Teacher Man - Let's begin!

TEACHER MAN (Frank McCourt)

Activity 1 - prereading (groups of 4-6 people)

Each group does a different research:

• Search the Internet to find some background information about the social and economic situation of Ireland in the 1930s.
• Look for some information about the situation of the Irish immigrants in America in the 1950's.
• Look for films that deal with the topic of immigration in America. E.g. The Immigrant (1917), West Side  Story (1961), The Godfather (1972), El Norte (1983),  Stand and Deliver (1988), My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002), etc., and describe the difficulties of those people in the places where they settled down.
• Find out about the education system in the USA. Make sure you include vocational studies.
• Compile a glossary with the new and most interesting vocabulary you'll find while reading the book. 

All the groups must be made on Tuesday next week to make sure you have time to prepare your part and put it together.

Final task:  

Write a summary (max. 200 words) of each research and choose one speaker to present it to the rest of the class . They summaries will be published on the blog too.

The glossary will also be published on the blog in 3 parts, according to the 3 parts of the book, to make sure everybody can use it. 

Deadline for the oral presentations:
- 11th December (Tuesday)
All the material will be immediately posted after the presentation.