A year at an American Highschool
1)
Ketil went to Rowland High School in California. He got to know people when they got curious about Norway, and they asked questions.Ketil studied math and “getting around”.In his leisure time he played soccer, and spent some time with his host-family.What made Tonje’s school somewhat special, was the fact that it was an outdoor school, without corridors or anything like that.At her school, the classes had about 25-30 students.For lunch they either had food, brought from home, or they bought food in the cafeteria.They were informed about daily events through the news on the school TV’s.
2)
1. False. Each state decides how its schools are to be organized.
2. True.
3. True.
4. True.
5. True.
6. False. Then they will bring their own food.
7. True.
8. False. They say the pledge of Allegiance.
9. True.
10. False. Students have to meet precise to classes, and show some spirit.

4)
I think that the Pledge of Allegiance should be banned from schools, definitively. It is propaganda, and the victims are helpless young students. Politics and religion shouldn’t be a part of the classroom, particularly if it isn’t related to any subject, like social studies etc.

In the name of the father

In todays English class we saw a movie called "In The Name of The Father", made by Jim Sheridan in 1994. It's about a man from Belfast, called Gerry Conlon. He, and three of his friends are forced to take the blame for an IRA bombing in London. His father and aunt also gets blamed for this horrible insident, and after a while we get to see how he and his father fight for an apeal, while they're spending time in prison. Gerry spends 15 years in prison, and during that time his father dies. When Gerry at last becomes a free man, he said that he wouldn't stop fighting before the people who put him, his father and his friends, in jail, were arrested.

I think this was a movie with a great plot, that's for sure. The actors were very convincing playing their roles, and the story was great. I still think it was a bit long, and at times, boring, because it was times it didn't happen anything. But I guess it was important to build up beliviable characters. To sum it up I think it was a good movie !