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THEME 3: Animal Farm
THEME 4: ANIMAL FARM
EMNET OPGIVES TIL EKSAMEN
Introduction:
This course focuses on the reading of George Orwell's literary classic "Animal Farm" (1945). Animal Farm is one of Britain's most popular novels - is a brilliant political satire and a powerful and affecting story of revolutions and idealism, power and corruption.
The course has focused on giving the students an introduction to the genre, the allegory as well as an introduction to Orwell's satire and language. As the basis of the course, the students have been introduced to the allegorical background of the novel: The Russian Revolution and Stalin's Soviet Union. The concepts, terms, events and personalities in focus were: Tsarist autocracy, The Russian empire, Tsar Nicholas II, Karl Marx, Communism, Vladimir Lenin, Socialism and Leninism, World War 1, The Bolsheviks, The Russian Revolution - causes, consequences, course of events, The organisation of the Soviet State, Leon Trotsky, Capitalism, The struggle for power between Trotsky and Stalin in the 1920s, Josef Stalin, Stalinism and totalitarianism, World War II, Josef Stalin and The KGB, Propaganda, The Great Purge. The thorough introduction to the allegory has served as the basis for the course.
In addition, the course has focused on the genre features of classic, dystopian fiction.
The reading of the novel has been structured as both class discussions, group work, debating sessions and group work. It has among other things focused on:
- Orwell's allegory and critique
- Character analyses of major characters, i.e. Napoleon, Snowball, Mollie, Old Major, Squealer, Boxer etc.
- Discussion of the structure of the novel in relation to the allegory: how does Animal Farm go from being a utopian ideal to a dystopia?
- Propaganda - the different types propaganda and their consequences
- Putting the novel into perspective with our contemporaries: Animal Farm in the Trump and Putin era?
The central method has been fiction analysis, giving the students an in depth-understanding of fiction analysis and concepts as well as the reading of a full novel.
Key concepts in this course are:
Communism
Allegory
Satire
Stalinism
Totalitarianism
Utopia/Dystopia
Dictatorship
Propaganda
etc.
The reading of the novel was finalized with group presentations on the entire novel and an exercise in putting the novel into perspective with non-fiction.
Also, the class has worked with grammar: kongruens, verbets tider, udvidet tid, ing-former and an introduction to sprogprøven, EN B.
The class has written a summary and a non-fiction essay in relation to the novel and the theme.
FAGLIGE MÅL I HENHOLD TIL LÆREPLANEN FOR ENGELSK B:
Sprogfærdighed:
̶ forstå mundtlige engelske tekster og samtaler af en vis længde om almene og faglige emner
̶ udtrykke sig sammenhængende og forholdsvis flydende, herunder formulere egne synspunkter, i præsentation, samtale og diskussion på engelsk om almene og faglige emner med en relativ høj grad af grammatisk korrekthed
̶ læse og forstå skrevne tekster på engelsk i forskellige genrer af en vis længde om almene og faglige emner
̶ skrive klare, detaljerede og sammenhængende tekster på engelsk med forskellige formål om almene og faglige emner med en relativ høj grad af grammatisk korrekthed
Sprog, tekst og kultur
̶ analysere og beskrive engelsk sprog med anvendelse af relevant faglig terminologi
̶ gøre rede for indhold, synspunkter og sproglige særtræk i engelsksprogede tekster
̶ analysere og fortolke tekster med anvendelse af faglig terminologi og metode
̶ perspektivere tekster kulturelt, samfundsmæssigt og historisk
̶ anvende faglige opslagsværker og øvrige hjælpemidler
̶ demonstrere viden om fagets identitet og metoder
KERNESTOF I HENHOLD TIL LÆREPLANEN FOR ENGELSK B:
̶ det engelske sprogs grammatik, ortografi og tegnsætning
- principper for tekstopbygning
̶ et genremæssigt varieret udvalg af primært nyere fiktive og ikke-fiktive tekster, herunder et skrevet værk
̶ tekstanalytiske begreber og metoder til analyse af fiktive og ikke-fiktive tekster
LÆST KERNESTOF I FORLØBET:
Værk:
Orwell, George:: "Animal Farm" (1945), Penguin Student Edition, 1999 (70 NS)
Alexandra Alter: "Uneasy About the Future, Readers Turn to Dystopian Classics", New York Times, Jan 27, 2017: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/business/media/dystopian-classics-1984-animal-farm-the-handmaids-tale.html (3 NS)
OMFANG FAGLIGT STOF I FORLØBET: CA. 73 NS
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