The Native Americans

Tasks from http://ndla.no/en/node/6203?fag=42&meny=264162

Comprehension

1.  50% of the Native Americans live on federal reservation. The majority of the reservation are situated west of the Mississippi River.

2. Some of the social challenges the Native Americans faced was umployment, poverty, alcoholism and drug abuse. The possible causes of these challenges might be from the isolation on the reservations.

3. Tribal governments has now the right to enforce laws, both civil and criminal. To tax, to establish requirements for membership, to license and regulate activities, to zone and to exclude persons from tribal territories.

4. The sovereignty ("held in trut") of Native Americans fall short because the US still wishes to govern Native American peoples and treat them as subject to US law.

5. The BIA claims that it's resbonsimillity is the "admistration and management of 55,700,000 acres of land held in trust by the United States for American Indians, Indiantribes and Alaskan Natives".

Stolen Generation

Page 317 in Stunt vg1

Checkpoints:

1. The Aborigines were the first settlers on the Australien continent, they came from the Asian mainland and the islands north of the Australien continent.

2. The reason why the Aboriginal population was halved quite soon after the European arrivel was because the Europeans brought unknown diseases,  such as small pox.

3. It is believed that more than 100 000 Aboriginal children were taken away from their homes for more than 100 years.

Viewpoints:

1. I think Mr. Howard and Mr. Keating refused to make an official apology because they were embarrased over it and did not wan't to "take the blame" for something the ones before them did.

2. The Sami people in Norway have experienced domething similar. The "Norwegians" tried to Norwegianize the Sami people.
The Appartheid is also a good example.

Style and Function

Task 1
http://ndla.no/en/node/55329?fag=42&meny=179510

I believe the writer describes the gentleman in his mid-50's.

I hope no one has this high expectations for one they want. If so, he will never find her and end up alone. It is a short texts with a lot of adjectives. So I believe this text is a text written with as many adjectives as possible.

Writing With Capitol Letters

Mr. Anderson are celebrating his birthday today. Today it's April th 26, Wednesday.
Mr. Anderson wrote the book "The Wall and The Brick". He is from England and speak English and Spanish. Thanksgiving is Mr. Anderson's favourite holiday. Mr. Anderson likes to read about the Great War, and enjoys visiting Buckingham Palace. He is a Christian and votes for The Democrates, the political partie.

Visual Dictionary

Then

Than

Which

Witch

Through

Threw

There

Their

They're

To

Too

Two

Lose

Loose

A Passage To India

CREATIVE STUNTS

This is Abi, she works as a teacher at a private school. She is talking with the principal
on th phone, discussing a field trip for the students. This is something
Abi has been thinking a lot of lately and is finally talking to the principal about it.

CHECKPOINT

"THE NEW INDIA"

Another problem for an industrilizing country is ensuring there are enough skilled and educated workers. Education is, therefor, a key element in building the new India. It is difficult, however, to give evetyone a good schooling when so little money is invested in public education. Schools have far too few teachers and classes are poorly organized.
People with the money to spare will send their children to private schools. Another problem is that highlyeducated people will tend to take their skills out of India, choosing to take better paid jobs abroad.

"INDA-WORLD's LEADING NATION"

The vast majority (70%) of India's population still lives in rural areas. The contrast between the lives of the poor and those of India's new middle and upper classes is striking. If this gap
is to be bridged, India will have to undergo crucial social changes. The launch of India's first unmanned spacecraft in October 2008 shows that India has all it takes to be one of the world's leading nations, both techincally and economically. 

The imitation game

If I could ask Alan Turing 5 questions after the end of the war,
I would like to ask him:

- Why did you not help people when you knew they was going to die without your help?

- How did you come up with the idea of the computer Christopher?

- How is it to be gay in a country that do not like gay people?

- Why did you take the computer home wih you?

- What did you write to Winston Churchill?