Lesson ten

On our 10th lesson we finished the assignment that we started on our 9th lesson.
After that we started to talk about Civil Rights Movement. Every student has had his/her's own subtitle that has something to do with Civil Rights Movement. Mine was The Little Rock Nine. We had written about our own subject in our blogs before and now we presented them shortly. After that we listened a song by Billie Holiday. The song's name was Strange Fruit and it protested the lynching of African Americans. I thought that the song was very touching.

Lesson nine

We started our lesson with group presentations about different regions in U.S.A. I was absent when the presentations were made so I just listened other people's presentations.
 After that we started to do an assignment about immigration in U.S.A. On my opinion the assignment was a bit difficult because it contained reading an article and I didn't quite understand everything that was said in the article.
 What I learned on this lesson is that how many immigrants there really are in the U.S.A. I also learned that U.S.A can be divided in different regions. Before I just thought that there were only different states and I have never before heard anything about New England for example.

The Little Rock Nine

The Little Rock Nine were a group of African American students who were about to start studying in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Before that there were only white students. In May 24th 1955 the Little Rock school's board decided to accept the Blossom Plan which allowed African American's integration in schools that were previously all-white schools. In September 4th 1957 that plan was supposed to implement. But Orval Faubus who was the Governor of Arkansas, called the National Guard to prevent those nine black students, who were supposed to start studying in Little Rock Central High School, from entering the school. Dwight D. Eisenhower, The President of the United States, decided to interfere with the situation. He ordered 1200 soldiers to guard those nine black students so that they could enter the school. In September 25th the students finally were able to start studying in Little Rock Central High School.

Lesson Seven

Last Friday we studied things about Ireland. I was quite shocked because of the things I learned. I can't believe that before that lesson I didn't know anything of 'The Troubles', which refers to the conflict between Protestants and Catholics in North Ireland. We also watched a video about the situation there nowadays. After that we listened a song called 'Fairytale of New York'. It's played by The Pogues, which is an Irish band. I really like that song even though the lyrics are quite harsh. Then we did couple of assignments in which we had to interpret the song.

Lesson Six

Today I started to search information about my subject i.e. the Oscars. I had problems finding any relevant information at first because I used wrong entry. That is because I didn't know that The Oscars are called Academy Awards. But after a while I found the facts that I needed.
I started to write my part of the booklet. I began my writing by telling what the Academy Awards are and when were they first arranged. I also wrote a list of all the categories.
Next time I am going to search information about actors and actresses who have received the most trophies in the Oscars. I'm also going to write about the history of the Oscars.

Lesson Five

Today we didn't have lesson, because our teacher was absent. So we started to plan our group project. I met my group in front of the classroom, except one of them didn't show up. We waited him for a little while, until we figured that he is probably not coming.

The country that we are going to do our project about is U.S.A. After a moment of thinking, we decided that our project's topic is going to be the film industry in U.S.A. Our subtopics are:

1. History of U.S.A's film industry

2. Film industry nowadays in U.S.A.

3. The Oscars

4. Hollywood and

5. The most lucrative movies in U.S.A.

I am going to search information and write my own part of the booklet about The Oscars. 

Lesson Three: Answers

1. The UK is short of United Kingdom.
 2. England, Scotland and Wales.
 3. North Ireland.
 4. London, Edinburgh and Cardiff.
 5. Great Britain, Ireland and over six thousand smaller isles.

 6. Arguments to support Scotland's independence:
-Scottish are the best people to make decisions about Scotland.
-Scotland could set it's own priorities
-Scotland would have it's own immigration policy.
-Scotland would have and control it's own armed forces
-Scotland could get rid of Trident (= a submarine-launched ballistic nuclear missile)

Arguments against Scotland's independence:
-Being a part of UK brings more economic security to Scotland.
-Jobs could be lost.
-Prices could rise.
-Scotland would have less influence in the world.
-Scotland benefits from UK research funding.

 In September 18th of 2014 there was a referendum in Scotland about whether Scotland should become independent or not. 55,3& of the people voted no and 44,7% voted yes. The polling percentage was 84,6%.