibility / usual fixed expression = super spreader)

• Mike Pence is the head of the Covid task-force (well, with him heading the task-force, it's bound to go wrong)

Jimmy Kimmel jokes

• Mike Pence is planning to make a longer statement as soon as he can stop whistling "zip-a-dee-doo-dah" (a so-called coon song - racist song, probably referring to Pence's Sept. 23rd ignorant comments on "People should stop talking about police racism"

• The debate between Trump and Biden may have been an already even bigger disaster than we thought (Trump may have infected Biden as well during the disastrous election debate during which both were extremely impolite, constantly interrupting each other)

Literature - 2 novels

• Literary analysis of 2 novels written > 1945
• Teacher's approval of titles required
• Read the first one during the fall break
• To the library in groups of 6

1984 - George Orwell

•  a dystopian novel by English novelist George Orwell, published in 1949 

•  Big Brother is watching you

•  consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repression of persons and behaviours 

• Examines the role of truth and facts within politics and the ways they are manipulated.

The curious incident of the dog in the night-time - Mark Haddon

A 15-year old boy Christopher Boone, discovers the slain body of his neighbor’s poodle, Wellington, on the neighbor’s front lawn one evening and sets out to uncover the murderer. 

His investigation is  aided and hampered by his mild form of autism. After Christopher hits a policeman in a misunderstanding at the scene of the crime, the police take Christopher into custody. They release Christopher with only a stern warning, under the condition that he promises to them and to his father not to look into the murder any further.

Christopher chronicles his investigation in a book—the book we are reading—as part of a school assignment. Ignoring repeated warnings from his father, Christopher investigates the crime scene and conducts interviews with the residents of his block. He discovers his father's affair and more about his missing mother.

Dance on My Grave - Aidan Chambers

A 1982 young adult novel by British author Aidan Chambers. 

It tells the story of a British teenager named Henry Robinson, detailing the events that led to his dancing on the grave of his slightly older friend, Barry Gorman, with whom Robinson had a love affair.

It was one of the first few young adult books on homosexuality.

Looking for Alaska - John Green

Before. 

Miles “Pudge” Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave “the Great Perhaps” even more (Francois Rabelais, poet). 

He heads off to the crazy world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe, because down the hall is Alaska Young - a gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed up, and utterly fascinating girl. She talks about her mother and how she misses her. She is stealing his heart more and more, then. . . .

After. 

Nothing will ever be the same.

The Outcast - Sadie Jones

Lewis is 10 when he helplessly watches his mother drown, and within a few months has a needy, nervous stepmother with whom to contend. 

Forced to bury his grief by a cold disciplinarian father, Lewis expresses his pain in violent outbursts, spending two years in prison and cutting his arms as a release.In the same Hertfordshire village, Lewis's childhood friend Kit suffers beatings at the hands of her abusive father. 

The stifling summer of 1957 erupts when violence, sex, parental responsibility, love and emotion become fatally muddled. Will Kit and Lewis remain intact and find their way to each other amid the mess? A tragic account of the devastating effects of parental abuse and the redemptive power of true love.

Essay writing - ex. 4 - p. 39

Write an essay on sth. your passionate about

Swap essays, check and WRITE feedback on:

• Lay-out (5 separate paragraphs)

 

• Intro ending in central idea; 
• Three paragraphs with each one argument and examples
• Conclusion (summary/recommendation)

• Vocabulary (spelling/capital letters)

• Grammar (tenses/concord)

• Content

How to write an essay

Intro (general info ending in thesis statement) 

Supporting argument 1 + examples

Supporting argument 2 + examples

Supporting argument 3 + examples

Conclusion

Building sentences

Delete repetition

Add interesting details 

(adjectives/adverbs/modifying clauses)

SLIDE OUTCAST

Homework next class

Check ex. 5 and 6 with a classmate

Do ex. 7, 8 and 9 - p. 40/41

Read ex. 10 and use the outline to write paragraph 2