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The US, past, politics, A. Dream + værk (eksamen)
Der arbejdes med forskellige aspekter af det amerikanske samfund:
* Creating a new nation
* The political system
* Immigration
* Values, beliefs and norms
* The American Dream
Bl.a. benyttes
Angles, https://angles.systime.dk/
https://beingamerican.systime.dk/
New American frontiers, https://naf.systime.dk/
Den amerikanske drøm, https://denamerikanskedroem.ibog.frydenlund.dk/
Worlds of English, https://worldsofenglish.systime.dk/
Worlds of now, https://won.systime.dk/
Forløbets tekster har samtidig med analysearbejdet fokus på diskussion. Der arbejdes med fiktionstekster og videoer, som er knyttet til de amerikanske værdier, samt med fiktionsanalyse. Derudover analyseres taler.
Indhold og materiale Kernestof
Colonization of the US,
http://economics.about.com/od/useconomichistory/a/colonization.htm
https://www.thoughtco.com/economics-and-the-colonization-of-the-us-1148143
The event of April 19th 1775 in Lexington, leading to the revolution, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2L8Hc0yoC0 (from 8:00 - 22:45)
The Amendments, https://www.ushistory.org/documents/amendments.htm, especially 2, 5, 13
America the Beautiful, lyrics + video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAU2TgfZAcc
The Revolution, https://ushistory.systime.dk/index.php?id=139&L=0 + https://ushistory.systime.dk/index.php?id=140&L=0
The Constitution and the Founding Fathers,
https://ushistory.systime.dk/index.php?id=141&L=0 + https://ushistory.systime.dk/?id=142
The Bill of Rights and the Constitution,
https://www.history.com/topics/united-states-constitution/bill-of-rights
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Bill-of-Rights-United-States-Constitution
https://www.ushistory.org/us/18a.asp
Slavery versus free labor, Native Americans and African Americans
https://ushistory.systime.dk/?id=146&L=0 ,
Regional differences https://ushistory.systime.dk/?id=147
Lincoln and the Civil War, https://ushistory.systime.dk/?id=148&L=0
History in five: Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt65UV6Fspc (6:29)
The Proclamation -
https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured-documents/emancipation-proclamation/transcript.html
Reconstruction, https://ushistory.systime.dk/?id=149&L=0
Désirée’s Baby, Kate Chopin, 1892 - literary realism
Twelve years a slave, Solomon Northrup (1853) - one of the most important American slave narratives and a valuable source of information regarding the daily lives of slaves in central Louisiana
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Solomon-Northup
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Because he was writing at the height of modernism and interacted with famous proponents of the movement such as Gertrude Stein, Fitzgerald is most often remembered as an American modernist, and The Great Gatsby has many modernist elements.
The Election of the American President, from H. Birk (ed.) 2008, American Issues, Systime
Government and governing principles - How is power divided in the United States
government? Belinda Stutzman, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuFR5XBYLfU (3:49)
Organization of the political system,
http://engelskportalen.gyldendal.dk/forloeb/usa/the-american-presidential-election/organization_of_the_political_system/kapitler/challenges_in_cooperating_with_a_two_party_system.aspx
American political system, http://www.rogerdarlington.me.uk/Americanpoliticalsystem.html
Obama’s Immigration Order Blocked by Supreme Court, excerpt,
https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/obama-immigration-order-blocked-supreme-court-texas/3394275.html
How a bill does not become a law, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUDSeb2zHQ0
Electing a US President, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok_VQ8I7g6I (3:42)
The Electoral College, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6s7jB6-GoU (5:02)
Joe Biden's inaugural speech
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/20/politics/joe-biden-speech-transcript/index.html
and https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-55739794
Donald Trump's inaugural speech, https://naf.systime.dk/index.php?id=161
and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRBsJNdK1t0
A History of Immigration in the USA
https://edu.hstry.co/timeline/a-history-of-immigration-in-the-usa -
https://www.sutori.com/en/story/a-history-of-immigration-in-the-usa--6VK5LSJrYq7RBcsdLoqqHciA
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/03/10/us/20090310-immigration-explorer.html
US immigration before 1965,
https://www.history.com/topics/immigration/u-s-immigration-before-1965
Island of Hope, Island of Tears (28:27) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXfXFbdd7eo
Used for written assignments:
- Ray Bradbury's short story "I see you never", published November 1947 in The New Yorker
- Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s address to the Republican Party convention 2004
- Article regarding Joe Bidens attitude towards the problems facing immigration in the US today, from September 2022, New York Times
President Joe Biden’s "The Biden Plan for Securing Our Values as a Nation of Immigrants”, https://joebiden.com/immigration/#
Defining the American Dream, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C48aGtPIuZo (3:12)
The New American Dream, TED by Courtney Martin,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPf0LjZAS14 (15:32)
How do you define the American Dream?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl813PZTpY8&t=78s (4:16)
Montgomery Bus Boycott,
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/montgomery-bus-boycott
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,
https://blackvoices.systime.dk/?id=278#c969 (excerpt)
I Have a Dream Speech by Martin Luther King Jr,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP4iY1TtS3s (6:46)
American Values, https://vintageamericanways.com/american-values/ (20:00)
American Values and Beliefs, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U32J91NzpSw (2:46)
Supplerende materiale
Segregation and the Jim Crow laws:
https://www.history.com/topics/early-20th-century-us/jim-crow-laws
Jim Crow laws, https://www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/news/jimcrow/what.htm
https://www.britannica.com/event/Jim-Crow-law
The sharecropping system:
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/sharecropping
Plessey vs. Ferguson case:
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/plessy-v-ferguson
The KKK, https://www.history.com/topics/reconstruction/ku-klux-klan
Immigration - Virtual tour on Ellis Island
https://www.nps.gov/hdp/exhibits/ellis/Ellis_Index.html
https://www.youvisit.com/tour/miriiiah/ellis_island
Særlige fokuspunkter Kompetencer
* Fagligt arbejde med skrevne og talte engelsksprogede tekster med brug af faglige
hjælpemidler
* Udtryksevne: oparbejde og træne ordforråd, formulere synspunkter om et emne og
diskutere det
* Forstå autentisk talt engelsk
* Læse forskellige tekster og gøre rede for indhold og synspunkter i dem
* Analysere fiktionsteksterne med fokus på characters og setting (fiction)
Arbejdsformer:
Arbejde med mundtlig fremstilling
Arbejde med skriftlig analyse af taler, How to analyze a speech: https://woe.systime.dk/index.php?id=175
Arbejde med skriftlig analyse af artikel om Joe Bidens immigrationspolitik
Learning aim: "læse og forstå lange og komplicerede tekster på engelsk i forskellige genrer og stillejer inden for almene og faglige områder fra engelsksprogede regioner, samt på engelsk fra andre fag end engelsk"
Omfang I alt ca 30% på 2. år
Væsentlige arbejdsformer Klasseundervisning, par- og gruppearbejde, gruppepræsentationer, individuelt skriftligt arbejde.
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