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1st reading: Slavery (background) - find dokumentet på hjemmesiden og læs mhp. forståelse (slå ord op osv.)
2nd reading: Civil war, the KKK, and AA literature (background) - find dokumentet på hjemmesiden og læs mhp. forståelse (slå ord op osv.)
3rd reading: Uncle Tom's Cabin: read the first part of chp.5: p.21-24 (line 24) - find dokumentet på hjemmesiden og læs mhp. forståelse (slå ord op osv.)
4th reading: Uncle Tom's Cabin: read the rest of chp.5: p.24-27 - find dokumentet på hjemmesiden og læs mhp. forståelse (slå ord op osv.)
5th reading: Aftermath of the Civil War: Reconstruction and voices against racial violence (Lewis Allen: Strange Fruit (1940) - find dokumentet på hjemmesiden og læs mhp. forståelse (slå ord op osv.)
6th reading: The Civil Rights Movement - find dokumentet på hjemmesiden og læs mhp. forståelse (slå ord op osv.)
7th reading: MLK: "I have a dream" (1963). Homework: read the speech and look up words in the process. - find dokumentet på hjemmesiden og læs mhp. forståelse (slå ord op osv.)
8th reading: Mark Twain: A True Story (1874). Homework: Listen to the sound file and read along in the text (it looks a bit weird, because the author has tried to mimic the dialect of "Aunt Rachel" - but you'll get used to reading it when you hear it!) - find dokumentet på hjemmesiden og læs mhp. forståelse (slå ord op osv.)
9th reading: Obama's Speech on Race (2008). Homework: Watch the video: What's your impression of the Rev. Wright? - find dokumentet på hjemmesiden og læs mhp. forståelse (slå ord op osv.)
10 reading: Obama's Speech on Race (2008) pt.2 - find dokumentet på hjemmesiden og læs mhp. forståelse (slå ord op osv.)
1st reading: Slavery
1st reading: Slavery
Racism arose along with the African slave trade, and continues to this day.
Racism arose along with the African slave trade, and continues to this day.
What is the connection between slavery and racism? Write down the answer that this TED-ed offers.
Also, make 2 other questions to the film, and write down the right answers as well.
Exchange translations in this exercise about the formal and informal, the acceptable and unacceptable ethnonyms.
Note: We will use the terms "Black" (sort, adj.), or Afro-Americans (sb), or African-Americans (sb) for the purposes of this class.
Even though words such as "Negro" and "Nigger" are considered improper and offensive in every day speech, we still use them when we make references to these words as they appear in a text.
historical-background.pdfRead the first two pages in this PDF, including the sections "Slavery and "Abolitionists". Find your answers in the text:
Why were slaves imported into the USA? And why particularly to the South?
Explain why the North and the South developed so differently
What did the abolitionists want, and how did they work?
What is "an uncle Tom"? Where does the term come from?
2nd reading: Civil war, KKK, and Afro-American literature
2nd reading: Civil war, KKK, and Afro-American literature
civil war.pdfWhat was the connection between the outbreak of the Civil War and the slave question? Who were the two parties in the Civil War - and who won?
When was slavery finally abolished in all parts of the USA? Why did this not mean a major change for the former slaves?
What is the Ku Klux Klan? What were their aim and methods? When did the KKK peak?
on being brought.pdf
3rd reading: Uncle Tom's Cabin
3rd reading: Uncle Tom's Cabin
By Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852)
By Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852)
Eliza's escape
uncle-toms-cabin-chp.5-2.pdfUncle Tom's Cabin, chapter 5: Showing the feelings of living property on changing owners.
- What is the problem (or conflict)?
- What arguments does Mrs. Shelby use?
- What arguments does Mr. Shelby use?
- Who do you think has the moral right?
- What does Eliza risk? How does she react emotionally?
4th reading: Uncle Tom's Cabin pt. 2
4th reading: Uncle Tom's Cabin pt. 2
Read the rest of the chapter.
What does Uncle Tom's family risk? How does he react emotionally?
Why do you think that the term "An Uncle Tom" has been used by Blacks as a derogatory (nedladende) term
How else does the author try to stir the feelings of the reader? Give examples of how the language is filled with pathos and drama.
5th reading: Aftermath of the Civil War
5th reading: Aftermath of the Civil War
The Reconstruction (1865-77) and it's consequences
The Reconstruction (1865-77) and it's consequences
Gloser til de to videoer om The Reconstruction
Reconstruction: landets genopbygning efter borgerkrigen
emancipation: frisættelse (her: af slaver)
white supremacists: tilhængere af hvidt overherredømme
segregation: adskillelse (her: af racerne)
vigilante group: bevæbnet borgergruppe
lynch mob: rasende hob, der vil dræbe nogen (ved hængning)
“for any 40 acres and a mule”: “for noget som helst” - reference til det, man fik foræret i det Vilde Vesten, når man meldte sig til at opdyrke noget nyt land.
Confederate: Sydstats-
the demise of slavery: slaveriets undergang
to hold a public office: have et offentligt embede
gutsy: modigt
Voices against racial violence: Lewis Allen's "Strange Fruit" (1940)
Voices against racial violence: Lewis Allen's "Strange Fruit" (1940)
s4.pdfTranslate the poem into idiomatic Danish (visse gloser står ude i højre side)
Analyse the poem:
Form and structure
Contrasts
Symbolism
Imagery / figurative language
Message
The poem was popularized by singer Billy Holiday (8:00-14.30 mins.)
6th reading: the Civil Rights movement
6th reading: the Civil Rights movement
Homework: Read about the types of non-violent protests organized by the SNCC and CORE (on the link given here)
In class: discover more about the different types of protests and work out a presentation with examples of each:
Freedom rides
Marches
Boycotts
Sit-ins
The "Black Power" movement (violent ideology)
7th reading: The "I have a dream" speech by Martin Luther King
7th reading: The "I have a dream" speech by Martin Luther King
s6.pdfRETORICAL FEATURES
RETORICAL FEATURES
There are well over 200 stylistic features in rhetoric. Here are a few to consider for this exercise:
1) Ethos, Logos, Pathos
2) dramatic features:
rhetorical question (isn't that right?)
imperatives (Let's..)
exclamations (My word!)
irony and sarcasm (the reason I'm such a good teacher is because I get such a great pay)
humor
understatement, overstatement/exaggeration (hyperbole)
3) figures of repetition:
epizeuxis (it's so so boring)
anaphora (we're going in hard. We're going in strong. We're going in well prepared)
epiphora (I'm great. You're great. We're great)
triad (peace, love and harmony)
4) figures of contrast:
antithesis (night and day)
oxymoron
6) joke (funny story), anecdote (short, personal story with a message), or allegory (story which is symbolic on all levels)
7) Figurative language:
metaphor,
simile,
personification
8) literary reference: direct (quotation) or indirect/implicit (allusion)
9) general level of formality
In poetry, these features are used as well as features with sound qualities such as alitteration (consonants rhyme) and assonance (vowels rhyme)
8th reading: Ebonics / "A True Story" (M.Twain)
8th reading: Ebonics / "A True Story" (M.Twain)
marktwainatruestory1874-2.pdfIn the 19th century, it was common to see the Afro-American vernacular English (AAVEI dialect - also called "ebonics" - in print. If it seems difficult to see what the word is, it might help to pronounce it out loud.
Some grammatical aspects of AAVE include:
You crazy ("You're crazy") or She my sister ("She's my sister") - where the copula be is dropped.
I is, You is, He is, They is, We is... / I be, You be, He be, They be...
She write poetry ("She writes poetry") - verbs are uninflected for number and person.
my momma sister ("my mother's sister") - the genitive may or may not be used.
Why they ain't growing? ("Why aren't they growing?") - word order in questions.
Usage of personal pronoun "them" instead of definite article "those" or "these"
Use of ain't instead of am not, aren't, isn't, etc.
"double negation", as in I didn't go nowhere; Don't nobody know the answer, Ain't nothing going on.
A video about modern AAVE vocabulary.
Rewrite Aunt Rachel's ebonics into Standard English. Can you explain the phenomena you see in her language grammatically?
"A true story": Comprehension. questions
The name and the type of narrator?
What does the narrator want Aunt Rachel to tell him, and why?
What did Aunt Rachel lose her children, and what happened to them?
Where did Aunt Rachel's son, Henry, plan to go - and what did he plan to do?
What happened to Aunt Rachel after she lost her children?
How was Henry and Aunt Rachel reunited?
What does Aunt Rachel mean when in the ending she says to the narrator "I hadn’t had no trouble. An’ no joy!”
9th reading: Obama's speech on race (2008)
9th reading: Obama's speech on race (2008)
Homework: Watch the video and answer:
What is your impression of Obama's preacher, Reverend Wright, after watching this clip from ABC news?
In class: Read the first part of the speech and analyse.
speech on race.pdfObama on "black anger": p.14, l.49 - p.16, l.6
Obama on "white anger": p.16, l.5 - p.17, l.28
Circumstances
At what occasion is the speech given?
What recent events have given rise to the topic about race?
Rhetorical features
Which allusions are used on the first page, and what is their purpose?
Why does the speech lack humor, irony or sarcasm?
What anecdotes are told, and what is their effect on the reciever?
When is the use of imagery (metaphor, simile, personification) mostly employed? Search and explain
Repetition: which anaphoras are used? Alitteration?
Explain the different uses of the three forms of appeal (ethos, logos, pathos)
Content
What does Obama hope to achieve if he is elected?
what are the reasons for the "Black anger"?
what are the reasons for the "White anger"?
What must both races do if reconceliation is to be achieved?
Sender-Reciever relationship
Who is the primary audience, and who is the secondary?
What different concerns or expectations might the two groups have
How has the ethos of the sender been attacked, and how is it defended?
intention
What is the intention(s) by giving the speech, and is it achieved?
10th reading: Speech on Race pt. 2
10th reading: Speech on Race pt. 2
Finish reading the speech and analyse.
This topic may continue along a "Black Lives Matter" track, if so desired.
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