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    Informasjon ENG0012 Engelsk

    Eksamensfrebuing i engelsk ENG0012 for elevar p 10. trinn og deltakarar og privatistar i

    vaksenopplringa vren 2014.

    Eksamensinformasjon

    Frebuing: Mndag 19. mai 2014 fr kl. 09.00

    Eksamen: Tysdag 20. mai 2014 fr kl. 09.00

    Eksamenstid: 5 timar

    Tema: Civil and Human Rights

    Frebuing

    I frebuingstida kan du lese om temaet Civil and Human Rights p desse nettsidene. Du kan g

    finne fram relevant materiell som du har arbeidd med i opplringa, eller finne heilt nytt stoff om

    tema andre stader. Frebuingsmateriellet skal vere til inspirasjon og til bruk som kjelder p

    eksamensdagen.

    Eksamen

    Eksamensoppgvene er knytte til temaet i frebuingsmateriellet. P eksamensdagen skal du

    svare p tre oppgver, der to oppgver krev kortare svar og ei oppgve krev eit lengre svar. Ei av

    kortsvarsoppgvene er basert p ein vedlagd tekst som du skal lese p eksamensdagen. Den

    andre kortsvarsoppgva er basert p frebuingsmateriellet. Langsvarsoppgvene er baserte p

    temaet for eksamen. Du skal svare p alle oppgvene p engelsk.

    Tillatne hjelpemiddel

    Alle hjelpemiddel er tillatne p eksamen med unnatak av Internett og andre verkty som tillt

    kommunikasjon.

    Det er ikkje tillate bruke omsetjingsprogram.

    Bruk av kjelder

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    Alle kjelder som blir brukte i eksamenssvaret, direkte eller indirekte, skal frast opp p ein slik

    mte at lesaren kan finne fram til kjeldene. Dersom du bruker sitat fr nettsider, skal nettadresse

    og nedlastingsdato frast opp.

    Praktisk informasjon

    Topptekst: fagkode, kandidatnummer og namn p skole

    Botntekst: sidetal og totalt sidetal

    Font og skriftstorleik: Arial, Times New Roman eller Calibri i brdtekstar, str. 12

    Linjeavstand: 1,5

    Oppgvenummer: skal skrivast inn i svaret, f.eks. 3B

    Dersom du skriv for hand:

    bruk godkjende innfringsark

    skriv inn likelydande informasjon som er nemnd under topptekst og botntekst over

    Vurdering

    Svaret du skriv til eksamen, blir vurdert av to eksterne sensorar. Nr sensor skal vurdere svaret,

    skal ho eller han leggje oppgva og eksamensrettleiinga med kjenneteikn p mloppning til

    grunn for vurderinga.

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    Informasjon ENG0012 Engelsk

    Eksamensforberedelse i engelsk ENG0012 for elever p 10. trinn og deltakere og privatister i

    voksenopplringen vren 2014.

    Eksamensinformasjon

    Forberedelse: Mandag 19. mai 2014 fra kl. 09.00

    Eksamen: Tirsdag 20. mai 2014 fra kl. 09.00

    Eksamenstid: 5 timer

    Tema: Civil and Human Rights

    Forberedelse

    I forberedelsestiden kan du lese om temaet Civil and Human Rights p disse nettsidene. Du kan

    ogs finne frem relevant materiell som du har arbeidet med i opplringen, eller finne helt nytt stoff

    om tema andre steder. Forberedelsesmateriellet skal vre til inspirasjon og til bruk som kilder p

    eksamensdagen.

    Eksamen

    Eksamensoppgavene er knyttet til temaet i forberedelsesmateriellet. P eksamensdagen skal du

    svare p tre oppgaver, hvor to oppgaver krever kortere svar og en oppgave krever et lengre svar.

    En av kortsvarsoppgavene er basert p en vedlagt tekst som du skal lese p eksamensdagen.

    Den andre kortsvarsoppgaven er basert p forberedelsesmateriellet. Langsvarsoppgavene er

    basert p temaet for eksamen. Du skal besvare alle oppgavene p engelsk.

    Tillatte hjelpemidler

    Alle hjelpemidler er tillatt p eksamen med unntak av Internett og andre verkty som tillater

    kommunikasjon.

    Det er ikke tillatt bruke oversettelsesprogrammer.

    Bruk av kilder

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    Alle kilder som blir brukt i eksamensbesvarelsen, direkte eller indirekte, skal oppgis p en slik

    mte at leseren kan finne fram til kildene. Dersom du bruker sitater fra nettsider, skal nettadresse

    og nedlastingsdato oppgis.

    Praktisk informasjon

    Topptekst: fagkode, kandidatnummer og navn p skole

    Bunntekst: sidetall og totalt antall sider

    Font og skriftstrrelse: Arial, Times New Roman eller Calibri i brdtekster, str. 12

    Linjeavstand: 1,5

    Oppgavenummer: skrives inn i besvarelsen, f.eks. 3B

    Dersom du skriver for hnd:

    bruk godkjente innfringsark

    skriv inn likelydende informasjon som er nevnt under topptekst og bunntekst over

    Vurdering

    Besvarelsen du skriver til eksamen, blir vurdert av to eksterne sensorer. Nr sensor skal vurdere

    besvarelsen, skal hun eller han legge oppgaven og eksamensveiledningen med kjennetegn p

    mloppnelse til grunn for vurderingen.

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    If I were you and you were me

    Moving Day by Norman Rockwell, 1967.

    Retrieved from: nrm.org November 12, 2013.

    This years topic is Civil and Human Rights, and it is inspired by the Universal Declaration of

    Human Rights. Articles 1 and 2, signed in 1948, state that (paraphrased): We are all born free

    and equal. We all have our own thoughts and ideas. We should all be treated in the same way.

    These rights belong to everybody, whatever our differences. The preparation material includes

    factual and fictional texts as well as pictures that present aspects of Civil and Human Rights.

    The factual texts provide examples of people with strong voices who fought brave battles for Civil

    and Human Rights. Abraham Lincoln declared slavery illegal and Emmeline Pankhurst put

    womens civil rights on the agenda. Rosa Parks challenged American prejudice by refusing to give

    up her bus seat to a white man. Martin Luther King Jr. gave the famous I Have a Dream speech to

    draw attention to racial discrimination and civil rights in the US. Young Malala Yousafzai touched

    the whole world when she survived being shot in the head for standing up for the rights of girls to

    have an education. Nelson Mandela endured spending over two decades in a South African

    prison for his beliefs. The last factual text defines some important concepts.

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    In the fictional texts, you will read about young people facing challenges and hardship. The

    brothers Deo and Innocent from Zimbabwe have to seek shelter elsewhere because of war. The

    Native American boy Arnold Spirit (Junior) tries to escape from the vicious circle of poverty. A boy

    nicknamed Armpit makes some bad choices, and Bobby, Addie, Joe and Skeezie struggle to be

    recognized by other people.

    Past or present, real or fictional, the purpose of the preparation material is to inspire new ideas

    and thoughts and give information about the topic. You can also look for more information.

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    Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) was the 16th

    President of the United States. He issued the

    memorable Emancipation Proclamation in

    1863.

    Retrieved from: hdwallsize.com November 12, 2013.

    Whenever I hear anyone

    arguing for slavery, I feel a

    strong impulse to see it tried

    on him personally.

    (The Collected Works of Abraham

    Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler,

    Volume VIII, "Speech to One Hundred

    Fortieth Indiana Regiment" March 17,

    1865, p. 361.)

    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) was

    a civil rights leader famous for his I Have a

    Dream speech, given outside the Lincoln

    Memorial in Washington, D.C. in 1963.

    Rosa Parks (1913-2005) is famous for the bus

    boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955. The

    U.S. Supreme Court ruled segregation illegal

    on the city's bus system in 1956.

    Retrieved from: ushistory.org November 12, 2013.

    Each person must live their

    life as a model for others.

    Memories of our lives, of our

    works and our deeds will

    continue in others.

    (Retrieved from: brainyquote.com

    November 12, 2013.)

    Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) was a

    British suffragette who fought for womens right

    to vote and for female civil rights.

    Strong civil and human rights voices

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    Retrieved from: officialmlkdream50.com November 12,

    2013.

    It may be true that the law

    cannot make a man love me,

    but it can keep him from

    lynching me, and thats pretty

    important.

    (Retrieved from: brainyquote.com

    November 12, 2013.)

    Retrieved from: biographyonline.net November 12,

    2013.

    We are not here because we

    are law breakers, we are here

    in our efforts to become law

    makers.

    (Magistrates Court, London October

    21, 1908)

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    Other strong civil and human rights

    voices in recent history

    Malala Yousafzai giving her speech at the United Nations headquarters in New York, 2013.

    One child, one teacher, one pen and one book can change the world.

    Education is the only solution. Education First.

    (from Malala Yousafzais speech before the UN General Assembly in 2013)

    Retrieved from: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-23282662. November 12, 2013.

    Nelson Mandela Inspired Millions To Bridge

    Divides, Seek Peaceful ChangeBy JOHN DANISZEWSKI 12/05/13

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    Nelson Mandela at a music festival in

    Troms in 2005. Retrieved from:

    nettavisen/no. December 10, 2013

    NEW YORK (AP) The thing about Nelson Mandela was that he made the rest of us want to be

    almost as noble as he.

    Imprisoned for 27 years, the anti-apartheid leader

    emerged from prison not filled with hatred, but

    courtly, humble and good-humored.

    It is easy to forget what South Africa had become by

    the early 1990s as part of its white minority

    struggled to hang on to the three centuries of

    privilege made possible by apartheid.

    Part of the privilege of being around Nelson

    Mandela in the 1990s was to see the joy he spread

    whenever he entered a township or a small

    settlement in one of the homelands set up by apartheid governments to separate black from white

    South Africans.

    As the cars carrying Mandela and his supporters jolted along the dirt tracks, they soon would be

    joined by school children running alongside as fast as they could, shouting for "Madiba, Madiba,"

    the clan name that he is affectionately called. Finally, when the cars could move no farther,

    Mandela would slowly walk through the people, smiling and waving and occasionally raising his fist

    in an ANC salute with a different brightly colored and patterned shirt on every day. Inside there

    would be dancing, cheering and singing of his name, until everyone went quiet to hear his speech.

    He could be firm with his followers, saying they were embarrassing the cause when they tore

    down posters of opponents or heckled members of the opposition. "People will believe that we are

    unfit for government," he would warn followers when they showed any signs of hooligan behavior.

    He was loyal as well to the Third World and to the countries that had formed the anti-apartheid

    front. Even when he was firmly embraced by the U.S. government, he would not forsake those who

    had befriended his cause at a time when the world's richer and more powerful countries were still

    supporting apartheid South Africa.

    And he could be brutal with his political opponents, but he seized their hand for a unifying

    handshake at the end.

    After his swearing-in for president in Pretoria, as South Africas first democratically chosen leader,

    Mandela slipped easily into the role of president.

    In a meeting for a group of foreign journalists when he was then 77, he recounted all the affairs of

    state and problems of the country that were keeping him busy, but made clear that he was still

    energetic and still relishing the burden of leading his nation and serving as an icon for Africa and

    for the cause of truth and reconciliation everywhere.

    "At the end of the day, I have often felt that I have spent my time very fruitfully," he told us with his

    typical understatement and a slight twinkle in the eye.

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    Adapted from: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/06/nelson-mandela-inspired-others_n_4396247.html?

    utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

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    The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-

    Time Indianby Sherman Alexie

    This text is about a young Native American boy called Junior who decides to do something

    about a difficult situation. In this excerpt, he struggles with helping his dearest friend, the

    dog Oscar.

    Do you know the worst thing about being poor? Oh, maybe youve done the math in your head

    and you figure:

    Poverty = empty refrigerator + empty stomach

    And sure, sometimes, my family misses a meal, and sleep is the only thing we have for dinner, but

    I know that, sooner or later, my parents will come bursting through the door with a bucket of

    Kentucky Fried Chicken.

    Original Recipe.

    And hey, in a weird way, being hungry makes food taste better. There is nothing better than a

    chicken leg when you havent eaten for (approximately) eighteen-and-a-half hours. So hunger is

    not the worst thing about being poor.

    And now Im sure youre asking. Okay, okay, Mr. Hunger Artist, Mr. Mouth-Full-of-Words, Mr.

    Woe-Is-Me, Mr. Secret Recipe, what is the worst thing about being poor?

    So, okay, Ill tell you the worst thing.

    Last week, my best friend Oscar got really sick.

    And sure, Oscar was only an adopted stray mutt, but he was the only living thing that I could

    depend on. He was more dependable than my parents, grandmother, aunts, uncles, cousins, and

    a big sister. He taught me more than any teachers ever did.

    Honestly, Oscar was a better person than any human I had ever known.

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    Mom, I said. We have to take Oscar to the vet.

    Hell be all right, she said.

    But she was lying. Her eyes always got darker in the middle when she lied. She was a Spokane

    Indian and a bad liar which didnt make any sense. We Indians really should be better liars,

    considering how often we have been lied to.

    Hes really sick, Mom, I said. Hes going to die if we dont take him to the doctor.

    She looked hard at me. And her eyes werent dark anymore, so I knew she was going to tell me

    the truth. And trust me, there are times when the last thing you want to hear is the truth.

    Junior, sweetheart, Mom said. Im sorry, but we dont have any money for Oscar.

    Ill pay you back, I said. I promise.

    Honey, itll cost hundreds of dollars, maybe a thousand.

    Ill pay back the doctor. Ill get a job.

    Jezz, how stupid was I? What kind of job can a reservation Indian boy get? I was too young to deal

    blackjack at the casino, there were only about fifteen green grass lawns on the reservation and

    the only paper route was owned by a tribal elder named Wally. And he had to deliver fifty papers,

    so this job was more like a hobby.

    There was nothing I could do to save Oscar.

    Nothing.

    Nothing.

    Nothing.

    So I lay down on the floor beside him and patted his head and whispered his name for hours.

    Dad pulled down his rifle and bullets from the closet.

    Hes suffering, Dad said. We have to help him.

    I wanted to punch my dad in the face. I wanted to punch him in the nose and make him bleed. I

    wanted to punch him in the eye and make him blind.

    Dad just looked at me with the saddest look in his eyes. He was crying. He looked weak.

    I wanted to hate him for his weakness.

    I wanted to hate Dad and Mom for our poverty.

    I wanted to blame them for my sick dog and for all the other sickness in the world.

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    But I cant blame my parents for our poverty because my mother and father are the twin suns

    around which I orbit and my world would EXPLODE without them.

    And its not like my mother and father were born into wealth. Its not like they gambled away their

    family fortunes. My parents came from poor people who came from poor people who came from

    poor people, all the way back to the very first poor people.

    Seriously, I know my mother and father had their dreams when they were kids. They dreamed

    about being something other than poor, but they never got the chance to be anything because

    nobody paid attention to their dreams.

    Given the chance, my mother would have gone to college.

    She still reads books like crazy. And she remembers everything she reads.

    Given the chance, my father would have been a musician. He plays the guitar and the piano a little

    bit. And he has the old saxophone from high school that he keeps all clean and shiny, like hes

    going to join a band at any moment.

    But we reservation Indians dont get to realize our dreams. We dont get those chances. Or

    choices. Were just poor. Thats all we are.

    It sucks to be poor, and it sucks to feel that you somehow deserve to be poor. You start believing

    that youre poor because youre stupid and ugly. And then you start believing that youre stupid

    and ugly because youre an Indian. And because youre Indian you start believing youre destined

    to be poor. Its an ugly circle and theres nothing you can do about it. Poverty doesnt give

    strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.

    Excerpt retrieved from The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, pages 8, 9, 10, 11 and

    13, 2009.

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    Small Stepsby Louis Sachar

    In this text, Armpit is sent to a juvenile detention camp, called Camp Green Lake, for totally

    losing his temper.

    During his first week at Camp Green Lake, close to three years before, a scorpion had stung him

    on the arm, and the pain had traveled upward and settled in his armpit. It had felt like there was a

    hot needle twisting around inside him. Hed made the mistake of complaining about how much his

    armpit hurt. The pain eventually went away, but the name stuck.

    He had been sent to Camp Green Lake because of a bucket of popcorn. He had been trying to

    ease his way along a row of seats at the movies. He was only fourteen at the time, and was

    making his way past a couple of high school seniors when one of them stuck out his foot. They

    yelled at him for spilling popcorn on them, and he demanded that they pay for the popcorn, and

    by the time it was all over, the two older boys were in the hospital, and he was on his way to Camp

    Green Lake Juvenile Correctional Facility.

    After leaving Camp Green Lake, he first spent six months at a halfway house in San Antonio,

    where he attended school and received counseling. There were sixteen boys at the halfway

    house. The counselor there told them that the recidivism rate for African American boys was

    seventy-three percent. That meant, according to the statistics, that eleven or twelve of them would

    be arrested again before they turned eighteen. The counselor said the rate was even higher if

    you didnt finish high school.

    Excerpt retrieved from Small Steps by Louis Sachar, pages 2, 3 and 4, 2006.

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    Small Stepsby Louis Sachar

    In this text, Armpit is sent to a juvenile detention camp, called Camp Green Lake, for totally

    losing his temper.

    During his first week at Camp Green Lake, close to three years before, a scorpion had stung him

    on the arm, and the pain had traveled upward and settled in his armpit. It had felt like there was a

    hot needle twisting around inside him. Hed made the mistake of complaining about how much his

    armpit hurt. The pain eventually went away, but the name stuck.

    He had been sent to Camp Green Lake because of a bucket of popcorn. He had been trying to

    ease his way along a row of seats at the movies. He was only fourteen at the time, and was

    making his way past a couple of high school seniors when one of them stuck out his foot. They

    yelled at him for spilling popcorn on them, and he demanded that they pay for the popcorn, and

    by the time it was all over, the two older boys were in the hospital, and he was on his way to Camp

    Green Lake Juvenile Correctional Facility.

    After leaving Camp Green Lake, he first spent six months at a halfway house in San Antonio,

    where he attended school and received counseling. There were sixteen boys at the halfway

    house. The counselor there told them that the recidivism rate for African American boys was

    seventy-three percent. That meant, according to the statistics, that eleven or twelve of them would

    be arrested again before they turned eighteen. The counselor said the rate was even higher if

    you didnt finish high school.

    Excerpt retrieved from Small Steps by Louis Sachar, pages 2, 3 and 4, 2006.

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    The Misfitsby James Howe

    In The Misfits you can read about three young boys and one girl, who are being called

    names at school. The consequences are that other students may form an opinion about

    them without actually knowing them.

    These are our names.

    Bobby.

    Addie.

    Joe.

    Skeezie.

    These are our names. But they are only names. They dont tell you who we are. We have other

    names, too. Names we have been called, names we have been given. We figured it out. Between

    us, we have a total of seventy-two names, other than the names you see here. These are names

    we have been called since kindergarten. The ones we remember, anyway.

    Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me.

    Anybody who believes that has never been called a name.

    This is what I think about names. I think that names are a very small way of looking at a person.

    When I was in third grade, I got the name Fluff because I ate peanut butter and Marshmallow Fluff

    sandwiches every day for lunch and also, I guess, because I started putting on weight. But nobody

    knew why I was eating those sandwiches. I didnt even know myself until this year, when I figured it

    out. It was because my dad made one for me for lunch one day and he told me, These were your

    moms favorite kind of sandwich. My mom had died the summer before and I missed her. And so

    from then on I wouldnt eat anything but peanut butter and Marshmallow Fluff sandwiches for

    lunch. But every time I did, somebody was bound to call out, Hey Fluff! and that hurt.

    Another thing I think about names is that they do hurt. They hurt because we believe them. We

    think they are telling us something true about ourselves, something other people can see even if

    we dont.

    Lardo fluff fatso faggot fairy dweeb mutant freak retard loser greaser know-it-all beanpole geek

    dork....

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    Is that me? We think. Is that who I am?

    If you havent been called any of those names, think about the ones you have been called. Is that

    who you are?

    The No-Name Party wants to put an end to name-calling in school. We want to start with a No-

    Name Day, in which we all think about the names we call each other and stop using them just for

    a day. Maybe well think about more than names and stop talking to each other like some of us are

    less than others of us. But, hey, I dont want to get too ambitious here. Lets just start with names.

    No name-calling. For one day. Then we can see where it goes.

    Excerpt retrieved from The Misfits by James Howe, pages 247 249, 2003.

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    If I were you and you were me:

    Stereotypes and prejudices

    What is a stereotype? People are often defined as members of groups, depending on their

    culture, their religious beliefs, and their origin or looks, such as the colour of their skin, their size,

    hairstyle or clothing. Often this definition of groups also includes certain qualities. These qualities

    can be positive or negative. If these definitions are exaggerated, we call them stereotypes.

    Stereotypes can also be found in books (even school textbooks), comics, advertisements,

    newspapers or movies.

    From a stereotype to a prejudice. If a person or a group is judged based only on stereotypes

    and not as an individual or group of individuals, we are dealing with a prejudice. This means that

    an opinion has been formed about a person or a group without actually knowing him, her or them.

    Such views and ideas most often have nothing to do with reality (for example that all Norwegians

    are good skiers), and they are also often unfavourable, hostile and offensive. Primarily, prejudices

    are used to treat someone unfairly. Prejudices deprive people of the opportunity to show who they

    are and what they are capable of achieving.

    What are stereotypes good for? Stereotypes and prejudices seem to make the world simpler

    and less complicated. You can for example pretend that you know everything about the other/s

    and need not ask any questions. However, as a result, a meaningful dialogue and a real

    understanding have become impossible.

    What can we do against prejudices? Prejudices die hard and are therefore hard to deal with.

    But there is no need to lose hope: no one is born with prejudices. They have been learnt and can

    therefore be unlearnt. Before judging a person, ask him or her to explain why he or she has done

    whatever is under discussion. Remember that you surely would not like being judged without being

    listened to.

    Retrieved from Living in Democracy. EDC/HE Vol. III p. 37. Council of Europe (adapted version).