Vietnamkrigen
En ny side om Vietnamkrigen - baseret på et forløb fra Kirsten Fisher, Haderslev Katedralskole.
A niveau forløbet dækker kategorien "væsentlige sproglige, historiske, kulturelle og samfundsmæssige forhold i Storbritannien og USA".
The Vietnam War
Om
The Fall of Saigon 1975

Historical Outline

In Danish.
In Country

- Philip Caputo, From A Rumor of War (in Born in the USA, Futurum 1984)
- Film: Four Hours In My Lai, Canadian documentary
- Robert Olen Butler, "In the Clearing" from A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain 1993
Protests at home
Country Joe and the Fish:I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die-Rag (1965)
Denise Levertov, "What Were They Like? (Questions and Answers) from Where Is Vietnam? American Poets Respond N.Y. 1967
George Hitchcock, "Scattering Flowers", Ibid.
Homecoming
- Tim O'Brien,"Speaking of Courage", "Notes" from The Things They Carried (1990)
- "Homecoming from Vietnam", in Born in the USA, Futurum 1984 - se også: Film
- Bruce Springsteen, "Born in the USA", Ibid.
- From Al Santoli, To BearAny Burden, "Adolphus Stuart: Rice", London 1986
The Aftermath
- "Remember A War We Want to Forget", Ibid.
- Thomas E. Ricks: "War Called Riskier Than Vietnam" Washington Post, April 29, 2007
Written assignment
Using the texts "Homecoming from Vietnam" and "Rice" write an essay about the plight of the vietnam veterans returning to the USA. You may draw parallels to some of the other texts we have read. Approx. 600-700 words
The Vietnam War
Undervisningsmateriale af Kirsten Fisher, Haderslev Katedralskole.
