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Now that you have finished your presentation, have a look at the presentations of your project partners and add your opinion in the adjacent commentary field. Make sure that you ad positive as well as negative criticism - if appropriate.

So you have finished your work by now. Please read the stories of your colleagues and write down your opinion in the adjacent commentary fields. It might be useful for your mates to mention your likes as well as your dislikes:

Here comes our third task: Please discuss the question wether you find boot camps effective or not. Please feel free to use and refer to online-sources if you like. Present your arguments and results either as articles or commentaries.

Now we would like you to do some online research on how your country deals with juvenile deliquency. What happens to a young adult who has committed a crime? Please present your results in form of articles. You can start an article by clicking on "Beitrag schreiben" in the main menu. Please feel free to add illustrations or other sources and files where appropriate.

Here is our first task: Please read the text below carefully. Then try to think how the story might proceed and write down your ideas in the commentary field.

The text is taken from Louis Sachar's "holes", which is one of the most popular novels for young adults currently read at German schools.

Please feel free to use an online dictionary if you have any problems with the vocabulary > e. g. LEO. Of course, you can also consult your teacher. He or she should know as well :).

"You are entering Camp Green Lake

There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. There once was a very large lake here, the largest lake in Texas. That was over a hundred years ago. Now it is just a dry, flat wasteland.
There used to be a town of Green Lake as well. The town shriveled and dried up along with the lake, and the people who lived there.
During the summer the daytime temperature hovers around ninety-five degrees in the shade - if you can find any shade. There´s not much shade in a big dry lake.
The only trees are two old oaks on the eastern edge of the "lake". A hammock is stretched between the two trees, and a log cabin stands behind that.
The campers are forbidden to lie in the hammock. It belongs to the Warden. The warden owns the shade.
Out on the lake, rattlesnakes and scorpions find shade under rocks and in the holes dug by the campers.
Here´s a good rule to remember about rattlesnakes and scorpions: If you don´t bother them, they won´t bother you.
Usually.
Being bitten by a scorpion or even a rattlesnake is not the worst thing that can happen to you. You won´t die.
Usually.
Sometimes a camper will try to be bitten by a scorpion, or even a small rattlesnake. Then he will get to spend a day or two recovering in his tent, instead of having to dig a hole out on the lake.
But you don´t want to be bitten by a yellow-spotted lizard. That´s the worst thing that can happen to you. You will die a slow and painful death.
Always.
If you get bitten by a yellow-spooted lizard, you might as well go into the shade of the oak trees and lie in the hammock.
There is nothing anyone can do to you anymore.

The reader is probably asking: Why would anyone go to Camp Green Lake? Most campers weren't given a choice. Camp Green Lake is a camp for bad boys.
If you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun, it will turn him into a good boy.
That was what some people thought.
Stanley Yelnats was given a choice. The judge said, 'You may go to jail, or you may go to Camp Green Lake.'
Stanley was from a poor family. He had never been to camp before.''

Now you! Please write down your ideas on how the story might proceed: