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Star-Crossed Lovers: R&J, Normal People EXAM
In addition to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, we will read Sally Rooney’s "Normal People" focusing on the complex relationship between Connell and Marianne. Perhaps their love story, marked by emotional conflict and societal pressures, mirrors the struggles of Shakespeare's star-crossed lovers?
Our reading will focus on themes of intimacy, vulnerability, and social class and how these external factors shape identities and relationships.
Furthermore, the theme deals with the Elizabethan world picture and the clash between the medieval thought of community and the Renaissant focus on individuality. We will work with "Romeo and Juliet" looking at themes such as faith, love, reason and passion, the four humours, tragic heroes and tragic irony. Furthermore, students will gain knowledge of literary elements like the sonnet, the iambic pentameter, blank verse, tragic irony and a prologue.
Focus:
The Shakespearean world, sonnets and plays, particularly tragedies, style of writing in general from Shakespeare's language to Rooney's dialogues
Content:
Kernestof:
- Sally Rooney "Normal People" (Værk 2)
Supplerende stof:
- Historical and Social Background (Romeo & Juliet + short history of the English language)
- The Complete Play, Glossary, Tasks and Toolbox by Clausen and Kaalund)
- Literary Background: William Shakespeare and the dramatic tradition
- The Elizabethan World Picture: The chain of being and the four elements introduction (+ mix and match exercises and students making their own note sheets):
- A short history of the British language + exercises
- The Shakespearean sonnet: Form and figures of speech (clap the iambic pentameter)
- Teacher’s intro to the drama genre + Works sheets 14+15 from The Royal Shakespeare Company
Kernestof:
- Sonnet 18 (+ work questions, Wider Contexts) Listen to the text, YouTube
- Sonnet 130 (+ work questions, Fields of Vision)
- Film: “Romeo and Juliet” by Baz Luhrmann 1996 + while watching questions and discussion
- Romeo and Juliet: The Prologue: Focus on the form and tragic irony
- Act 1 scene 5 + work questions
- Act 3 scene 5 (Focus: Foreshadowing, day and night contrast, generations)
- Act 5 scene 3 (characterization of Romeo)
- Postmodern perspective: Margaret Atwood “Happy Endings”, 1983
Omfang: ca. 250 sider inkl. supplerende baggrundsstof
Kernestof
̶ standardsprog og variation, herunder elementer af det engelske sprogs udvikling
̶ tekstanalytiske begreber og metoder til analyse af fiktive og ikke-fiktive tekster
̶ et genremæssigt bredt udvalg af fiktive og ikke-fiktive tekster
̶ væsentlige strømninger i britisk og amerikansk litteraturhistorie
̶ væsentlige sproglige, historiske, kulturelle og samfundsmæssige forhold i Storbritannien og andre engelsksprogede regioner.
Faglige mål:
̶ gøre rede for indhold, synspunkter og sproglige særtræk i engelsksprogede tekster
̶ analysere og fortolke forskellige nyere og ældre tekster med anvendelse af relevant faglig terminologi og metode
̶ perspektivere tekster litteraturhistorisk, kulturelt, samfundsmæssigt og historisk
̶ analysere og perspektivere aktuelle forhold i engelsksprogede regioner på baggrund af engelskfaglig viden om historiske, kulturelle og samfundsmæssige forhold i Storbritannien og andre engelsksprogede regioner.
Arbejdsformer: induktive øvelser som individuel kreativ skrivning, diskussion af videoklip og cases, højtlæsning, gruppearbejde om analyse og fortolkning, klasseopsamling, CL-øvelser, matrixfremlæggelser, plakat/oversigtsfremstillinger i Docs, literary circles
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