3C - Into the Wild - Chapter 2

Chapter 2 -The Stampede Trail

Epigram:  graffito by Alexander Supertramp
(you can skip the text by Jack London)

This chapter is about the Stampede Trail.  Don't get bogged down in the details.  The most important thing is the description of the bus and how Chris McCandless' body was found.

JOURNAL EXERCISE:  Pretend you are one of the people who found Chris McCandless.  Write an entry in your diary (Tagebuch) describing how you felt when you found the body.

3C - Into the Wild - Chapter 1

Chapter 1 - The Alaska Interior

Read the epigram (postcard written by Chris McCandless) and answer this question in your journal:

JOURNAL ENTRY QUESTION:  Why is the epigram at the beginning of Chapter One important?

VOCABULARY:  Pick out at least one phrase (and it's meaning!) on each page that expands your English vocabulary.  Keep a list of 5-10 words (and their meanings!) that you learn from this chapter.

SUGGESTIONS:
to protrude - "A rifle protruded from the young man's backpack"
misfit - "dreamers and misfits"
exceedingly "His gear seemed exceedingly minimal"
to lurch - "the truck lurched over a bridge"
foolhardy - "the hitchhiker's scheme was foolhardy"
gung ho - "He was determined. Real gung ho"
to insist - "Alex insisted on giving Gallien his watch"

PHRASES
 to fish for something (information) - "fishing for a last name"
to reject the bait - "rejecting the bait"
no picnic "Livin' in the bush isn't no picnic"
to be up to - "Gallien asked if his parents or a friend knew what he was up to"
to deal with - "I won't run into anything I can't deal with on my own"

DON'T WORRY ABOUT
muskeg (it's a plant)

3C - Reading Journal/Portfolio - Into the Wild

READING JOURNAL/PORTFOLIO – INTO THE WILD

• For points (to be determined, but at least 30) – Due Thursday,  June 18 at the latest!
•  Buy yourself an A5 Heft.  Write your thoughts and exercises in the Heft to turn in.
• Do the work yourself.  Don’t rely on the Internet or your friends to do the work for you.11

It stands to reason that the more you read (and listen to!) English, the better your texts will be. Why? Because you are constantly improving your vocabulary, sentence structure, story structure and reading comprehension.

We have chosen the book, Into the Wild, because the story of Chris McCandless is interesting. To begin with, how could an intelligent guy end up dying of starvation/poisoning? In addition, his life philosophy (giving away all his money, living off the grid, pitting himself against the elements) has been an inspiration to millions. Many have aspired to live like “Alexander Supertramp,“ although perhaps not to such an extreme.

To get the most out of the book, you should heed the following guidelines:

• Find a quiet place for a few minutes a day to read the book (15-30 recommended). No distractions! No cell phones, music, television, etc. Unplug and go Into the Wild with Chris McCandless!
• The epigrams at the beginning of each chapter are not so important (unless it is a letter/postcard from Chris McCandless). You can skip them.
• The chapters are quite short, so you can do different exercises for each of them. 
• Resist the urge to look up every word you don’t know (try to figure out the meaning from context ) BUT you should try to improve your vocabulary. For every page, you should write at least one phrase (and its meaning!) in your reading journal. You may also keep a list of words that occur more than once, or are really important. 
•  See the blog for more hints and tips! Ennsvalleyenglish.blogspot.com

Some of the exercises you can do:

• Keep a running list of phrases and vocabulary
• Write a summary of each chapter.
• Respond to the chapter: did anything make you think? 
• Pretend you are Chris McCandless, and write a postcard to one of his friends based on the chapter. 
• Keep a list of quotes that inspire you
• See the blog for more suggestions: 

Tasks to sum up the book:

• Write a review about the book for a school newspaper
• Write about Chris McCandless’ life philosophy, using examples from the book.
• What do you think would have happened if Chris McCandless had lived?
• Pretend you are Chris McCandless in his last days, and write a letter to his parents
• Would you like to go on a journey like Chris McCandless? What would you do differently?
• See blog for other tasks:  ennsvalleyenglish.blogspot.com

1C - Homework for Monday, May 18

TASK 1:  Read the text on page 79 (focus on Modern Technology 1). Then do exercises 1, 2, 3 on page 80.  WRITE OUT the answers on a separate piece of paper so you can a) answer quicly in class, b) correct your mistakes, c) turn in your homework for points.

TASK 2:  Read the text on page 84 and do exercises 1 & 2 on page 85.

4AHK - Lehrstoff for Schularbeit, Friday, May 22

Chapters in Focus on Modern Business 4/5
Chapter 4 - Customer Service
Chapter 5 - Body is Big Business
Chapter 6 - Examining Media

Text Types:  e-mail/letter (both formal and informal), blog entry, blog comment, summary, NEW:  report, letter of complaint, responding to complaints

Topics:  Customer service, complaints, plastic surgery, sports enhancements, history of media, old media vs. new media, how to tell the difference between good websites and bad websites

Extras: Fawlty Towers, Super Bowl

Expect 1 listening
Expect 1 reading
Expect 2 texts to write

1HAS - Lehrstoff for Schularbeit, Tuesday, May 19 (1 hour)

CHAPTERS in "JUST GO FOR IT 1"
Chapter 4 - Time to dress up or down?
Chapter 5 - A special place to be
Chapter 6 - Simply Enjoy

GRAMMAR
Present tense (simple, progressive)
Past tense (simple, progressive)
Forms of verbs (go, went, gone)
Adjectives (1st form-positive, 2nd form-comparative, 3rd form-superlative: good, better, best)

WRITING
E-Mail
Summary

TOPICS (including vocabulary)
Wizard of Oz
False Friends
Synonyms (words that mean the same:  big, great, large, huge)
Fashion
Housing
Food

1 HAS - Homework for Tuesday, May 12

We have been working on FALSE FRIENDS.  This will be on the Schularbeit on Tuesday, May 19. Here are some more false friends to practice! For help, see: http://german.about.com/library/blfalsef.htm

1HAS - False friends (Achtet ihr auf den Unterschied zwischen Groß- und Kleinschreibung!)

art means ______________________ in German

Art means _____________________ in English

angina means ______________________ in German

Angina means _____________________ in English

bad means ______________________ in German

Bad means _____________________ in English

bald means _____________________ in German

bald means _____________________ in English

brand means _____________________ in German

Brand means _____________________ in English

fast means _____________________ in German

fast means _____________________ in English

gift means _____________________ in German

Gift means _____________________ in English

handy means _____________________ in German

Handy means _____________________ in English

labor means _____________________ in German

Labor means _____________________ in English

mist means _____________________ in German

Mist means _____________________ in English

note means _____________________ in German

Note means _____________________ in English

rat means _____________________ in German

Rat means _____________________ in English

Roman means _____________________ in German

Roman means _____________________ in English

sender means _____________________ in German

Sender means _____________________ in English

slip means _____________________ in German

Slip means _____________________ in English

smoking means _____________________ in German

Smoking means _____________________ in English

stapler means _____________________ in German

Stapler means _____________________ in English

1C - Homework for Monday, May 11

We've been working on modal verbs:
can ______ = be able to __________
may ______ = be allowed to ________
should ______ = ought to ________
must _______ = have to ________
want to _______

We will have a short written control of modal verbs in the second hour of class (practice in the first lesson!)

The coolest cars you'll never drive - from Engadget

The Coolest Concept Cars ever! Which is your favorite and why? Leave a message in the comments!

Mercedes-Benz F-Cell Roadster

8C - Lehrstoff for Schularbeit, Monday, May 11 (2 hours)

Chapters 4, 5, 6 Focus on Modern Technology 4/5
Topics:  Transit traffic, ecotourism, globalisation
Grammar:  Word formation, verb tenses, relative clauses (defining and non-defining), terrible twins and triplets 
Text types:  formal email, informal email, blog entry, blog comment, summary, NEW:  report
Extras:  Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Superbowl

Expect:  a reading section, a listening section, a writing section (2 hours)

New Research by Jon Krakauer into Chris McCandless' death

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2015/05/01/403535274/into-the-wild-author-tries-science-to-solve-toxic-seed-mystery