Year 9 and 8- The Virgin Daughters

Year 9 and 8, this assignment is for you. We will watch the documentary The Virgin Daughters.
This documentary raises the issue about young girls
decision to wait with sexual relations until they are married.

I want you to discuss this with you classmates later on, but first you will write down you own thoughts about this matter. Answer the questions below and e-mail them to erica@humfryskolan.se. The answers should be at least 2-3 sentences long and give me an idea about what you think and why. Make an effort to explain yourself! Deadline is friday the 2/9.

This assignment is within the course requirements: "Levnadsvilkor, traditioner, sociala relationer och kulturella förteelser i olika sammanhang och områden där engelska används." and "Samtal och diskussioner samt argumentation."

1, Why do you think many religions have rules concerning sex?

2, According to the priest Randy Wilson who arranged the Colorado Springs Cermony, the father is the most important person in a young girls life. He is everything. Write down your thoughts about this.  Do you agree or disagree?

3, How much do you think a parent should interfere in whom you love and fall in love with?

4, Are there similar ceremonies were a son promises his mum to stay "pure" and a virgin? What do you think? Explain!

5, Why do you think they make a ceremony like this?

Here is the link to the documentary if you want to watch it again.

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/virgin-daughters/

/Erica

Back To School!

Welcome back to 2011's autumn semester! I'm a looking forward to see you all and I hope you had a lovely and relaxing summerbreak!

This semester we will start working with a theme project about North America. This project is related to our sex educational project Genant, were we make tv-shows, radio,web and newspapers.

Your first assignment is as usual to find a reading book in english. I recommend you to go to The city's main library (Stadsbiblioteket) and lend a book there, it should be between at the least 50 pages.
This is homework and I will ask after the book your reading the 1st september. This homework is for all classes. After I have approved of the book you have chosen you will be given some weeks to read it. Then after that you will get an writing assignment for the book.

All bests,
Erica

Margareta Atwood

I balance myself carefully
inside my shrinking body
which is nevertheless
deceptive as a cat's fur:

when I am dipped in the earth
I will be much smaller.

On my skin the wrinkles branch
out, overlapping like hair of feathers.

In this parlour my grandchildren
uneasy on sunday chairs
with my deafness, my cameo brooch
my puckered mind
scurrying in its old burrows

little guess how
                        maybe

I will prowl and slink
in crystal darkness
among the stalactite roots, with new
formed plumage
                         uncorroded
                                          gold and

Fiery green, my fingers
curving and scaled, my
opal
       no
eyes glowing.

Red Riding Hood

http://www.free-short-stories.org.uk/the-brothers-grimm-little-red-riding-hood.htm

Week 14

Hi,

This is my last week before I'm leaving over to Katherine for a couple of weeks. If everything goes according to plan, I should be back working half-time at the start of May.

The last week I'm here there are some homework that should be handed in.

For class 7: By Tuesday, hand in your texts about the film If These Walls Could Talk 2 and your quiz.

For class 8: Hand in Quiz, text about chattwords (OMG, WTF ...) Konsthallen.

For class 9: 3 pages from your essay.

Class 9 have one part of the english national test on friday 08.30.

Besök i konsthallen

Avtryck och Mellanrum - Beök Konsthallen

WALEAD BESHTY – ett diagram av krafter

Denna utställning av den i Los Angeles verksamme konstnären Walead Beshty (f. i London 1976) presenterar verk från de senaste tio åren i form av en platsspecifik installation gjord för Malmö Konsthall. 

Walead Beshtys konst påminner oss om hur viktigt det är att sätta värde på det förgängliga i vardagen, framförallt dess glapp, pauser och mellanliggande perioder. Dessa mellanrum har alltid varit centrala i Walead Beshtys arbeten. I hans tidiga verk representeras det mellanliggande temat bokstavligen av de platser han valde att fotografera. Hans Excursionist Views (2001–2005) visar misslyckade, folktomma modernistiska bostadsprojekt som vacklar mellan evakuering och rivning, Island Flora (2005) dokumenterar växter, ogräs och vegetation som fått växa fritt på vägars mittremsor, medan serien med fotografier av övergivna köpcentra, American Passages (2001–pågående) presenterar den merkantila och kapitalistiska mardrömmen om tomma och stängda affärer.

Beshty gör konst av det som finns mittimellan men också om avtryck. När ni tittar på Fedex kuberna ser ni hur glaset har krossats från resandet när de har skickats runt. 

Sprickorna blir som ett slags minne. De har avtryck på sin yta av en händelse. 

Din uppgift är nu att fundera på följande frågor: 

1,Vad lämnar du för avtryck varje dag? (På världen, människor, datorn, miljön)

Skriv ner och berätta, jämför med en vän. Minst en halv A4 sida. 

2, Rita en bild av ett avtryck du gör varje dag på ett A4 papper. Valfri teknik, tex blyets, tusch, akryl, collage. 

Week 12

Hi guys,

It's been a while since I wrote here. We have all been working with different projects, film and the newspaper Genant. Anyway I have a task for the 7th and 8th graders this week.

First you go to the page http://www.ur.se/sprk/engelska/quiz/

Do the quiz on the webpage. After you have done the quiz make your own quiz about yourself, or a topic you are interested in. (Film, Arts, skate etc.)
It should at least have 12 questions and 3 alternative answers. You should write the quiz in English.

After you have finished the quiz about yourself find a friend, let your friend make the quiz.

Enjoy!