Category Archives: Fatelessness

How to Write an Essay

Introduction

Is composed by 3 key elements:

  • Hook
  • Building Sentences
  • Thesis Statement

Body

Ahh the body! Where your argument resides. This is where you prove your thesis wrong or right! by providing the proper examples.

A topic sentence for each paragraph: Basically this means that you should have like a mini intro to your paragraphs. A topic sentence is a sentence in the beginning of the paragraph which clarifies to the reader what you intend to discuss in the paragraph.

Well structured paragraphs: this means you should jump form one idea to another which has nothing to do with the previous one in two consecutive paragraphs. Your transformation from one idea to another should be flawless, else you will seem confused to the examiner.

Well argued ideas: Don’t just state your ideas; provide analysis, examples, comments and anything which shows that you’re not just stating the obvious but are discussing something you fully understand!

Be convincing: Try to convince people that what you are saying is right! This would help you to write strong essays in general.

Conclusion
Reread the whole of your essay, realize what it is you argued all through your essay, then conclude your ideas in one small paragraph in the end.

Your Call

This is the proposal

If you hand in all the written work that will be asked for during class, emackay and blog assignments without any complains and misbehavior, in printed and digital format, there will be a possibility to change your lowest mark in the 2 smester for a 7.

Assignments so far (October 29th):

  • Written task and rationale on your blog.
  • The Gods Must Be Crazy, narrative techniques analysis.
  • Notes from chapters 1-5 (Fatelessness, in class, October 30th).
  • Emackay: Kafka

Up to you, your call

Miss Carla

Part 3, Text and Context: Narrative Technique

These are the Google slides with the information about narrative technique. Remember that the assessment in Text and Context is an essay.

Narrative Technique

While reading Fatelessness, you should be making notes on the narrative techniques applied by Kertesz.

Here is another link with more detail explanations of the techniques. I suggest to print this document and keep it in your Lang and Lit folder to accompany you during reading or study sessions.

Contents to prepare your test

Your test will have the following components:

  • Listening comprehension: video referring to the Holocaust, comprehension questions (general and specific information).
  • Concepts:  deport, incarcerate, occupy, superior, detain, inferior, persecution, tyranny, ghetto, liberate
    regime, holocaust.
  • Reading comprehension: A passage related to concentration camps.  Comprehension questions (general and specific information). Analysis and reflection.
  • Fatelessness author information.
  • Geographical orientation: Map  of Jewish population in Europe.

Test: October 21st

October 17th, An Interview with Imre Kertez

1. Before the interview, the presenter visits a monument to the Holocaust created by the American artist Peter Eiserman. Considering the shapes, architecture and general design, in what ways do you think he represents the reality in the concentration camps?
2. Which is the paradox the presenter mentions regarding Imre Kertész and the place where he lives?
3. Refer to antisemitism before and after Auschwitz according to Kertész.
4. In what way do reminders of the past in historical books make us “much richer”?
5. Which metaphor does Imre use to exemplify the effect of FATELESSNESS on its readers?

 

Famous Cases: Anne Frank’s Diary

Anne Frank was one of over one million Jewish children who died in the Holocaust. She was born on June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany, to Otto and Edith Frank.

For the first 5 years of her life, Anne lived with her parents and older sister, Margot, in an apartment on the outskirts of Frankfurt. After the NAZI seizure of power in 1933, they fled to Amsterdam.
The Germans occupied Amsterdam in may 1940, deporting Jews to Auschwitz-Birkenau and Sobibor killing centres in German-occupied Poland.
During the occupation, Anne and her family went to hiding in a secret attic apartment behind the office of the family-owned business. They stayed there for two years.
On August 4, 1944, the Gestapo (German Secret State Police) discovered the hiding place. The Franks were sent by train along with other Jewish prisoners to The Auschwitz Concentration Camp Complex. Due to their age, the two girls were transferred to the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp, where they both died of typhus in March 1945, just a few weeks before British troops liberated it. The girls’ mother, Edith, also died in Auschwitz. Only Otto, the father, survived the war.

Bergen-Belsen COncentration Camp prisoners.

While in hiding, Anne kept a diary in which she recorded her fears, hopes, and experiences. Found in the secret apartment after the family was arrested, the diary was kept for Anne by Miep Gies, one of the people who had helped hide the Franks. It was published after the war in many languages and is used in thousands of middle and high school curricula in Europe and the Americas.
Anne Frank has become a symbol for the lost promise of the children who died in the Holocaust.
Original DIary of Anne Frank.
Fatelessness is a Holocaust memoir that takes us back when the Jewish were savagely discriminated due to the Nazi ideology which spreading throughout Europe.

Listening comprehension

Listen HERE

Anne Frank

Complete the following text:

Anne Frank was _______________ German girl who gained international fame after her _______________ publication of her diary. She wrote about her life, thoughts and experiences of hiding _______________ in World War II. Her account of her two years spent in an attic in Amsterdam became an international best seller. She _______________ German concentration camp.

Anne Frank was born in 1929 in Germany. Her father was a German officer from World War I. Anne was a very __________________ student who had _______________ books. She moved to Amsterdam with her family after Adolf Hitler _______________ in 1933. She attended a Montessori school and was a very energetic _______________.

In June 1942, Anne received a _________________ thirteenth birthday. She decided to use it as a diary and wrote ______________ to become an actress. In July, she and her family were ordered _______________ work camp. Instead, they hid in the attic of her father’s workplace. They _______________ space with another family for two years.

In August 1944, German security police discovered _______________ arrested its occupants. Anne was sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Anne died in March 1945 and was buried in _______________, the whereabouts of which is _______________. Her diary was found and given to her father. It is one of the _______________ books in the world today.