Learning Circle
This year our school has taken part in an internet project.
Several English classes of the tenth grade have been in contact with other schools all over the world.
English class 10.5/6 has been in Circle “Places and Perspectives” Twelve schools from different countries like Argentina, Philippine, Russia, Indonesia, Iran and India.
Active till the end have only been three schools: one in Jakarta, Indonesia, one from Teheran, Iran and another one from Kashan, Iran.
At first we introduced ourselves and our school. These texts we sent to all of the schools who had applied.
Every student introduced himself in English (“I About myself”), reported about his hometown (“My Hometown”) and –of course- about our school (“RBG - My School”).
We also made an Homepage with a compilation of our reports and pictures of all the students. (http://www.learning-circle.de.hm/).
After a debate in class and a vote we opted for the sponsored theme „Holidays and Meals“.
For that we wrote several texts about our important holidays (festivities) like Christmas, New Years Eve, Easter and the most favourite meals at that days.
(For Christmas most of us have roasted goose with read cabbage and potato dumplings).
For that sponsored theme only those three schools mentioned above answered.
Jakarta sent us a long catalogue of questions concerning superstition.
“Learning Circle Group : Places and Perspectives
Sponsoring Teacher : Ira Damayanti Fasa
Sponsor School : Labschool Senior High, Jakarta Indonesia
Name of Project : Do You Believe in Superstition?
Goal of the Project : The students just watched Grunge 2 starred by Sarah Michelle Gellar and Amber Tamblyn. I was made collaboratively by artists, director, and producers come from developed countries namely Japan and America . It intrigues the students to find out whether superstition still exists, is practiced, or believed by people in other countries
We’ll be very happy to receive the writing on the form of Word document. Pictures, animation, or drawing will be more preferable because we intend to put the whole story in our Learning Circle magazine. The length of article is at least three pages by expectation that you will be able to express any experience of you had related to Superstition.
Here are the questions that hopefully can guide you in retrieving information about Superstition. Because of two reasons, there are 13 numbers of questions here, first because it’s a superstition number. Second because there are 13 students in our class. Now, here are the questions,,,
1. Do you believe in Superstition? Can you explain why?
2. What kind of superstition exists in your country? Can you mention some of them?
3. Have you ever experienced a deja vu? Can you tell us what triggers it to happen?
4. How about reincarnation? Do you also believe in it? Have you met someone who seems to be the reincarnation of someone?
5. Do you believe in Witches and Wizards? Do you think they are around you? Can you give the examples?
6. Have you ever played a superstition games like ouija board? What happened? What did you do?
7. What do you think of UFOs and Bermuda Triangle, are they superstition or science?
8. Do you think black magic like Voodoo really exists? Have you ever seen or heard someone suffered from Voodoo?
9. Do you believe that 13 is an unlucky number? Do you have any prove about it?
10. What do you think of Werewolf and Vampires? Are they preying us? Share your opinion about it.
11. Do you think ghost really exists? Have you ever seen one? What did you do?
12. What do you think of Poltergeist? Can you explain what you think about it?
13. How about exorcism, do you think it really works in getting rid of the sightings?
We realize that we post our project ideas late, so we don’t want to force anybody to respond to the project right away immediately. But, we’ll be very happy if you can submit the respond before December 10.
Looking forward to hearing from you, guys...
Ira”
Teheran fragte zu verschiedenen Themen:
über unser Land und Heimatstadt, über das Wetter, über berühmte Schauspieler und Plätze sowie unserer Religion.
Project idea 1:
Students’ names: Mahya & Shohreh & Foroozan
1.Location of your country and your community?
2.Size of your country and your community?
3. History of your country and your community?
4.Who are super stars of your city and country?
5.How is the weather in your country and your city?
6.How far is it to the sea?
7.Was war in your country?
8.What is superhuman’s city and country name?
9.Explain about your culture?
10.How is education in your country?
Project idea 2:
Students’ names:Zahra, Rezvan, Fatemeh, Mahdieh
1- The best shopping street in your country?
What do they have and what can you buy from them? What about costs/prices? Every thing is expensive or cheap?
2- About your country’s millionaires? What’s their names and what do they do in your country? And any thing else….
3- What are the names of your country’s famous actors?
4- What are the things that changed your country?
5- What is the history of your communication in your country?
Project idea 3:
Students’ names: maryam ghiyasiyan, mohaddeseh saghazadeh,
zeynab hoshyar, shafieh sayyadiyan.
1. How’s the weather in your country ?
2. what’s the name of historical places in your country?
3. what’s your idea about Iranians?
4. what’s your president’s name ?
5. what’s the religion in your country? and its practices? How much the people in your country believe in God?
6. What is the role of God in your life?
We have received Welcome Pakets from Slowenia, Taiwan and Nepal. In those pakets or letters have been Cds, Postcards and brochures as well as a Power Point Presentation about Slowenia.
And everything in English!
Fabian R/Christoph R 10.5
The Classroom Survey --Getting to Know You!
Circle Name: Places and Perspectives
Class Name: 10.5
PART I. INTRODUCING THE CLASS
A. Name of teacher: Hartmut Kreutzer-Papenbrock
B. Grade level: 10
C. Class favorites (List your class top 5 favorites in each category):
1. Music groups:
Curse, Blink 182, Eminem; Bushido, Linkin Park
2. Authors:
Benjamin Lebert, Walter Moers, Ptrick Suesskind, J.K.Rowling, Dan Brown/Astrid Lindgren
3. TV programs:
Simpsons, King of Queens, Sponge Bob, South Park, Desperate Housewives
4. Foods:
Lettuce, Pizza, Ice cream, Kebab, Hamburger
5. School subjects:
the breaks, English, Arts, Sports,German
6. Sports:
swimming, badminton, dancing, jogging, wrestling
7. Video or computer games:
NFS, Sing Star, CS, Erotic, Diablo
PART II. INTRODUCING THE SCHOOL
A. School information
1. Name and address of class and school
Robert-Bosch-Comprehensive School,
Richthofenstraße37
D 31137 Hildesheim Germany
2. Number of students in class and school:
in Mr Kreutzer‘s English class there are 23 students;
in school about 1,300
3. Size of school:
grades 5-10: 6 groups per grade, about 28 students each group;
grades 11-13: 5-4 groups per grade with roughly 25 students.
The school has 8 buildings altogether, one big sports field, two small ones; no indoor or outdoor pool
4. School emblem:
three intertwined Gs: standing for the traditional different types of school in Germany (grammar/middle/secondary modern) now combined in one comprehensive school for all abilities.
5. Type and number of computers:
four special computer rooms with about 16 machines each; all with access to the internet; several in other rooms as well with or without internet access.
6. School history:
founded in 1970 as the first (and only) comprehensive school in Hildesheim -which boasts to have some very old school: three are over 150 years old, two even have been founded almost 800 resp. 1,100 years ago.
Therefor we had a rough start but attracted several hundred students each years. Even today we have more applications than places (only 180 new students are admitted each August).
B. School program
1. List 3 things about your school program that make it unique.
lessons run from 8 am to 3.30 pm (German schools usually finish at 1pm - students then have to work at home s studying for school for 2-3 hour) The RBG has got study periods in school.
Every year the students of the eighth grades go to Denmark and learn there on a small island - we sleep in sleeping bags in tents, we do kind of scientific research with microscopes and so on. School has been awarded several prices for that project.
Since over 25 years the RBG is a UNESCO project school: we emphasis international and ecological understanding and improvements: contacts with schools in Tansania, Russia, Poland, France, Israel and much more.
2. List school calendar from the session dates (holidays and special
events that may affect your participation).
From Monday October 16 to Friday October 27 we will have our autumn holidays (or fall vacancies): in former times children had to help their parents to bring in the potatoes and so on. But today (in a post industrialised era) we just relax e.g. many families travel to the south, to Spain or Italy for example.
Christmas holidays (or as some prefer to call it: winter recess) is from December 22 to January 6, 2007.
PART III. INTRODUCING THE COMMUNITY
A. Your community
1. Name of your community:
Hildesheim has been a town since over 1,100 years by now.
2. If not a city, name and size of nearest city:
on a map you will find it south of Hannover, the capital of Lower Saxony with about 400,000 inhabitants in the city and about 1,000,000 in the whole region.
3. Location of your community:
at the river Innerste, right at the border between the North German Plains and the Central German Uplands. It is part of the state of Lower Saxony, which is part of the Federal Republic of Germany
4. The area of your community:
the mountains in the south are not really high; some 130 or 240 meters, but most of them are covered with trees: beech, spruce, pine, birch, oaks, and others.
The north and east is flat with only small forests and many small villages
5. The population of your community:
in the town the population is about 107,000 registered people (but because of two universities and two adult colleges you have to add about 6,to 7,000 students).
B. Special characteristics
1. List 3 reasons why people come to visit your area:
- St.Michel‘s church: over 1,000 years old with a beautiful wooden ceiling is one of the UNESCI world cultural heritages;
the Roman-Catholic St. Mary Cathedral with the invaluable bronce doors, candelabers and bronce column of bishop Bernward, made about 1,000 years ago, is another part of the UNESCO world cultural hertage;
the old market place with the nice buthcers‘ guild hall (KnochenhauerAmtshaus)
The Roemer-Pelizaeus-Museum with a fine collection of Egyptian ancient art.
2. Describe any unusual land formation found in or near your community.
In the south we have a RED MOUNTAIN -the earth there is really red (because of iron)
There are some deep earth falls, some filled with water (because some of the mountains are washed out limestone mountains and in some parts they just gave in).
The country to the north and east is rather flat (because of the ice ages 100,000 years ago) and very good farmland: the farmers grow sugar beets and wheat there.
C. Industries
List major industries or occupations in your community.
Bosch produces car starters and other equipment for the car industry
Blaupunkt (a division of Bosch) produces GPS-navigators (global positioning system) -again for the car industry.
Kloth-Senking casts parts for the car industry
Class 10.5 of Mr Kreutzer in Hildesheim Germany
Our request about holidays and special meals
Von: "Hartmut Kreutzer" <>
An: ,
Montag, 30. Oktober 2006, 22:11:09
Dear people all over the world,
We have some questions to you about your holidays and your special meals on those holidays.
What are the names of your holidays?
When are these holidays and what do you celebrate on these days?
Have you any traditions related to these days?
Do you have a special meal for your holidays?
What do you need for this meal and how do you prepare it?
To give you an idea what we like you to send us in your respond:
We here in Germany have a lot of holidays.
New Year, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday, May Day, Ascension Day, Pentecost (Sunday and Monday), National Day of the German Unification, Christmas Day and the second Christmas Day (in Britain: Boxingday).
Basically most of them are traditionally Christian holidays as most Germans are Christians.
Therefore Christmas is the most important holiday in Germany.
But my family and I celebrate only three ones: New Years Eve, Eastern and Christmas.
At New Years Eve we have a big firework to celebrate the arrival of the New Year. On this day we eat raclette. Raclette is a little cooker on the table. You have little skillets where you put mushrooms, meat, potatoes or some other ingredients like tuna, bacon, onions, pineapple. Then you cover it with a slice of cheese and put it on the cooker to prepare.
For Eastern we do have some traditions. We eat (brightly coloured) eggs and the little children search for little surprises in the garden. (The parents have hidden those surprises but they claim: “That was the Easter bunny! He has hidden the presents for you!”). As a religious holiday Eastern is the day when we remember the resurrection of Christ - but the traditions are much older and based on pagan feasts celebrating the arrival of spring.
Christmas and Christmas Eve are the holidays with the most traditions which we observe.
On Christmas Eve we go to church and after church we eat potato salad with sausages.
We have a Christmas tree and under the Christmas tree are the presents, which we give to each other. The Christmas tree is decorated with candles and other things.
On Christmas Day we have roasted duck with potato dumplings and vegetable.
Based on submissions of Tina, Marcel and Christoph 10.5
The following recipe has been submitted by Franzi
Roasted duck
We need the following ingredients:
- a medium sized duck (already prepared for cooking: not feathers any more etc)
- and for the filling, we need apples, carrots, salt, pepper, garlic and onions
- dumplings
- red cabbage