At the end of the project the pupils should no longer be "passive". They have read a lot about immigration problems, questions and experiences. The main character, Ahn Joo, gave us a very good insight into her emotions and thoughts, so that the reader was often quite touched by her story. After having done a lot of text work, they should now become active and make collect their own thoughts about the problem of immigration. The pupils have to recognize that problems of that kind do exist today - not only in a novel. Therefore, they will be confronted with reality as a last step of the project.

Nowadays there are lots of mixed classes with different cultures, especially in the German Realschule, but Americans, too, are often confronted with questions and problems of immigration.

Therefore it might be helpful for each pupil to become aware of his/her own culture which influences personality, too. That’s why I chose the following tasks as post-reading activities.

Each group (Germans and Americans) gets the same task. They should work together in pairs and find someone they could interview. The purpose of that activity is to get in touch with someone who has really experienced being a foreigner. Moreover, they might develop a better understanding of their own culture as well as they might learn how to treat other people because they begin to understand their thoughts and feelings. It’s justifiable to call that kind of task ‘intercultural learning’: Gaining a better understanding of your own culture and of the other culture (Who am I? Why do I behave like this? Why does the other react like that?). It should help the pupils to overcome prejudices they might have and to give up their superficial view about immigrants in our society.

As a kind of ‘prior’ work to the interview there will be one lesson where pupils think about what might be suitable and necessary questions. They can do that together with the teacher. They should focus on these questions when preparing the interviews:

• Where do they come from?

• What were reasons for immigrating?

• What is special or typical for their culture?

• Did they have problems when they came to America/Germany > If yes, what kind of problems did they have? Why did they have problems?

• What are the main differences between their culture of origin and the ‘new’ culture?

• How do they feel now? > Did they align themselves to the ‘new’ culture (why/why not)? > Do they feel accepted (why/why not)?

As a next step the pupils prepare their own questions they want to ask directly.

They are supposed to use a cassette recorder for the interview but they should write everything down afterwards.

Now every single student (Americans and Germans) has to write his own text because it will be graded and this grade will be part of the final grade at the end of the project. So they have to hand it in to the teacher. They should also send their text to their partner group (Germans to Americans and Americans to Germans) and read their results of the interviews. Furthermore every student is asked to write a short comment on their partner’s texts where they say what they think about it, and how and why they liked it.