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Brainstorming:

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The USAHollywood cowboys 50 states individuality self-reliance

4th of July New York City Obama heroes immigration

California guns Washington Leonardo DiCaprio

The Oscars big cities Schwarzenegger moving West

9/11 religion skyscrapers American English junk food wars Grand Canyon money Wall Street new gun legislation

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Hollywood cowboys 50 states individuality self-reliance 4th of July New York City Obama heroes immigration California guns Washington Leonardo DiCaprio The Oscars big cities Schwarzenegger moving West 9/11 religion skyscrapers US English wars Grand Canyon money Wall Street new gun legislation junk food

The USA US English? Here are some

common US and British words – find the US words and their British equivalents:

baby carriage holiday taxi return sidewalk queue truck vacation garbage gasoline apartment blow-out pram flat puncture line cab lorry drapes diaper pavement petrol round trip rubbish nappy curtains

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The USAManifest DestinyPairwork: Describe and analyse the painting

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describe the poster from the US Government (1876)

What is the purpose of the poster?

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Guns in the US

Some statistics:http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/united-states

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed(krænkes).” =A well regulated militia, consisting of members of “the people”, has the right to keep and carry weapons when this is necessary for the security of a free state.

The USA Guns in the USSchool shootings in the USA

Arguments for guns – against guns / Gun rights versus gun control: Match the (counter)arguments (handed out)

Discuss the reasons for the high number of school shootings in the US. What do you know? What are the reasons? Is it going to change?

Examples: Columbine High Virginia Tech Newtown

The USA Deadliest school shootings since 1998:

March 24, 1998: Mitchell Johnson, 10, and Andrew Golden, 8, took seven guns to a school near Jonesboro, Ark., where they pulled a fire alarm and began shooting as everyone exited the school, killing four students and one teacher and injuring nine others. They were released from a juvenile detention center in 2005.

May 21,1998: Kipland Kinkel, 15, shot and killed his parents after being suspended from his Springfield, Ore., high school for bringing a gun on campus. He returned to the school the next morning, killing two students and wounding 22 others. He was sentenced to 111 years in prison without the possibility of parole.

April 20, 1999: Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, walked into Columbine High School in Colorado and in a rampage of gunfire and homemade bombs killed 12 students and a teacher before killing themselves. The massacre led to an increased emphasis on security at U.S. schools.

March 21, 2005: Jeffrey Weise, 17, went on a shooting spree at Red Lake High School on the Red Lake Indian Reservation in Minnesota. He killed nine people, including his grandfather, and wounded five others before killing himself.

Oct. 2, 2006: Charles Carl Roberts IV, 32, a milk-truck driver, killed five girls ages 7 to 13 execution-style, then turned the gun on himself, in a one-room Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pa. Five other girls were critically injured. The community focused on forgiveness and reconciliation after the shootings.

April 16, 2007: Seung-Hui Cho, 23, a student at Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, Va., shot and killed 32 people in attacks two hours apart in two campus buildings. Cho, who was diagnosed with mental illness, killed himself. The university was found negligent for not alerting the campus after the first round of shootings.

Feb. 27: T.J. Lane, 17, took a 22-caliber pistol and a knife to a high school in Chardon, Ohio, and fired 10 shots at a group of students sitting at a cafeteria table before school, authorities said. Three students died. Lane was arrested outside the school.

April 2: One L. Goh, 43, a former nursing student at private Oikos University near the Oakland International Airport, sprayed gunfire on a classroom there Monday, killing seven people in one of the deadliest attacks ever on a California campus, according to police. He was arrested an hour later at a store in Alameda.

December 14, 2012, Adam Lanza, 20 fatally shot twenty children and six adult staff members in a mass murder at Sandy Hook Elementary School in the village of Sandy Hook in Newtown, Connecticut.[5][6] Before driving to the school, Lanza had shot and killed his mother Nancy at their Newtown home.[8][10][11] As first responders arrived, he committed suicide by shooting himself in the head.

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President Obama:http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/n

ational/obama-gun-control-sandy-hook-shooting-speech-video-shame-on-us-if-we-forget-newtown-obama-says

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Immigration - Moving West – Guns

How are the three aspects of the American society connected?

- What do you suggest? Is there a connection?