My Son the Fanatic

1. What themes does this short story present?

2. Consider the following words: adulterer -alcohol - beliefs - devotion - drugs - gambling - jihad - the Koran - mullah - Muslim - Paradise - prostitute.

How can we use these words to characterize Ali and Parvez? Furthermore, understand their different ways of living and reactions?

• In what ways do they differ in terms of how they look upon women and life in general?
• Why has Ali decided to become a practising Muslim?
• Why does Parvez hit Ali at the end of the story?

3. Discuss message and intention.

Reminder

Essay to be handed in today: st@randershfvuc.dk or ck@randershfvuc.dk

N.B. Delprøve 1. is to be made for the 9th of November when we meet again.

Comma

Tricky commas - here is a short guide which is easy to follow.

Delprøve 2

You are to hand in Dusk over Atlantic Wharf (Delprøve 2, assigment B) on Tuesday.

1) The summary you, hopefully, know how to write: write in present tense; only approx. 150 words; do not include quotes; and use your own words.

2) The characterisation: Write a short introduction in which you present the characters and their situation. Describe their features and identify the conflict(s), how does the conflict develop and what is the objective? Hence the intention with the the text. You can use quotes, just use them wisely i.e. do not use too many, and do not forget to comment on them.

3) Comment on the ending: How do you understand the ending? What is the author´s intention? You may put it into perspective.

4) Short essay: The basic essay is in which you discuss an issue in this case immigration. You start by making a short introduction e.g. something general, and then slowly build up the essay by discussing the topic from different points of view. Finally you wrap up with a good punch line.

Click on the green highlighted links to view examples.

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Homework

26/10 I Want to Make Changes (blogpost)

26/10 Dusk over Atlantic Wharf (hand in assignment to either Chanett or Sara)

2/11 My Son the Fanatic (blogpost)

9/11 (when we meet again) The Mark of Vishnu + Delprøve 1 (2008)

I Want to Make Changes- Sylvia Flute

I want you to consider the following questions

1. Describe the sort of prejudice Sylvia Flute meets as an Indian?
2. What does Sylvia think should be done to stop prejudice?
3. What does Sylvia mean when she says that people in general are not “doing well”?

And then I want you to discuss these ones in 'comments'

1. What kind of text is this?
2. How would you describe Sylvia´s way of speaking?
3. Why does she use the term “Native American” to describe herself?
4. What kind of reader is the text aimed at?
5. What kind of audience do you think the interviewer had in mind?
6. What would you say are the main points in the text?
7. What is the intention with the text?
8. Put into perspective i.e. discuss how you can relate this text to problems in society.

Grammar homework

As you have no more stories to read until we meet again, we would like you to take a good look at some grammar more specifically verbs and tense. You can do this by looking into your grammar book (Fejlstøvsugeren) and especially look to tense (verbets tider). You can also click here for some exercises on English tense.

MØDEPLAN

Her er mødetidspunkterne for efteråret 2010

Tirsdag d. 7/9: Intro

Tirsdag d. 12/10: Fairy tales

Tirsdag d. 9/11: Clash of Cultures

Tirsdag: 7/12: African Literature

Mødetid er 17.30

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