Gymnasiale uddannelser - Engelsk (01/08 2011)

Slaughterhouse-Five banned by US school (30/07 2011)

• Kurt Vonnegut's celebrated second world war satire censored along with teen novel Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler.
• Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five and young adult novel Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler have both been banned from a school curriculum and library in a Missouri school following complaints from a local professor about children being exposed to "shocking material".

Edward Thomas, Robert Frost and the road to war (30/07 2011)

• When Thomas and Frost met in London in 1913, neither had yet made his name as a poet. They became close, and each was vital to the other's success. But then Frost wrote 'The Road Not Taken', which was to drive Thomas off to war.
• Edward Thomas and Robert Frost were sitting on an orchard stile near Little Iddens, Frost's cottage in Gloucestershire, in 1914, when word arrived that Britain had declared war on Germany. The two men wondered idly whether they might be able to hear the guns from their corner of the county. They had no idea of the way in which this war would come between them. In six months, Frost would flee England for the safety of New Hampshire; he would take Thomas's son with him in the expectation that the rest of the Thomas family would follow.
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American Literature after 9/11 (28/07 2011)

• I september er det ti år siden angrebet på World Trade Center i New York, og det kan nok give anledning til forskellige projekter. Vi bringer her Thomas Ærvold Bjerres artikel i Anglo Files # 151 om amerikansk litteratur efter 9/11.
• The cataclysmic terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 played like a well-known Hollywood movie but with real-life tragic consequences. In the years since, Hollywood and other parts of popular culture have attempted to make sense of the tragedy. While 9/11 was quickly incorporated into American music, by artists like Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen, and the movie industry spurted out the propagandistic and heroic TV-fi lm DC 9/11: Time of Crisis in 2003, it would be almost four years before the first novel about 9/11 emerged.
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Student Crossword - American Literature (27/07 2011)

• Play our crossword to see what you know about American literature. You can play it online or in print. And you can find the answers here.
• Related: Our “great lit” collection of lesson plans and teaching resources, which includes materials about “To Kill a Mockingbird,” “The Grapes of Wrath,” “The Great Gatsby,” “Catcher in the Rye,” “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and “The Crucible.”

Esperanto (26/07 2011)

• It is the most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. Its name derives from Doktoro Esperanto (Esperanto translates as - one who hopes), the pseudonym under which L. L. Zamenhof published the first book detailing Esperanto, the Unua Libro, in 1887.
• Zamenhof's goal was to create an easy-to-learn and politically neutral language that would foster peace and international understanding between people with different regional and/or national languages.
• Estimates of Esperanto speakers range from 10,000 to two million active or fluent speakers. Esperanto has native speakers, that is, people who learned Esperanto from their parents as one of their native languages.
• Esperanto is spoken in about 115 countries. Usage is particularly high in Europe, eastern Asia and North and South America. 

How Do You Teach About 9/11? (20/07 2011)

• Have you taught about Sept. 11 and its repercussions?
• Do you plan to address the 10th anniversary of the attacks this September? How?
• What questions, in general, does teaching this topic raise for you?
• We’ll be writing regularly about the subject as the anniversary approaches, and we’re hoping that one part of our collection will include your ideas, reflections and experiences.

"Muggle, n.4" - Word of the Day from the OED (15/07 2011)

Etymology:

• invented by J. K. (Joanne Kathleen) Rowling (b. 1965), British author of children's fantasy fiction (see quot. 1997).
• In the fiction of J. K. Rowling: a person who possesses no magical powers. Hence in allusive and extended uses: a person who lacks a particular skill or skills, or who is regarded as inferior in some way.
• 1997 J. K. Rowling Harry Potter & Philosopher's Stone i. 10 Rejoice, for You-Know-Who has gone at last! Even Muggles like yourself should be celebrating, this happy, happy day!
• 1999 Computer Weekly (Nexis) 2 Sept. 2 Our new senior DBA starts on Monday. She's a muggle. No IT background, understanding or aptitude at all.
• 2000 News Tribune (Nexis) 17 July c1 Thus fielding a team of muggles in a league of wizards, the Storm opened the season with four losses.

For Harry Potter fans -Your word for today is: dumbledore (14/07 2011)

Etymology:  A humble-bee or bumble-bee; also dial. a cockchafer.

• 1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss., Dumble-dore, an humble, or bumble-bee.
• 1799 Southey in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) I. 264 Is it not the humble-bee, or what we call the ‘dumble dore’,—a word whose descriptive droning deserves a place in song?
• 1837 R. Southey Doctor IV. 383 Of Bees however let me be likened to a Dumbledore, which Dr. Southey says is the most goodnatured of God's Insects.
• 1856 C. M. Yonge Daisy Chain i. xxvi. 273 Buzzed and hummed over by busy, blacktailed, yellow-banded dumbledores. 1863 G. Kearley Links in Chain iii. 57 In Hampshire these insects [humble bees] are Dumbledors, in other districts Bumble bees, and hummel bees.
• 1880 M. A. Courtney Gloss. Words W. Cornwall in Gloss. Cornwall 19/2 Dumbledory, cockchafer.

Teaching ‘Harry Potter’ With The New York Times (13/07 2011)

• To celebrate this beloved series, we’ve collected everything “Harry” we could find, from Learning Network lesson plans to archival Times articles and multimedia to resources of all kinds, including parodies, from around the Web. And we’ll keep updating this page, because we don’t expect Pottermania to end just because the movies and books have.
• We’ve gone through 13 years of Times archives to choose content for you, but if you’d like to see everything The Times has ever published on Harry Potter, and sort it by “oldest first” or “newest first,” visit the Harry Potter Times Topics page.
• Meanwhile, if you teach these novels, please tell us below about what you do, how and why.

Violence erupts on Belfast streets at peak of Orange marching season (13/07 2011)

• Fresh rioting erupted last night with violent clashes between nationalist youths and police at the traditional flashpoint area of Ardoyne in north Belfast.
• Police fired plastic bullet rounds and deployed water cannon against rioters who pelted them with petrol bombs, bricks, bottles, fireworks and stones. A number of officers were injured.
• Minor disturbances also took place in a number of other locations, both loyalist and republican, with vehicles hijacked and set on fire. In Londonderry a 14-year-old was arrested on suspicion of rioting.

Day of colour, drums and pageantry mark Twelfth festivities (13/07 2011)

• Som det kan ses af denne artikel, så var der også gode oplevelser i Belfast d. 12. juli.
• The sun was shining as people enjoyed the colour, pageantry and music of the Twelfth in Belfast yesterday. Around 250,000 people took part and lined the city's streets in what is traditionally the largest Twelfth procession, to celebrate the 321st anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne.
• The Miller Memorial Flute band led around 70 bands from the Orange Hall at Carlisle Circus as the parade snaked its way along Clifton Street through Royal Avenue to Belfast City Hall.

Bonfire night riots erupt in Belfast leaving seven officers injured (12/07 2011)

• Violence erupted on the streets of Belfast last night as police came under attack from youths throwing petrol bombs and stones.
• At least seven police officers were injured after coming under attack by crowds of rioters in the west of the city.
• Petrol bombs and missiles, including stones and bricks, were thrown at officers as trouble flared throughout the night, the PSNI said.

UDA flag row making waves in Helen’s Bay (11/07 2011)

• The affluent village of Helen’s Bay on the north Down coast is a world away from the Kilcooley council estate in Bangor which is bedecked with loyalists flags. In the snug square of the seaside hamlet, the only items hanging on telegraph poles are pretty floral baskets — and that is how local residents wish it to stay.
• But ahead of the Twelfth, a loyalist group has threatened to put up more flags in prosperous areas of the borough. It was a threat they carried through two years ago in Helen’s Bay much to the horror of the majority of residents.
• Read more: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/ 

Night of violence casts a shadow over the Twelfth (11/07 2011)

• Six police officers injured and cars burnt out after a bust-up over flags explodes into riots and thuggery
• A dark shadow hangs over the beginning of the Twelfth period today after serious violence engulfed a number of towns across Northern Ireland.
• Fears of further rioting were high after simmering tensions erupted into ugly scenes in Ballyclare, Carrickfergus and Newtown abbey in a row sparked by flags.

Police braced for Orange parades (11/07 2011)

• Police are preparing to mount a major security operation for Tuesday's big Twelfth of July parades in Northern Ireland amid fears of new trouble on the streets in the aftermath of weekend disturbances in loyalist areas of east Antrim.
• Thousands of bandsmen and members of the Orange Order will be on the marches.

All you’ll ever need to know about the Twelfth of July - in numbers (11/07 2011)

• It's one of the biggest organisations in Northern Ireland? and one of the best known. Everyone knows the religious beliefs of its exclusively Protestant members and its politics are hardly a secret.
• Yet few people outside the Orange Order have the foggiest idea of what goes on behind the closed doors of the institution. Many of the Order’s rituals and practices are still shrouded in mystery.
• Gradually, however, the Orange Order is trying to dispel the myths surrounding it.

The News of the World and Fleet Street's dark era (10/07 2011)

• The News of the World is closing amid a major scandal over phone hacking and alleged payments to police officers, but once upon a time journalists went even further to get the ultimate story, writes Neil Root.

Celebrate Summer: Ideas for Teaching the Season (06/07 2011)

• What are you reading this summer — whether because you want to or because you have to?
• We asked teachers and students that question in June, and got a list of suggestions that could keep the entire nation busy all season.

"Americanophile, n. and adj." - Word of the Day from the OED (04/07 2011)

Americanophile, n. and adj.

• Etymology: < American adj. + -o- connective + -phile comb. form, perhaps after Anglophile n., Francophile n., etc. Compare earlier Americanophobia n. A. n. A person who loves or admires the United States or its culture.
• 1894 N.-Y. Times 26 Feb. 3/2 He was transformed from a bibliophile into an Americanophile.
• 1939 Sunday Times-Signal(Zanesville, Ohio) 17 Sept. i. 4/6 The Association‥is composed of French Americanophiles and American Francophiles.
• 1972 C. Barnett Collapse Brit. Power v. 346 A sentimental Americanophile whose pro-American sentiments were shared by his colleagues.
• 2000 Publishers Weekly 4 Sept. 54/2 An Americanophile who has put America into more than one of his own novels.
• B. adj. Characterized by love of or admiration for the United States or its culture.
• 1919 N.Y. Times 12 Oct. 6/1 The‥British view of our country and our people‥[is] undoubtedly Americanophile.
• 1942 Dunkirk (N.Y. )Evening Observer 12 Oct. 16/4 The president of Chile, whose sincere Americanophile disposition‥[is] the same as his government's.
• 1979 Rev. Politics 41 495 The existence of well-defined Americanophile groups is not often immediately evident.
• 2003 Maclean's (Electronic ed.) 21 Apr. 4 This is when Canada's national magazine should defend Canada and not be Americanophile sycophants.

Ny fagkonsulent: Hanne Kær Pedersen (16/06 2011)

• Hanne Kær Pedersen fra Nyborg Gymnasium bliver ny fagkonsulent i engelsk.
• Hun tiltræder stillingen d. 1. august 2011.