Grammatical Skills Workshop on "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" by Ernest Hemingway (English, Grade 11-12, Gymnasium) (eBook)

Seminar paper from the year 2021 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Grammar, Style, Working Technique, grade: 3,0, University of Hamburg (Erziehungswissenschaft, Anglistik), language: English, abstract: This workshop aims to clarify and to deepen the use of adjectives versus adverbs as well as the differences between the simple present and the present progressive in the German Oberstufe, i.e. grade 11-12 (Gymnasium), 12-13 (Stadtteilschule). In this context it introduces the students to modernist English literature by dealing with Ernest Hemingway’s 1933 short story A Clean, Well-Lighted Place.

The Hamburger Bildungsplan explains how project work combines the three didactic principles, student-, activity- as well as process-orientation. It fosters the students’ proficiencies in all competence areas (see Bildungsplan Gymnasium 16) (communication competence, intercultural competence and method competence (see 13)). In this context The Hamburger Bildungsplan demands the fostering of a text and media competence (see Bildungsplan Oberstufe 1). Further, it states the importance of a solidified repertoire of extended grammatical structures, as well as a structural awareness for the English language (see Bildungsplan Gymnasium 25). It further accentuates the development of an awareness of analogies and differences between languages (see ibid.).

First I will introduce the short story A Clean, Well-Lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway and briefly analyse the theme and plot. In the next two chapters I will outline the adjectives and adverbs that are being used and refer to phrases in simple present and in present progressive. In the following chapters I will outline the approach and structure of the workshop and then detail the lessons. The material for the workshop is listed in the appendix.