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1 Work with this project at home or in school when you have AP on your timetable. The aim of this task is: 1. To plan a piece of work in group or alone. To be able to find something that is of your interest and within the theme AMERICA. If you have problems to find out what to do look below about 15 ideas or ask your teacher. Hand in your idea in week To realize (= genomföra) the idea and hand the project in week To present the work in some kind of text (that is to say as an information ( a powerpoint), picture(s), a film, drawing, drama or a piece of music). 4- To describe the project (the idea) in a written form. It should answer the following four questions: How did you start? (How did you get your idea) What sources (= källor) did you use? (Website, books, other sources) What did you find out? What was the difficult and the easy part of this project ( think it over and talk to your group) 5. Most important for the valuation Make sure that all the members in your group has a task to do and something to say when you work and when you present your work. 6 Every step you do, do it in English. The planning, the writing, the presentation, the speaking. Pratice your presentation many times!

2 15 project ideas for 8 grade week BB page 123 and Woody Guthrie, This land is Your land pictures of states Song Background 2 BB p The Americans thought of it first- Choose two three subjects and present it. The first car - Ford The first supermarket Fast food restaurants Mc Donald s Barbecue Camper Frisbee 3 BB page , A day s wait by Ernest Hemingway Write a book review 4 AB page High Horse s courting (from the book Black Elk Speaks) by John Neihardt Listen to the story (CD) and retell with the help of the pictures 5 AB p Let my people go Barbara Smucker (a play) 5 AB page Hoping for a miracle The discovery of penicillin by Fleming 6 AB page 126 An American President Choice one or two a. George Washington b. Thomas Jefferson c. Abraham Lincoln d. Theodore Roosevelt e. George Bush f. Barak Obama

3 7 BB page travelling in San Francisco, California 8 BB page and AB p. 133 five facts (Charlie Chaplin) Present facts about movie making in the Hollywood studio and see an old film by for example Charlie Chaplin 9 AB page 156 Slurping soup and AB page Becoming American by Lensey Namioka. read the stories and present American customs. Look for more information about customs in the internet. 10 AB page 144 How basketball began 11. AB page 146 A taste of America: Show receipt and present some typical American tasty things to eat. Maybe we will taste it in class? 12. AB page 147 Six famous Americans 13 AB page Birds: Americans: Albatross, Hummingbirds 14 AB page 150 Tourist attractions in The USA 15 AB page earthquakes, tornadoes and hurricanes

4 EXAMPLE Reflecting/describing the project with the four questions I`m going to find out about school in America, maybe as a story but I m not sure now. The title: at High School.I work with this: looking for facts at websites, in our English book, I contact a friend living in the US.I will present it as a newspaper article with several pictures. How did you start? I had read an article. I started to rewrite it ore short. It is about a girl in High School. She wants to demonstrate against the invasion of Iraq and together with some friends they do this by arranging for some kids to wear anti-war T-shirts. But the police stop them. The police say it was too political and that the T-shirts are a threat, to other people views. Then I looked up some facts about school. I wanted to know what school was called. Then I needed to use words and expressions like yttrandefrihet and I wanted to know what a law is called:.freedom of speech. Bill of Rights.Is the T-shirt an American invention? What sources (= källor) did you use? (Websites, books, other source) I searched on Google on these words: Schoolsystem in the US. I got several suggestions. It was easy to find facts: Wikipedia, americancorner.org.tw,tyda.se. I read the article from the site:kiosken.se What did you find out? Many things: Högstadiet is High School. Most schools are public that is to say not private You go in High School for four years. The federal government and the state provide the public school. But there are also private alternatives. They are often very severe and can dismiss pupils that do not behave.the Bill of rights are old: The first amendment of ten in this law protects the freedom of speech but it must come with a duty to act responsibly. What did you not find out? I forgot to look up the background of T-shirt, if it comes from the U.S or not? What was the difficult/easy part of this project? To read facts was difficult because words about law and politics are hard to understand. The easy part was to take photos even if it meant that I had to print a text on a T-shirt. So I learned that practical printing-part as well but it took some time

5 Här får du/ni lite länkar: Lättanvänt och omfattande svenskt-engelskt och engelskt-svenskt lexikon som även översätter förkortningar och uttryck. Du har också möjlighet att spela upp uttal. Tyda.se är delvis skapat av sidans användare (jfr Wikipedia). abid/516/default.aspx På barnens bibliotek kan du finna tips på barn- och ungdomsböcker på engelska som är valda för dem som inte har engelska som modersmål. Nyheter att läsa och lyssna på för elever inom ämnen som UK, World, Sport, Music, TV/Film, Animals m.m. Amerikansk poesisida där man dels hittar kända poeters verk dels kan bidra med sina egna alster. Här finns rim- och synonymlexikon m.m. En form av interaktiv "kylskåpspoesi" hittar man under rubriken "Poetry in Motion".