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1. Why do you think the author chose to end the story this way?

2. How did the ending change the way you see the characters? Did your opinion of Elwood or Turner change?

3. What do you think the book is really about? What are some of the big ideas or themes?

4. What do you think the author wants us to remember or learn from this story? How does it connect to the real world?

5. What would you say to Elwood or Turner if you could talk to them now?

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Trump's vision: American Dream or American Nightmare?

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Trump's vision: American Dream or American Nightmare?

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How does immigration impact the economy?

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How does immigration impact the economy?

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Elwood Curtis "in a bag" and characterisation

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Elwood Curtis "in a bag" and characterisation

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The Star Spangled Banner (full version with lyrics)

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growth mindset!

Beteiligung am Unterrichtsgespräch (regelmäßige Beiträge, sprachliche Richtigkeit, nicht einfach Dinge wiederholen, sondern eigene Ideen/Meinungen/Interpretationen einbringen, sich auf andere beziehen (widersprechen, zustimmen, ausführen))

sorgfältiges Anfertigen von Hausaufgaben

Präsentieren von eigenen Ergebnissen / kreativen Aufgaben/ Hausaufgaben

Tests, mock exams

gute Teamarbeit

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Watch Donald Trump's inauguration speech and take notes on his vision for the future: What does the new president say about:

immigration

race

gender

the USA’s role in the world

US economic future

free speech?

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President Donald Trump’s inauguration and speech: Every must-see moment

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Brainstorming: The United States of America - what comes to mind?

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Brainstorming: The United States of America - what comes to mind?

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3.8K views · 29 reactions | What Is Your American Dream? | Is the American Dream still alive? Is the American Idea working for you? What is your version of it? Share your answer using #AtlanticRepublic and tune... | By UCLA | Facebook

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Is the American Dream still alive? Is the American Idea working for you? What is your version of it? Share your answer using #AtlanticRepublic and tune...

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Article: Competing visions of the American dream

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Article: Competing visions of the American dream

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7competing visions of the American dream (comprehension questions)

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Watch the video and take notes on the most important facts about income inequality in the United States.

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A Look At Income Inequality In The United States | TIME

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Republicans and Democrats - a short explanation

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Republicans and Democrats - a short explanation

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Republicans & Democrats: Comparing & Contrasting US Political Parties

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Listening - the American dream - just a myth

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material 1: What is DEI and why is it facing pushback?

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material 1: What is DEI and why is it facing pushback?

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What is DEI and why is it facing pushback?

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Mock exam: Using the cartoon as a starting point, assess whether the American dream is still achievable.

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Mock exam: Using the cartoon as a starting point, assess whether the American dream is still achievable.

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COULD America survive the end of the American Dream? The idea is unthinkable, say political leaders of right and left. Yet it is predicted in "Average is Over", a bracing new book by Tyler Cowen, an economist. Mr Cowen is no stranger to controversy. In 2011 he galvanised Washington with "The Great Stagnation", in which he argued that America has used up the low-hanging fruit of free land, abundant labour and new technologies. His new book suggests that the disruptive effects of automation and ever-cheaper computer power have only just begun to be felt.

It describes a future largely stripped of middling jobs and broad prosperity. An elite 10-15% of Americans will have the brains and self-discipline to master tomorrow's technology and extract profit from it, he speculates. They will enjoy great wealth and stimulating lives. Others will endure stagnant or even falling wages, as employers measure their output with "oppressive precision". Some will thrive as service-providers to the rich. A few will claw their way into the elite (cheap online education will be a great leveller), bolstering the idea of a "hyper-meritocracy" at work: this "will make it easier to ignore those left behind".

Mr Cowen's vision is neither warm nor fuzzy. In his future, mistakes and even mediocrity will be hard to hide: eg, an ever-expanding array of ratings will expose so-so doctors and also patients who do not take their medicines or otherwise spell trouble. Young men will struggle in a labour market that rewards conscientiousness over muscle. With incomes squeezed, many Americans will head to the sort of cheap, sun-baked sprawling exurbs that give the farmers'-market-and-bike-lanes set heartburn. Many will accept rotten public services in exchange for low taxes. This may sound a bit grim, but it reflects real-world trends: 60% of employers already check the credit ratings of job candidates; young male unemployment is high and migrants have been flooding to low-tax, low-service Texas for years.

The left is sure that inequality is a recipe for riots. Mr Cowen doubts it. The have-nots will be too engrossed in video games to light real petrol bombs. An ageing population will be rather conservative, he thinks. There will be lots of Tea-Party sorts among the economically left-behind. Aid for the poor will be slashed but benefits for the old preserved. He does not fear protectionism, as most jobs that can be sent overseas have already gone. He notes that the late 1960s, when society was in turmoil, was a golden age of income equality, while some highly unequal moments in history, including in medieval times, were rather stable.

Even if only a fraction of Mr Cowen's vision comes to pass, he is too sanguine about the politics of polarisation. Inter-generational tensions fuelled 1960s unrest and would be back with a vengeance, this time in the form of economic competition for scarce resources. The Middle Ages were stable partly because peasants could not vote; an unhappy modern electorate, by contrast, would be prey to demagogues peddling simple solutions, from xenophobia to soak-the-rich taxes, or harsh, self-defeating crime policies. Yet Mr Cowen's main point is plausible: gigantic shifts are under way, and they may be unstoppable.

Politicians are skittish about admitting this. Barack Obama calls America's wealth gap "our great unfinished business", describing a crisis of inequality decades in the making. Think of technology, he tells audiences, and how it has thinned the ranks of travel agents, bank clerks and other middle-class gateway jobs. At the same time, global competition has reduced workers' bargaining power. People have "lost trust in the capacity of government to help them", he sorrows. But then Mr Obama implies that political villainy is the real culprit. He accuses entrenched interests of working for years to spread a "great untruth": that government intervention is either harmful or a plot to grab tax dollars from the squeezed middle and shower them on the undeserving poor. Politics risks becoming a "zero-sum game where a few do very well while struggling families of every race fight over a shrinking economic pie."

Republicans are just as partisan. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, a son of Cuban immigrants, likes to say that had he not been born in post-war America in an era of high social mobility, he would probably be a very opinionated bartender. At a "Defending the American Dream Summit" on August 30th he accused Mr Obama of smothering economic opportunity with a big-government nightmare of debts, "class-warfare" taxes, innovation-smothering regulation and over-generous welfare. While most are working harder than ever and barely keeping up, Mr Rubio growls, "some people" shun work because they can make almost as much from government benefits. In short, both sides never tire of explaining how the other is destroying the American Dream. Alas, neither can explain, convincingly, how to revive it.

What, Tyler, no revolt?

Asked about the limits of his power, Mr Obama mutters about "pushing back against the trends" squeezing middle America, rather than resolving them entirely. That, he argues, is better than the Republican right, who "want to accelerate" such trends.

For their part Republican leaders offer long-cherished shrink-the-government schemes, rebranded as plans to save the American Dream. They say that tax cuts and deregulation would trigger a private-sector investment boom. In truth, the links between investment and government policy are rarely so neat, and even such a boom might do little for middle-class wage stagnation.

Many voters remember a time when hard work was reliably rewarded with economic security. This was not really true in the 1950s and 60s if you were black or female, but the question still remains: what if Mr Cowen is right? What if the bottom 85% today are mostly doomed to stay there? In a country founded on hope, that would require something like a new social contract. Politicians cannot duck Mr Cowen's conundrum for ever.
Economist.com/blogs/lexington
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline "The American Dream, RIP?"

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COULD America survive the end of the American Dream? The idea is unthinkable, say political leaders of right and left. Yet it is predicted in "Average is Over", a bracing new book by Tyler Cowen, an economist. Mr Cowen is no stranger to controversy.

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Immigration to the US - a history of hopes and hurdles

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Immigration to the US - a history of hopes and hurdles

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Listen to "The New Colossus", the poem inscribed at the bottom of the Statue of liberty. How does it make you feel? What attitude towards immigrants is displayed?

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Read the poem and the background information. Analyse how Emma Lazarus creates an atmosphere of hope in "The New Colossus". Focus specifically on her use of language and imagery. Take some notes.

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Analyse the cartoon (take notes) and compare the message to the poem by Emma Lazarus.

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Please watch the video and take notes:

1. When did the first wave of immigration to what would become the United States begin?

2. What were some reasons people immigrated to America in the 17th and 18th centuries?

3. Why did many Irish people immigrate to the U.S. between 1841 and 1850?

4. What pushed Chinese immigrants to the U.S. in the late 1800s, and what kind of work did they do?

5. What was the Chinese Exclusion Act, and when was it passed?

6. How did immigration from Europe change between 1880 and 1920?

7. What was the Immigration Act of 1924, and how did it affect immigration from Italy and Eastern Europe?

8. How did the U.S. government react to Jewish immigrants during the early 20th century?

9. What changes did the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 bring to U.S. immigration policy?

10. How has immigration to the U.S. shifted in recent years, and where do most immigrants come from today?

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The Story of Immigration to the United States | FAIRstory #11

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Coming to the US: The pull of hope, the push of need

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Coming to the US: The pull of hope, the push of need

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Valeria Luiselli, "Lost Children Archive" (extract from a novel)

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Valeria Luiselli, "Lost Children Archive" (extract from a novel)

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Actions are illegal, never people | Jose Antonio Vargas | TEDxMidAtlantic

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The DREAM Act and DACA - What does the future hold for dreamers?

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The DREAM Act and DACA - What does the future hold for dreamers?

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How does immigration impact the economy? | CNBC Explains

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25 AB Listening comprehension- how does immigration affect the economy

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Hot seat: Several students play characters from the book; the rest of the class interviews them. This encourages empathy and understanding of character motivations.

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Hand in assignment (PDF-format) by March 24 (midnight):

powerpoint / Prezi ...

2-page handout about the topic

vocabulary list with 30 important phrases (English-German)

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Important: Everybody should be ready to present by March 26. Please inform me in advance when a group member is sick and cannot give the presentation. Another group will then have to step in.

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Important: Everybody should be ready to present by March 26. Please inform me in advance when a group member is sick and cannot give the presentation. Another group will then have to step in.

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gun culture (Mila, Amalia): March 26

abortion rights (Lara, Lieke, Emilia): March 26

slavery (Julius) --> 15 minutes: March 27

Jim Crow and segregation (Hadis, Letizia): March 31

The Civil Rights Movement (Jacob, Magnus, Bosse): March 31

Black Lives Matter (Ida, Ayane): March 31

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presentation: The gun control debate (Mila and Amalia)

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presentation: The gun control debate (Mila and Amalia)

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1 gun violence presentation (Amalia, Mila)

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1 gun violence vocabulary (Amalia, Mila)

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presentation: Slavery in the US (Julius)

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presentation: Slavery in the US (Julius)

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4Vocabulary list Jim Crow (Letizia, Hadis)

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5Civil Rights Movement Handout  Magnus, Jakob, Bosse

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presentation: The fight over abortion rights (Lieke, Lara, Emilia)

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presentation: The fight over abortion rights (Lieke, Lara, Emilia)

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2 abortion presentation (Lieke, Lara, Emilia)

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2 abortion handout (Lieke, Lara, Emilia)

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2 abortion vocabulary (Lieke, Lara, Emilia)