heterotopia

Part 1

Today we will do this exercise. I expect everybody to try their best at roleplaying the scenario. In a situation like this everybody must help.

Part 2

After you are done, please discuss the way you came to a common list of priorities. How would you describe your discussion/dialogue? Take notes and be prepared to discuss with the teacher and the rest of the class.

Här kan ni ladda ner ett exempel på en läsdagbok på Låt den rätte komma in. Den mötte alla krav på Godkäntnivån i bedömningsmatrisen. Dessutom mötte den alla kriterier utom det sista kravet, längst ned i tabellen. Slutligen mötte den det första kraven på MVG-nivån och delvis det andra och tredje.

Robinson Crusoe is a classic story of the Enlightenment. Read the first pages and explain to me what makes Robinson a “Man of the Enlightenment”. Post below. (If you see any words you don’t know, translate them and include in your comment.)

CHAPTER IV – FIRST WEEKS ON THE ISLAND

WHEN I waked it was broad day, the weather clear, and the storm
abated, so that the sea did not rage and swell as before. But that
which surprised me most was, that the ship was lifted off in the
night from the sand where she lay by the swelling of the tide, and
was driven up almost as far as the rock which I at first mentioned,
where I had been so bruised by the wave dashing me against it.
This being within about a mile from the shore where I was, and the
ship seeming to stand upright still, I wished myself on board, that
at least I might save some necessary things for my use.

When I came down from my apartment in the tree, I looked about me
again, and the first thing I found was the boat, which lay, as the
wind and the sea had tossed her up, upon the land, about two miles
on my right hand. I walked as far as I could upon the shore to
have got to her; but found a neck or inlet of water between me and
the boat which was about half a mile broad; so I came back for the
present, being more intent upon getting at the ship, where I hoped
to find something for my present subsistence.

A little after noon I found the sea very calm, and the tide ebbed
so far out that I could come within a quarter of a mile of the
ship. And here I found a fresh renewing of my grief; for I saw
evidently that if we had kept on board we had been all safe – that
is to say, we had all got safe on shore, and I had not been so
miserable as to be left entirety destitute of all comfort and
company as I now was. This forced tears to my eyes again; but as
there was little relief in that, I resolved, if possible, to get to
the ship; so I pulled off my clothes – for the weather was hot to
extremity – and took the water. But when I came to the ship my
difficulty was still greater to know how to get on board; for, as
she lay aground, and high out of the water, there was nothing
within my reach to lay hold of. I swam round her twice, and the
second time I spied a small piece of rope, which I wondered I did
not see at first, hung down by the fore-chains so low, as that with
great difficulty I got hold of it, and by the help of that rope I
got up into the forecastle of the ship. Here I found that the ship
was bulged, and had a great deal of water in her hold, but that she
lay so on the side of a bank of hard sand, or, rather earth, that
her stern lay lifted up upon the bank, and her head low, almost to
the water. By this means all her quarter was free, and all that
was in that part was dry; for you may be sure my first work was to
search, and to see what was spoiled and what was free. And, first,
I found that all the ship’s provisions were dry and untouched by
the water, and being very well disposed to eat, I went to the bread
room and filled my pockets with biscuit, and ate it as I went about
other things, for I had no time to lose. I also found some rum in
the great cabin, of which I took a large dram, and which I had,
indeed, need enough of to spirit me for what was before me. Now I
wanted nothing but a boat to furnish myself with many things which
I foresaw would be very necessary to me.

It was in vain to sit still and wish for what was not to be had;
and this extremity roused my application. We had several spare
yards, and two or three large spars of wood, and a spare topmast or
two in the ship; I resolved to fall to work with these, and I flung
as many of them overboard as I could manage for their weight, tying
every one with a rope, that they might not drive away. When this
was done I went down the ship’s side, and pulling them to me, I
tied four of them together at both ends as well as I could, in the
form of a raft, and laying two or three short pieces of plank upon
them crossways, I found I could walk upon it very well, but that it
was not able to bear any great weight, the pieces being too light.
So I went to work, and with a carpenter’s saw I cut a spare topmast
into three lengths, and added them to my raft, with a great deal of
labour and pains. But the hope of furnishing myself with
necessaries encouraged me to go beyond what I should have been able
to have done upon another occasion.

My raft was now strong enough to bear any reasonable weight. My
next care was what to load it with, and how to preserve what I laid
upon it from the surf of the sea; but I was not long considering
this. I first laid all the planks or boards upon it that I could
get, and having considered well what I most wanted, I got three of
the seamen’s chests, which I had broken open, and emptied, and
lowered them down upon my raft; the first of these I filled with
provisions – viz. bread, rice, three Dutch cheeses, five pieces of
dried goat’s flesh (which we lived much upon), and a little
remainder of European corn, which had been laid by for some fowls
which we brought to sea with us, but the fowls were killed. There
had been some barley and wheat together; but, to my great
disappointment, I found afterwards that the rats had eaten or
spoiled it all. As for liquors, I found several, cases of bottles
belonging to our skipper, in which were some cordial waters; and,
in all, about five or six gallons of rack. These I stowed by
themselves, there being no need to put them into the chest, nor any
room for them. While I was doing this, I found the tide begin to
flow, though very calm; and I had the mortification to see my coat,
shirt, and waistcoat, which I had left on the shore, upon the sand,
swim away. As for my breeches, which were only linen, and open-
kneed, I swam on board in them and my stockings. However, this set
me on rummaging for clothes, of which I found enough, but took no
more than I wanted for present use, for I had others things which
my eye was more upon – as, first, tools to work with on shore. And
it was after long searching that I found out the carpenter’s chest,
which was, indeed, a very useful prize to me, and much more
valuable than a shipload of gold would have been at that time. I
got it down to my raft, whole as it was, without losing time to
look into it, for I knew in general what it contained.

My next care was for some ammunition and arms. There were two very
good fowling-pieces in the great cabin, and two pistols. These I
secured first, with some powder-horns and a small bag of shot, and
two old rusty swords. I knew there were three barrels of powder in
the ship, but knew not where our gunner had stowed them; but with
much search I found them, two of them dry and good, the third had
taken water. Those two I got to my raft with the arms. And now I
thought myself pretty well freighted, and began to think how I
should get to shore with them, having neither sail, oar, nor
rudder; and the least capful of wind would have overset all my
navigation.

I had three encouragements – 1st, a smooth, calm sea; 2ndly, the
tide rising, and setting in to the shore; 3rdly, what little wind
there was blew me towards the land. And thus, having found two or
three broken oars belonging to the boat – and, besides the tools
which were in the chest, I found two saws, an axe, and a hammer;
with this cargo I put to sea. For a mile or thereabouts my raft
went very well, only that I found it drive a little distant from
the place where I had landed before; by which I perceived that
there was some indraft of the water, and consequently I hoped to
find some creek or river there, which I might make use of as a port
to get to land with my cargo.

As I imagined, so it was. There appeared before me a little
opening of the land, and I found a strong current of the tide set
into it; so I guided my raft as well as I could, to keep in the
middle of the stream.

But here I had like to have suffered a second shipwreck, which, if
I had, I think verily would have broken my heart; for, knowing
nothing of the coast, my raft ran aground at one end of it upon a
shoal, and not being aground at the other end, it wanted but a
little that all my cargo had slipped off towards the end that was
afloat, and to fallen into the water. I did my utmost, by setting
my back against the chests, to keep them in their places, but could
not thrust off the raft with all my strength; neither durst I stir
from the posture I was in; but holding up the chests with all my
might, I stood in that manner near half-an-hour, in which time the
rising of the water brought me a little more upon a level; and a
little after, the water still-rising, my raft floated again, and I
thrust her off with the oar I had into the channel, and then
driving up higher, I at length found myself in the mouth of a
little river, with land on both sides, and a strong current of tide
running up. I looked on both sides for a proper place to get to
shore, for I was not willing to be driven too high up the river:
hoping in time to see some ships at sea, and therefore resolved to
place myself as near the coast as I could.

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2. What if you were the author of this book? What would happen next? Write your own chapter to this classic story. If you like you can think as a person of the Enlightenment.

Texterna i det här temat handlar mycket om kroppen. Kroppen som klädbärare, kroppen som matbehållare, kroppen som gränssprängare. Som uppmjukning inför temat ska vi diskutera följande frågor.

1. Många (särskilt äldre personer) säger att det där med utseende inte är så viktigt. Huvudsaken är hur man är inombords. Håller du med?

2. Berättar man något om sig själv genom de kläder och smycken man har på sig och den mat man äter eller serverar andra? Vad?

3. Finns det några hänsyn att ta när man väljer klädsel?

4. Kan du förstå att allt fler människor vill förbättra sitt utseende genom plastikkirurgi och andra ingrepp?

5. Ägnar vi för mycket tid och tankar åt våra kroppar och glömmer bort insidan? Eller visar vi kanske livsglädje genom att försöka göra oss så vackra som möjligt för andra (och oss själva)?

6. Många säger att vi svenskar anpassar oss för mycket. Om modet säger att att vita jeans och svart t-shirt gäller, så har nästan alla det. Den som istället väljer gröna jeans och en skjorta kan bli utfryst. Stämmer det?

7. Någon har sagt att nu när vi kan prata öppet om sex är döden det enda tabu som finns kvar. Håller du med?

Förra årets beskrivning av temat.

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Uppgift
Skriv om dagens övningar. Fundera särskilt över följande frågor:

1. Vad har du lärt dig idag?
2. Vad ska du göra annorlunda efter idag?

Skicka dina reflektioner till daniel.wernegren@edu.sigtuna.se. Deadline, tisdag 23 februari klockan 09.00.

Jonathan Swift skrev den satiriska debattskriften Ett anspråkslöst förslag. Den är en klassiker när det gäller både satir och argumenterande text. Den är också typisk för upplysningen eftersom den förkroppsligar upplysningens viktigaste värden – förnuft, nytta, kritik, demokrati.

Uppgift
Vi ska nu skriva en imitation av Swifts berömda debattartikel. Dvs. en debattartikel som förenar humor och vass argumentation.

I er imitation behöver ni ett förslag (en tes) och tre goda skäl (tre argument).

Förslag på ämnen:

1. En debattartikel där man kritiserar SL och gör någon humoristisk eller absurd jämförelse.

2. Alla elever får IG på nationella provet. Fel på eleverna eller fel på betygsystemet?

3. Att svika Bajen (Hammarby IF) värre än högförräderi eller riktigt smart?

Inledande fras: “Kära medborgare! Jag har ett allvarligt menat förslag som jag vill lägga framför er…”

Ulrika Sandmark har bett mig att påminna er, NVelit09, att ni ska göra tester i Vikingahallen nu på fredag kl 7.30. Gäller ej Maximillian och Simon Jönninge som redan gjort testerna.

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Vad lärde du dig om mordet på Gustav III?

There are several important and famous British Enlightenment thinkers. We have Isaac Newton (Theory of Gravity) and James Watt (inventor of the Steam engine).

But there are also those who are less known like Jeremy Bentham who invented the modern prison.

Assignment
Write a story from the point of view of a panopticon prisoner. Write about your thoughts, feelings about your life in prison.

Start with the sentence: “Monday. I can’t believe I ended up here…”