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ABI LF - Pflichtkanon Migration vergleichend vernetzen

Mini-description: Compare all compulsory short stories through the same lenses: migration type, narrator, setting, home, belonging, identity, cultural encounter, discrimination, adaptation and ending. Build connections instead of isolated summaries.

Media hook – 90 seconds: Look before you read. Write one observation, one inference and one question. Then connect your question to Migration, Belonging or Identity. Keep observation and inference separate.

Einleitung

This aiMOOC is designed for Englisch als fortgeführte Fremdsprache, Kursstufe Baden-Württemberg, Leistungsfach. It is English first: use context, word formation, visualisation, an English explanation and a dictionary before turning to short German help.

Official check, Stand 3 October 2026: The currently available Baden-Württemberg materials for Abitur 2028 list the focus On the Move: Migration and Cross-Cultural Encounters. The compulsory canon contains Denis Villeneuve's film Arrival and the eight short stories compared here: Jhumpa Lahiri, The Third and Final Continent; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Thing Around Your Neck; Sefi Atta, Green; Andrea Levy, Loose Change; Luis Alberto Urrea, The Southside Raza Image Federation Corps of Discovery; Zadie Smith, The Embassy of Cambodia; Kit de Waal, Exterior Paint; Neel Mukherjee, The Soldier's Tale. The 2027 Facherlass lists the same focus and canon. Check the Facherlass for your examination year again if your cohort differs.

Official Baden-Württemberg Abitur information

Facherlass Abitur 2028

Beurteilungs- und Korrekturrichtlinien Abitur 2028

Facherlass Abitur 2027

I-can goals

I can compare at least three stories through one precise analytical lens instead of retelling plots.
I can analyse how narrative perspective, setting and structure shape a migration experience.
I can evaluate different forms of home, belonging, discrimination and adaptation with textual evidence.
I can connect literary texts to relevant historical and social contexts without reducing characters to stereotypes.
I can speak and write in an exam-appropriate register and distinguish AFB I, II and III.
I can verify claims from notes, websites and AI against my legal school edition and reliable sources.

Before you start: prior knowledge

3–2–1 warm-up: Name three things a passport can document, two things it cannot tell you about a person's identity, and one question about the relation between legal status and belonging.

Visualisation:

movement → encounter → pressure → response → belonging?

The arrow does not describe every migration story. Your job is to test where each compulsory text follows, complicates or rejects this sequence.

Context vocabulary and word formation

Use the columns from left to right. Only use the German emergency help after you have tried context, the word family, the English explanation and a dictionary.

Core word	Word family	English explanation	Useful collocation	German emergency help
migrate	migration, migrant, migratory	move from one place or country to another for a longer period	migration route	Migration, wandern
belong	belonging, belongings	feel accepted or connected; note that belongings means possessions	sense of belonging	Zugehörigkeit
displace	displacement, displaced	force someone away from home or habitual place	forced displacement	Vertreibung
discriminate	discrimination, discriminatory	treat people unfairly because of an assigned group identity	racial discrimination	Diskriminierung
adapt	adaptation, adaptive	adjust to changing circumstances without necessarily giving up earlier ties	cultural adaptation	Anpassung
assimilate	assimilation	become absorbed into a dominant culture, often with pressure to reduce difference	pressure to assimilate	Assimilation
integrate	integration, integrated	participate in a society while cultural difference may remain	social integration	Integration
marginalise	marginalisation, marginalised	push people towards the social, political or economic margins	social marginalisation	Ausgrenzung
precarious	precarity	insecure and unstable, for example in legal status, housing or employment	precarious status	unsicher, prekär
other	othering	construct a person or group as fundamentally different from an imagined norm	process of othering	Fremdmachung

Dictionary challenge: For home, identity and encounter, find one definition, two collocations and one word-family item. Then decide which collocation is most useful for literary analysis.

Listening and Viewing

Viewing 1: The danger of a single story

This official TED talk by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is not a substitute for The Thing Around Your Neck. Use it as a conceptual lens.

First viewing: note three claims about how stories shape perception.
Second viewing: connect one claim to Akunna, one to Laylor or Fatou, and one to a narrator whose perspective limits what readers know.
LF challenge: explain when the concept of a "single story" is useful and when applying it too mechanically would flatten a literary text.

Viewing 2: Windrush as historical context

The National Archives video provides historical context for post-war Caribbean migration to Britain. It does not replace close reading of Exterior Paint or Loose Change.

Listening/Viewing grid: Write one historical fact, one personal perspective, one term you need to verify, and one connection to a compulsory story. Label clearly what comes from the source and what is your own interpretation.

Viewing 3: Arrival as the film bridge

This is the official Paramount Pictures trailer. Use only authorised material supplied by the school or official promotional material; do not upload or redistribute unauthorised film sequences.

Arrival is part of the official canon but is not one of the eight short stories in the comparison matrix. Transfer the same lenses to the film: What counts as an encounter? Who is mobile? How do language, fear, perspective and temporal structure change the meaning of "arrival"?

Reading: eight compulsory stories

Use your school's legal edition. This MOOC intentionally provides no full compulsory texts and no long extracts.

Jhumpa Lahiri: The Third and Final Continent

An unnamed first-person narrator looks back on a route from India via London to the United States. Work, rented rooms, his arranged marriage to Mala and his contact with Mrs Croft turn adaptation into a gradual process rather than a single moment of arrival. The later perspective makes settlement visible without erasing memory.

Read for: retrospective narration, routines, domestic space, intergenerational encounter, transnational identity.

Evidence task: Find one short passage in your legal edition where an ordinary routine carries more cultural meaning than the action first suggests.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Thing Around Your Neck

The story centres on Akunna's migration from Nigeria to the United States after winning the visa lottery. Its second-person narration keeps the reader unusually close to her experiences while also creating distance and pressure. Migration is linked to aspiration, loneliness, racialised stereotypes, gendered power and a relationship that does not simply remove cultural asymmetry.

Read for: second-person address, bodily metaphor, silence, stereotype, class, race, gender, return.

Evidence task: Track three moments in which another person defines Akunna before she defines herself.

Sefi Atta: Green

A nine-year-old US-born first-person narrator waits with her Nigerian parents at an immigration office in New Orleans while their permanent-resident status is being finalised. Her child perspective makes bureaucratic insecurity, generational difference and ideas of "fitting in" visible indirectly. The parents' legal milestone and the daughter's existing citizenship produce sharply different relationships to the same country.

Read for: child focalisation, green as motif, bureaucracy, generational identity, citizenship versus residence status.

Evidence task: Find one moment where the narrator understands less than an adult reader can infer. Explain the effect without calling her simply "naive".

Andrea Levy: Loose Change

An unnamed female Londoner narrates her meeting with Laylor, a young refugee from Uzbekistan. The National Portrait Gallery turns "Britishness", looking and being looked at into part of the story's ethical problem. The narrator's own Caribbean family history complicates, but does not automatically produce, solidarity.

Read for: unreliable or biased first-person perception, refugee status, hospitality, class, national space, moral choice.

Evidence task: Mark the point at which the narrator's perception changes. Then ask whether recognition produces action.

Luis Alberto Urrea: The Southside Raza Image Federation Corps of Discovery

Attribution: © Tomas Castelazo, www.tomascastelazo.com / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0.

The story follows boys in a Chicano community in San Diego and exposes how friendship, childhood knowledge and immigration status can collide. A perspective close to Junior means that readers understand the consequences of Shadow's undocumented status through a young person's limited knowledge rather than through a legal lecture. The ending makes absence and uncertainty central.

Read for: child-centred focalisation, neighbourhood, undocumented status, friendship, border regime, sudden loss.

Evidence task: Separate what Junior knows, what he assumes and what the reader can infer.

Zadie Smith: The Embassy of Cambodia

Fatou, a migrant from Côte d'Ivoire, lives in precarious domestic work in Willesden. The narrative alternates between passages centred on her experience and a self-questioning neighbourhood voice that speaks as "we" and later exposes the problem of speaking for others. The badminton motif, the embassy wall and repeated acts of looking turn local space into a structure of unequal visibility.

Read for: shifting narration, collective voice, exploitation, passport control, urban spectatorship, precarity, open ending.

Evidence task: Find one place where the narrative voice changes. Explain what the change does to authority and empathy.

Kit de Waal: Exterior Paint

Alfonse Maynard, who migrated from St Kitts to Britain, is presented through third-person narration closely aligned with his perspective. A present-day frame after Lillian's death opens into memories of the 1960s, an interracial relationship and explicit racial segregation. House, street and exterior paint become material traces of both settlement and social change.

Read for: frame narrative, flashback, racism, interracial relationship, house as memory space, post-war Britain.

Evidence task: Choose one object in the house and show how it connects private memory to public history.

Neel Mukherjee: The Soldier's Tale

An unnamed British Home Office caseworker reconstructs the story of Salim, an Eritrean refugee and former soldier, through an asylum case. This framing makes the act of telling inseparable from institutions that demand coherent evidence from people whose lives have been shaped by coercion, flight and repeated insecurity. The result is not a simple "arrival" narrative.

Read for: institutional narrator, mediated testimony, asylum, forced migration, credibility, bureaucracy, unresolved precarity.

Evidence task: Identify one moment where the narrator's institutional role affects how Salim's story can be told.

Interactive comparison matrix

How to use it: Sort the table by migration type, narrator or ending. Collapse it before recall practice. Every cell is a starting hypothesis: verify it against your legal edition and replace a vague claim with one piece of textual evidence.

Story	Migration type	Narrator	Setting	Home	Belonging	Identity	Cultural encounter	Discrimination / power	Adaptation	Ending
The Third and Final Continent	voluntary work / study migration; India–UK–US	first-person retrospective	Calcutta memories, London, Boston/Cambridge	gradually made through routine, marriage and domestic space	layered and transnational	Bengali migrant identity develops alongside American life	narrator–Mrs Croft; narrator–Mala	explicit discrimination is not foregrounded; cultural distance remains	practical routines, work, relationship, long-term settlement	reflective and comparatively settled; memory remains active
The Thing Around Your Neck	visa-based migration from Nigeria to US; later return	second-person, centred on Akunna	Lagos memories, Maine, Connecticut	desired, missed and emotionally unstable	partial; intimacy does not erase alienation	race, gender, class and nationality intersect	Akunna with relatives, employers, boyfriend and US stereotypes	racialisation, exoticisation, sexual and economic power	work, relationship, selective participation and resistance	return to Nigeria after loss; future remains open
Green	parents are Nigerian migrants seeking permanent residence; child is US-born	first-person child narrator	New Orleans immigration office and family life	family links US life and Nigerian memory	daughter assumes US belonging more readily than parents	generational and Nigerian-American identity	family encounters immigration bureaucracy and multicultural US society	institutional dependence and unequal security of legal status	parents persist through bureaucracy; daughter negotiates fitting in	residence security is gained; ordinary child concerns continue
Loose Change	forced displacement / refuge from Uzbekistan	first-person London narrator	National Portrait Gallery, London	narrator has secure private home; Laylor lacks shelter	sharply unequal access to social belonging	narrator's British-Caribbean background complicates insider / outsider labels	established Londoner meets newly arrived refugee	class privilege, xenophobic assumptions and unequal resources	Laylor seeks immediate survival; narrator resists responsibility	narrator leaves Laylor; ethical discomfort remains unresolved
The Southside Raza Image Federation Corps of Discovery	undocumented childhood migration within a Mexican-American border context	third-person narration close to Junior	San Diego neighbourhood and local landscape	neighbourhood feels like home despite legal vulnerability	friendship and community clash with state categories	Chicano / Mexican-American identity is not reducible to legal status	friendship makes different migration histories visible	immigration enforcement and unequal legal security	children normalise everyday life until status becomes consequential	Shadow's absence confronts Junior with uncertainty and loss
The Embassy of Cambodia	precarious transnational / irregular migration; survival and labour	shifting voice: collective first person plus Fatou-centred third person	Willesden, London	employer's house is shelter but not secure home	fragile and conditional	migrant, worker, woman and observer positions intersect	Fatou meets migrants, employers, Andrew and neighbourhood institutions	labour exploitation, withheld passport, violence and social invisibility	resourcefulness, swimming, friendship, movement through the city	dismissal and renewed insecurity; ending remains open
Exterior Paint	post-war economic migration from St Kitts to Britain	third person limited, centred on Alfonse	Smethwick in present frame and 1960s memories	house becomes archive of marriage, settlement and grief	built over decades but shaped by racism and memory	Caribbean-British life develops through relationship and neighbourhood	interracial love, neighbours and Malcolm X context	overt racial segregation and hostility	persistence, relationship, home-making and later reflection	bittersweet but restorative turn towards memory and community
The Soldier's Tale	forced migration / asylum from Eritrea through a precarious route to Europe and UK	unnamed Home Office caseworker reconstructing Salim's account	British asylum bureaucracy plus reconstructed migration route	home is unsafe, lost or inaccessible	legal and social belonging remain uncertain	identity is filtered through the category of claimant / former soldier	refugee testimony encounters state procedure	coercion, detention, exclusion and institutional credibility tests	survival across repeated displacement rather than linear integration	unresolved precarity; institutional framing remains part of the problem

Fast comparison patterns

Narration matters: Akunna's second person, Atta's child "I", Levy's biased first person, Smith's collective voice and Mukherjee's institutional narrator produce different limits on knowledge.
Home is material: rooms, houses, streets, galleries, offices and borders distribute safety unevenly.
Belonging is not the same as legal status: citizenship, residence, asylum status and emotional attachment do different work.
Adaptation is not assimilation: several characters change routines or relationships without simply abandoning earlier affiliations.
Endings are arguments: settlement, return, abandonment, disappearance, renewed insecurity and memory lead readers towards different judgments about what "arrival" means.

Analysis toolkit

Evidence before label

Use the sequence claim → evidence → technique → effect → comparison → significance.

Weak: "The story is about discrimination."

Stronger: "The text makes discrimination structurally visible by limiting what the focal character can know; the reader therefore infers a power imbalance before the character can fully name it."

LF challenge: Add a counter-reading. Ask which evidence could complicate your first interpretation.

Narrator and focalisation questions

Who speaks?
Whose perceptions organise the scene?
What information is withheld?
How reliable or self-aware is the narrator?
Which groups can speak for themselves, and who is spoken about?
How does the ending make you reassess the earlier narrative voice?

Setting as argument

Do not write "The setting is London" and stop. Ask what the place does: Does it offer safety, classify people, expose them, hide them, commercialise home, preserve memory or make exclusion visible?

Micro-comparison: Compare the immigration office in Green, the gallery in Loose Change and the asylum bureaucracy in The Soldier's Tale. All are institutional spaces, but their relation to security is different.

Speaking

Kommunikationsprüfung: practise the actual skill, not a memorised mini-essay

For the currently available 2028 rules, the Kommunikationsprüfung may be an individual or tandem examination. Preparation time is 15 minutes. The individual format lasts at least 15 minutes, typically about 5 minutes monologue plus about 10 minutes dialogue. A tandem lasts at least 20 minutes, typically about 5 minutes monologue per candidate plus about 10 minutes dialogue. A monolingual and a bilingual dictionary are permitted in preparation.

The official task can use visual, audio or audiovisual impulses, quotations or theses, including German material for mediation. The focus topic may be tested, but extracts from the compulsory works may not be used as the impulse. Therefore, practise transfer with unfamiliar material rather than reciting a learned story analysis.

Monologue drill: Use a new migration photograph or statistic. Speak for two minutes using the structure describe → interpret → connect → evaluate. Then extend to five minutes with two explicit links to different compulsory stories.

Dialogue drill: Discuss the statement: "Belonging is created more by everyday relationships than by legal status." Build on your partner's point, challenge one assumption and introduce evidence from at least two different texts.

Writing

Schriftliche Prüfung: distinguish format from course practice

For Abitur 2028, the written examination is approximately 255 minutes including selection time: about 30 minutes listening, a 15-minute break, then 225 minutes for writing. In the writing part, students choose between a literary and a non-literary task. One of the alternatives relates to the focus topic and compulsory works; the source text itself is unfamiliar and may be combined with images, statistics or diagrams.

The 2028 correction guidelines weight the overall written Abitur result as 20% listening, 55% writing and 25% Kommunikationsprüfung. Within the writing component, content and language are weighted 40 : 60. Re-check your own examination year.

LF writing frame

AFB I – secure the basis: summarise only what the operator requires.

AFB II – analyse and connect: explain how form, language, perspective or structure creates meaning; connect material independently.

AFB III – evaluate and synthesise: develop a defensible judgment, weigh alternatives and connect several materials without turning the response into a list of story summaries.

Practice prompt: Analyse how an unseen text constructs the idea of "home". Then compare its construction with two compulsory stories that differ in migration type and narrator. Finally evaluate whether secure legal status is presented as sufficient for belonging.

Mediation

Mediation remains a course competence. The 2028 Facherlass specifies that one course assessment or part of it tests mediation in isolated form, generally with about 60 minutes for producing an English target text. Do not translate sentence by sentence: select, explain and adapt information for purpose and audience.

Practice scenario: A fictional English-speaking exchange group asks why German discussions distinguish between Aufenthaltsstatus, Staatsangehörigkeit and Zugehörigkeitsgefühl. Mediate a teacher-provided German information sheet into a concise English briefing. Use only fictional names and no personal immigration histories from classmates.

Differentiation and help

Help ladder: English before German

Context: reread the sentence and identify contrast, cause, example or definition signals.
Word formation: identify root, prefix and suffix.
Visualise: sketch the relation between character, place, institution and conflict.
Explain in English: paraphrase the word or idea without using it.
Dictionary: check an English definition and collocations; then use a bilingual dictionary if needed.
German emergency help: use a short German equivalent only after the earlier steps.

Three routes through the MOOC

Route	Scope	Language support	Analysis depth	Suggested pace
Scaffolded	2–3 stories per session	vocabulary table, sentence stems, partner rehearsal	one lens plus one evidence chain	20–30 minutes
Core	4–5 stories per session	dictionary plus analytical verbs	two lenses and explicit comparison	45–60 minutes
LF challenge	all eight stories plus unfamiliar material	minimal scaffolding	counter-reading, contextual qualification, independent synthesis	75–90 minutes

Sentence stems for temporary support: "Whereas X frames belonging as ..., Y complicates it by ..."; "The narrator's limited access to ... makes the reader ..."; "This interpretation is supported by ..., although ... suggests a competing reading."

Feedback and error analysis

Two-colour feedback

Underline evidence-based analysis in one colour and unsupported labels or plot retelling in another. Your revision goal is not merely "more detail": convert one unsupported sentence into a claim that names a technique, cites evidence from your edition and explains significance.

Typical LF errors

Error	Why it weakens analysis	Repair
retelling plot	stays mostly in AFB I	start with a lens and use plot only as evidence
"the narrator shows"	narrator, author and focaliser become blurred	name the exact narrative level and technique
"all migrants feel..."	generalises beyond the text	qualify by character, situation and evidence
context replaces close reading	history becomes a substitute for textual analysis	connect context to a specific formal or thematic choice
quotation without comment	evidence is not interpreted	add technique, effect and significance
three stories listed separately	no synthesis	build one comparative claim across texts
AI claim copied unchecked	may invent scenes, quotations or sources	verify against legal edition and reliable source; correct transparently

Responsible study, sources and privacy

Work from legal school editions. Do not paste or publish complete compulsory stories.
Use Commons files and official or authorised videos; open each Commons file page before reuse outside MOOCwiki and observe its current licence and attribution requirements.
For recordings, use voluntary, private practice. A written script or live rehearsal must remain an equal alternative.
Use fictional names and fictional personal data in mediation, interview and role-play tasks unless participants have explicitly chosen otherwise.
Do not upload classmates' texts, voices, images or personal data without permission.
Do not send course material to external AI services unless school rules, copyright and consent allow it.
If AI is used, document tool, date and purpose; verify factual claims, references and quotations independently. AI output is not a substitute essay.

Transfer and Abi-Check

Abi-Check in five moves

Identify the operator and map it to AFB I, II or III.
Select evidence strategically instead of trying to mention every story.
Compare by a shared lens such as narrator, home or adaptation.
Differentiate legal status, emotional belonging, cultural identity and material security.
Audit your answer for plot summary, unsupported generalisation, missing evidence and unclear comparison.

60-second recall: Without opening the matrix, name one story with second-person narration, one with a child narrator, one with a collective voice, one with an institutional narrator, and one in which retrospective memory structures settlement.

Follow-up course

Continue by connecting migration to the two other official thematic fields: American ideals and realities and postcolonial Britain. A useful next course is ABI LF - Migration, American ideals und postcolonial Britain vernetzen, where unfamiliar non-fiction, statistics and visual material become the main transfer sources.

Interaktive Aufgaben

Quiz: Teste Dein Wissen

Which focus topic contains the eight compulsory short stories in the current Baden-Württemberg canon used here? (On the Move: Migration and Cross-Cultural Encounters) (!Science and Technology: Progress at Any Cost) (!Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Stage) (!Global Economy and Consumer Culture)

How many compulsory short stories are compared in the central matrix? (Eight) (!Six) (!Nine) (!Twelve)

Which narrative form is especially characteristic of The Thing Around Your Neck? (Second-person narration centred on Akunna) (!First-person child narration) (!Collective first-person neighbourhood narration) (!Home Office caseworker narration)

What is the key legal-status contrast in Green? (The child is a US citizen by birth while her parents seek permanent residence) (!The parents are citizens while the child is undocumented) (!The whole family has just received tourist visas) (!The child is applying for asylum without her parents)

Where does the central encounter in Loose Change begin? (National Portrait Gallery in London) (!An immigration office in New Orleans) (!A house in Smethwick) (!A school in San Diego)

What is distinctive about narration in The Embassy of Cambodia? (It shifts between a collective neighbourhood voice and Fatou-centred narration) (!It is a diary written only by Fatou) (!It is entirely narrated by a government caseworker) (!It uses only second-person narration)

Which structural device is central to Exterior Paint? (A present-day frame opens into memories of the 1960s) (!A future diary predicts migration) (!A courtroom transcript replaces narration) (!A sequence of newspaper reports tells the story)

Which Anforderungsbereiche receive stronger emphasis than AFB I in Leistungsfach course assessments? (AFB II and AFB III) (!Only AFB I) (!Only AFB II) (!AFB I and vocabulary recall only)

Which two competence areas form the written part described in the current 2028 Facherlass? (Listening and writing) (!Speaking and translation) (!Grammar and vocabulary) (!Reading aloud and dictation)

What should be used for realistic Kommunikationsprüfung transfer practice instead of a compulsory-story extract as the official impulse? (Unfamiliar visual audio audiovisual or thesis-based material) (!A memorised model essay) (!A full copy of a compulsory short story) (!A rehearsed plot summary only)

Memory

Focalisation	Whose perception organises what the reader can know
Belonging	Sense of social or emotional connection
Displacement	Forced loss of habitual home or place
Othering	Constructing someone as fundamentally different from an imagined norm
Hybridity	Identity shaped through more than one cultural affiliation
Precarity	Unstable legal social or economic condition
Adaptation	Adjustment to changed circumstances without necessary cultural erasure
Diaspora	Community and identity maintained across geographic dispersal

Drag and Drop

Ordne die richtigen Begriffe zu.	Thema
Second-person address	The Thing Around Your Neck
Child focalisation	Green
Gallery encounter	Loose Change
Collective neighbourhood voice	The Embassy of Cambodia
Memory frame	Exterior Paint
Institutional caseworker	The Soldier's Tale

Kreuzworträtsel

Diaspora	Which term describes a population dispersed from an ancestral or former homeland while maintaining connections?
Hybridity	Which concept describes identity formed through combined or intersecting cultural affiliations?
Precarity	Which word names an unstable and insecure social legal or economic condition?
Focalisation	Which narrative term asks whose perception organises the information available to readers?
Belonging	Which term means feeling socially emotionally or culturally connected to a place or group?
Adaptation	Which term describes adjustment to changed circumstances without necessarily abandoning earlier ties?

LearningApps

Lückentext

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In Exterior Paint, the house connects present grief with cultural

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Strong LF comparison moves beyond plot and explains the significance of textual

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Offene Aufgaben

Leicht

Observation–inference split: Choose one Commons image from this MOOC. Write three observations and two interpretations, then mark where interpretation begins.
Word-family map: Build a one-page map around belong, displace, adapt and marginalise. Add one self-written analytical sentence for each family.
Narrator card: Create a small comparison card for two stories showing narrator, focalisation, one limitation and one effect.
Home snapshot: Select one object or place from a compulsory story and explain in 120–150 words how it turns "home" into more than a location.

Standard

Matrix audit: Check four rows of the comparison matrix against your legal edition. Add a page reference or short evidence note and correct one oversimplification.
Private 90-second response: Explain which story most strongly separates legal status from emotional belonging. Recording is optional; a live or written version is equally valid and any recording stays private.
Tandem transfer: Use an unfamiliar migration image supplied by your teacher. One partner gives a two-minute interpretation; then discuss links to two different stories without reciting summaries.
Comparative paragraph: Write one PEEL-style paragraph comparing how two narrators make discrimination visible. Add a counter-reading in the final sentence.

Schwer

Four-text thesis: Develop and defend the thesis "Home is a relationship before it is a place" using four stories with at least three different migration types.
Audience-aware mediation: Mediate a teacher-provided German text about residence, citizenship and belonging for a fictional English-speaking school group. Use invented personal data only.
Mini exhibition: Curate three licence-compatible Wikimedia Commons images under the title "Who gets to belong?". Write analytical captions connecting each image to a different story without claiming the image represents a fictional character.
Exam simulation: Combine an unseen non-fiction text or visual with three compulsory stories. Produce a plan for AFB I, II and III, write one full analytical section, then use the error table to revise it.

Lernkontrolle

Unseen image transfer: Interpret an unfamiliar image of a border, waiting room or domestic space. Compare its construction of belonging with two compulsory stories that use different narrators.
Perspective switch: Explain how one scene's meaning would change if it were narrated from another character's point of view. Base your answer on what the original perspective includes and excludes.
Counter-example test: Formulate a general claim about adaptation across three stories, then use a fourth story as a counter-example that forces you to qualify the claim.
Context with control: Connect Exterior Paint or Loose Change to relevant British migration history. Show exactly where the context sharpens textual analysis and where it would become overgeneralisation.
AFB III judgement: Evaluate the statement "Legal recognition creates belonging." Use at least three stories and distinguish legal, social, material and emotional dimensions.
Oral transfer: Prepare a five-minute monologue from an unfamiliar visual or thesis and a ten-minute discussion plan. Use the compulsory stories as comparison knowledge, not as a memorised speech.

Lernnachweis

For a convincing learning record, you should be able to demonstrate:

accurate orientation across all eight short stories without replacing analysis with plot summary;
secure use of migration type, narrator, setting, home, belonging, identity, cultural encounter, discrimination, adaptation and ending as comparative lenses;
evidence-based analysis of narrative perspective, focalisation, structure, motif and setting;
independent linking of at least three texts in one argument;
differentiated use of contextual knowledge without stereotyping characters or communities;
precise analytical vocabulary and appropriate dictionary use;
clear distinction between the written examination and Kommunikationsprüfung;
self-correction using feedback on evidence, logic, language and task fulfilment;
transparent checking of AI-assisted notes, factual claims and sources;
an ability to transfer course knowledge to unfamiliar texts, visuals, audio material or statistics.

OERs zum Thema

Use Wikipedia for orientation, not as a substitute for your edition. Follow references when a claim matters for analysis. Wikimedia Commons files embedded above link to their own description pages, where licence and attribution information can be checked.

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