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Termin(er)	2024/25
Institution	Birkerød Gymnasium og HF
Fag og niveau	Engelsk -
Lærer(e)	Aske Hviid Sparsø
Hold	2024 en/enAlitH* (2uenAlitH*)

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Titel 1	The Picture of Dorian Gray
Titel 2	The short stories of Charlotte Gilman
Titel 3	Ocean Vuong
Titel 4	Olga Ravn
Titel 5	Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Titel 6	Natalie Diaz
Titel 7	Miss Julie
Titel 8	The Discomfort of Evening

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Titel 1	The Picture of Dorian Gray
Indhold	Kernestof: Homework: The Fall of Oscar Wilde - biographical insights on our first author Extra homework for the fleet of hoof, lil unicorns: Oscar Wilde as a (political) radical Wilde Maxims.pdf description 2u lit Dorian Gray instagram profiles Homework for today: please read Dorian Gray, chapter 2. Taking notes and/or bejewelling your book with post-its is recommended, always. Pay close attention to descriptions of characters as well as character dynamics! Dorian Gray, chapter 1-2 group work.docx description Homework: if you didn't quite complete your Instagram profiles (based only on ch1-2, of course), then do so before class :) Remember to also visit other profiles and leave a few questionable comments! 2u lit, Dorian Gray concepts presentations, updated.docx description Afsnit What is Free Indirect Discourse? Dorian Gray lil creative writing exercise, student version.docx description Homework: please read Dorian Gray, chapter 3. As always, please annotate/take notes/etc MIXED GROUPS WITH A SPRINKLE OF EVERYONE FROM EVERY CORNER OF THE 2UNIVERSE C O N A N HOMEWORK: chapter 4-5, please! Plan your reading, and - as always - please take notes! You'll need your reading today to participate in large group discussions without teacher support! Note!!: you are always welcome to put your notes and thoughts in elevfeedback on every module, if you feel that you have a lot to say about your homework BUT you prefer not to participate too much in class discussions. I will always read your feedbac Inspiration for today's group convos🧜‍♀️🧜‍♀️✨ TODAY!!! Reminder: if you don't have an English Lit folder yet, then please be sure to create one. All of your notes, reflections, assignments should also go in there:) Please read chapter 6-7 (page 71-90). Take notes while reading and put these in your English Lit folder - and in elevfeedback, if you'd like to:) What is Free Indirect Discourse? \|\| Definition & Examples 2u lit, Dorian Gray close reading.docx description Homework: chapter 8-9, please! (page 91-113) 2u syllabus, as promised:) The Picture of 2u lit playlist Homework: the short chapter 10 (page 114-122) :) Chapter 10 About chapter 11... (put in elevfeedback and English folders, pls) Homework: read or skim chapter 11 (page 123-140), and read chapter 12 (page 141-147). Fair warning: ch11 is a toughie to get through, which is why it's OK to skim it! Gothic literature Homework: chapter 14 - 16 (page 155-184). Plan your reading! One chapter per day? Use an audiobook, if that helps those of you who find reading a bit tough sometimes! If you don't make it to page 184, it's not the end of the world:) See for instance this Dorian Gray website, which includes an audiobook Homework: chapter 14 - 16 (page 155-184). Plan your reading! Extra homework: during our next (and shorter) unit, you will work in groups on different short stories. I'll make the groups, but you can have an influence! In elevfeedback, note down which students from class that you believe you work with particula 2u lit DG group work - music, recontextualizing, and therapy.docx description What is Tragedy? Homework: chapter 17-19 (page 185-208). Similar number of pages to last module - remember the audiobook option! Extra homework: (re-)read about the gothic, if you forgot everything in a lil weekend-brainrot:) The gothic No homework - focus on your assignment:) Homework: try to complete your instagram profiles. Have your characters respond to missing chapters (and other profiles) AND/OR have them comment on the movie from yesterday!!! Extra homework: if the Global Issues (GIs) video was gibberish to you, try to watch it again at home (see the link). We'll spend just a bit of time on GIs today. IB English: Individual Oral - From Start to Finish - Video 1 of 5 Please bring pens/pencils/highlighters! The Global Issue: the IB has defined global issues in the following manner: (a) they have significance on a wide/large scale; (b) they are transnational; (c) the impact is felt in everyday contexts
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Titel 2	The short stories of Charlotte Gilman
Indhold	Kernestof: THE YELLOW WALLPAPER, first half.docx description Homework: Gilman introduction - watch and take notes:) Optional homework: if you're interested in extra Gilman insights beyond her most popular short story, check out this video Don't read the rest of The Yellow Wallpaper in advance. There's no need for us to be experts on the story ahead of today. However, some of you may want to refresh your memories and re-read the 5 pages from Wednesday's class. In that case, see the doc Please bring pens and highlighters again! 2u lit, The Yellow Wallpaper technical analysis.docx description Gilman short story, Bee Wise.pdf description Gilman short story, If I Were a Man.pdf description Gilman short story, Unnatural Mother.pdf description Gilman short story, When I Was a Witch.pdf description Gilman short story, The Giant Wistaria.docx description Gilman anthology of texts.pdf description Groups: Gilman group work instructions.docx description Homework: please complete your Yellow Wallpaper analysis group work and put it in your English folder and in elevfeedback:) 2u lit, Gilman short stories to choose from for group projects It's giving witchy fall, people! See this link with Aubrey Plaza and please coven up to support each other on this journey because, evidently, you all are witch Homework: please read your chosen Gilman story for today. If you have time to annotate / write notes while you read: great! Comments on creative writing will have been uploaded before this module🧚‍♀️🧚‍♀️ Close reading feedback coming up next! [Middle English biwicchen : probably bi-, be- + wicchen (from Old English wiccian, from wicce, witch, or wicca, sorcerer); nightsky-1.pdf description Homework: come prepared for Gilman presentations! And make sure to save your Gilman presentation material in your English folder! It will prove useful down the road:) Whimsical holiday homework: Extra tiny homework: please follow this link to register on ThinkIB, a nice lil English Lit resource for a host of things. We will use it for paper 1 prep, for starters:) Note: I marked all of you as having received Ocean Vuong's novel before the holiday (except Frida and Hannah) - but was there anyone else who also didn't take the novel, as they had their own copy already? Let me know:)
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Titel 3	Ocean Vuong
Indhold	Kernestof: Note: if you struggle with reading poetry, see if the attached pdf resource from ThinkIB could help you in any way!!:) 12-step-approach-to-any-poem-(1).pdf description Homework: please read the short essay by Ocean Vuong - see the pdf document. You will be asked to read a few of these as small introductions to the author and his textual universe. Take notes during, or write notes after, for your English portfolio. Extra homework: start thinking about ideas for your lit project. Over the next weeks I would like to hear from you! Ocean-Vuong-Immigrating-Into-English-_-The-New-Yorker.pdf description 2u English Lit project 2024-2025.docx description A bit (more) on next week's test: Homework: please read the short linked essay by Ocean Vuong. Take notes during your reading, or write notes after, for your English portfolio. Ocean Vuong - Paris Review What is a Sonnet? Atmosphere English A lit, Paper 1 sample - text and essay.docx description Ocean Vuong, poetry analysis assignment in groups.docx description Extra Vuong poems (not from night sky).docx description Homework: please read Ocean Vuong page 15 - 44 Last class we talked about "vignettes" in Vuong. See this link if you want to read about this subject term - it's something you need to be familiar with! Vuong page 15-44 questions No Vuong reading homework for today's test module! But for next week, please read Ocean Vuong until page 71 (the end of the first part of the novel) Reminders: TODAY'S magnificient MODULE PLAN nightsky-1.pdf description Group work overview (for elevfeedback and your portfolios, please!) https://lithub.com/ocean-vuong-the-10-books-i-needed-to-write-my-novel/ 2u lit's briefly gorgeous playlist Homework: please read Vuong until page 71! Remember to write notes for your English folder/porfolio, so you don't have to read everything again in class:) Part 2, let's go! Please read page 75 - 91 Today's English module: Ocean Vuong, part 2, a few big questions, divide and prosper.docx description Homework: please read until page 151! We'll read the small remaining part of Part 2 together:) What is Enjambment? Homework: 1) please read through Ocean Vuong's "Metaphors" highlight lecture on Instagram - see link. 2) Go to elevfeedback and summarize, in your own words, Ocean Vuong's perspective on what you need to have a succesful metaphor. Ocean Vuong's instagram profile Extra homework, just in case that you feel unsure about what exactly enjambment is all about: please check out the link that thoroughly explains enjambment:) ENJAMBMENT EXERCISE IN A STATION OF THE METRO.jpg Meanwhile in Troy Homework: please dig into Part 3 of Vuong! Read page 165 - page 193. Today's plan Paper 1 group session instructions: GROUPS TODAY! No readings for today. Please just come prepared for the poetry :) But please also note your reading homework for Friday: page 195 - 233!! 2u lit Vuong poem presentation structure Homework: please read page 195 - 233! DP English A: Literature: Global Issues #2 Homework: there may be some aspects of the novel that are unclear to you or that you don't get. Sometimes that's completely okay and a part of the experience! Yet there may also be elements that would be helpful for you to understand for academic pur Some lil Vuong leftovers: explore some of the following, starting with elements that you’re not sure about yourself. Use the novel, each other, and the internet to produce cool notes in your own language - this can be done in groups! Citations will s
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Titel 4	Olga Ravn
Indhold	Kernestof: What is an Epistolary Novel? \|\| Definition & Examples \| College of Liberal Arts Homework for today! Science Fiction (Oregon State University) The_Employees_A_Workplace_Novel_of_the_22nd_Century_by_Olga_Ravn_ (2).pdf description The Employees lil sheeeeeeeeeet for December 2nd.docx description No new readings for today. If you have fallen behind, please catch up! Otherwise, work on your lit project at your own pace:) Reading focus points for the novel SCHEME Access the group \| InThinking The objects in the rooms on The Six-Thousand Ship.docx description Lea Gulditte Hestelund Homework: if you couldn't attend class Wednesday, then please read until the end of page 39 (Statement 055). Additionally, please make sure that you have submitted the close reading of a selected statement for me to evaluate! Please note that since E BLOGGIE: You should have covered 2-3 items from the original prompt-list - or similar stuff of your own making! Homework: please read Employees page 40 - 50 and takes notes while reading for elevfeedback and your English folder. Take a look at our Employees reading focus points before you start reading :) PACK TWO BAGS BAG PANTS Shady bag... HOMEWORK FOR TODAY :)) Homework: please read page Statement 078 - Statement 117 SOPHIA DICHOW'S BLOG :) @no1_3rdofficerfan December 16., 8 in the morning, 2u doing space things.docx description AND ANNA + MARGOT'S SPACE BLOG !!!!!!!!! : @3mployeeofthemonth Homework: please read statement 160 - statement 175, aka start where we left off in class :) Homework: 1) please write a final blog entry, saying goodbye before the biological termination is completed :((((( and 2) say goodbye to a couple of crew members on their instagram blogs as well :((((((((((((. Tertiary homework: remember to put your If you're a two-timing blackguard knave crook ne'er-do-well, I look forward to seeing you after Christmas, but you will not get to see my exclusive Julefrokost attire today:((((( If you are a saintly little saint, I will see you for our julehygge mor And yes of course there is extra English Lit karma to people who show up in their own christmas attire, need you ask??????? Hannah's like... And I'm like... And y'all will be like...
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Titel 5	Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Indhold	Kernestof: _OceanofPDF.com_Drive_Your_Plow_Over_the_Bones_of_the_Dead_-_Olga_Tokarczuk.pdf description You are all cordially invited back to English class DAVID ALEXIS Dead Bones Read-y Buddy.docx description Drive_Your_Plow_Presentation.pptx description Homework: please read chapters 2-4 before today :) Pick-Me-Document, Plow chapters 2-4.docx description Homework: chapter 5, 6, and 7, according to our reading plan:) Consider actively putting notes in your group's Google Docs as you're reading, to support each other Drive Your Plow be like: this is fine PLOW PLOW PLOW, chapters 5 to 7.docx description 2u lit, small group presentations on assorted queens and heretics (1-3 students) Types of conflict in literature.docx description ANGRY LIT + writing exercise.docx description Homework: please read chapter 8, according to the reading plan :) Meet at 9.10!! Narrative theories: Please read chapters 9 and 10 for today! Oh!! Please start handing back your Dorian Gray books - Daniel needs them for his class soon:) TODAY'S SCHEMY PLAN Homework: please read chapters 11 and 12! Homework: just chapter 13 for today, please! HI Homework: please read chapter 14, 15 and 16! We will read the final chapter together in class:) Reminder: small group presentations America Is a Myth, A Conversation with Natalie Diaz.pdf description Poetry Analysis 101.docx description English A: Literature: Practise Paper 1 Skills: poetry 2u lit 2024, highlighted paper 2 paragraphs January 2024.docx description Homework: please read the short Diaz interview-article ('America is a Myth' - see the pdf) and take notes for your English portfolio and elevfeedback :) Secondary homework, if you need it:
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Titel 6	Natalie Diaz
Indhold	Kernestof: America Is a Myth, A Conversation with Natalie Diaz.pdf description Poetry Analysis 101.docx description English A: Literature: Practise Paper 1 Skills: poetry 2u lit 2024, highlighted paper 2 paragraphs January 2024.docx description Homework: please read the short Diaz interview-article ('America is a Myth' - see the pdf) and take notes for your English portfolio and elevfeedback :) Secondary homework, if you need it: Blood-Light Postcolonial Love Poem Homework 1: if you didn't read the Natalie Diaz interview and write notes for it, then please do so! It will help as we enter her authorship. And re-read your notes to make sure they are accurate, as I noticed some inaccuracies in your notes. For ins Homework 2: please (re)read the poem Blood-Light and enjoy it :) MOST IMPORTANT HOMEWORK ACTUALLY: please try to bring some kind of folder to class today, so that you can safely transport the printed poetry collection that I'll bring today :) 30 minutes (in class): The Guardian - Natalie Diaz article Why Latinx/é? - El Centro Homework: read about the term "latinx" that Diaz sometimes uses about herself. You can find an example of it being used in the linked Guardian article, and you can find more explanation of "latinx" from the Colorado State Uni link. Take some notes fo Homework: for context and further insight into the work's vision, please also read the following dedication written by Natalie Diaz, which is featured in my version of the poetry collection but not in your version: Optional homework: begin to flip through the poetry collection and explore Diaz's writing :) A cute little Penguin overview of some types of poetry and poetry terminology (but not an exhaustive list): https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/childrens-article/different-types-of-poetry-for-kids A less cute and much more comprehensive poetry terminology overview: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/education/glossary Poem-writing exercise inspired by Natalie Diaz.docx description Please also note: I uploaded the document with anonymous student paragraphs to last week's module, and I have re-uploaded it on this module. Please save it in your English folder. It may be inspiring for you to read in preparation for your future pap HOMEWORK: to prepare for today, please read or skim through the following poems - in class, you will pick one to explore in detail. You will be at an advantage if you already know which poem/s you would prefer to work with: 2u lit, Natalie Diaz group work assignment.docx description Postcolonial Love Poem.pdf description Homework: to prepare for today's poetry, please do a bit of research on (some of) the following words: Atman, pulsus, Zahir, Aleph, Sphinx, Leonids, locomotura, Rubidium, Prometheus, Hecatonchire, Centimani Please bring compendiums, headphones, computers :) If you didn't quite catch "apostrophe" in our module before the break:) 'These Hands, If Not Gods' - sample p1 essay questions Paper 1: a concept-based approach 10 Tips for Paper 1 Annotating texts Practise Paper 1 Skills: poetry Paper 1 revision: poetry Paper 1 sample responses #4 and #5 Two marked sample paper 1 lit essays.docx description Poetry terminology.docx description Homework for elevfeedback today (if you were sick or travelling, you don't have to do this, as we studied this difficult poem in class): write a single paragraph that responds to 'These Hands, If Not Gods' using one of the three lil sample essay ques No homework for today - but feel very free to prepare for the paper 1 poetry test to the extent that you want and can manage :) Please remember that this is still just practice and that it will be OK even if you don't have time to revise!! Heads up: during last Wednesday's class we read the poem "My Brother, My Wound". You don't have to do anything with it, if you were absent for Bigmun that day. However, it's part of our syllabus, so for oral exam purposes it could still make sense to Access the group \| InThinking Please bring more Employees copies! Thomas needs them :) Homework: for more poetry knowledge, please read about classic rhythm on this linked website. Be sure to study the examples! Please note: to reduce your stress, we will wait with group presentations of Natalie Diaz until next week :) Please remember to bring compendiums! :) Exploring the motif of the minotaur in Natalie Diaz.docx description Defamiliarizing the Minotaur in ‘Postcolonial Love Poem’ Homework: make sure that you have read all three Minotaur poems. If you did not complete your difficult comparative studies Friday, then you'll do so today! Secondary homework: if you felt quite lost during Friday's metre Kahoot, then please read the homework for Friday (again). The website explains most things from the kahoot with examples from poetry :) Tertiary homework: for more general insights on the minotaur in Diaz's poetry, you can read the linked article No particular homework! Re-read Minotaur poems, bring your compendiums, and be ready to weigh in on the class discussion with emphasis on 'I, Minotaur'. Final chance to pitch in before my term grade deadline :) Homework: please check to make sure that you have Teams installed on your computer and that you can access it! Homework: please read the poem 'How the Milky Way Was Made' from the compendium several times. Homework: please follow the link to the poetry document in our Teams group. Read the poem AND leave comments in the document - these can 100% be informal comments and reactions. You should also respond to classmates' comments :) Poetry document :) Homework: please read the peculiar conceptual poem 'exhibits from The American Water Museum' from the compendium. Hopefully, your experience with reading 'The First Water Is the Body' will help you out :) The American Water Museum exhibit.docx description Global Issues #2: the good ones, the bad ones Homework: please read the short poem "Grief Work", the last poem in Diaz's collection. When you have read it a few times, write a response to the poem in elevfeedback - and your English folder. Why do you think Diaz chose this particular text to be t SL: please decide whether you would rather read Miss Julie or The Discomfort of Evening :) Do a bit of research. If you want to read Miss Julie (the shorter and more manageable work), then you come to class today! PLEASE BE READY FOR TODAY'S EXHIBIT! Print your text to put on a wall :) Miss Julie_student edition.pdf description
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Titel 7	Miss Julie
Indhold	Kernestof: Heads up: if you'd like to read more about the EE in English Lit, then please check out the following IB website. See both "Choice of topic" and "Treatment of the topic" EE in literature Elevfeedback homework (both HL and SL): preferably in small groups, have a small brainstorming session where you come up with global issue ideas where you try to combine Natalie Diaz with Plow and/or Employees. Please see the link for examples of goo Global Issues #2: the good ones, the bad ones, the wack ones Inthinking access miss julie_preface.pdf description Preface_studyQs.docx description inthinking_-introducing-the-individual-oral.pptx description IB English: Individual Oral - From Start to Finish - Video 1 of 5 Elevfeedback homework (both SL and HL): Get yourself some sweet InThinking access with this link! Wack character study: meditate in groups in elevfeedback Homework (both SL and HL) - this should take you 20-30 minutes, all told. You are very welcome to do this in groups - as long as you both listen to the sample: DP English A: Literature: Individual oral exemplar #3: Miss Julie and Ama Ata Aidoo Homework (SL+HL): Homework (Miss Julie students only): to save time today, please read through the linked Prezi on "Naturalism" at home, courtesy of my fav colleague Sofie<3. This gives context on the play and is pretty good knowledge for an exam situation (hint) Naturalism prezi!!! Classical tragedy.docx description
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Titel 8	The Discomfort of Evening
Indhold	Kernestof: Homework (SL+HL): Homework (Miss Julie students only): to save time today, please read through the linked Prezi on "Naturalism" at home, courtesy of my fav colleague Sofie<3. This gives context on the play and is pretty good knowledge for an exam situation (hint) Naturalism prezi!!! Classical tragedy.docx description Homework: Homework: please read until the end of page 34! Please remember to annotate / write notes and impressions down as you read! Let's write for a bit: Exam homework (SL + HL): Global issue inspiration on inthinking Please bring headphones to class today! IB English: Individual Oral - From Start to Finish ... Video 2 of 5 - ON GIs AND EXTRACTS Paragraph groups: sit down outside, take turns reading aloud and discussing / giving feedback on your ideas and your paragraph structure (be back 10.05 or sooner) Important exam homework (SL + HL): IB English: Individual Oral - From Start to Finish ... Video 2 of 5 HL reading homework for Discomfort: please read until the end of page 79 :) It's getting exceeeedingly uncomfortable – remember to find evidence, please! For English folders and elevfeedback :)) And please be back at 10.40 after the break! Metaphies and similies from the novel The Poetry of Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, compendium.docx description Reading homework: please read until the end of page 103 :) Note that you should read until page 200 (end of Part II) across the holiday! That will make it realistic for us to do a comparative Paper 2 essay test before the end of this year's lessons, Lil exam check-in for magical mermaids: ideally, I should have checked in with more or less everyone's IO ideas at this point. Some in Friday's class on April 11th, and a lot on lectio in elevfeedback. Please check elevfeedback for Wednesday 9th, in HL homework: please read Discomfort until page 200. Probably take as many notes as you can, as we're bound to get lost otherwise, and it'll help you so much with the paper 2 test next week :)) Keep an eye on developments in existing motifs and themes Groups & pages :) Spend 45 minutes preparing to offer the rest of the class an informal run-down of your pages: Homework: please get started on Part 3, reading until page 229 :) Paper 2 sample essay (marked) Another paper 2 sample essay (marked) Tips for revising paper 2 texts Making comparisons in the paper 2 comparative essay Using evidence in the paper 2 essay Annotated student paper 2 essay Structuring the paper 2 essay HL READING HOMEWORK: please read until page 276 and take notes for your English folders! We'll read the rest together in class today and wrap up the novel:) Exam stuff: next week we have three modules devoted to oral exam preparations. You will be doing yourself a massive favour by having your global issue and two extracts ready by then. Have you started annotating your extracts, so much the better! I ur OUTLINE QUESTIONS
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