Modern Greek 3rd grade High School

The educational book Modern Greek 3rd grade High School – Unified Examination of Modern Greek Language and Literature [2020-21 edition] is organized in two (2) parts:
Part A includes the Theory of Modern Greek Language and Literature, structured in the four (4) subjects of the Panhellenic Examinations, according to the new evaluation method. Specifically:
• The First Topic: The summary in the Unified Examination
• The Second Theme:
A. Understanding B. Intentionality
C. Transformations D. Comparisons
• The Third Theme: The interpretive commentary
• The Fourth Theme: Speech production

Part B includes thirty-one (31) teaching proposals, each of which contains informational material for the thematic unit and evaluation tests (56 in total) in accordance with the new way of examining the course and the relevant instructions of the Institute of Educational Policy (IEP).

In detail, the contents of the book:

Part A
Modern Greek Language and Literature – The Theory

The First Topic: THE ABSTRACT
The changes in summarizing • The types of summary texts in the Single Examination • About meta-formulations / ‘summary verbs’ • Condensation techniques • The assessment of summarizing • Appendix: Texts

The Second Topic: A. UNDERSTANDING – B. INTENTIONALITY – C. TRANSFORMATIONS – D. COMPARISONS
A. THE UNDERSTANDING
Closed-ended questions • Closed-ended questions with documentation • Explanation – Passage development • Topic – Main position – Ideas • Commentary – Point of view restatement • The title of the text

B. INTENTIONALITY
Types of texts • The communicative situation • The context • The functions of the language • The tenses – The inflections – The modality • The verbs • The active and passive syntax • The punctuation marks • The connection and the types of sentences • Short period – Long period Discourse • Style • Coherence – Coherence • Paragraph: The Structure • Paragraph: Ways of Development and Their Function • Paragraph: The Subtitle • Changing Paraphrase • Persuasion (schematics) • Argument – Type of Reasoning and Evaluation • Appeal to Logic: Evidence • Appeal to emotion • Appeal to morality • Persuasion: Scientific discourse • Persuasion: Political discourse • Persuasion: Advertising discourse • The pre-planned oral discourse / The speech • The letter • The journalistic texts • The essay • The multimodal texts • The (this )biographical texts

C. TRANSFORMATIONS
“Correcting” mistakes • From formal to familiar/everyday vocabulary • From familiar to formal and impersonal speech style • (De)Coloring the style – Irony • Changing the communicative occasion • Changing verb persons • From nominative to verbs phrases • Changing the punctuation • From direct to oblique speech • From the referential to the poetic function of the language • Changing the degree of certainty • From the spoken to the written speech • Smoothing the long speech

D. COMPARISONS
Content comparison • Language function comparison • Style comparison • Vocabulary comparison • Verbal persons comparison • Spoken texts compared to multimodal texts

The Third Theme: THE INTERPRETATIVE COMMENTARY
What is interpretive commentary • What are textual markers • Indicative formulations – Applications • Appendix: Theory of Literature • Narrative time • Narrator types • Narrative modes • Figures of speech

The Fourth Topic: SPEECH PRODUCTION
Changes in speech production • Topic categories – Indicative wording – Applications • Preparation – Text composition • Evaluation • Appendix: Texts

Part B
Teaching Suggestions
1st TEACHING: Culture – Education • Tests (4)
2nd TEACHING: Work – Unemployment • Tests (3)
3rd TEACHING: Human rights • Tests (2)
4th TEACHING: Death penalty • Test
5th TEACHING: The right to privacy • Test
6th TEACHING: Advertising • Test
7th TEACHING: Propaganda • Test
8th TEACHING: Scientific progress • Tests (2)
9th TEACHING: Technology • Tests (2)
10th TEACHING: Social networks • Tests (5)
11th TEACHING: Fanaticism • Tests (2)
12th TEACHING: From the individual to the mass • Test
13th TEACHING: Man and the past – Tradition • Tests (2)
14th TEACHING: Family • Tests (2)
15th TEACHING: Youth • Tests (3)
16th TEACHING: Mass Media • Test
17th TEACHING: War – Peace • Tests (2)
18th TEACHING: Democracy • Tests (2)
19th TEACHING: Humanism • Test
20th TEACHING: Tourism • Test
21st TEACHING: Natural environment • Test
22nd TEACHING: Language and Education • Test
23rd TEACHING: Sports and violence • Tests (3)
24th TEACHING: The new technologies in education • Test
25th TEACHING: The intellectuals • Test
26th TEACHING: Crime – Youth Delinquency • Test
27th TEACHING: Globalization • Test
28th TEACHING: Europe – European culture • Test
29th TEACHING: Art • Tests (2)
30th TEACHING: Racism – Nationalism • Tests (3)
31st TEACHING: Self-awareness • Tests (2)