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Man and Nature
Forløb (Unit) 2: Man and Nature
Formål (Objectives)
The aim is to develop the students’ overall language proficiency and to strengthen their ability to:
• account for the content, viewpoints, and linguistic features of English-language texts
• analyse and interpret texts using relevant terminology and basic analytical methods (particularly in connection with the analysis of poems, speeches, and documentary films)
• contextualise texts culturally, socially, and historically (particularly in relation to Romanticism in Britain and the United States and the relationship between humans and nature)
• engage with and reflect on the global climate discourse and how environmental and climate issues are discussed in politics, the media, and public debate
• work with resource politics, including political and economic interests in natural resources and the exploitation of nature
• analyse media representations of Greenland, including how international media portray Greenland’s natural resources and political situation
• engage with English-language texts, including applying source criticism and documenting the use of different information sources
• use academic reference works and other relevant tools
• address issues in interdisciplinary contexts (particularly in relation to history and Danish)
Indhold (Content)
1. Documentary: US, China and Russia's New Battleground: Greenland's Untapped Rare Earths
2. Greenland’s natural resources and geopolitics: perspectives by geologist Minik Rosing
3. Media criticism and representations of Greenland (Mariane Paviasen Jensen)
4. Talking about climate change + interviews in class
5. Chief Seattle’s speech
6. Romanticism and Transcendentalism
7. Blake and Wordsworth
8. Into the Wild (film) + excerpt from Jon Krakauer
9. Blake: “London”
10. Nature and the City (Eric Hoffer)
11. Greta Thunberg and contemporary climate discourse
Materialer (Materials)
• Chief Seattle’s speech. Source: The Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest, University of Washington's Department of History.
https://www.washington.edu/uwired/outreach/cspn/Website/Classroom%20Materials/Reading%20the%20Region/Texts%20by%20and%20about%20Natives/Texts/7.html (accessed 21-01-2023)
• Text from Wider Contexts (Systime, iBook): “Chief Seattle: Selling Our Land” (1854). Accessed 30-10-2023
• Poems from Project Gutenberg:
– “The Ecchoing Green” (1789) by William Blake
– “London” (1794) by William Blake
– “The Tables Turned” (1798) by William Wordsworth
• Essay from Wider Contexts (Systime, iBook): “Nature and the City” (1968) by Eric Hoffer
• Chapters from The English Handbook (Trine Østergaard, Systime 2017–2020), pp. 17–21 (Romanticism - also includes The Sparrow’s Nest” by Wordsworth) and 56–58 (Transcendentalism)
• Excerpt from Into the Wild (1996) by Jon Krakauer, pp. 56–58: “Alex’s Letter to Ron”
• Greta Thunberg: “Speech at the U.N. Climate Action Summit”, 23 September 2019
• Documentary: US, China and Russia's New Battleground: Greenland's Untapped Rare Earths (60 Minutes Australia)
• Interview: “Minik Rosing on 60 Minutes Overtime” (CBS News)
• Article: “Geologist Warns Prospect of a Mineral Bonanza in Greenland Is a Mirage”, CBS News, April 2025
• Article: Peter Boyle, “60 Minutes Runs Propaganda for Greedy Australian Mining Company, Trump’s Greenland Takeover”, Green Left, August 2025
Arbejdsformer (Methods)
Group work and presentations.
Elements of cooperative learning (jigsaw groups, role reading, quiz-and-trade, task stations, etc.).
Analysis of poetry, speeches, documentary films, and media representations.
Oral presentations with feedback and feedforward.
Evaluering (Evaluation)
Formative collective evaluation in connection with presentations and class discussions.
Formative individual evaluation in connection with Written Assignments.
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