A year at an American High School

1. Ketil:
- Ketil went to Rowland High School.
- He got to know people when his teacher makes him talk about himself in front of the classes. Then the classes become curious , and the start to ask him question.
- The subject he studied was “getting around”
- Ketil played on the school soccer team.

Tonje:
- Tonjes school was special because the school was an outdoor school.
- They class had 25-35 students
- They could eat snack, and someone brought lunch from home, and someone brought lunch from the school cafeteria.
- To be informed about daily events at the school, they could watch school news on TV at 8 in the morning in every classroom.

2.

1.False: Each state has its own laws regulation education. 2. True 3 False 4.True 5. True 6. True 7. True, it’s about the same 8. False 9. True 10. False, the school spirit is very important

John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck was born on February 27, 1902. Steinbeck was an American writer. He grew up in the Salinas Valley region of California. In his early life he worked his way through college at Stanford University but never graduated. One of the novels he has written is Of Mice and Men (1937), another well known work is the novel The Grapes og Wrath (1939). In 1962 Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature. John Steinbeck died of heart attack in New York on December 20, 1968.

Stereotyping

National stereotyping is a problem. We place people in categories without knowing them. We take a group of people, and say that they are all the same. For example, we in Norway think that all the Swedish people are stupid, and we make up funny jokes about them. It’s easy for us to place people into categories, because we don’t have enough information about them, and that is probably the reason why we do it. When we place a person in to a stereotype, we give the person more information than we have the ability to access.

Multi modal poetry presentation

To work with poetry in the way of performing it with a multimodal presentation, was actually quite fun. I worked with Christine, and we introduced the poem “the white man drew a small circle” of Carl Sandburg. It was fun to see that the classmates chose different poems, and that they have different ways to look at the message to the poem. A poem can be interpreted in different ways. We get some freedom when we get this assessment, we got to choose what kind of poem we wanted to perform, and that I think was great. I hope we can do something like this later on; it was a great way to work.

At the theater

Yesterday my class and I went to see the play on the theater.I like the play better then the film and the book. It was better to watch it live, then on the screen. The play was in Norwegian, and much better to understand. The play was very good, and I enjoyed it!

Of Mice and Men

Of Mice and Men is a novel written by John Steinbeck. The novel is about two friends, George who is the leader and Lennie who is a mentally retarded person, large and dependent on George. The two friends enter the bunk house where they try a new job and meet some different and exciting people. I have come to the second section and am briefly going to start on the third. The book is so far very exciting, and I like the way the author writes. It’s easy to understand. I look forward to finishing the book, and see how it ends. Definitely a good choice Anita.