self-evaluation of contribution to the class blog --- to be put in the respective pages:
a) for everyone :
2nd term contribution: small text + self-assessment: 0-20
b) for the ones who put nothing in the blog during the 1st. term but have now tried to recover from a zero evaluation: small text + self-assessment: maximum 12 'points'
only Milton has done it on the respective page;
Ruben has placded it in the wrong page and has confused the 2 terms evaluation ..February 2012
- research about Iran's history
- write your own review on the film "Persepolis"
- do the task on this post [everybody has failed to do it!!]
January 2012
http://english-level-8.blogspot.com/2012/01/democracy.html
famous quotes on democracy (--choose one and write a comment on it..)
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LAND of PLENTY, by Wim Wenders / reviewissues for research (raised by the film "Land of Plenty") and possible discussion in class
Please insert your name in front of the desired topic:
- the Vietnam war and the Hippie movement
- the Cold War
- the Israelian - Palestinian conflict
- 9/11 and the theory of conspiracy
- immigration in the USA / discrimination today
- the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s
- May 68 (Paris, France)
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December (?) 2011
1st term
WORKS MISSING :
a) ex. page 85 - interpretation questions on "immigration update" - to be answered in alphabetical order (on the right column of the blog) - The last 3 of you will may choose which question to answer … and
b) correction of the grammar revision file (to be urgently done by all who haven't posted anything yet!)
- put the correction in the "grammar" page [ not done by anyone !!! ;( .... ]
- put the correction in the "grammar" page [ not done by anyone !!! ;( .... ]
As you post (beginning with the verb tenses group), see what has been done already, go to the next exercise, and so on ..
note: everyone should check the correction!
c) EDL (see below - in red)
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first theme: LANGUAGES - previous assignments
- on languages:
2. a comment to the film "Lost in Translation" - - to be posted (and signed) on the page: FILMS
3. to be posted on the page EDL: an argumentative text (stating your opinion) on the statement:
3. to be posted on the page EDL: an argumentative text (stating your opinion) on the statement:
«Learning other peoples' languages is a way of helping us to understand each other better and overcome our cultural differences.»
- on European countries /peoples
Are you getting a satisfying education? And is school doing a good job in valuing linguistic and ethnic diversity?------
for the EDL, all of you were supposed to have done some research on one or two European countries. So .. about time you posted that on the EDL page!
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second theme: HUMAN RIGHTS
- WOMEN’S RIGHTS: have a look at the attached subjects/links. Choose one: do some further research on it and write a critical text (stating your opinion) about the chosen issue - to be posted on the "HUMAN RIGHTS" page.
Many may think that women’s rights are only an issue in countries where religion is law, such as many Muslim countries. Or even worse, some may think this is no longer an issue at all. But reading this report about the United Nation’s Women’s Treaty and how an increasing number of countries are lodging reservations, will show otherwise.
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Women’s rights in Africa: inspection genitals (proof of virginity) ; female genital cutting
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women in Islam (the Islamic point of view)
A Declaration of Women's Rights in Islamic Societies
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women and violence
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USA -the 60s - The Women's Rights Movement
Folk music and the civil rights movement
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Leaders in U.S. Women's Suffrage Movement (19th. Century)
19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: women’s right to vote
Why was the Fourteenth Amendment controversial in women's rights circles?
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