Abiturprüfung: Composition: Fiktionaler Text: "Talk, Talk" by T.C. Boyle BY

Choose one of the following topics. Write about 200 to 250 words.

1. “Inclusive education means that all students attend and are welcomed by their neighbourhood schools in age-appropriate, regular classes and are supported to learn, contribute and participate in all aspects of the life of the school” (http://www.inclusionbc.org).
   Outline how you think students with mental or physical disabilities can be included in everyday school life.
2. “Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings”
   (Helen Keller, 1880-1968; deaf-blind American author).
   Comment on this statement.
3. What might happen next? Continue telling the story.
4. Describe and interpret the following cartoon and comment on it.

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Source: Excerpt(s) from TALK, TALK by T. C. Boyle, copyright © 2006 by T. Coraghessan Boyle. Used by permission of Viking Books, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin  Random House LLC. All rights reserved.

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