Spezialgebiete ENGLISCH Verpflichtender Themenkatalog Mag. Kerstin Dobschak Mag. Hannes Posch Externistenkommission Wiedner Gymnasium Wiedner Gürtel 68, 1040 Wien
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Inhalt 1. Alice in Wonderland... 3 2. Alex Verus Series... 3 3. The American Dream... 3 4. American Football... 3 5. Austen, Jane... 4 6. Book Lovers... 4 7. Bryson, Bill... 4 8. Classics, American... 4 9. Classics, British... 4 10. Dystopia, Classic... 5 11. Dystopia, Modern... 5 12. Dahl, Roald... 5 13. Fight For Survival... 5 14. Gay... 5 15. Harry Potter Series... 6 16. High School... 6 17. The Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy... 6 18. The Lunar Chronicles... 6 19. Magic, Mystery and Crime... 7 20. Race in Literature... 7 21. Rivers of London Series... 7 22. Slavery... 7 23. Shakespeare, William... 7 24. Sherlock Holmes... 8 25. Steinbeck, John... 8 26. Road Trippin... 8 27. Teen Pregnancy... 8 28. Through Children s Eyes... 8 29. Time Travel... 9 30. The Tudors... 9 31. Vampires... 9 THEMEN 2
1. Alice in Wonderland Alice in Wonderland (1951) Disney Alice in Wonderland (2010) Tim Burton Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Caroll Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Caroll The Hunting of the Snark, Lewis Caroll 2. Alex Verus Series Benedict Jacka Fated (2012) Cursed (2012) Taken (2012) Chosen (2013) Hidden (2014) Veiled (2015) 3. The American Dream Forrest Gump (1994) The Great Gatsby (2013) The Life and Times of Thunderbolt Kid, Bill Bryson The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation, Jim Cullen The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald 4. American Football Remember the Titans (2000) The Blind Side (2009) Pop, Gordon Korman Knights of the Hill Country, Tim Tharp Out of the Pocket, Bill Konigsberg 3
5. Austen, Jane Pride and Prejudice Sense and Sensibility Mansfield Park Northanger Abbey Movie Becoming Jane (2007) 6. Book Lovers The Invisible Library, Genevieve Cogman The Book of Lost Things, John Connolly Mr. Penumbra s 24-hour tore, Robin Sloan The thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield The Jane Austen Book Club, Karen Joy Fowler 7. Bryson, Bill The Lost Continent A Walk in the Woods Neither Here Nor There Notes from a Small Island Down Under 8. Classics, American The Old Man And The Sea Ernest Hemingway Breakfast At Tiffany s Truman Capote Cat On A Hot Tin Roof Tennessee Williams The Winter Of Our Discontent, John Steinbeck Rabbit, Run John Updike 9. Classics, British The Importance of Being Ernest, Oscar Wilde The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson Animal Farm, George Orwell Lord of the Flies, William Golding 4
10. Dystopia, Classic Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury 1984, George Orwell Brave New World, Aldous Huxley The Time Machine, H.G. Wells The Children of Men, P.D. James 11. Dystopia, Modern The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins Uglies, Scott Westerfeld Divergent, Veronica Roth Matched, Ally Condie The Maze Runner, James Dashner 12. Dahl, Roald The Witches (1990) Matilda (1996) and Short Stories The Witches Matilda Tales of the Unexpected 13. Fight For Survival Running Man (1987) Gamer (2009) The Running Man, Stephen King The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins The Maze Runner, James Dashner 14. Gay Brokeback Mountain (2005) Shelter (2007) Out of the Pocket, Bill Konigsberg Boy meets Boy, David Levithan The World of Normal Boys, K.M. Soehnlein 5
15. Harry Potter Series J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (26 June 1997) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2 July 1998) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (8 July 1999) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (8 July 2000) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (21 June 2003) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (16 July 2005) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (21 July 2007) 16. High School Easy A (2008) Ten Things I Hate About You (1999) Surviving High School, M. Doty The List, Soibhan Vivian Catching Jordan, Miranda Kenneally 17. The Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy The Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy (2005) Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Douglas Adams Life, the Universe and Everything, Douglas Adams So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish, Douglas Adams Mostly Harmless, Douglas Adams 18. The Lunar Chronicles Marissa Meyer Cinder (2012) Scarlet (2013) Cress (2014) Winter (2015) Grimm s Fairytales (ISBN-10: 1454912340 or a similar edition) 6
19. Magic, Mystery and Crime Ben Aaronovitch Rivers of London (2011) Moon Over Soho (2011) Benedict Jacka Fated (2012) Cursed (2012) Taken (2012) 20. Race in Literature Oroonoko, Aphra Behn Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad King Solomon s Mines, Rider Haggard The Tempest, Shakespeare Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Dafoe 21. Rivers of London Series Ben Aaronovitch Rivers of London (2011) Moon Over Soho (2011) Whispers Under Ground (2012) Broken Homes (2013) Foxglove Summer (November 2014) 22. Slavery Amistad (1997) 12 years a slave (2013) Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs Oroonoko, Aphra Behn Beloved, Toni Morrison 23. Shakespeare, William Movie Shakespeare in Love (1998) Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare The Tempest, William Shakespeare Shakespeare: The World as a Stage, Bill Bryson 7
24. Sherlock Holmes A Study in Scarlet The Sign of the Four The Hound of the Baskervilles The Valley of Fear Movie Sherlock Holmes (2009) 25. Steinbeck, John Grapes of Wrath East of Eden Tortilla Flat The Winter of our Discontent Travels with Charley 26. Road Trippin On the Road (2011) Little Miss Sunshine (2006) The Lost Continent, Bill Bryson Travels with Charley, John Steinbeck Into the Wild, John Krakauer (1999) 27. Teen Pregnancy Juno (2008) Where the Heart Is (2000) Slam, Nick Hornby The Pregnancy Project, Gaby Rodriguez Bumped, Megan McCafferty 28. Through Children s Eyes Matilda, Roald Dahl A Series of Unfortunate Events, Lemony Snicket The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾, Sue Townsend The Neverending Story, Michael Ende 8
29. Time Travel Time Machine (2002) The Time Traveler s Wife (2009) The Time Machine, H.G. Wells Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J.K. Rowling 30. The Tudors The Other Boleyn Girl (2008) Elizabeth (2005) The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Alison Weir Henry VIII, William Shakespeare A History of England Volume 2: Tudors, Peter Ackroyd 31. Vampires Van Helsing (2004) Blade (1998) Twilight, Stephenie Meyer The Vampire Diaries: The Awakening, L.J. Smith Dracula, Bram Stoker 9