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Forløb#4 - American Issues - American Values EXAM
Formål med forløbet:
I forløbet skal vi arbejde med taler for at undersøge, hvordan sprog bruges til at overbevise og formidle værdier i en amerikansk kontekst. Fokus vil være på retorisk analyse og sprogets rolle i politiske og kulturelle sammenhænge, herunder hvordan amerikanske værdier og identitet udtrykkes.
Undervejs I forløbet lavede eleverne også elevpræsentationer her om bl.a. “Abortion issues and Women’s rights, Minority issues and DEI, Gun rights and mass shootings, Immigration issues, Health issues and opioid crisis, The political system, Foreign relations and politics
Fokus: speech analysis, rhetorical devices, communication situations, American values, history and society. Vigtige begreber: American exceptionalism, Manifest Destiny, The American Promise, colloquialism / euphemism / hyperbole
Kernestof:
• “Gettysburg Address” (November 19, 1863), Abraham Lincoln:
• "A More Perfect Union" (March, 2008), Barack Obama (From: Worlds of English)
• "The American Promise" (August, 2008), Barack Obama (From: Worlds of English) + Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQGsP8mnHsg
• “Don’t ‘Allow Demagogues to Divide Us’”, Bernie Sanders' Commencement Speech to Brooklyn College Graduates: Time Magazine website, (May, 2017)
• "President Trump's Inauguration Speech" America First (January, 2017) (From: Worlds of English) + Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRBsJNdK1t0
• "President Trump's Inauguration Speech" The Golden Age (January, 2025) (+ Transcript)
• Donald Trump: Address to supporters after the swearing-in ceremony (Jan, 2025) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w689qZK1QOw (+ Transcript)
Supplerende stof:
• List of American values + Cloze test + Retteark
• Democrat and Republican Core Values
• List of Rhetorical devices
• American exceptionalism in Comics and images.
• Cohesion and Coherence and linking
• Note model for speeches
• The Toulmin model of argumentation
• Trump pardoning the defendants from the attack on the Capitol: January 2025:
• Trump to Sign Order Renaming the Defense Department as the Department of War (Sept. 2025)
• What does Trump mean when he invokes America's 'Manifest Destiny'? (Feb. 2025)
Omfang ca. 70 sider
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