Kursus
Narrating Truth – kursus om nonfiction i engelskundervisningen
Kursusbeskrivelse
Med udgangspunkt i antologien Narrating Truth (Alt i Ord: 2021) vil du på kurset få konkrete eksempler på, hvordan du kan arbejde med nonfiction/sagprosa i engelskfaget. Desuden får du tips til, hvordan engelskfagets forskellige metoder kan bruges til at analysere og fortolke alskens nonfiction.
På kurset vil du bl.a. få
forslag til forskellige undervisningsforløb og eksamenstekster – samt udlevering af konkrete undervisningsforløb.
oplæg til øvelser, filmklip, podcasts, tekster m.m. som kan gøre forløbene engagerende og lærerige.
indblik i skrivestilen narrative nonfiction fra Hunter S. Thompson til Lawrence Wright samt podcasts som S-Town og docusoaps som Indian Matchmaking og andre dokumentarer – samt hvordan New Journalism og Gonzo har udviklet sig til interessante produkter som bl.a. Channel 5 News og dokumentarfilm som The Lady and the Dale.
inspiration til brug af faglige teorier og metoder, som kan belyse forskellige måder at anskue genren på, inspireret af både mange forskellige typer som Riz Ahmed, Jon Ronson, Alison Bechdel, Chuck Palahniuk m.fl.
redskaber til, hvordan man i undervisningen kan beskæftige fagligt og interessant med sammensværgelsesteorier, undskyldningsretorik, true crime, memoirer og faglig formidling.
tips til anvendelse af udvidet retorisk analyse og bevidsthed om framing, genreforventninger, kognitive bias m.m. som gør nonfiktions-læsning mere interessant.
Tanken er, at temaerne kan udgøre forløb i sig selv, men også snildt byde på variationer i lærernes andre eksisterende forløb samt være inspiration til tværfaglige projekter og store opgaver.
Kurset afholdes af Katrine Brøndsted, cand.mag. i engelsk og dansk, redaktør på antologien Narrating Truth (2021) samt Narrating India (2016). Underviser i engelsk og dansk på Køge Gymnasium.
Længde: 3 timer
Sprog: dansk eller engelsk
Kontakt: Katrine Brøndsted på katrinebroendsted@gmail.com
Anmelderne siger om bogen:
“Fremragende materiale med et super tema og ordforråd samt glimrende faglige redskaber [...] En gevinst for undervisningen i engelsk.” Gymnasieskolen, april 2022
“Antologien er systematisk opbygget og forbilledligt didaktiseret [...og ] er en ‘must have’ lærebog. ” Anglo Files, april 2021
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Non-fiction can be poetic and ambivalent and contain many styles and themes, and this anthology encourages you to read some of them and suggests approaches which might help you appreciate and criticise what they are doing.
In fiction, it is common to see books and movies bring in the empty claim that they are “based on a true story”, and fiction writers like to show off how much research they’ve done to make their works seem more authentic. Even the most fantastic, supernatural escapist piece of fiction you can think of may still want to seem authentic when it comes to power dynamics and emotional development, and a good story should have some sort of inner coherence.
In non-fiction, authenticity is not just a flimsy ambition, but the essence: Journalists may not make up stories, scientists must be true to their research, and you have to back up your claims with proof. Arguably, no single text can contain “The Truth”, since nuances and aspects will be left out, and the facts might even change, but it can strive to be truthful. Truthfulness is therefore central to non-fiction, but as the texts in the following chapters show, non-fiction might still use a dramatic structure and other effects similar to what is used in fiction.
Traditionally, you would use different analytical tools to approach fiction and non-fiction, respectively. What we try to do here is to make that division a bit more porous and point towards some of the elements that non-fiction has adapted from fiction and vice-versa.
Each chapter of the anthology starts with a description of a specific theme, and we suggest concepts and ideas which are relevant to discuss. Then we include texts and work questions to help you explore that genre. In the first chapter, Truthfully, we introduce you to some key developments in journalistic writing. In chapter two, Truthers, we explore the world of conspiracies and try to come to grips with how to approach and analyse them. In the third chapter, Truly Sorry, we look at the different strategies people use when apologising for (or denying) wrongdoings. The fourth chapter, True Crime, deals with the popular genre where real crimes are explored or perhaps exploited for our entertainment. The fifth chapter is called True Grit and focuses on memoirs, and what happens when people tell stories from their own lives. In the sixth chapter, This much is True, we look at the challenges of communicating knowledge and how writers go about explaining complicated stuff.
Finally, our Tools for Analysis chapter collects some of the central concepts and ideas that could help you when you analyse non-fiction. Here it is worth noting, that the chapter themes hopefully cross pollinate, and ideas and terms can be reused and explored in new non-fiction contexts. Terms from the chapter about conspiracies are arguably also relevant to the chapter about popular science etc.