Class of 97/98
The 3EN2sabc class of 1997/98 had the following schedule:
five lessons a week for 34 weeks, one lesson was 45 minutes
ORAL WORK
Short stories, poems, and essays were put together under three
umbrellas:
Subject 1. The Quality of Life: Fulfillment or Rejection
Ray Bradbury, Mexico City
D.H. Lawrence, A Mexican Market
Shirley Jackson, Like Mother Used To Make
Therese Carter, Just A Housewife
Sally Benson, Profession Housewife
Kate Chopin, Emancipation: A Life Fable
Subject 2. Transition and Initiation
Jon Stallworthy, First Blood
R.J. Meaddough III, The Death of Tommy Grimes
J.G. Frazer, The Ritual of Death And Resurrection - in: The
Golden Bough
Graham Greene, The End of The Party
Subject 3. Aspects of War
Bob Dylan, With God On Our Side
Rupert Brooke, Soldier
Ernest Hemingway, Soldier's Home
George Orwell, The Spanish Civil War (Homage To Catalonia)
Siegfried Sassoon, The Hero
Wilfred Owen, Anthem For Doomed Youth
Rock video, Nineteen
Country Joe & The Fish, I-Think-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five (excerpts)
Liam O’Flaherty, Civil War
PLAYS:
William Shakespeare, Romeo And Juliet
NOVELS
(read in study groups of two, three, or four students):
Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Ken Kesey, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Margaret Drabble, The Millstone
Fay Weldon, The Life And Loves of A She-Devil
Fay Weldon, The Fat Woman's Joke
POETRY
(also read in study groups of two, three, or four students):
Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress (1681)
William Blake, Tyger (1794)
John Keats, Ode On A Grecian Urn (1819)
John Wain, On The Death Of A Murderer
WRITTEN WORK
Nineteen written assignments (essays, summaries, translations)
on fiction like the above.
Any comments or questions are welcome at: mm(at)aalborghus.dk
at = @
Learning English
Strictly Grammatical
There are grammar rules, and there's grammar. Even non-standard
American English has rules of grammar that should not be ignored or broken.
Grammar needs to be conservative to ensure optimal understanding when we
are conveying a message or point of view.
Yet, a great many people bend or break the rules of grammar
in their daily conversations without being misunderstood - perhaps because
body language helps convey the meaning; or because the addressees
break the rules in much the same way (i.e. dialect).
However, standard grammar should be mastered by anyone who wants
to write clear and fluent English. Below are some of the basics as
well as a few advanced examples of good English. Once you master the
basics, you should move on to sophistication - after all, what makes language
interesting are all the witty little tricks and puns you may be able to put
over. Irony or verbal joking is as big a part of life as is deadpan
straightforwardness. Poetry often has such qualities. But to make
sure that your reader understands and appreciates you when you stray off
the beaten track of verbal expression, you should master the general requirements
of good writing.
Requests? Something you need explained? Write to
me at erik(at)lakjer.dk
Textual Analysis
and Essays
Here are some hints to help you read and understand literature:
Reading and Understanding
Short Stories
Textual Analysis - general questions
Oral Presentation
of Literature - general comments
Oral Presentation of Literature - model example
Reading Poetry
- what to look for
Analyzing
Poetry
Kommenteringsopgaver
(in Danish)
Writing about
literature
(in Danish)
Finding the
theme
(in Danish)
3-aarsopgaven
i engelsk
- nogle praktiske raad og anvisninger (in Danish)
Moldrup
Translations
Professional translations of
medical journals and research papers
legal documents
manuals
lyrics
from Danish into English or vice versa
Too many translations are imprecise or not varied enough to
present a clear and pleasant read.
Why save a little money on the translation of a manual to a product you
have spent a lot on developing?
For further information and prices write to erik(at)moldrup.name
Erik Moldrup -
Travel Notes
( for detailed reports see bottom of
this subpage
)
Family
:
On the family's many summer holidays together from 1969 onwards we have
visited most of the European countries, including Eastern Europe (even before
1990) and Russia (e.g. St. Petersburg, Moscow and a trip to Vladimir on
the Trans-Siberian Railway).
Although we generally prefer to experience new skies, over
the years we've had our favorites which we have visited more than once:
Yugoslavia (before the Balkan Wars), Sweden,
Poland
, and most recently France (especially Languedoc by the Mediterranean
Sea).
In the summer of 2000 we spent two weeks in Spain just north
of Barcelona (Catalonia), and in October 2000 we went to Italy to show the
boys Rome, Pompeii, and Tarquinia (see reports below).
Our last trips were without children: New York in Easter
2001 (see below) and Alta and adjoining districts in Norway, close to the North
Cape, in June 2001 (see below).
In October 2001 we visited Athens, Greece, with the boys
(report below). So far our last journey with children.
From 2003 on we have decided to focus on Latin America. In the
summer of 2003 we spent nearly six weeks in Guatemala and Mexico
starting with a two week stay at the very recommendable language school
PLQE in Quetzaltenango (Xela),
Guatemala, upon which we had a much desired view of the Guatemalan
countryside and immersed ourselves in the rich Mayan culture.
After that we traveled on to Mexico to accept an invitation
to attend a traditional Mexican wedding. We ended this our first
and very eventful visit to Latin America by traveling around seeing the
sights of the middle part of Mexico. Hopefully, reports in English
on the fascinating culture and its people in this part of the world will
be avilable later this year.
We are going back to Xela for another session of learning
Spanish at the PLQE language school in the summer of 2004 and intend to
visit many other places of interest. There's much to see and many places
on our list of must-see's. Mexico is definitely worth another
visit, too, but that will probably not be until 2005.
The best place to go first to find quick and good
information on the culture and the political conditions in Latin America
is probably Mikkel's
homepage (so far only in Danish) with links to many web pages, especially his
Guatemala-favorites.
In between our visits to Latin America we snuck in a quick visit to
Spain (Madrid and Toledo) in February 2004. As it happened just
before the bomb attacks at the very beautiful Atocha railroad station in
Madrid which has meant that I'll have to wait a while before I can get
myself to write about our visit to Spain.
School
:
With students and colleagues from Aalborghus Gymnasium I have been on
study tours or concert tours to Canada, the USA, England, Scotland, (East-
and West)Berlin, the Czech Republic (Prague and
Zlin
), and Hungary.
In the spring of 2000 I took a class
to Ireland. Especially the beauty of the countryside near the famous
monastery of Glendalough
a little south of Dublin was stunning.
My last field trip with students went to Holland/The
Netherlands in 2002 (see report below).
As conductor of Aalborghus Gymnasium's Choir I visited Toronto,
Canada, in 1988 and 1989 where the choir performed as part of a Danish cultural
fair to promote Danish products - the choir even made it to the news on
national TV in Canada (we were received by the Mayor of Toronto and sang
for the City Council) and later at a national
soccer match
in Denmark.
Our exchange partner was a school in Toronto (who reciprocated
the visit). They were most hospitable, and the many Danish communities in
Toronto were delighted to receive us in churches and social clubs.
Later on the same tour a small choir of 12 singers
and I journeyed on to Aalborg's sister city of Racine, Wisconsin, and other
neighboring cities where we gave a number of concerts at educational institutions
(universities, colleges and high schools) and churches. Everywhere
we went in the US we were met with open hearts and minds, a truly heartwarming
experience.
Our repertoire was a historical tour of European vocal
music (classical and modern) including some of my own settings and arrangements
of Negro Spirituals. Naturally, a visit to Chicago, one of the strongholds
of Gospel music, was on our agenda.
The US
In the academic year 1990-91 I taught English and Music as a
Fulbright exchange teacher in high schools and colleges in Washington State
and Oregon, USA - a tough experience which was hard on my soul, but which
also gave me the advantage of first hand knowledge of and insight in American
life and society.
During my stay I visited many high schools and colleges/universities
and was struck by the many marked differences in organizing and contents
of the teaching and curriculum: American high schools are primarily financed
through property taxes, and a school in a poor neighborhood is thus far
worse off regarding funding than a school in an affluent community.
In this respect the Danish system is far ahead as far as "equal opportunity"
is concerned. American school boards are mighty powers that exert their
right to command by banning books they don't like (for whatever biased and
eccentric reason).
If anything is important regarding the US, it must
be that the country is so big and the individual region or district may
be so different from other regions that any generalization about the country
and its culture (laws, attitudes, etc.) only discloses that the speaker is
an uninformed fool. In some places people were most helpful, in others
they were extremely suspicious toward strangers. The highly praised
freedom is thus nothing but the freedom to be like the
locals: "Like it or leave it". If you can't stand the heat, you're
free to go elsewhere - a severe majority rule, in fact, the opposite of a
democracy of minority rights. "It's a free country" thus sounds hollow, almost
as an incantation or conjuration.
It has taken me a long time to put my overall experiences
in perspective and writing, but hardly a day passes without memories of
that year. The articles below ( At School
In the US and American Scenes ) are my first
attempts
For detailed observations and reports on our travels, click on the links
below:
(NB most of the reports contain none
of the usual facts from guide books -
instead of highlighting the
sights, they focus on social life and personal
experiences. The years
indicate year of experience, not the year of report.)
1991 -
At School in the US
- a view on American education
1991 - American
Scenes
1994 - St. Petersburg
1994 -
Three Weeks Across the US on the
Oregon Trail
1995 - Moscow
1998 -
Two Weeks in Riga
1998 - At School
in Riga
1999 - Autumn in
Berlin
2000 -
Dublin
2000 - Seminar
on European Citizenship in Brussels (so far only in Danish)
2000 - Summer holidays in Catalonia, Spain
2000 - Rome, Pompeii,
Tarquinia and Cerveteri, Italy
2001 - New York
- April 2001, The walks of two street nomads
2001 - Way Up
North in Norway
- Five days in the midnight sun in Alta, Norway
2001 - Athens
and Greece
, October 2001 - Acropolis, Delphi a.o.
2002 - Hærvejen
- Along the old Military Road in Jutland
2002 - The
Wetlands
in Northwest Germany
2002 -
Holland
- Impressions of the Netherlands (Almere, the Hague, Amsterdam)
2003 - Guatemala and Mexico (June-July)
2004 - Madrid (February)
2004 - Guatemala (June-July)
2005 - Barcelona (February)
2005 - Guatemala and Mexico (Chiapas, Oaxaca,
D.F. in July-August)
2005 - Andalucía, España (October)
2005 - Mexico
(December) - in Danish
2006 - Madrid (February)
2006 - Guatemala and Nicaragua (July)
2006 - Spain: Madrid, Seville, and Cádiz (October)
2007 - Spain: Córdoba, Ronda, Carrespite, Málaga (February)
2007 - Guatemala (Comunidad
and Sumpango)
and Honduras (Copán
Ruinas) (October-November)
2008 - Cuba
(February)
2008 - London, England (April)
2008 - Madrid, Spanien (juni)
2008 - Guatemala (October)
2009 - Guatemala (March-April)
2009 - Guatemala (June-July)
Comments or questions to erik(at)lakjer.dk
Updated June 2009
Erik Moldrup
Comments & Reviews - Thoughts on the
Time
- if you can't dance to it, it isn't a revolution
Which news is worth passing on? Which comments and opinions
should we share with others? We're all entitled to an opinion, but
should we force it on other people?
Below are some stray spontaneous comments to current affairs
as well as issues of more permanent standing
Updated September 2006
Comments to: erik(at)lakjer.dk
Erik Moldrup - CV
Somehow I lost my good looks along the way -
click here
for more pictures from more recent decades
For a detailed CV -
click here
I am the mother of the family
- you may write to me at the following address:
vibeke(at)lakjer.dk
Mikkel Moldrup-Lakjer
You are now at
Sophie Mathilde Moldrup-Lakjer's part of the family's homepage
English version
I am an English M.A. from the University of Aarhus; my thesis
was on Native American writers.
However, all Danish students of the humanities must
study two subjects, and I finished my Spanish B.A. in the summer of 2001.
You may visit my own homepage by
clicking here (in Danish).
If you want to write to me, my address is:
mathilde(at)lakjer.dk
Jonas Moldrup-Lakjer's Homepage
English version
If you want to write to me, my adress is jonas(at)lakjer.dk
@ = (at)
Jakob Moldrup-Lakjer's Homepage
English version
In 1999-2000 I was an exchange student at East Central
HS in San Antonio, TX, USA (Remember the Alamo?) I love my host
family and all their pets and revisited them in the summer of 2002 with my
girlfriend.
Now I'm in my final year at Hasseris Gymnasium
(see photos
). My class is 2b.
Interests:
- sports (I play soccer, volleyball and basketball)
- music
Here I am with my American host mom:
In November 2000 I took part in the fundraiser "
Operation Dagsværk
" to build schools in Macedonia. I'm the one playing the recorder.
To contact me write to: jakob(at)lakjer.dk
