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The US – Area Study (eksamensemne)
Fokus:
History, American Values, Welfare, Inequality, 2nd amendment and the African American Experience
Kernestof:
• The Context of Traditional American values, Chapter 2, American ways, Kearny et. al., 2005, Longmann
• American Identity, from Being American. Identity, politics and contemporary society (Gyldendal/systime) - https://beingamerican.systime.dk/?id=130 :
o Being an immigrant,
o Being a frontier man,
o Having rights,
o Having values,
o Being different according to region,
Examples of the American Dream and Am. Values:
• 9-year-old high school graduate - https://people.com/human-interest/9-year-old-boy-graduates-high-school-wants-to-be-astrophysicist/?
• JOSH JACOBS: FINDING HOME (2020) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1Se0gQ5mHc
• Valvin Nicholson - Working, but still poor, CNN - https://edition.cnn.com/videos/business/2023/04/12/low-wage-workers-struggle-rising-costs-yurkevich-dnt-cnntm-vpx.cnn
• Park Avenue - Money, Power and the American Dream - https://filmcentralen.dk/grundskolen/film/penge-magt-og-den-amerikanske-droem
• US Welfare, from Being American, ch. 4, care for young children, social security, healthcare, charity and volunteers - https://beingamerican.systime.dk/?id=133
Cases about the US Welfare state :
• Trae Crowder on Welfare (2018), from ATTN, SoMe Video - https://fb.watch/arSbBxkpKr/
• assassination on health insurance company CEO (2024) - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly2zwqqr1ro ; https://apnews.com/article/unitedhealthcare-ceo-shooting-delay-deny-defend-depose-ee73ceb19f361835c654f04a3b88c50c
• Explainer (Video) Why does America Love Guns? NowThisWorld, June 25, 2015
• Gun violence and schools (2023), CNN - https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2023/us/changing-classrooms-shooting-safety-dg/
• Safe rooms (Video) - This state is the first to build safe rooms in classrooms for students
• Hansel and Gretel, Open Wide (Lindhardt og Ringhof) – the original
• Hansel and Gretel (have guns) – An NRA Family version
• The African American Experience: Slavery, from Black Voices (systime/gyldendal) - https://blackvoices.systime.dk/?id=129
• The African American Experience: Separate but Equal, from Black Voices (systime/gyldendal) - https://blackvoices.systime.dk/?id=130
• The African American Experience: I am a Man, from Black Voices (systime/gyldendal) - https://blackvoices.systime.dk/?id=131
• Civil rights activists, Anne Moody - https://blackvoices.systime.dk/?id=278 ;
Sit-ins - https://blackvoices.systime.dk/?id=278#c963
• Equal Rights Leaders: MLK - https://blackvoices.systime.dk/?id=278#c969 , Malcolm X - https://blackvoices.systime.dk/?id=278#c970
• The Ballot or the Bullet (1964, Malcolm X, speech excerpt)
• The African American Experience: Post-racist America?, from Black Voices (systime/gyldendal) - https://blackvoices.systime.dk/?id=132
• the treatment of African Americans in the American justice system:
o Do Americans trust the police?, Pew Research Center (Video - https://blackvoices.systime.dk/?id=281#c879 )
o Rodney King; LA Riots (https://www.biography.com/crime/rodney-king , https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/rodney-king-beating-25-years-ago-opened-era-viral-cop-n531091)
o Timeline of Police Shootings - https://blackvoices.systime.dk/?id=281
o Hip Hop (and West Coast) - https://blackvoices.systime.dk/?id=c632
o Gangsta rap - https://blackvoices.systime.dk/?id=c633
o N.W.A (Niggaz With Attitude) - https://blackvoices.systime.dk/?id=173
o N.W.A. The World's Most Dangerous Group, (2008, documentary excerpt) - N.W.A. The World's Most Dangerous Group
o Straight Outta Compton (1988), N.W.A, lyrics - https://blackvoices.systime.dk/?id=c636 , music video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMZi25Pq3T8
• If you come softly, J.Woodson, 1998 (værk)
Supplerende stof:
• Declaration of Independence of 1775
• Bill of Rights and Constitution of 1791
• Emancipation proclamation of 1863
• The 13,14,15 amendments
• Jim Crow laws
• The 2nd amendment
• Political Parties (Core values) - Being American (Gyldendal) 2016, ch.3 - https://beingamerican.systime.dk/?id=192 ; https://beingamerican.systime.dk/?id=193
beskrivelse:
• Give eleverne indblik i amerikanske traditionelle værdier og deres udfordringer, samt deres relation til ulighed i en amerikansk kontekst. Derudover beskæftiger eleverne sig med det Amerikanske velfærdssystem og undersøger den Afroamerikanske minoritetsgruppe.
Væsentlige faglige mål: Terminologi, perspektivering af tekster, viden om amerikansk kultur/samfund, redegøre for og samtale om amerikansk samfund.
Klasseundervisning, gruppearbejde
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