Sunday, June 3, 2012

LANGUAGE AND CULTURE II - TASKS 2012

TASK: 08/05
Deadline: 15/05/12

You are an English woman born in 1862 called Mrs. Ramsay. Read the information you have about this woman, her relatives and friends to have an idea of what she is like and go back to the double-entry chart you made in class to find information that can help you to depict the socio-historical context of her life in 1910. Then write her diary entry of 25th May 1910. Make sure your text makes references or suggests through her daily experiences  the socio-historical context.

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TASK: 15/05
Deadline: 22/05

Read "The Changing Political Scene" and "The Beginning of the Welfare State" and spot events that could have been published in local newspapers. Make sure you can explain the events and justify their relevance to appear in the news.  Then capture, at least five of those events, in catching newspaper headlines.

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TASK: 29/05
Deadline: To be solved in class on 05/06/12

1) Read "The Impact of the First World War" and make a list of the ways in which the Great War affected the British.

2) Go back to the information about the characters of  "To the Lighthouse" by Virginia Wolf provided in http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/lighthouse/characters.html .

3) It's 1915. You are........................................... You have to record yourself delivering a monologue about the impact the war is having on your life. You must include in your monologue at least 4 of the aspects listed in 2).
To prepare your monologue take into account your character's age, role in the family, personality, job, hobbies, plans for the future, etc.

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