Dystopia (NLMG)
American Reveries - American Realities
Film (Crash)
Shakespeare (Richard III)
All about Writing Tasks
100

Kazuo Ishiguro won this prize for his dystopian novel Never Let Me Go. 

What is the 2017 nobel prices in literature? 

100

African American Author Julius Lester wrote this short story. 

What is "The Child"? 

100

The 2004 crime drama Crash features racial and social tensions in this American City.

What is Los Angeles? 

100

Famous British playwright William Shakespeare is known under this nickname. 

Who is "The Bard"?

100

Most analytical texts should be written in this grammatical tense. 

What is simple present?

200

This main character tells the story about herself, Ruth and Tommy.


Who is Never Let Me Go's protagonist Kathy H. 


200

This author wrote the celebrated short Story "Two Kinds"

Who is Amy Tan?

200

The 2004 action drama Crash won this category in the 78th Academy Awards ("The Oscars")

What is "Best Picture"? 

200

This British market town is William Shakespeare's birthplace in April of 1564.  

What is Stratford-upon-Avon? 

200

"A raw and unsettling morality piece on modern angst and urban disconnect, Crash examines the dangers of bigotry and xenophobia in the lives of interconnected Angelenos." is a brief example for this type of text. 

What is a review?

300

This is a home and education facility for clones. 


What is Hailsham boarding school?  

300

This American writer and historian defined the American Dream in 1931. 

Who is James Truslow Adams? 

300

This producer directed and co-wrote the 2004 crime drama Crash.

Who is Paul Haggis? 

300

Richard III was probably written by Shakespeare in this time. 

What is the time of 1592–1594?
What is the year [1592/1593/1594]?

300

In a literary work, film, story or other narrative, this is the sequence of events where each affects the next one through the principle of cause-and-effect.

What is a plot?

400

Science fiction, trime travel, developed technology, the loss of identity, control an/or a bleak future.

What are elements of dystopian stories? 

400

These sub-topics play into the lessons about the American Dream.
(Hint: Hinweise Zentralabitur Englisch 2021)

What are "ethnic identity" and "growing up"?

400

The 2004 crime drama  Crash begins with these detectives being involved in a minor collision with a car being driven by Kim Lee.

Who are Detectives Graham Waters and his partner Ria? 

400

The pursuit of power or the role(s) of women are two aspects discussed in reading Shakespeare's Richard III. There is a third mandatory aspect to be discussed in English lessons about this play. 

What is the question of "fate vs. free will?"

400

"In the following I will write" is not a good start into this part of an analytical text. 


What is an introduction?

500

These are "verbindliche Unterrichtsaspekte" for the topic of dystopian literature in the English Abitur of 2021


What are visions of the future and ethics of science?

500

The American Dream is rooted in this famous pronouncement which proclaims that "all men are created equal" with the right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." 

What is the Declaration of Independence? 

500

In the 2004 crime drama Crash this Persian shop owner is derogatively called "Osama" when buying a gun. 

Who is Farhad? 

500

This famous quote was uttered by Richard shortly before his dramatic death. 

What is the quote "My kingdom for a horse"?

500

Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York;
And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
- These first line in Shakespeare's Richard III are an example of which literary device?

What is a soliloquy?

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