KLV Education & SE Speaking texts 3 + 4

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 6

KLV Education and SE Speaking texts 3 and 4

Programme

- 10 minutes of silent reading

- Kennis van Land en Volk: Education

- SE Speaking: texts 3 and 4

-> Denk je nog aan het invullen van je studiekeuze?

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Read your novel

Education

Let's start with the UK

Take a look at the following clip. We'll go through the different names and numbers again afterwards.

Some additions

• Secondary modern - vmbo
• Grammar school - VWO/ Gymnasium

• Comprehensive school - scholengemeenschap/ school met alle niveau's

Testing

- SATs (Standard Assessment Tasks) at the ages of 7, 11 and 14 (some take 11+ test)
- SATs in core subjects English, Mathemetics and Science (and Welsh in Wales).
- Age 16: pupils take GCSE (General Certificate of Secondary Education) in up to 10 subjects
   -> comparable to ‘eindexamen’ in Holland

- At the end of 6th form (bovenbouw VWO) A-levels (Advanced levels) are taken.
- 3 A-levels are required to enter university.
- If you want to take more subjects in 6th form, you can take AS-levels (Advanced Supplementary) for one year.

- Pupils who go to Vocational Training (MBO) take NVQs (National Vocational Qualifications)

Grading

• Course work/ tests: 7 grades from A – G (A is top)

• A-levels: 5 grades from A – E

• GCSE levels: grades from 10 – 4

School uniforms in primary school

School uniforms in secondary school

Now, let's turn to the US

Take a look at the chart to see what grades American children go through.

Difference

The biggest difference with the Dutch system is that everybody is in the same grade. There are no different levels in a grade.

Testing

The American equivalent of the British GCSE is called SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) or ACT (American College Testing Program).

Both tests are recognised by accredited universities to evaluate potential students.

Grading

• Grades go from A+  to F(ail)

• GPA: Grade Point Average (overall course average)
  

School meals

Extracurricular activities

Text 3: ADHD is different for women

Text 4: 'Drugs, drunks, rats ... then Dad walked in'

Programme

Choose 1 of the 2 texts to do the exercises on.

'Just' read the other text.

Text 3: slides 20 - 29

Text 4: slides 30 - 39

Text 3: ADHD is different for women

What do you already know about ADHD?

Did you know...

... that ADHD is different for women?

Watch the following clip from 'How to ADHD' by Jessica McCabe to get an idea.

What question(s) do you still have after watching the video?

Now ...

... read the text in your yellow reader.

What images or facts stuck with you most after reading this text? Find a maximum of 5 pictures to illustrate this.

Find 5 words in the text that you don't know the meaning of and look up their translation or explanation.

Summarise

Write a summary of the text or make a mind map on paper, so you can use this in preparation of your SE Speaking in test week 3.

Is there anything that you don't understand yet?

Text 4: 'Drugs, drunks, rats... then Dad walked in'

Before reading:
What do you think this text could be about?

A short introduction to the text

Nick Flynn (born January 26, 1960) is an American writer, playwright, and poet. He met his father when he was working as a caseworker in a homeless shelter in Boston.

As a teenager he'd received letters from this stranger father, a self-proclaimed poet and con man doing time in federal prison for bank robbery.

The book "Another Bullshit Night in Suck City" tells the story of the trajectory that led Nick and his father onto the streets, into that shelter, and finally to each other.

Watch the following short clip with an interview with Nick Flynn.

Now ...

... read the text in your yellow reader.

After listening to him and reading about his life and some of his work, would you like to read a poem or biography he has written? Why (not)?

What images or facts stuck with you most after reading this text? Find a maximum of 5 pictures to illustrate this.

Find 5 words in the text that you don't know the meaning of and look up their translation or explanation.

Summarise

Write a summary of the text or make a mind map on paper, so you can use this in preparation of your SE Speaking in test week 3.

Is there anything that you don't understand yet?

Exam training

Work on CE 2021-II

Finish up until text 8 before Thursday, February 24th

Next week

- Work on CE 2021-II

- Bring your novel and SE Speaking reader to class