English--Regent's Week assignment

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/17/angela-merkel-german-multiculturalism-failed

http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/07/30/us-france-security-idUSTRE66T3D420100730

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/14/world/europe/14iht-germany.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11020429

These two are not required, but suggested:

http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2011/04/12/france-hate-crimes-on-the-decline-xenophobia-on-the-rise/#ixzz1hes4mWX9

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/11/world/europe/11italy.html

Regents Week Assignment (20 points)

Read all four articles.

Note that, 1) they are all dated within the past two years, and 2) citizens of the European Union have the right to travel freely in and out of all the countries that belong to the European Union.

As you read, annotate using a simple reader's punctuation method:

* = this seems important
? = I don't understand this
! = this surprises/shocks me

Answer the following questions in complete sentences on a separate sheet of paper.

1) What is the common thread (or threads) that ties these articles together?

2) Relate ideas from one or more of the articles to a theme (or themes) that we discussed regarding Animal Farm. (See your LGT for a list of themes.)

3) Relate ideas from one or more of the articles to a theme (or themes) that we discussed regarding Night. (See LGT for themes.)

4) What do you think Elie Wiesel would say in response to Chancellor Merkel and President Sarkosy’s statements? What would you say to them, if you had the opportunity?

5) Using the information from the articles, and what you know from living in the U.S, compare Europe and the United States in terms of the way we talk about immigration, race, ethnicity and/or religion. What do you think accounts for, or explains, the differences?

Class Friday, January 20th

The Spanish department has a meeting away from campus this morning, so . . . we'll watch the interview with Elie Wiesel on Monday, and you'll have an assignment over Regent's week. We'll do the next in-class essay after Regents, after we've completed another selection from a reading about the Holocaust.

For today, see my previous post with links to the Elie Wiesel Foundation, the Shoah Foundation and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Working with a partner, explore one or more of these sites. You can watch taped interviews with survivors, read articles and testimonies, etc. Please work on something related to this class for the entire period. No homework. Thanks so much for your cooperation and patience!

Acentos--ejercicios de practica

Here's a link to some on-line interactive review exercises. I suggest you complete them before Friday's exam.

http://www.bowdoin.edu/~eyepes/newgr/acent.htm

Have fun!

English 10, Holocaust info.

Here's a link to the map in the back of your LGT. I think it's easier to read in color.

http://www.facinghistory.org/sites/facinghistory.org/files/European-concentration-camp-map.pdf

And here are a few more links related to this unit:

http://www.eliewieselfoundation.org/  Elie Wiesel's foundation, lots of information about his work today.
Also an essay contest.

http://dornsife.usc.edu/vhi/ The Shoah Foundation at the University of Southern California. Watch clips of interviews with Holocaust survivors.

http://www.ushmm.org/ The website of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. A wealth of information, including more survivor testimonies. 

Let me know if you find anything else worth sharing!

English 10--transitions

Here are the links for the handouts I gave you today, just in case you lose them.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/574/02/

http://grammar.about.com/od/developingparagraphs/a/cohrevisepars1.htm