Holdet 3m EN (2025/26) - Undervisningsbeskrivelse

Undervisningsbeskrivelse

Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin(er) 2023/24 - 2025/26
Institution Aurehøj Gymnasium
Fag og niveau Engelsk A
Lærer(e) Jesper Kaalund
Hold 2023 EN/m (1m EN, 2m EN, 3m EN)

Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 True Crime
Titel 2 Graphic novels
Titel 3 Lingua franca
Titel 4 Black Americans, music, identity and history
Titel 5 Australia
Titel 6 Nineteen-eighty-four and dystopia
Titel 7 Everyone Is Here
Titel 8 Virginia Woolf and Modernism
Titel 9 The Beat Movement
Titel 10 Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Titel 11 The Great Gatsby and The American Dream

Beskrivelse af de enkelte undervisningsforløb (1 skema for hvert forløb)
Titel 1 True Crime

True crime
Focus on non-fiction analysis and genre.

texts:
The Sun, Horror Scene (tabloid article)
Serial, Episode One, Alibi (podcast), Episode 2 as written assignment
How the Press Created Jack the Ripper (article, History Today)
Guardian article on the Ripper victim Muriel in Whitechapel
Derf Backderf, My Friend Dahmer, graphic novel, excerpts, preface and prologue

theory: BBC article, Why are we so fascinated by true crime? og 'Real Life Atrocities' from Narrating Truth by Katrine Brøndsted.
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 10,00 moduler
Dækker over: 10 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 2 Graphic novels

Introduction and toolbox from Getting Graphic by Clausen and Kaalund, Gyldendal. All text excerpts below from this textbook.

How does a graphic novel work?
Graphic devices

Texts:
Art Spiegelman, Maus
David Small, Stitches
Craig Thompson, Blankets
Mazzuchelli, City of Glass (Auster adaptaton)
Daniel Clowes, Ghost World
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 8,00 moduler
Dækker over: 11 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 3 Lingua franca

English a a lingua franca
How and why did English become a lingua franca?
Is it important to speak like a native speaker?
Ways of overcoming communication problems between ELF-speakers
Connections between language, culture, power and identity.

Texts:
Heather Hansen, How to speak bad English perfectly, TED Talk
Danes Please Don't Swear So Much, article
English in the European Union, video
Spenzer Hazel, Why Native English Speakers Fail to be Understood and Lose Out in Global Business, The Conversation.
‘The Problem with The English Language in India’
By Shahith Aula in Forbes Magazine

The Indian accent : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7MIyQS9p5E
ELF in tourism video: Marrakesh
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 8,00 moduler
Dækker over: 7 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 4 Black Americans, music, identity and history

Key concepts:
slave narrative, The Reconstruction Era, Jim Crow, The Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Movement, mass incarceration, dog-whistling

Texts:

Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - An American Slave, Chapter Two - focus on slave narrative, genre + description of the enslaved people singing in the fields.

Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues, poem + music and The Harlem Renaissance.

Billie Holiday, Strange Fruit - song + song lyrics

Gil Scott-Heron, The Revolution Will not be Televised, protestsong

John Lewis, The March (graphic novel, excerpt), graphic devices and focus on the arrested people singing We Shall Overcome.

13th - documentary by Ava DuVernay

In groups the students worked with various songs+lyrics by Beyonce and Kendrick Lamar and related these to the course.


the course was interdisciplinary with music which focused on blues, soul and rock.
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 12,00 moduler
Dækker over: 10 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
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Titel 5 Australia

Texts:
Advance Australia Fair (national anthem)
Bill Bryson, In a Sun-burned Country (non-fiction, excerpt)
Hannah Gadsby, Nanette (comedy show)
Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette (excerpt, non-fiction)
Robyn Davidson, Tracks (non-fiction)
Les Murray, Warning on Bushfire Day (poem)
Julie Koh, The Wall (short story)

Introduction to Australian history from 'Boomerang' by Kaalund and
Clausen, Columbus, 2023.

Themes:
Nature, climate crisis
First Nations Australians
Identity, incl. national and gender identities
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 12,00 moduler
Dækker over: 14 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 6 Nineteen-eighty-four and dystopia

George Orwell, Nineteen-eighty-four (værklæsning)
film: 1984 by xx - excerpts
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Chapter One
Black Mirror, Nosedive
Minority Report, Spielberg
Eurythmics, Sex Crime (song lyrics)

dystopia/utopia
sci-fi characteristics
gender roles/feminism
language and power
surveillance


BBC:  Orwell vs. Huxley - who was right? Discussion A. Gopkin and Will Self
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 14,00 moduler
Dækker over: 27 moduler
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Titel 7 Everyone Is Here

Everyone Is Here

Multiculturalism, diversity and belonging in the UK af Sten Pultz Moslund, Systime. (all texts, except the film, from this textbook)

Chapter 1: How Britain has been shaped by immigration
Chapter 2: Language and diversity

Bernadine Evaristo, Yazz (novel excerpt from Girl, Woman, Other)
Gautan Malkani,Paki (novel excerpt)
John Agard, Encounter & Reporting from the Frontline of the Great Dictionary Disaster (poems)
Laura Smith, Mixed Race in the UK (non-fiction)
David Cameron, speech on radicalisation
This is England(film) by Shane Meadow

Focus:
What are the connections between language and identity?
How has British national identity been changed, challenged, re-imagined over the years?
How does it feel to be caught between two cultures?
What does it take to get a sense of belonging?

Keyterms:
Windrush Generation, post-colonialism, colonisation of the mind
Racism, whiteness, white priviledge (priviledge olympics)
national narrative, assimilation vs. integration, othering, cultural hybridity vs impurity
Standard English, dialect, ethnolect, sociolect, English variant, code switching
misogyny, hyper masculinity, superdiversity, conviviality, displacement


Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 10,00 moduler
Dækker over: 11 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 8 Virginia Woolf and Modernism

Introduction to traits of Modernism

Video on VW and modernism

V. Woolf, The Haunted House (short story)
V. Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, two novel excerpts from Chapter 1
V. Woolf, To the Lighthouse, novel excerpt from Fields of Vision

The Hours, film
Field trip to Nivaagaard and their exhibition on The Bloomsbury Group
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 10,00 moduler
Dækker over: 14 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 9 The Beat Movement

American society in the post-war period
Beat values
Beat influences
Beat and music
The cut-up method and spontaneous prose

The Beat Generation, documentary, Arte - DR K
Jack Kerouac, On the Road, (novel extracts)
Allen Ginsberg, An Eastern Ballad (poem, excerpt)
Allen Ginsberg, Howl (poem), incl. James Franco reciting the poem.. graphic novel..
William S. Burroughs,..
Bob Dylan, A Hard Rain's A-gonna Fall (song lyrics)
Felingetti
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (film)

i undervisningen er brugt:
ordbogen.com
oxfordadvancelearnersdictionary.com
thesauraus.com
minlaering.com
https://wildbilly.dk/engelsk/essay.html            og derfor må disse benyttes til eksamen, dog aldrig interaktive funktioner, hvilket også gælder Word Editor.
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 12,00 moduler
Dækker over: 14 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 10 Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, Gyldendal by Bo Høpfner Clausen and Jesper Kaalund:

Historical context, pp. 7-15
The Elizabethan Theatre, pp. 16-21
Shakespeare's language, pp. 34-43
toolboxes: dramatic and poetic devices
genre, tragedy, pp. 46-53

https://people.howstuffworks.com/love-at-first-sight.htm - Science and love at first sight, video.

Taylor Swift, 'Love Story'

Film, Baz Luhrmann, Romeo+Juliet

Prologue
Act 1, Sc. 1 and Sc. 5
Act II, Sc. 2, Sc. 3, Sc. 6
Act V, sc. 3

The soundtrack of Romeo+Juliet (group work on different songs)

Sonets - If Shakespeare wrote pop songs - Huffington Post
Shakespeare and Hip Hop - Ted Talk

The class also watched the Romeo & Juliet adaptation (in Danish) at Betty Nansen.


Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 16,00 moduler
Dækker over: 24 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 11 The Great Gatsby and The American Dream

F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' (værklæsning)

The Lost Generation
American Modernism (powerpoint, JK)
The American Dream
The Roaring Twenties
Themes, symbolism, style of writing

Small excerpts from Tocqueville and Truslow Adams

Film: Baz Luhrmann, The Great Gatsby and the first 20 minutes of Coppola's 1974 adaptation.

Rosa I. Smith, How The Great Gatsby explains Trump, The Atlantic, 2018 (article)
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, Waking up from the American Dream, The New Yorker (essay), 2021
John F. Kennedy, Inauguration address, 1961 (speech)
Barack Obama, A More Perfect Union (speech)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 12,00 moduler
Dækker over: 24 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer