Tyger! Tyger! burning bright ~ poem reading with text

Here you find an analysis of the poem :) Knock yourselves out, but make sure you UNDERSTAND!

The Lamb by William Blake ~ poem with Text

Here you find a good analysis of the poem. Use it - you may agree or disagree, but make sure you UNDERSTAND!

William Blake

Explain the quotes below:

Group 1:

1.      The tyger’s wrath is wiser than the horses of instruction

2.      Without contrasts is no progression

3.      Religion, politics and industrialism are “dark Satanic Mills”

Group 2:

       4.      Prisons are built with stones of law, Brothels with bricks of religion

5.      Active Evil is better than Passive Good

6.      The two contrary states of the human soul (“Songs of Innocence” and “Songs of Experience”)

My iambic poem

Write a poem in four lines about Romanticism. You must write in iambs.

Wordsworth: The Tables Turned

Wordsworth wrote in his Preface to Lyrical Ballads, the collection of poems in which The Tables Turned first appeared: "There will also be found in these volumes little of what is usually called poetic diction; I have taken as much pains to avoid it as others ordinarily take to produce it; this I have done (...) to bring my language near to the language of men (...)"

Does Wordsworth reach his goal of writing in the language of med in this poem? Explain and exemplify, please!

William Wordsworth: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

Upload your Photo Story to the conference in Ludus. Write here:

1. Why did you pick the lines you picked?
2. What aspects of the poem did you consider in your choice of pictures?
3. How did you manage to convey the Romantic conventions of poetic language?

Sådan skriver du et Essay on non-fiction

Delprøve 1 (A-niveau)

History of the British Empire

Anne Hope: A Gap of Sky

Here you can post your notes from your work on "A Gap of Sky".

And now for something completely different...

You ought to watch this video: Figures of speech presented by Monty Python :) I especially enjoy Miss Anne Elk and her theory ground breaking theory of the Brontosaurus!

John Agard: Mr Oxford Don

Here you can post the main points and conclusion of your analysis.
Post as a group or as an individual but don't forget NAMES.
Feel free to express agreement or disagreement with the analyses of the other groups/members.
The demand for your product is 300-400 words

Educating Rita

1. Rita: How does she change? How does she not change? How does she perceive education? What does literature signify for her? Why is it so important for Rita to be educated?

2. Frank: How does Frank change? How does he not change? Why does it become so important for him to educate Rita? Describe the development in his feelings towards this “project”.

3. Learning and education: At one point, Frank realizes that he has failed as a poet because he has tried too hard to write literature - what does he mean by that? What does Frank’s classroom represent for him? What does it represent for Rita? Does that change?

4. England: What impression do you get of British society and the different social classes?

5. What is this film doing in a theme on Language and Power?

6. Compare the film to either "Pygmalion" or Zadie Smith's essay

Zadie Smith: Speaking in Tongues

If you want, you can see Zadie Smith and hear her read from her latest novel "NW"

1. Find at least one good quote in the essay and explain why you find it important.

2. Discuss how Zadie Smith has experienced her development of “voice”.

3. Look at the passage about Eliza (p. 135). Characterize her change of voice (note that you have an excerpt of Pygmalion in the compendium)

4. Put the text into a Danish perspective - could the text have been written by a Dane? If so, under which conditions? If not, why not?

5. Explain how Zadie Smith sees the liminal/middling space of having multiple “voices” as strength. Provide textual examples (you may use the passage on Obama on p. 136ff as a reference point)

The impotence of proofreading

Please please PLEASE spend time proofreading your papers, please! :D

Engelsk komma 2

Her har I reglerne for bestemmende eller ikke-bestemmende henførende sætninger

Engelsk komma 1

Senator Barack Obama's Announcement for President

This post is created for your notes on the Obama speech from Springfield, IL. You must post notes and ideas that can be of use to your fellow students when writing their paper on the speech. The blog posts will count as a writtten assignment in itself so don't forget to write the names of all the members of your group!

If not you...

American History - kinda

Obama's speech at the 50th Anniversay of the March on Washington

Obama's tribute to Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0z87SKSyyw

Yup - that's what you're doing!

Martin Luther king: I Have a Dream

The three forms of appeal: Ethos Pathos and logos

Here is a Danish explanation of the three appealforms

Abraham Lincoln: Gettysburg Address

This great animation of Lincoln's Gettysburg Adress is worth seeing!

 

Here are some work points you might want to consider. Feel free to post comments.

Consider all 5 points in the rhetorical pentagram and write a brief evaluation of the speech in which you account for the use of predominant rhetorical features.

A bit of rhetoric

John Winthrop: City upon a Hill

Here are some work points you might want to consider. Feel free to post comments.

Consider all 5 points in the rhetorical pentagram and write a brief evaluation of the speech in which you account for the use of predominant rhetorical features.

Who or whom

Here's to answer your question, Mathilde:
http://writerswrite1.wordpress.com/2013/05/16/who-or-whom/
http://oxforddictionaries.com/words/who-or-whom

Grammar videos

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Please post your grammar videos here

 

The American Dream documentary

Please post the topics for discussion you noted down while watching the film in class. Use your Google account so everyone can see who is posting. Feel free to comment on each other's posts. Here you may find the film in case you did not see it in class.