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ABI LF - Migration narratives vergleichend analysieren

Mini-Beschreibung: Compare the compulsory works through the lenses of migration experience, setting, narrator/focalization, identity, belonging, conflict, adaptation and ending. Move from evidence-based comparison to a thematic synthesis. Target group: Englisch Leistungsfach, fortgeführte Fremdsprache, Kursstufe Baden-Württemberg.

Media starter — See · Think · Wonder: Spend 90 seconds on the photograph. First list only what you can see. Then infer what you think the situation may involve. Finally write two wonder questions. Do not treat a historical Ellis Island image as a universal picture of migration: use it to notice how settings, institutions and viewers frame migrant experience.

Viewing pulse — Pico Iyer, “Where is home?”: Listen once without subtitles. Note three phrases or examples that complicate the idea of “home”. On a second viewing, connect one idea to two compulsory works.

Einleitung

This aiMOOC is built for comparative analysis rather than plot revision. You should work with your authorised school editions of the compulsory texts and with your own notes. No full compulsory text is reproduced here, and the film Arrival is discussed through analytic concepts rather than unlicensed film clips.

Official check, 2 October 2026: The Baden-Württemberg Ministry currently publishes the Facherlasse for Abitur 2027 and 2028. For English Leistungsfach, the published focus includes On the Move: Migration and Cross-Cultural Encounters and the compulsory corpus used below. The current decree for your own examination year always takes priority: Ministerium für Kultus Baden-Württemberg – Termine und Informationen zum Abitur.

For the 2028 decree, English Leistungsfach is based on the Bildungsplan 2016. In course assessment, AFB II and III are to be weighted more strongly than AFB I. The written examination is separate from the Kommunikationsprüfung. The written examination is approximately 255 minutes including selection time: listening is about 30 minutes, followed by a 15-minute break, then 225 minutes for the writing part. The writing part offers one literary and one non-literary text basis; it includes aspect-focused reading comprehension, analysis, and a choice between personal response and creative writing. A mediation task is also required in the qualification phase in an isolated format, usually around 60 minutes. Check the current official document for your cohort before final exam preparation.

I-can goals

I can ...	LF evidence
compare migration narratives across several works	I use the same analytic categories and distinguish similarities from meaningful differences.
analyse narrator, focalization and setting	I explain how technique shapes access to migrant experience instead of only naming devices.
connect identity and belonging to power	I distinguish legal status, social recognition, self-identification and interpersonal belonging.
build a thematic synthesis	I formulate a claim that includes at least three works and a productive contrast.
write at AFB II/III level	I select precise evidence, analyse effects and evaluate tensions without retelling the plot.
speak comparatively	I develop a clear line of thought, react to a partner and qualify my claims.

Vorwissen aktivieren

Three-minute retrieval: Without notes, write one sentence for each of these terms: migration, displacement, belonging, assimilation, integration, hybridity, focalization, open ending. Then mark each sentence C for concept, E for example or Q for question. Revisit every Q after the comparison grid.

Concept warning: Migration is not one experience. Voluntary and forced movement, legal status, class, race, generation, language, gender, family ties and the receiving society can change the meaning of “adaptation” and “belonging”.

Der Pflichtkanon als Analysefeld

Work	Genre / migration lens	Fast analytical entry
Arrival — Denis Villeneuve, 2016	film; cross-cultural arrival rather than a conventional human migration plot	language, othering, fear, cooperation, non-linear focalization through Louise
The Third and Final Continent — Jhumpa Lahiri, 1999	short story; India → Britain → USA	retrospective first-person narration, routines, marriage, long-term settlement
The Thing Around Your Neck — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2004	short story; Nigeria → USA	second-person narration, alienation, stereotyping, intimacy, unresolved belonging
Green — Sefi Atta, 2004	short story; Nigerian parents seeking permanent residence in the USA	child first-person voice, generational difference, legal status, colour symbolism
Loose Change — Andrea Levy, 2004	short story; refugee precarity in London seen through a settled London narrator	first-person self-exposure, moral distance, class, hospitality and exclusion
The Southside Raza Image Federation Corps of Discovery — Luis Alberto Urrea, 2011	short story; US–Mexico borderland and undocumented status	first-person youth perspective, Chicano identity, code-switching, border as social reality
The Embassy of Cambodia — Zadie Smith, 2013	short fiction; Ivory Coast → Ghana → Libya/Italy → London	communal “we” framing plus Fatou-centred narration, exploitation, visibility, urban belonging
Exterior Paint — Kit de Waal, 2017	short story; Caribbean → Britain	third-person narration close to Alfonse, present-day frame plus flashbacks, racism, memory
The Soldier’s Tale — Neel Mukherjee, 2017	short story; Eritrean refugee journey assessed in the UK asylum system	first-person institutional narrator, reported life story, credibility, bureaucracy, open fate

Use the table as orientation, not as evidence. In an analysis, your evidence must come from the authorised text/film material you have actually studied.

Medien-Einstieg und Kontext

Identity and multilocal belonging

Task: Taiye Selasi proposes a “multi-local” way of thinking about identity. After viewing, create a three-column note: claim — example from talk — compulsory work that complicates the claim. The third column matters most.

USA: legal status, mobility and border

Visual reading: Before looking up any term, infer what a permanent-resident document does socially and legally. Then separate legal belonging from emotional belonging in Green and The Third and Final Continent.

Setting prompt: In Green, New Orleans is more than a location. Ask how the immigration office, the city’s multicultural references and the child narrator create competing ideas of Americanness.

Border prompt: For Urrea, test the thesis: “The border is not merely a line on a map; it enters friendship, language and self-definition.” Find two moments in your edition that support or complicate the thesis.

UK: postcolonial history, urban space and recognition

Context move: Use the Windrush image only as historical context, not as a substitute for the stories. Connect post-war migration and postcolonial Britain to Exterior Paint and to the settled narrator’s family history in Loose Change. State what the image cannot tell you about the fictional characters.

Setting as argument: Why is the National Portrait Gallery a productive setting for a story about who is seen as belonging to Britain? Build one claim about Loose Change that links setting, narrator and moral conflict.

Urban lens: In The Embassy of Cambodia, Willesden is both ordinary neighbourhood and migration space. Trace one tension between community observation and Fatou’s relative invisibility.

Listening and Viewing

Listening strategy for the written exam

Use this three-pass routine in practice:

Preview: predict topic, speaker role and likely lexical field from the task.
First listening: capture stance, structure and key contrasts; do not chase every word.
Second listening / verification: confirm details and distinguish stated information from inference.

LF extension: After checking answers, reconstruct the speaker’s argument in 70–90 words from memory. Then mark where your reconstruction became interpretation rather than listening evidence.

Language, perception and Arrival

Viewing task: Lera Boroditsky discusses relationships between language and thought. Create a two-part note: what the talk supports and what it does not prove. Then compare this cautious real-world claim with the much stronger fictional mechanism in Arrival. Do not use the TED talk as proof that the film’s speculative premise is scientifically established.

Film-analysis focus: In Arrival, use film terms where appropriate: focalization, editing, sound, framing, mise-en-scène, temporal structure and visual symbolism. “Narrator” is not automatically the right term for a film.

Countering the single story

Synthesis task: After Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s talk, choose one compulsory work and write a 120-word warning against reducing its migrant figure to a single story. Include one narrative or formal feature that resists simplification.

Reading

Close-reading protocol

For each assigned extract, annotate only four layers at first:

Situation: Who is where, under what social or legal conditions?
Perspective: Who perceives, narrates or frames the experience?
Language/form: Which repeated lexical field, contrast, symbol, syntax or structural choice matters?
Effect and theme: How does the choice shape identity, belonging, conflict or adaptation?

Then add one comparative arrow to a second work. This prevents plot summary from taking over your analysis.

Evidence rule

A strong LF paragraph does not need many quotations; it needs well-selected evidence. Use short textual references from your authorised edition, or precise scene references for the film. Never invent line numbers or quotations. If editions differ, cite according to the format required by your teacher.

Kontextwortschatz und Wortbildung

Help ladder — English first: 1 context clue → 2 word family → 3 simple English definition → 4 monolingual dictionary → 5 bilingual dictionary → 6 short German help only if still needed.

Core word	Word family	English explanation	Analytic use
migrate	migration · migrant · migratory	move from one place or country to another, often for a longer period	distinguish route, motive and conditions
belong	belonging · belongings	feel accepted, attached or entitled to a place or group	separate emotional, social and legal belonging
adapt	adaptation · adaptive	change behaviour or practices in response to new conditions	ask who must adapt and at what cost
displace	displacement · displaced	force or cause someone to leave a place or position	useful for forced movement and loss of home
exclude	exclusion · exclusive	keep someone outside a group, space or opportunity	connect institutions and social boundaries
assimilate	assimilation · assimilatory	absorb into a dominant culture, often implying loss of difference	contrast with integration or hybridity
integrate	integration · integrated	become part of a social system while participation and difference may coexist	avoid using as a synonym for assimilation
alienate	alienation · alienated	make someone feel socially or emotionally separated	link setting, voice and isolation
document	documentation · documented · undocumented	record officially; undocumented means lacking required official status or papers	use precisely for legal-status conflict
stereotype	stereotyping · stereotypical	reduce a person or group to an oversimplified fixed idea	analyse representation, not merely character behaviour

German fallback, only after the ladder: belonging = Zugehörigkeit; displacement = Vertreibung/Verlagerung je nach Kontext; alienation = Entfremdung; undocumented = ohne den erforderlichen Aufenthaltsstatus bzw. ohne entsprechende Papiere. Prüfe immer den konkreten Kontext.

Vergleichende Analyse

Eight lenses, nine works

Work	Migration experience	Setting	Narrator / focalization	Identity & belonging	Main conflict	Adaptation	Ending
Arrival	outsiders arrive on Earth; humans become receiving society	global crisis, US contact site	film focalization closely aligned with Louise; non-linear temporal structure	local/national identities are tested by a possible global human perspective	fear, mistranslation, geopolitical mistrust	learning the visitors’ language changes communication and Louise’s perception	circular/retrospective structure reframes choice, loss and connection
The Third and Final Continent	India → London → Boston	migrant housing, work and domestic spaces in Boston	retrospective first-person narrator	belonging grows through routine, relationship and long-term settlement while heritage remains	estrangement, cultural adjustment, emotional distance	pragmatic and relational adaptation	long retrospective shows durable settlement plus awareness of cultural change across generations
The Thing Around Your Neck	Nigeria → USA; later return movement	Maine/Connecticut plus remembered Nigeria	second-person narration centred on Akunna	self-definition is pressured by stereotypes, loneliness and unequal intimacy	exploitation, racism, isolation, cultural misunderstanding	work, independence and selective relationships; no simple assimilation	return is initiated after family loss; future belonging and relationship remain open
Green	Nigerian parents await US permanent residence; daughter is US-born	immigration office and New Orleans family life	first-person child narrator	child’s Americanness contrasts with parents’ more precarious institutional belonging	paperwork, waiting, generational perspective	parents seek legal security; child already moves confidently in US everyday culture	positive legal milestone, but generational difference is not erased
Loose Change	Laylor’s refugee precarity meets a settled Londoner descended from migrants	National Portrait Gallery and London public space	first-person narrator filters Laylor through her own assumptions	British belonging is tied to memory, class and willingness to recognise the newcomer	hospitality versus fear, prejudice and self-protection	Laylor has little secure space to adapt; narrator avoids sustained responsibility	narrator leaves Laylor behind; ethical conflict remains with the reader
Southside Raza ... Corps of Discovery	Mexican-American borderland identity; Shadow’s undocumented status becomes decisive	San Diego / US–Mexico border environment	first-person youth perspective through Junior	Chicano and American identities overlap but legal status can abruptly redraw belonging	peer violence, border policing, identity policing	hybrid language and local culture function as everyday adaptation	discovery of Shadow’s status destabilises assumptions about who counts as American
The Embassy of Cambodia	Ivory Coast → Ghana → Libya/Italy → London	Willesden, domestic workplace, pool, embassy street	communal first-person “we” framing combined with Fatou-centred narration	belonging is fragile when a worker is visible as labour but marginal as a person	exploitation, withheld power, social indifference	small routines, friendship, faith and swimming create agency without removing structural vulnerability	dismissal opens uncertainty rather than secure integration
Exterior Paint	Caribbean → Britain; long-term settlement	Smethwick house and remembered 1960s racialised spaces	third-person narration close to Alfonse; present frame plus flashbacks	home is material, relational and remembered; British life includes both racism and intimate attachment	racism, bereavement, memory and social change	persistence, love, home-making and retrospective re-evaluation	bittersweet movement from loss toward renewed relation to memory
The Soldier’s Tale	forced military service and refugee journey from Eritrea toward Europe/UK	asylum bureaucracy plus reconstructed route across countries	first-person caseworker mediates Salim’s story	legal recognition depends on an institution that evaluates narrative credibility	survival versus bureaucratic suspicion; compassion versus official duty	repeated survival strategies under extreme constraints	open outcome foregrounds the ethics of judgement and uncertainty

From comparison to synthesis

Do not write “all migrants struggle to belong”. Build a synthesis through pattern + contrast + significance.

Synthesis route	Works to connect	Higher-level question
Belonging can be legal without being emotional, or emotional without being legal.	Green · Urrea · Lahiri	Who gets to define belonging: the person, the community or the state?
The receiving society is part of the migration story.	Loose Change · The Embassy of Cambodia · The Soldier’s Tale	How do observers and institutions create vulnerability or recognition?
Narrative perspective distributes sympathy and uncertainty.	Adichie · Levy · Mukherjee · Smith	What can the reader know directly, and what is filtered through another voice?
Adaptation is not the same as assimilation.	Lahiri · Atta · de Waal	Which changes allow participation without erasing cultural difference?
Language can mark both boundary and connection.	Urrea · Arrival · Adichie	When does language produce access, stereotyping, intimacy or misreading?
Endings reveal competing models of migration.	Lahiri · Levy · Mukherjee	Why do settlement, abandonment and uncertainty produce different thematic effects?

LF synthesis stem: “While X and Y present belonging as ..., Z complicates this pattern by ..., suggesting that migration narratives are less about ... than about ... .”

Narrator and focalization: precision check

Use narrator for the voice telling a literary narrative; use focalization for the perspective through which information is filtered. A first-person narrator can be limited or unreliable. A third-person text can still stay very close to one character. In film, analyse how camera, editing, sound and temporal organisation align viewers with a character rather than automatically calling that character the narrator.

Speaking

90-second comparative micro-talk

Choose any two compulsory works. Speak for 90 seconds without reading a script:

state one comparative thesis;
give one precise piece of evidence from each work;
explain one formal difference;
end with a synthesis sentence that changes or qualifies the thesis.

Partner response: The listener may only ask AFB II/III questions: “How does the narrative form change that idea?”, “Which counter-example weakens your claim?”, “Would the ending support the same interpretation?”

Kommunikationsprüfung ≠ schriftliche Prüfung

The Kommunikationsprüfung is a separate oral component and its exact design and assessment are governed by the current Beurteilungs- und Korrekturrichtlinienerlass. This MOOC therefore practises transferable oral skills rather than pretending that a generic classroom format is the official timing for every cohort.

Practice focus: coherent monologue, interaction, spontaneous clarification, comparison, evidence, turn-taking and qualification. In contrast, the written exam requires sustained reading/analysis/writing under the published written format.

Writing

Paragraph architecture for LF analysis

C-E-A-S: Claim — Evidence — Analysis — Synthesis.

Claim: answer the analytic aspect, not the plot. Evidence: give a short quotation or precise reference from your authorised material. Analysis: explain how language, narrative/film technique or setting creates meaning. Synthesis: connect the finding to identity, belonging, conflict or another work.

Self-test: Delete your evidence sentence. If the paragraph still makes exactly the same claim with no loss, your “analysis” may be too generic.

Comparative writing task

AFB II/III prompt: Analyse how narrative perspective shapes the representation of belonging in The Thing Around Your Neck and one other compulsory work. Then assess to what extent the comparison supports the claim that “belonging is granted by other people rather than created by the migrant”.

Planning limit: 8 minutes. Write only a thesis, two comparative topic sentences and an evidence list before drafting. Do not ask an AI tool to generate the finished essay.

Creative / personal response training

For the current written format, possible creative target genres include article, blog entry, email, letter, letter to the editor and speech manuscript. Practise genre conventions explicitly. A creative response still needs a clear material link; it is not free fiction.

Mini-task: Write a 220-word speech manuscript for a school literature evening titled Who gets to call a place home? Refer accurately to at least two compulsory works without impersonating a marginalised character or inventing traumatic biography.

Mediation

The qualification phase includes a separate mediation assessment. Mediation is purpose-driven transfer, not sentence-by-sentence translation.

Fictional practice situation: A German partner school is planning an exhibition called “Stories of Belonging”. A German planning note says the exhibition should avoid treating migration only as movement from country A to country B. It should also show legal status, family memory, language, discrimination, everyday routines and the role of the receiving society. Write an English email of 180–220 words to the partner school explaining three useful comparison categories and recommending two compulsory works. The planning note is fictional and contains no personal data.

Hilfen und Differenzierung

Need	Support	LF challenge
vocabulary	use the help ladder and a monolingual dictionary first	replace broad words such as “problem”, “different” and “shows” with precise analytical language
structure	use C-E-A-S and one comparison per paragraph	organise by concepts across works rather than one work after another
evidence	select one short reference per claim	compare the quality and limitations of different evidence
speaking	use five cue words	respond without notes and qualify a partner’s claim
reading	annotate situation/perspective/form/theme	track contradictions, narrative gaps and reader positioning
synthesis	use pattern + contrast + significance	connect at least three works and include a counter-example

Pace option: Core route = 4 works in depth plus corpus overview. LF full route = all compulsory works as comparison pool. Extension = connect a literary finding to the USA/UK context fields without forcing historical context onto every passage.

Feedback und Fehleranalyse

Common error	Diagnostic question	Repair move
plot retelling	Could this paragraph be written without analysing form?	add a technique → effect → theme chain
narrator = author	Am I attributing a fictional voice directly to the writer?	name narrator/focalizer and then discuss the author’s construction
“migration” treated as one universal experience	Have I specified route, motive, legal/social position and receiving context?	add one meaningful difference before synthesising
quotation without analysis	Have I explained why this wording or device matters?	zoom in on diction, syntax, image, perspective or structure
generic comparison	Could I swap in any two texts?	use distinctive evidence and a real contrast
unsupported evaluation	What evidence makes my judgement defensible?	qualify with “to a large extent”, “however”, “within this scene” or a counter-example

Peer feedback code: C = clear claim, E = precise evidence, A = effect explained, S = synthesis. Give one code you can justify and one repair request. No score is needed.

KI, Quellen und Datenschutz

Use AI, if your course permits it, as a checker or question partner, not as a replacement author. Verify names, publication years, quotations, line references, film details and claims against the compulsory work and trustworthy sources. Never submit an AI-generated replacement essay as your independent analysis.

For class activities, use fictional data unless real data are necessary and sourced. Audio/video recordings are voluntary and should remain private unless everyone involved has explicitly agreed otherwise. Do not upload classmates’ work, voices, images or personal information without consent. Do not send material to external AI services unless this has been clearly authorised. No task in this MOOC requires an external AI account.

Abi-Check

Current official orientation for Leistungsfach

Checked for the published 2027/2028 framework; recheck your own exam year.

Area	What to remember
Focus	On the Move: Migration and Cross-Cultural Encounters plus the published USA and UK context fields.
LF level	AFB II and III are more strongly accentuated than AFB I in course assessment.
Written exam	approximately 255 minutes including selection time: listening about 30 minutes; 15-minute break; writing part 225 minutes.
Writing choice	one literary and one non-literary text basis are offered; one relates to the focus/compulsory works, the other to context fields.
Reading	aspect-focused summary.
Analysis	evidence-based analysis of content/intention plus formal or linguistic features; literary aspects may include language, narrative techniques, plot/time structure and setting.
Final writing task	choice between personal response and creative writing; current listed creative genres include article, blog entry, email, letter, letter to the editor and speech manuscript.
Mediation	separately assessed in the qualification phase; isolated target-language production, usually around 60 minutes.
Aids	current 2028 decree lists monolingual English dictionary, bilingual English–German/German–English dictionary and German spelling reference.
Communication exam	separate oral component; use the current assessment/correction decree for exact design and marking.

Five-minute readiness check: Can you build a comparison without retelling? Can you distinguish narrator from focalization? Can you connect technique to theme? Can you use a counter-example? Can you identify which official rule comes from your current Facherlass rather than from memory?

Transfer

Unseen-text transfer: Take an unfamiliar English-language migration narrative of 500–800 words supplied legally by your teacher. In 12 minutes, locate the eight lenses used in this MOOC. Then choose only the three that best explain the text. The transfer skill is not “using every category”; it is selecting the categories that create the strongest interpretation.

Visual transfer: Return to the Ellis Island photograph at the top. Compare how the photograph frames migrants with how one literary narrator frames a migrant figure. Separate what is visibly present from what you infer. This is the same discipline you need when an Abitur task combines a linear text with an image, chart or other discontinuous material.

Interaktive Aufgaben

Quiz: Teste Dein Wissen

Which category asks who tells or filters a migration story? (Narrator and focalization) (!Setting only) (!Publication date) (!Genre label only)

Which work uses a second-person narrative perspective centred on Akunna? (The Thing Around Your Neck) (!Green) (!Loose Change) (!Exterior Paint)

Which work makes a child narrator central to a family’s Green Card experience? (Green) (!The Soldier’s Tale) (!The Embassy of Cambodia) (!Arrival)

Which work places a key encounter in the National Portrait Gallery? (Loose Change) (!Exterior Paint) (!The Third and Final Continent) (!Green)

Which comparison best separates adaptation from assimilation? (Adaptation can involve change without requiring loss of cultural difference) (!Adaptation always means abandoning the first culture) (!Assimilation and adaptation are identical terms) (!Adaptation refers only to legal citizenship)

Which work uses an institutional caseworker to mediate a refugee’s life story? (The Soldier’s Tale) (!The Third and Final Continent) (!Green) (!Arrival)

Which statement is most suitable for an LF synthesis? (A pattern should be qualified by a meaningful contrast and its significance) (!Every work should be reduced to the same theme) (!A synthesis should retell all plots chronologically) (!A synthesis should avoid formal analysis)

What is the most appropriate analytic term for the viewer’s alignment with Louise in Arrival? (Focalization) (!Rhyme scheme) (!First-person narrator) (!Stage direction)

In the current published LF framework, which areas are more strongly accentuated than AFB I in course assessment? (AFB II and AFB III) (!AFB I only) (!Vocabulary recall only) (!Plot summary only)

What should you do before using German vocabulary help in this MOOC? (Use context, word formation, an English explanation and dictionaries first) (!Translate the whole text immediately) (!Ask for a complete German version) (!Skip the English definition)

Memory

second-person narration	The Thing Around Your Neck
child perspective	Green
National Portrait Gallery	Loose Change
Willesden	The Embassy of Cambodia
asylum caseworker	The Soldier’s Tale
Smethwick memories	Exterior Paint
borderland identity	Southside Raza Corps
non-linear film structure	Arrival

Drag and Drop

Ordne die richtigen Begriffe zu.	Thema
legal belonging	Green
moral spectatorship	Loose Change
institutional narration	The Soldier’s Tale
multilocal identity	The Third and Final Continent
borderland hybridity	Southside Raza Corps

Kreuzworträtsel

Belonging	What English term describes felt or recognised membership in a place or group?
Focalization	What term names the perspective through which narrative information is filtered?
Willesden	Which London area is central to The Embassy of Cambodia?
Adaptation	What term describes adjustment to new conditions without automatically implying full assimilation?
Mediation	What competence transfers relevant content for a target audience rather than translating sentence by sentence?
Ambiguity	What term describes productive uncertainty that can remain in an open ending?

LearningApps

Lückentext

A migration narrative should be analysed through the conditions of the

rather than through a universal migrant template.

The place in which a story unfolds can function as an active

that shapes power and belonging.

The voice that tells a literary story is the

.

The perspective through which information is filtered is called

.

A strong comparison distinguishes emotional, social and legal forms of

.

Adjustment to new circumstances can be described as

without assuming complete assimilation.

An ending that deliberately leaves decisive questions unresolved can be described as

.

At Leistungsfach level, a comparison should move from evidence and analysis toward a thematic

.

Offene Aufgaben

Leicht

Setting Map: Create a visual map for two works showing places, institutions and emotional associations; use only fictional characters and publicly available geographic information.
Vocabulary Network: Build a word-family network around belong, adapt, migrate and exclude; add one precise example sentence for each family.
Ending Spectrum: Place four endings on a self-designed continuum from secure settlement to radical uncertainty and justify every placement in English.
Media Reading: Choose one Commons image from this MOOC and write 120 words separating observation, inference and a possible link to one work.

Standard

Narrator Comparison: Compare how two narrators or focalizers limit the reader’s access to migrant experience; use two precise references from your authorised editions.
Belonging Triangle: Visualise legal, social and emotional belonging for three characters and explain where the three forms conflict.
Speaking Lab: Record a voluntary private 90-second comparison, listen once, then re-record after removing plot summary and adding one counter-example; do not upload without consent.
Mediation Email: Complete the fictional mediation task in this MOOC and annotate where you selected, reorganised and adapted information for the audience.

Schwer

Three-Work Synthesis: Develop a thesis across three compulsory works in which the third work genuinely complicates the first two.
Unseen Transfer: Analyse a legally provided unseen migration text using only the three most productive lenses and justify why you rejected the other five.
Oral Challenge: Run a four-minute partner discussion on whether institutions or relationships matter more for belonging; each speaker must qualify at least one earlier claim.
Abi Mini-Essay: Write a timed comparative mini-essay with introduction, two analytic paragraphs and synthesis; document every quotation accurately and add a short error log instead of asking for an AI replacement essay.

Lernkontrolle

Perspective transfer: You receive an unfamiliar first-person migration extract. Explain how the choice of narrator shapes what the reader can and cannot know, then compare this limitation with one compulsory work.
Setting as power: Compare an institutional setting in Green or The Soldier’s Tale with a domestic or cultural setting in another work. Assess how space distributes power.
Concept distinction: Evaluate the claim that successful adaptation always requires assimilation. Use at least three works and one counter-example.
Ending and effect: Compare two open or ethically unresolved endings with one more settled ending. Explain how different endings position the reader.
Host-society responsibility: Analyse how one narrator, community or institution in the corpus constructs the newcomer as insider, outsider or case. Transfer the finding to a new scenario of your teacher’s choice.
Synthesis under pressure: In 20 minutes, plan a response to “Migration narratives reveal as much about receiving societies as about migrants.” Use at least three works, two formal techniques and one qualified disagreement.

Lernnachweis

For a strong learning record, show that you can:

identify the current compulsory corpus and distinguish literary analysis from film analysis;
compare at least three works through shared categories without flattening their differences;
analyse narrator/focalization, setting and language/form with precise evidence;
distinguish identity, legal status, social recognition and emotional belonging;
explain adaptation without automatically equating it with assimilation;
develop an AFB II/III synthesis that includes a counter-example or qualification;
produce one timed written response and one oral comparison;
document sources and quotations accurately and verify AI-supported claims independently;
reflect on one recurring language or analysis error and demonstrate how you corrected it.

OERs zum Thema

Further open context: Wikimedia Commons – Human migration offers freely licensed visual material. Always read the individual file’s licence and attribution information before reuse.

Verknüpfte Lernbereiche

Migration narratives

Folgekurs

Continue with ABI LF - Migration narratives: timed synthesis and exam writing. The follow-up should increase time pressure, unseen-material transfer and independent evidence selection rather than add more plot summaries.

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