Individuality versus Conformity

 

Degree of difficulty:	elementary – intermediate
Interests/Skills:	- individuality and conformity - philosophy of life in DPS
* Additional Exercises (Wahlaufgaben)	If you have enough time you should do these exercises as well!

 

 

Group work:
(1)               Stummes Schreibgespräch:             individuality –  conformity            definitions: Individuality – conformity
***(2)   Mindmap
(3)       Memorable scenes
***(4)   The road not taken by Robert Frost
(5)       A piece of art: Individuality – conformity

1.     What is   INDIVIDUALITY?      CONFORMITY?
                                

A

(1)  Take two big pieces of wrapping paper and put them on two tables. (2)  Write down in the middle: (3)  Now write down your ideas. (Use different colours.) Comment on your fellow–students' statements. (4)  You may do this exercise in ENGLISH  or in GERMAN! (5)  Stop after 15 – 20  minutes.

 

 

B  

TOPIC	Part 02	material	timing	group	Where to find information
Individualtity -Conformity	Mindmap	?? poster ?? coloured paper	about 60 minutes	ja

 Look up the two terms in the LONGMAN DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE. Write them down!

***2. Mindmap:

Make two mindmaps: Individuality and Conformity:

Your results in Exercise 1 should help you!

 

3. Now watch some of the important scenes and try to answer the questions in your "Szenenübersicht".

4. Have a look at this poem:

The Road Not Taken

– Robert Frost –

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair;
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, And I-
I took the one less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference.

 

 

TOPIC	Part 04	material	timing	group	Where to find information
Individualtity -Conformity	The Road Not Taken - Robert Frost -	video	about 60 minutes	yes

 

What is the poem about?
Why does it describe "individuality"?
How quickly did the writer decide? – Was it a spontaneous decision?

5. Produce a piece of art showing the difference between

INDIVIDUALITY and CONFORMITY.