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Holdet 2025 ENV/2 - Undervisningsbeskrivelse

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Termin(er)	2025/26
Institution	Aurehøj Gymnasium
Fag og niveau	Engelsk A
Lærer(e)	Thomas Wamsler
Hold	2025 ENV/2 (3g ENV/2)

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Titel 1	Creoles
Titel 2	The Limits of Humanity
Titel 3	New York - affluence and poverty
Titel 4	Parents
Titel 5	Journeys
Titel 6	Tilladte hjælpemidler til skriftlig eksamen

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Titel 1

Creoles

In this theme we have examined various identity issues facing people with mixed cultural backgrounds. We have seen examples of how these issues have been dealt with by immigrants, children of immigrants, people of mixed origins and by Britons in the empire in colonial times.

Our basis in terms of theory and vocabulary has been:
The sociologist Thomas Hylland Eriksen's three identity types: pure, hyphenated and creole (ren, bindestregs- og kreolsk identitet).
A distinction between three phases of immigrant literature: Arrival phase, settler phase and idigene phase.
Standard and non-standard language.

Materialer:
Definition af Hyllands Eriksens identittetstyper fra Christoffersen, et.al."Ungdomssociologi", Columbus 2001.
Sten Pultz Moslund "Everyone Is Here", Systime 2021, p.8-14 (3 phases of immigrant lit.).
Caryl Phillips "In the Falling Snow", Harvill Secker 2009, p.269 (novel excerpt).
Vijay Medtia "English Babu" (short story).
Zia Ahmed BOL, 2019 (poem/song lyrics).
Geoffry Finch "Word of Mouth", Palgrave 2003 (short excerpt on non-standard language).
John Agard "Listen Mr Oxford don", in Finderup & Fog "Worlds of English", Systime 2010-22 (poem).
John Lyons "Home is Weyever Yuh Is", i J. Kay et.al. "Out of Bounds", Bloodaxe Books 2012 (poem).
George Orwell "Shooting an Elephant", in Birgitte Prytz Clausen "Brave Voices", Columbus 2017 (essay).
Simon Robinson "How India "Colonized" Britain", TIME Magazine, 11.04.2008 (article excerpt).
Salman Rushdie "The Stanic Verses", Vintage 2006, p.354-55 (original 1988, novel, short excerpt).
Zia Ahmed "Mango", 2019 (poem/song lyrics)
Chido Muchemwa "Finding Mermaids", i Mulgrew & Szczwrek "Water - New short fiction from Africa", Short Story Day Africa 2015 (short story).
Charlotte Williams "Guyana dreams of Wales", i Sten Pultz Moslund "London - migrant city", Systime 2005 (essay).
John Agard "Remember the Ship", i Sten Pultz Moslund "London - migrant city", Systime 2005 (poem).

Dokumentar:
Omar Majeed "Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam", 2009,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMw-A0c06Ig

Videoklip:
Sarathy Korwar & Zia Ahmed "BOL", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qGfIpcWm40
Sarathy Korwar & Zia Ahmed "Mango", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC66lJSu2Ik&t=2s

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Titel	Afleveringsdato
The multicultural experience	15-09-2025

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Titel 2	The Limits of Humanity This theme has been centered around Kazuo Ishiguro's novel "Klara and the Sun", 2021 (værklæsning). We have explored the question "what makes us human?" from different angles: What are the limits to what science and technology can do? - from the romanticist vision of Frankenstein's monster to persent-day usage of AI Can we imagine an emotional machine? Is eternal life humane or inhumane? What is human nature - egotism, solidarity, passion, caution? Does civilisation make us better us lesser beings? Materialer: Kazuo Ishiguro "Klara and the Sun", Faber and Faber 2021 (novel). Delaney, Ward & Fiorina "Fields of Vision", Longman 2003, Vol.1, "Introduction to literary appreciation" (excerpts). Mogensen & Back "Along Literary Lines", Gyldendal 2009, afsnittet "Point of view". Jessica Murray & Robert Booth "Teenage boys using "personalised" AI for therapy and romance, survey finds", The Guardian, 30.10.2025 (article). Kurt Vonnegut "2BR02B", 1962 (short story). Mary Shelley "Frankenstein", 1817 (short excerpts from the novel) Steve Rose ""It's a war between technology and a donkey" - how AI is shaking up Hollywood", The Guardian, 16.01.2020 (article). Liz Jensen "Surivor Syndrome", in Engberg-Pedersen m.fl. "Wider Contexts", Gyldendal 2012 (short story). Peter Shaffer "Equus", Longman 1993 (original 1973), p.1-4, 32, 49-50, 54-59 & 65-68 (play, excerpts). Videoklip: Two Monkeys Were Paid Unequally - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meiU6TxysCg PostHuman: An Introduction to Transhumanism - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTMS9y8OVuY Transhumanism: Could we live forever? BBC News - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STsTUEOqP-g Where hotel is staffed by robots - BBC Click - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FogiE8_3fPE Mary Shelley: A Biography - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4p96vqI3zA Mary Shelley's Frankenstein summary - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRppXdKDY_c&t=6s Sunspring \| A Sci-Fi Short Film - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY7x2Ihqjmc&t=3s
Indhold	Kernestof: We will talk about part one if everyone has read that far. As a minimum we will talk about p.1-29 ( to "...concentrated instead on learning more about the outside"). Read the article at the link. What is it about? - Write 1 or 2 lines. How is it relevant for a) "The limits of humanity"? b) Klara and the Sun? Read the short story on p.10-18 in "The Limits of Humanity" (compendium uploaded at Lectio, dokumenter). Which limit/limits of humanity does the story deal with? Which characters are important? What does the author want to tell us? Tag grammatikbogen med + se på læseplanen for "Klara and the Sun" (på Lectiobesked og i skemaet). Minlæring Læs de orange bokse på s.26-29 i "Fejlstøvsugeren" og lav opgave B(1) og B(2). Read Part Two for today. Lav også lektien i Minlæring: https://app.minlaering.dk/lektier?vis=361954 Read Part Three for today. Choose two things you would like us to talk about in relation to Part Three. It could be passages, characters, themes, style of writing or anything. Tag grammatikbogen og kompendiet med. Video SparkNotes: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein summary Read p.20-22 i the compendium. How does this fit into our theme? How does Dr. Frankenstein describe the monster and its creation? How does the monster describe himself? Compare the two narrator's voices. Medbring computer, bog og kompendium. Read the article on p.23-26. What are the most important points? In your opinion, which questions does the article raise? Perhaps you can find some information on more recent developments. Read the excerpt from act 1 on p.32-34. We will read the rest of the excerpts from a play in class. Read the short story on p.27-31 in the compendium. Focus on 2 of these topics: a) narrator, b) setting, c) plot/conflict, d) title + ending. Read Part Four for today. How does the plot, conflict and suspense unfold? How do the characters develop? (If they do). Choose 1 or 2 characters to follow. Afsnit Read Parts Five and Six for today. Final round with Klara and the Sun: Lauritz, Philip and Ingeborg's characters + theme(s) & message. We will also choose our next subject (see document). Forslag til emner - Engelsk A 2025-26.docx description
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Titel 3	New York - affluence and poverty This theme has focussed on New York and the ambiguities of the American dream. A city of affluence, opportunity and succes, but also a city where realities have often fallen far short of the American dream. The contrast between prosperity and poverty. Taking our starting point from Jacob A. Riis' photography and descriptions, we have looked at a few examples from different periods in the history of New York. We have dealt with the following topics: - Inequality in New York over the last 150 years - stagnation or progress? - How do people from New York perceive being a New Yorker? - Realties in the city of dreams. Materialer: Bonnie Yochelson "Jacob A. Riis - Revealing New York's Other Half", Yale University Press 2015, p.5-8 + photos with captions, no. 1.1, 1.36, 2.11, 2.16, 2.25. Jacob A. Riis "How the Other Half Lives", 1890, Introduction + excerpt from Chapter 4. Emma Lazarus "The New Colossus", 1883, in Finderup & Fog "Worlds of English", Systime 2010 (poem). Rebecca Laurence "40 years on from the party where hip hop was born", BBC, 21.10.2014 (article). Adam Gopnik "Bumping into Mr. Ravioli", The New Yorker, 30.09.2002 (essay). Benjamin Oreskes "As Poverty Rises in New York City, 1 in 4 Can't Afford Essentials", New York Times, 27.02.2025 (article). Sasha Abramsky "The American Way of Poverty - How the Other Half Still Lives", Nation Books 2013, p.237-39 (non-fiction). Langston Hughes "Let America Be America Again", 1938, in Arildsen & Plougheld "Follow That Dream", Systime 2008 (poem). Chris Plougheld "Britain - Past and Present", Systime 2008, p.173-74,177-80 & 184-88 (on reading newspaper articles). Videoklip: Johnny Cash - Man in black with lyrics, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY8_vZXo8oY&t=6s Lou Reed - Dirty Blvd, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbVoFFC_198&list=RDwbVoFFC_198&start_radio=1 The hip hop years part 1, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhrSlOa2bsA&t=10s (kun de første 10 min.) 1985-1987 THROWBACK REPORT: "YUPPIES", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agvELtCjiL0&t=200s
Indhold	Kernestof: MAN IN BLACK.docx description Medbring grammatikbogen. Inequality in New York around 1900. Please read at least the first page of the attached document + the statistics on p.3. If you can, read the whole document (I know you have an essay to write). Jacob A. Riis - about and by.pdf description Jacob Riis \| International Center of Photography Riis Photos.pdf description Please read p.4 of "Jacob A. Riis - about and by" and the captions for the photos in the other document, focusing on the first and the last photo. Look for the same things we talked about last time, eg. discourse, tone, atmosphere, realities. The birth of hip hop. Read p.12-15 in the new compendium (You can find it under "Dokumenter"). How was hip hop "born" and in which social context? What is the significance of hip hop's "creation myth"? Lektie i min læring: Læs reglerne for komma(T3), semikolon(T4) og apostrof(T5). Lav også den oprettede øvelse i kommaer. I timen vil vi arbejde med grammatik og stile inden terminsprøven.https://app.minlaering.dk/lektier?vis=377989 Read "Bumping Into Mr. Ravioli" on p.16-21 in the compendium. How is life in New York portrayed? Is the text fiction or non-fiction? Read the article at the link below. Which of the purposes listed on p.29 in our compendium does this article aim to fulfil? Medbring Fejlstøvsugeren.The New Yuppies Read the two texts on p.22-25. What do the texts tell us about poverty in New York? Both problems and causes for hope. How does it compare to the days of Jacob Riis?(You don't need to remember all the details of p.22-23, just the general picture). La robin hood poverty nyc.html Read Langston Hughes' "Let America Be America Again" on p.26-27 on the basis of the attached questions. Questions for Langston Hughes Let America Be America Again.docx description
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Titel 4	Parents This theme has examined some literary depictions of parent-child relations. Our main work has been Shakespeare's Hamlet. But we have put it in the context of various works on parental relations. Since we have read works from different periods, we have considered whether our works present different relations because they reflect different eras. We have mostly seen these roles: Fathers - authoritative figures, distant Mothers - Primary caregivers, subordinate to their husbands Daughters - Obedience, loyalty, responsibility Sons - Independence vs responsibility, following in their father's footsteps However, these roles can vary and overlap regardless of gender. We have also looked at some typical traits of Elisabethan theatre and Modernist literature. Materialer: Mogensen & Back "Along Literary Lines", Gyldendal 2009, p.81-82 (on Modernism). James Joyce "Eveline", 1904 (short story). James Joyce "Ulysses", Penguin 1992 (original 1922), p.79-81 (novel excerpt). Nick Hornby "High Fidelity", Penguin 2017 (original 1995), p.37-41+105-110 (novel excerpt). Deborah Moggach "Lost Boys", 1987, in Hastrup & Jacobsen "Readings", Systime 2011 (short story). Mogensen & Back "Along Literary Lines", Gyldendal 2009, p.132+150-51 (on simile, soliloquy and tragedy). Willam Shakespeare "Hamlet", ca.1600, excerpts from act 1, scene 2; act 1, sc.3; act 1, sc.5; act 3, sc.1; act 3, sc.4; act 5, sc.2. Judith Fein "Visiting Dad", 1991, in Hopenwasser & Stubbe Teglbjærg "The play's the thing", Systime 2006. Spillefilm: Franco Zeffirelli "Hamlet", 1990 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAAiXguXosI Jim Jarmusch "Father Mother Sister Brother", 2025 (in cinema) Videoklip: Hip-Hop & Shakespeare? Akala at TEDxAldeburgh - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSbtkLA3GrY&t=73s
Indhold	Kernestof: Modernism & Joyce.pdf description Think about some topics/questions we have worked with in the N.Y. theme. Examples from the Limits theme could be: "What are the limits to what science and technology can do?", "Are there limits to what we should do with science and technology?", "AI Read the excerpt from Hornby's novel on p.10-15 in the compendium. The narrator's girlfriend has just left him and moved out of their flat. What kind of child-parents relationship are we presented with? How would you describe his style of writing? (T Read "Lost Boys" on p.16-20. What does this short story say about parent-child relations? What is the narrator's position? What do you think about the short story from a gender perspective? We are back. Read the introduction and synopsis on p.21-23 in "Parents". Remember that our angle is parental relations. Read p.26-29 in "Parents" (in the lefthand columns only the notes, not the exercises). What does Polonius instruct Ophelia to do, and what does the Ghost instruct Hamlet to do? Thomas,Template til gramma-svar, engelsk stil 4.docx description Watch the rest of the film version. Last time we saw until 1.26.36 (so we have about 40 minutes left). Hamlet 1990 720p BluRay x264 YIFY Read the notes on p.33-35, i.e. only the left columns. We will read the text, right columns, in class. Also watch the rest of the TED-talk on Shakespeare and hip-hop. Hip-Hop & Shakespeare? Akala at TEDxAldeburgh Rounding off the parents angle, inside and outside Hamlet. Read the play on p.37-41 in the compendium (You can read it quickly without focusing too much on detail). What does "Visiting Dad" ad to out theme? Eng A, 27.05.25, assignment 2.docx description
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Titel 5	Journeys In this brief theme we have looked at different travellers on different kinds of journeys. We have dealt with these questions: What is the purpose of the journey? What can we learn from travelling in general? How does the journey affect the travellers and the place they visit? We have also seen different types of travellers: the globetrotter, the adventurers, mass tourism. We have touched upon typical traits of Romanticism and the Beat Generation. Materialer: Pico Iyer "Pico Iyer on the secret of immersive travel", BBC, 11.06.2020, (article) https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20200611-pico-iyer-on-the-secret-of-immersive-travel Dan Taylor and Andrew Papworth "Locals struggle as Lake District 'more overtouristed' than Venice and Barcelona", LancsLive, 18.09.2025, (article) https://www.lancs.live/news/uk-world-news/locals-lake-district-town-tourists-32476963 Wikipedia "Lake Poets" (excerpts) William Wordsworth "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud", 1804 (poem) Mogensen & Back "Along Literary Lines", Gyldendal 2009, p.18-19 (on the Beat Generation) Jack Kerouac "On the Road", 1958, in Frederiksen & Hogg "The Beat Generation", Lindhardt & Ringhof 2016, p.39-40 + 76-79 (excerpts from the novel) Charles Bukowski "Nirvana", 1992 (poem) Hjemmeside: Wordsworth Grasmere, https://wordsworth.org.uk/Daffodils/ Videoklip: JACK KEROUAC on THE STEVE ALLEN SHOW with Steve Allen 1959 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LLpNKo09Xk Bukowski's "Nirvana" read by Tom Waits - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS7gpMphaz4&t=4s Alexander Payne "Paris, Je T'aime, 14th arrondissement " - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uyy3RCY27E8
Indhold	Kernestof: Pico Iyer on the secret of immersive travel.docx description Finish the grammar tasks from Thursday (attached) and read the article at the link. What are Pico Iyer's main points on travelling? Do you agree with him? Why or why not? Pico Iyer on the secret of immersive travel Engelsk A, 25.05.22 Assignment 2.docx description I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.docx description Daffodils - Wordsworth Grasmere ENG_A-09122022-Assignment 2.pdf description The Lake District 200 years ago and today. Read the attached document and the article at the link. You don't need to focus on detail, just get an impression of the general picture. What was the Lake District like in Wordsworth's day, and what are the Locals struggle as Lake District 'more overtouristed' than Venice and Barcelona The Lake poets.docx description Assignment 2, 19.12.22, Thomas.docx description Read p.2-8 in the new "Journeys"-compendium (also online). Today we look at the Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac. Why are they travelling? Do they learn something? Any typical Beat Generation traits? Also finish the grammar tasks. Assignment 2, 19.12.22.docx description Style of writing.docx description
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Titel 6	Tilladte hjælpemidler til skriftlig eksamen https://app.minlaering.dk/hold/82712/ https://www.ordbogen.com/en/ https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/ https://www.thesaurus.com/
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