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Raðfylgjan til munnligu próvtøkun í enskum

Stuttsøga enskt 14. apríl 2023 - lesið og svarið spurningunum í skúlanum í dag.

Stílur at lata inn 12. apríl 2023

English March 17, 2023.

 

Working with the text about, ‘Michael Fracer.’

 

1. Write at headline for each "chapter”.

2. What does Michael tell us about his family (mother, father, sisters, and brother)

3. What does Michael tell us about his own family?

4. Why does Michel make the life choices he does?

5. Why does Michael succeed when his siblings didn´t?

Her finna tit bókina, har fleiri søgur eru settar saman við íblástri frá Crime and Punishment. Søgan, sum vit hava lisið brot úr í Pit Stop, byrjar á s. 120. Trýst á leinki, so fært tú opna bókina á google books.

Going Straight: After Crime and Punishment

Enskt 3. mars stuttsøgugreining

Hjálp til uppgávuna

 

Her kunnu tit lesa um ymiskt, sum er viðkomandi fyri uppgávuna:

Summary - referat

Symbols - t.d. reyða gentan

Characters - yvirlit og lýsing (á heimasíðuni finnur tú nærri lýsing av Itzak og Goeth v.m. við at flyta músina á "characters", sum tú finnur á breddanum ovast, undir "study guide" og høgrumegin "summary)

Important quotes - týðandi sitat (frágreiðingar)

Key fact - viðkomandi fakta um filmin og innihaldið

Themes - umrøðuevni


G
oymið tykkum heimasíðuna til tá tit fra víðari í skúla. Hon er hent í eini skjótari vending, tá tit standa føst ella ikki vita ordiliga, hvat tit skulu gera.

Her kanst tú síggja filmin

Uppgávur til filmin:

Hvat er kjarnin i søguni?

Lýs høvuðspersónarnar. Hugsið serliga um: Oskar Schindler, Amon Goeth, Itzhak Stern. Tit mugu gjarna taka aðrar persónar við s.s. Helen Hirsch.


Aðrir spuringar at svara vera at finna inni á uppgávuni á TEAMS.


Deadline 19. desember 2022. Bólkarnir lata eina uppgávu inn saman á TEAMS. 

How is the rescuer Oscar Schindler portrayed, and how can the development he goes through in the film be explained?
How are Amon Goeth and the other Nazis portrayed in the film?
What image is given of Itzhak Stern and the other victims we see in the film?
Which spectators appear in the film and what perception do we as viewers get of them?

What is the impact of the film being in black and white?
What is the core of the story?
What are the recurring themes?
When and where does the film take place?
What thoughts and feelings does the film evoke in you?


Fyrisøgn (l.b.) - p. 14 in your Textbook

English Essay - to be turned in on October 7th

What´s Eating Gilbert Grape, tit svara nr 1,2,3,4,5,6, og 10 (ikki 7,8,9)

At greina stuttsøgur a enskum brúka vit júst sama frymil sum á føroyskum, men á enskum eita punktini soleiðis:

1.      Kjarnin í søguni                       Core of the story
2.      Afturvendandi evni                   Recurring thémes
3.      Tíð                                           Time
4.      Stað                                         Place
5.      Umhvørvi                                 Sosial environment
6.      Persónar                                  Characters
7.      Myndir og samanberingar        Metaphors and comparisons 
8.      Skrivingarlag                            Way of writing
9.      Bygging                                    Structure
10.    Niðurstøða                               Conclusion (your opinion: What do you tink of the film?)


Stílur at lata inn 25. februar á TEAMS

13. september: English essay autumn 2021 DEADLINE 4. OKT.

Nær skriva vit stíl í enskum skúlaárið 2021/22.

4. oktober 2021.

10. desember 2021.

25. februar 2022.

8. apríl 2022.

A star is born

Hugskot til notur

Enskt apríl/mai Robin Hood

Write, write, write....p. 83 TAB (innlating 9. februar 2021).

 

Before writing read p. 8 in TAB about planning what to write.

You may make you own title, 

Remember how you start and finish a letter.

 

Dømi:

Dear Sally,

I writing you from the bottom of the sea right between.......

.......Anyways, I really look forward to seeing what else we are going to uncover.

Yours ella Sincerely ella Love ella Regards ... George.

 

You can find inspiration from the text in TAB p. 88 - 89. Don´t copy the diary, but write a lettar. Just like in the assignment on p. 83 in TAB, but you are volunteering somewhere in and or around the Faroe Islans. Excactly what kind of volunteer work you are doing is completely up to you - so long as it has something to do with wildlife or nature. You can also imagine working under the sea, in the sky or even in space.

 

Find a couple of interesting fact about:

 

  • The Mississippi River 
    •   (landafrøðiligt fakta)
  • Mark Twain
    •    Who was he, professional life and birth and dead and so on.
  • Huckleberry Finn
    •    Who or what is it?
  • The Civil War
    •    When was it and what was it all about?   

 

 

 

 

 

 

Questions about the film:

 

1) How does Huck escape from imprisonment by his father?

2) Why does Jim run away?

3) What dreams and plans does Jim have for his future once he successfully escapes from slavery?

4) What trick does Huck play on Jim after they get separated in the fog?

5) Why does Huck write the letter to Miss Watson informing her of Jim’s whereabouts?

6) When does Jim earn his freedom?

 

 

Plot Summary

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn opens by familiarizing us with the events of the novel that preceded it, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Both novels are set in the town of St. Petersburg, Missouri, which lies on the banks of the Mississippi River. At the end of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, a poor boy with a drunken bum for a father, and his friend Tom Sawyer, a middle-class boy with an imagination too active for his own good, found a robber’s stash of gold. As a result of his adventure, Huck gained quite a bit of money, which the bank held for him in trust. Huck was adopted by the Widow Douglas, a kind but stifling woman who lives with her sister, the self-righteous Miss Watson.

As Huckleberry Finn opens, Huck is none too thrilled with his new life of cleanliness, manners, church, and school. However, he sticks it out at the bequest of Tom Sawyer, who tells him that in order to take part in Tom’s new “robbers’ gang,” Huck must stay “respectable.” All is well and good until Huck’s brutish, drunken father, Pap, reappears in town and demands Huck’s money. The local judge, Judge Thatcher, and the Widow try to get legal custody of Huck, but another well-intentioned new judge in town believes in the rights of Huck’s natural father and even takes the old drunk into his own home in an attempt to reform him. This effort fails miserably, and Pap soon returns to his old ways. He hangs around town for several months, harassing his son, who in the meantime has learned to read and to tolerate the Widow’s attempts to improve him. Finally, outraged when the Widow Douglas warns him to stay away from her house, Pap kidnaps Huck and holds him in a cabin across the river from St. Petersburg.

Whenever Pap goes out, he locks Huck in the cabin, and when he returns home drunk, he beats the boy. Tired of his confinement and fearing the beatings will worsen, Huck escapes from Pap by faking his own death, killing a pig and spreading its blood all over the cabin. Hiding on Jackson’s Island in the middle of the Mississippi River, Huck watches the townspeople search the river for his body. After a few days on the island, he encounters Jim, one of Miss Watson’s slaves. Jim has run away from Miss Watson after hearing her talk about selling him to a plantation down the river, where he would be treated horribly and separated from his wife and children. Huck and Jim team up, despite Huck’s uncertainty about the legality or morality of helping a runaway slave. While they camp out on the island, a great storm causes the Mississippi to flood. Huck and Jim spy a log raft and a house floating past the island. They capture the raft and loot the house, finding in it the body of a man who has been shot. Jim refuses to let Huck see the dead man’s face.

Although the island is blissful, Huck and Jim are forced to leave after Huck learns from a woman onshore that her husband has seen smoke coming from the island and believes that Jim is hiding out there. Huck also learns that a reward has been offered for Jim’s capture. Huck and Jim start downriver on the raft, intending to leave it at the mouth of the Ohio River and proceed up that river by steamboat to the free states, where slavery is prohibited. Several days’ travel takes them past St. Louis, and they have a close encounter with a gang of robbers on a wrecked steamboat. They manage to escape with the robbers’ loot.

During a night of thick fog, Huck and Jim miss the mouth of the Ohio and encounter a group of men looking for escaped slaves. Huck has a brief moral crisis about concealing stolen “property”—Jim, after all, belongs to Miss Watson—but then lies to the men and tells them that his father is on the raft suffering from smallpox. Terrified of the disease, the men give Huck money and hurry away. Unable to backtrack to the mouth of the Ohio, Huck and Jim continue downriver. The next night, a steamboat slams into their raft, and Huck and Jim are separated.

Huck ends up in the home of the kindly Grangerfords, a family of Southern aristocrats locked in a bitter and silly feud with a neighboring clan, the Shepherdsons. The elopement of a Grangerford daughter with a Shepherdson son leads to a gun battle in which many in the families are killed. While Huck is caught up in the feud, Jim shows up with the repaired raft. Huck hurries to Jim’s hiding place, and they take off down the river.

A few days later, Huck and Jim rescue a pair of men who are being pursued by armed bandits. The men, clearly con artists, claim to be a displaced English duke (the duke) and the long-lost heir to the French throne (the dauphin). Powerless to tell two white adults to leave, Huck and Jim continue down the river with the pair of “aristocrats.” The duke and the dauphin pull several scams in the small towns along the river. Coming into one town, they hear the story of a man, Peter Wilks, who has recently died and left much of his inheritance to his two brothers, who should be arriving from England any day. The duke and the dauphin enter the town pretending to be Wilks’s brothers. Wilks’s three nieces welcome the con men and quickly set about liquidating the estate. A few townspeople become skeptical, and Huck, who grows to admire the Wilks sisters, decides to thwart the scam. He steals the dead Peter Wilks’s gold from the duke and the dauphin but is forced to stash it in Wilks’s coffin. Huck then reveals all to the eldest Wilks sister, Mary Jane. Huck’s plan for exposing the duke and the dauphin is about to unfold when Wilks’s real brothers arrive from England. The angry townspeople hold both sets of Wilks claimants, and the duke and the dauphin just barely escape in the ensuing confusion. Fortunately for the sisters, the gold is found. Unfortunately for Huck and Jim, the duke and the dauphin make it back to the raft just as Huck and Jim are pushing off.

After a few more small scams, the duke and dauphin commit their worst crime yet: they sell Jim to a local farmer, telling him Jim is a runaway for whom a large reward is being offered. Huck finds out where Jim is being held and resolves to free him. At the house where Jim is a prisoner, a woman greets Huck excitedly and calls him “Tom.” As Huck quickly discovers, the people holding Jim are none other than Tom Sawyer’s aunt and uncle, Silas and Sally Phelps. The Phelpses mistake Huck for Tom, who is due to arrive for a visit, and Huck goes along with their mistake. He intercepts Tom between the Phelps house and the steamboat dock, and Tom pretends to be his own younger brother, Sid.

Tom hatches a wild plan to free Jim, adding all sorts of unnecessary obstacles even though Jim is only lightly secured. Huck is sure Tom’s plan will get them all killed, but he complies nonetheless. After a seeming eternity of pointless preparation, during which the boys ransack the Phelps’s house and make Aunt Sally miserable, they put the plan into action. Jim is freed, but a pursuer shoots Tom in the leg. Huck is forced to get a doctor, and Jim sacrifices his freedom to nurse Tom. All are returned to the Phelps’s house, where Jim ends up back in chains.

When Tom wakes the next morning, he reveals that Jim has actually been a free man all along, as Miss Watson, who made a provision in her will to free Jim, died two months earlier. Tom had planned the entire escape idea all as a game and had intended to pay Jim for his troubles. Tom’s Aunt Polly then shows up, identifying “Tom” and “Sid” as Huck and Tom. Jim tells Huck, who fears for his future—particularly that his father might reappear—that the body they found on the floating house off Jackson’s Island had been Pap’s. Aunt Sally then steps in and offers to adopt Huck, but Huck, who has had enough “sivilizing,” announces his plan to set out for the West.

 

Characters: Huckleberry "Huck" Finn

From the beginning of the novel, Twain makes it clear that Huck is a boy who comes from the lowest levels of white society. His father is a drunk and a ruffian who disappears for months on end. Huck himself is dirty and frequently homeless. Although the Widow Douglas attempts to “reform” Huck, he resists her attempts and maintains his independent ways. The community has failed to protect him from his father, and though the Widow finally gives Huck some of the schooling and religious training that he had missed, he has not been indoctrinated with social values in the same way a middle-class boy like Tom Sawyer has been. Huck’s distance from mainstream society makes him skeptical of the world around him and the ideas it passes on to him.

Huck’s instinctual distrust and his experiences as he travels down the river force him to question the things society has taught him. According to the law, Jim is Miss Watson’s property, but according to Huck’s sense of logic and fairness, it seems “right” to help Jim. Huck’s natural intelligence and his willingness to think through a situation on its own merits lead him to some conclusions that are correct in their context but that would shock white society. For example, Huck discovers, when he and Jim meet a group of slave-hunters, that telling a lie is sometimes the right course of action.

Because Huck is a child, the world seems new to him. Everything he encounters is an occasion for thought. Because of his background, however, he does more than just apply the rules that he has been taught—he creates his own rules. Yet Huck is not some kind of independent moral genius. He must still struggle with some of the preconceptions about blacks that society has ingrained in him, and at the end of the novel, he shows himself all too willing to follow Tom Sawyer’s lead. But even these failures are part of what makes Huck appealing and sympathetic. He is only a boy, after all, and therefore fallible. Imperfect as he is, Huck represents what anyone is capable of becoming: a thinking, feeling human being rather than a mere cog in the machine of society.

 

Characters: Jim

Jim, Huck’s companion as he travels down the river, is a man of remarkable intelligence and compassion. At first glance, Jim seems to be superstitious to the point of idiocy, but a careful reading of the time that Huck and Jim spend on Jackson’s Island reveals that Jim’s superstitions conceal a deep knowledge of the natural world and represent an alternate form of “truth” or intelligence. Moreover, Jim has one of the few healthy, functioning families in the novel. Although he has been separated from his wife and children, he misses them terribly, and it is only the thought of a permanent separation from them that motivates his criminal act of running away from Miss Watson. On the river, Jim becomes a surrogate father, as well as a friend, to Huck, taking care of him without being intrusive or smothering. He cooks for the boy and shelters him from some of the worst horrors that they encounter, including the sight of Pap’s corpse, and, for a time, the news of his father’s passing.

Some readers have criticized Jim as being too passive, but it is important to remember that he remains at the mercy of every other character in this novel, including even the poor, thirteen-year-old Huck, as the letter that Huck nearly sends to Miss Watson demonstrates. Like Huck, Jim is realistic about his situation and must find ways of accomplishing his goals without incurring the wrath of those who could turn him in. In this position, he is seldom able to act boldly or speak his mind. Nonetheless, despite these restrictions and constant fear, Jim consistently acts as a noble human being and a loyal friend. In fact, Jim could be described as the only real adult in the novel, and the only one who provides a positive, respectable example for Huck to follow.

 

Characters: Pap Finn

Pap is an abusive drunkard who channels his anger at the world into violence against his son. His main motivations in the book are jealousy, greed, and alcoholism. He feels intensely jealous of Huck for his fortune, and he wants access to that money so that he can fuel his drinking problem. When Huck refuses him, Pap turns to violence to get his way. As a minor character in the book, Pap does not undergo any significant transformation. Only the intensity of his violence seems to change, and the increase of intensity eventually leads to his death. Pap first shows up in the book as a bad memory. At the beginning of the book Huck hasn’t seen Pap in over a year, and he explains that his father’s absence “was comfortable” because it meant an end to his abuse: “He used to always whale me when he was sober and could get his hands on me.” But when Pap appears in person two chapters later, the old abusiveness comes with him. After reclaiming guardianship of Huck, Pap takes his son away and locks him in a cabin.

Although Huck’s father only appears in the novel for a short while, he plays a significant role. For one thing, Pap helps jumpstart the book’s action. By locking his son up in the cabin, Pap sets the stage for Huck to escape from St. Petersburg and set off on his adventure. More importantly, however, Pap’s presence in the novel symbolizes much of what Huck detests about society. If the religious upbringing he gets from Widow Douglas represents the best (though stifling) part of “sivilization,” then the violent and traumatic experience with Pap represents the worst. Ironically, however, Huck’s distaste for society represents an important similarity between him and his father. Pap’s longtime poverty has contributed to his own deep-seated dissatisfaction with social life. Though he may not recognize it, Huck inherits his father’s dissatisfaction, and he also risks inheriting the corrosive anger that comes with it if he can’t find an appropriate release valve. Pap releases his anger through violence. By contrast, Huck releases his through adventure and the quest for freedom.

 

Mállæra 21. januar 2021

Svarlisti til Present Continuous Positive and Negative:

Question 1 - am not going.

Question 2 - was: isn't wearing.

Question 3 - was: is having.

Question 4 - was: isn't going out.

Question 5 - was: are driving.

Question 6 - was: am not enjoying.

Question 7 - was: are spending.

Question 8 - was: am not reading.

Question 9 - was: am not watching.

Question 10 was: am looking.

Lektian til týsdagin 15. september

Gerið hesar uppgávurnar og skrivi svarini í hefti:

1. How many British colonies have there been?

2. How many colonies are there today?

3. Pick colony and research and write about it.




Leinki til keldur:

The British Empire

 

Wikipedia um The British Empire


History

A summary of the British Empire


The Commonwealth

List of Counties in the Commonwealth

Commonwealth Countries Voting Rights

 

 

Dictation 16th and 17th of January

There are three people in the queue. I am number three. I look up and see a woman jump. She falls and then bounces back up. She is shouting all the way down and all the way up. I am scared but I am going to do it. At school my friends think I am a coward. They call me a chicken because I don't like to fight. I am not a chicken. I just think that fighting is stupid. I will show them.