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2009 LK 1 Aufgabe
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Name: _______________________
Abiturprüfung 2009
Englisch, Leistungskurs
Aufgabenstellung:
1. Describe the process of American civilization and the reactions to it as presented in
the poem. (Comprehension) (16 Punkte)
2. Analyse the speaker’s attitude to this process of civilization. Focus on the poem’s
structure, language and stylistic devices. (Analysis) (24 Punkte)
3.2 Imagine you are the thirteen-year-old girl “dreaming into the window of Levitz’s
Record Shop“ (ll. 35 – 36). Write down the girl’s dreams and thoughts in the form of
an interior monologue. The title should be “My American Dream”.
(Evaluation: re-creation of text) (20 Punkte)
Materialgrundlage:
• Ausgangstext: Literarischer Text (Gedicht)
Fundstelle des Textes: Joyce Carol Oates, Dreaming America (1975), in: The Fabulous
Beasts, Poems by Joyce Carol Oates, Baton Rouge; London: Louisiana State University
Press, 1975, S. 83 – 84
Wortzahl: 210
Zugelassene Hilfsmittel:
Name: _______________________
Name: _______________________
Annotations:
13 The polled Herefords: breed of beef cattle with horns cut – 18 Frisch’s Big Boy: chain of family-style
restaurants – 19 Sunoco, Texaco, Gulf signs: gas stations owned by the respective companies