The Green Island: Second term

LINKS:    

è Irish History

è Reading List

Wednesday

07.40

Presentations ê

08.35

History ê

09.30

Reading ê

1

 

11.08

Northern Ireland since 1921

 

July 12th in the news: Marching season

Dave Duggan, It's Only a Brick (short play)

Stephen McMahon, The Dummy (SS)

2

 

18.08

EP: Rahel: Bernadette Devlin and Mary Robinson

History of the partition of Ireland

Colum McCann, Everything in the Country Must (Three Short Stories)

3

 

25.08

SP: Jara: Poem

SP: Nadine: Song

The Civil Rights Movement in Northern Ireland

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4

 

01.09

EP: Lilly: Book Report

The Troubles from the 1960s to the 1990s

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5

 

08.09

EP: Benjamin:

SP: Pat: Poem

 

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6

 

15.09

SP: Marianne: Tin Whistle

EP: William: Peace Process

 

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7

22.09

TEST

 

 

 

 

 

AUTUMN HOLIDAYS 25TH SEPTEMBER – 10TH OCTOBER 2010

8

 

13.10

Ireland in the EU:

The Celtic Tiger

and the tiger loses its clout

EP: Valentin: George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara

EP: Sibylle: George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

Ireland after Independence

 

Modern avant-garde drama from Ireland, short stories, poems

9

20.10

EP: Lionel: The Celtic Tiger

After the Tiger

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10

 

27.10

Oral Exams:

Benjamin

William

Jara

Rahel

EP: Melina: John Banville, The Sea

 

 

 

11

 

03.11

Oral Exams:

Lilly

Lionel

Melina

Valentin

Nadine

EP: Anja: Kate O'Riordan, Memory Stones

 

12

 

10.11

Oral Exams:

Anja

Sibylle

Marianne

Pat

 

 

13

17.11

WRITTEN MATURA EXAMINATIONS

14

24.11

 

 

 

 

 

END OF SCHOOL 27TH NOVEMBER 2010

MATURA EXAMS

Presentations:

Extended Presentations:

 

Rahel Benz

Lilly Hagen

Valentin Kaqinari

Sibylle Maeder

Lionel Miserez

Benjamin Rickenbacher

Melina Rüesch

Anja Stuber

William Young

 

Short Presentations:

 

Marianne Eisele

Jara Petersen

Patsawee Rodcharoen

Nadine Swan

Extended Presentations

Historical Topics:

·         The Troubles: From Edward Carson the Bloody Sunday

·         The Peace Process in Northern Ireland (Sunningdale Agreement [1973] – Good Friday Agreement [1998] – today)

·         Women in Ireland in the second half of the 20th century: Bernadette Devlin and Mary Robinson

·         Devolution in Great Britain and Northern Ireland

·         The Celtic Tiger

Literature:

·         Book reports (see book list)

·         Extended portrait of an outstanding literary personage

o        E.g. Samuel Beckett

Short Presentations

History:

·         Short portraits of historical figures (Who’s who?) [Edward Carson, Ian Priestley, John Hume and David Trimble…]

·         Outstanding Irish people in America (e.g. J. F. Kennedy)

·         Outstanding people In British History (e.g. the Duke of Wellington)

Literature:

·         Ten Minutes For a Poem