Undervisningsbeskrivelse

Voice

The goal of the first unit is to become better at deciphering the voice of a text as well as finding your own voice in Egnlish. We will read a couple of different fiction and non-ficiton texts without any real theoretical framework. In this introductory unit it’s all about gut feeling, and figuring what you think is interesting.

Texts

• Stephen Fry: ‘Have You Hear of Oscar Wilde?’
• Gregory Magguire: ‘How th’Irth Wint Rong by Hapless Joey@Homeskool.guv’
• Katherine Mansfield: ‘The Doll´s House’
• New Zealand Prime Minister Adresses UN General Assembly

The American South

Texts

• Hunter S. Thompson: ‘The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved’
• Wiliam Faulkner: ‘A Rose for Emily’ + an easier one.
• Brian Reed: S-Town, Episode 1
• John Lewis: ‘March’

Notes

When we talk about becoming better at reading English, what we mean is, we want to be able to read a text and then know what the text is “really” about. Not just the explicit information, but also the implicit. In general there are many ways and many words we can use that can help us talk about that.

• explicit vs implicit
• fiction vs non-fiction
• theme and message (fiction)
• Rhetoric and the rhetorical situation (non-fiction)