John Agard

John Agard is born in June 1949 in British Guiana there now is Guyana. He grows op in Geogetown in British Guiana. In British Guiana he studies English, French and Latin and the same time he begging to writ poem. After he was finish with the studied he begging work. He works in a library and teaches in French, English and Latin. He published two books when he still lived in British Guiana. In 1977 John Agard and his partner grace Nichols moved to Britain. In Britain he work for BBC and commonwealth institute. John Agard writes in different genres, short story, poems, drama and children. We have read a text of John Agard. We read the text “Ms and Mrs Xenophobia” when we have about Multicultural Britain. 

Martin Luther King

Basic facts: 

• Born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1929
• He was born as Michael King
• He was assasinated at age of 39 in 1968
• He was raised as a Christian
• He was a pastor

King's Life: 

• He was an activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. 
• Known for his speeches - I Have A Dream
• On October 14th, 1964 King received the Nobel Peace Prize - for combating racial inequality trough nonviolence.
• Later he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal.
• Today: A role model for many people all over the world. 

                          Martin Luther King holding his speech - I Have a Dream

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809. Even though he grew up in a poor family, he became a lawyer. In 1842 he married Mary Todd and they got 4 children, all of them boys.

In 1856 he affiliated to The Republicans Party, which was a new party at that time. He became the vice-president candidate and in 1861 he won the presidential election and became the 16^th President of United States. Abraham Lincoln successfully led the United States through its greatest constitution, military and moral crises – the American Civil War. He ended slavery when he signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. We have read a speech of him from November 19, 1863 were he spoke about equality. The speech became one of the most famous speeches in the world.

Abraham Lincoln was killed in April 1865, and it was the first assassination of a U.S. president and sent the nation into mourning.  

Henry Charles Bukowski

Henry Charles Bukowski was born as Heinrich Karl Bukowski, August 16, 1920 In Germany. When he was 3 years old he moved with his father, Charles who was an American soldier, and mother, Katharina who was a German, to USA. As the age 6-11 he got beat by his father and it had helped his written as he came to understand undeserved pain. He joined Los Angeles City College from 1939 to 1941 just before Second World War and after that he moved to New York so he could begin his career as a writer.  He has wrote thousand poems, hundreds of short stories and 6 novels and his written were influenced by social, cultural and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles .It is marked by an emphasis on the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women and the drudgery of work. We have read one of his texts “Son of Satan”. He died by leukemia March 9, 1994 as the age 73 

Oscar Wilde

His name is Oscar Wilde and he is born Oktober  16, 1854 in Dublin, Ireland. He died November 30, 1900 In Paris, France.  

He was son of sir William Wilde og Jane Francesca Wilde, and his mom was an successful writer  and Irish nationalist who wrote under the name "Speranza". Wildes father was a surgeon and wrote books about archeology and folklore so Oscar Wilde had both parents who wrote. 

When the study was over, he took home to Dublin where he met and fell in love with Florence Balcombe, but she married Bram Stoker so he left Ireland in 1878. In 1884 he met Constance Lloyd and they get married. A friend said that he likes his wife the first year but after that he have no feelings for her anymore and could only say bad things about her, but they stay togehter and they also get two sons. Cyril (1885) and Vyvyan ( 1886).

He wrote  novels, short stories, poems and fairytales. His début was the poem“Ravenna” from 1878. 

Oscar Wilde was a fomous writer but he was not famous til he died. He was married with Constance Lloyd but people knew that he was attracted to other men. Oscar Wilde was sentenced to two years hard labor in Reading prison for homosexual acts, the statutory maximum penalty. When Oscar Wilde get free he settled in 1897 in France, but ill health and financial problems made ​​it impossible for him to recover human and artistic. 

We have in our class read the faritytale "The Selfish Giant" by Oscar Wilde.  

By Kathrine Randrup

Oscar Wilde

His name is Oscar Wilde and he is born Oktober  16, 1854 in Dublin, Ireland. He died November 30, 1900 In Paris, France.  

He was son of sir William Wilde og Jane Francesca Wilde, and his mom was an successful writer  and Irish nationalist who wrote under the name "Speranza". Wildes father was a surgeon and wrote books about archeology and folklore so Oscar Wilde had both parents who wrote. 

When the study was over, he took home to Dublin where he met and fell in love with Florence Balcombe, but she married Bram Stoker so he left Ireland in 1878. In 1884 he met Constance Lloyd and they get married. A friend said that he likes his wife the first year but after that he have no feelings for her anymore and could only say bad things about her, but they stay togehter and they also get two sons. Cyril (1885) and Vyvyan ( 1886).

He wrote  novels, short stories, poems and fairytales. His début was the poem“Ravenna” from 1878. 

Oscar Wilde was a fomous writer but he was not famous til he died. He was married with Constance Lloyd but people knew that he was attracted to other men. Oscar Wilde was sentenced to two years hard labor in Reading prison for homosexual acts, the statutory maximum penalty. When Oscar Wilde get free he settled in 1897 in France, but ill health and financial problems made ​​it impossible for him to recover human and artistic. 

We have in our class read the faritytale "The Selfish Giant" by Oscar Wilde.  

By Kathrine Randrup

Stephen King

Stephen King was born 21 September 1947 in Portland Maine. He is a successful American writer there are famous for his horror novels. His books are very popular and are among the best selling books ever. He has also written script for films and television series. He is married to woman writer Tabitha King in January 1971. King and Tabitha live in Bangor, Maine in USA.
King is the son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. When King was two years old, his father left the family, and Ruth King took care of Stephen King and his two years older adoptees big brothers often in difficult economic conditions.
From 1966 to 1970 studied King English at the University of Maine in Orono. It was there he met his wife Tabitha.
In 1967, sold King his first professional short story The Glass Floor for "Startling Mystery Stories. During this period got King also alcohol abuse in a decade, but with help of his wife and friends, came he out of it. For after publication of The Tommyknockers, went King's family and friends finally into the fight against his abuse, and he stopped all forms of drugs and alcohol the late eighties.
We will read text The Boogeyman, by Stephen King has written.

By Matilde Kjeldsen

Angela Carter

Angela Carter was born 7^th of May 1940, in Eastbourne, England and died the 16 Febuary 1992 at the age of 51, with the diagnostic of lung cancer. In her teenage years she struggled with anorexia, but that would not stop her. She followed her father’s footsteps with working as a journalist for the Croydon Advertiser. Later she went to the University of Bristol and studied English literature. Angela Carter had two marriages, the first one was with Paul Carter in 1960 and separated him in 1970, the second marriage was with Mark Pearce in 1977, they had a son together. In 1979 the bloody chamber was published by Gollancz which was a major British book publishing house, it is a short fiction collection, in the collection the text “the werewolf” is found, which is the text that we have read in in the class, but short fiction is not the only thing that she wrote, Angela Carter also wrote Poems and children books. In 2008 The Times ranked Angela Carter 10^th on their list of greatest British writers, she also received a price in 2012, where she was selected as the best winner ever of the “James Tait Black Memorial prize”. It is a literary prize which is awarded for literature that is written in English language.

Nick Cave

Nicholas Edward Cave was born on 22 September 1957 in Victoria, Australia. He lived a troubled life as a young man. As he were arrested for burglary, his father died and his mother bailed him out. Later on, he started using heroin. After his father died, he started having success writing and turned out to be a great multiartist, besides being a writer he is also an actor and a singer in his band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. His first book was Avengers Assemble, which he wrote in 1988. Nick Cave have won many awards for his music and writing.

We have been working with the song "The Wild Rose".

Sue Randolph

Kirstine, Nanna, Andrea og Natascha

"Sue Randolph, 39, grew up in Saudi Arabia and earned her master's degree in Arabic at the university of Michigan." p.25, l. 13-14.

"I joined the Army because I had $65.000 in student loans." p. 25. l. 20

"Iraq looks like it's straight out of the Bible."

Brian, Sasja og Josefine - Sue Randolph

Picture 1.

"Since i had a master's in political science - Middle East studies and Arabic..."

Picture 2.

"..I felt like I was part of a big machine that was going to help them have a better life."

Picture 3.

"We have no comprehension of the psychological of this war."

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Was an American author. He was born at November 11^th 1922 and he died at April 11^th 2007. His father (Kurt Vonnegut) and his grandfather (Bernard Vonnegut) were architects in the Indianapolis firm Vonnegut & Bohn.

Vonnegut’s most famous works are “Cats Cradle” (1963), “Slaughterhouse-Five” (1969) and “Breakfast of Champions” (1973). He wrote in the genres satire, gallows humor and science fiction.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. had an older brother (Bernard Vonnegut) and a sister (Alice Vonnegut). His mother committed suicide with sleeping pills when Vonnegut was 22 years old. Kurt Vonnegut was also an artist. In May 1940 he graduated from Shortridge High School and went to Cornell University to study chemistry. While he was at Cornell University he enlisted at United States Army. After that he went to the Carnegie Institute of Technology and the University of Tennessee to study mechanical engineering.

When Vonnegut went home after the Second World War he got married with Jane Marie Cox and they had three kids. They got divorced in 1979 and Vonnegut married another woman called Jill Krementz. With her he adopted a little girl. Vonnegut also adopted his sister’s three kids when Alice Vonnegut died of cancer in 1958. Alice’s husband died in an accident two days before Alice died.

The use of high-angle, low-angle and eye-level in film

Matrix groups about cinematic technique

Round 1: Researching terms

• All groups are responsible for one of the terms on the film analysis sheet.
• You must be able to explain what the terms mean.
• You must find examples of each of the terms
• Either make them yourselves (drawing for instance)
• Or find pictures / clips online (search on terms on youtube for instance)

Remember that this is matrix groups so all of you must be able to explain it on your own and have the examples ready to show the others.

Group 1: Framing
Group 2: Angles
Group 3: Lines
Group 4: Composition
Group 5: Sound
Group 6: Lighting and colour

Time frame: 15 minutes

 

Round 2: Presenting terms

In the new groups you must now present your findings to the people who worked with something else.

Remember to have your examples ready so it can run smoothly :)

Coward: Characterising through cinematic technique 2

Watch the following two scenes one at a time and characterise Andrew and/or James based on them.
Discuss what cinematic techniques are used to characterise them. You can find the film here.

Comment on the use of framing, angles, lines, composition, sound and lighting when relevant.

Clip 1

5:21 - 6:51

Clip 2

15:58 - 17:10

Coward: Characterising through cinematic technique 1

Task

Characterise Andrew and James and their relationship to others and the war based on these four freeze-frames from the short film.

When you analyse the pictures you must use relevant vocabulary to describe what you see and the effect it has. Comment on framing, angles, lines, composition and lighting when it is relevant.






Freeze-frame 1 (1:23)

Freeze-frame 2 (2:42)

Freeze-frame 3 (3:19)

 

Freeze-frame 4 (20:11)

Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Owen was born on 18th march 1893 and died 4th November 1918. He was a British poet, and was in the British army as well. In the summer of 1917, Wilfred went to a hospital in Edinburg for treatment for a shell shock, where he met Siegfried Sassoon, who also was a poet and an officer. This meeting with Siegfried changed Wilfred’s poesy to realism about the war. 
Wilfred Owen was born in Weston Lane in Shropshire. He is half English and half welsh. He was the eldest of 4 children. 
In 1898, Wilfred’s father, Thomas, got a job as stationmaster in Birkenhead at Woodside station, where they had no less than three homes. Wilfred was educated from Birkenhead Institute and later Shrewsbury Technical School. Wilfred was raised as an Anglican, and was in his youth a very strong believer. He had throughout his whole life, a strong relationship to his mother. 
In 1911 he passed his exam at the University of London, but not with the first-class honours, which was needed to get a scholarship, which was the only way his family could afford him to study there. 
In 1913, Wilfred went to Bordeaux, France to teach in English and French.
Wilfred was killed at the age of only 25, in the first world war, in the Sambre-Oise Canal in France, only one week before the end of the war. 



Mette Haarup

Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Loraine Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon is born 8 September 1886 and died the 1 September 1967 in a ages of 80 by stomach cancer. Siegfried Sassoon was an English poet, novelist, biographer and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front. He became one of the leading poets of the First World War.

He was born and raised in Matfield in England. His father Alfred Ezra Sassoon was Jewish and his mother Theresa Sassoon was an Anglo-Catholic. Sassoon was the second son of three sons, the others was called Michael and Hamo.

During Sassoons youth his biggest interest was fox-hunting, because he did not finish his studies and in this period he wrote some poetry, but did not get much intention. In 1914 he got into the army after the outbreak to World War 1. But a broken arm prevented him to get in battle. He came first in active battle in 1915. 1 November same year his younger brother Hamo was killed.

Sassoon was homosexual but got married to Hester Gatty and got his only son George. The marriage ended after the Word War 2.

And apparently he got a “relationship to the author and soldier Wilfred Owen, that we had read the famous poem “Dulce et Decorum Est”. Siegfried Sassoon met Wilfred Owen at the military school, and in 1917 they were both in a hospital in Edinburgh for shell chock.

The genre he wrote was Poetry, Fiction, Biography. 

Written by Nanna Gjesing

Siegfried Sassoon, "Base Details"

Consider the fact that the title of this poem might have a double meaning! What could it be?

Listen to the poem here.

Wilfred Owen: Dulce et Decorum Est

Read by Christopher Eccleston.