Holdet 2023 En/c - Undervisningsbeskrivelse

Undervisningsbeskrivelse

Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin(er) 2023/24 - 2024/25
Institution X - Aurehøj Gymnasium
Fag og niveau Engelsk B
Lærer(e) Jesper Kaalund
Hold 2023 En/c (1c En, 2c En)

Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 Black voices (Eksamen)
Titel 2 Going Places
Titel 3 Crime and punishment
Titel 4 African Stories (Eksamen)
Titel 5 The American Presidential Election (Eksamen)
Titel 6 Lord of the Flies (Eksamen)
Titel 7 Lingua franca (Eksamen)
Titel 8 Horror fiction (Eksamen)

Beskrivelse af de enkelte undervisningsforløb (1 skema for hvert forløb)
Titel 1 Black voices (Eksamen)

The development of African-American identity and struggle for civil rights

Keywords: civil rights movement, enslavement, abolition, 13th Amendment, Jim Crow Laws, "Separate but Equal", Segregation, Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Act, racism, Black Lives Matter

Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (slave narrative)
Billie Holiday, Strange Fruit (song lyrics, music. Also Nina Simone)
Langston Hughes, I Too + The Merry-go-round (poems)
W. E. Du Bois, On Being Crazy (novel excerpt)
Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb (speech, poem, spoken words?)

tilladte hjælpemidler ved skr. og mdt eksamen:
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/ KUN ordbog, IKKE text checker-funktionen.
ordbogen.com og abc-ordbogen
https://www.minlaering.dk/
https://www.thesaurus.com/
https://www.wildbilly.dk/engelsk/non-fiction_analysis.html
https://www.wildbilly.dk/engelsk/essay.html  - I fht de to Wildbilly sider, så må kun hovedsiderne, altså de direkte links her, benyttes.

Indhold
Kernestof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
The South 08-12-2023
The March 15-12-2023
Omfang Estimeret: 10,00 moduler
Dækker over: 9 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 2 Going Places

The chapter Going Places from Compass, Systime, 2022

focus:
Why do we go travelling?
What do we look for when travelling?
Learning about other cultures and through that learning about ourselves.
introduction to fiction analysis
innovation
lingua franca
Keywords: clash of cultures, prejudice, the danger of the single story.

texts:
James Georgalakis, The Tourist (short story)
Matthew Kneale, Paradise (short story)
Richard Blanco, Looking for the Gulf Motel (poem)
Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity' (novel excerpt)
Tim Butcher, Blood River (non-fiction)
If seeing the world help ruin it (non-fiction)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 10,00 moduler
Dækker over: 12 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 3 Crime and punishment

Focus:
The prison industry in the US
racism and mass incarceration
true crime - genre characteristics and why it is so popular?
pros and cons of the death penalty
seriel killers and framing of the stories

Texts:
- N. Dholakia, The Difference between Prison and Jail, Vera, 2023
- 13th - documentary directed by Ava DuVernay
- Last Meals of Death Row Inmates, CBS News, 2015
- Colin Cohen, No Death Penalty, No Easter Bunny (satire) from Serious Business, Gyldendal.
- Serial (podcast), Season One, Episodes 1-2
- BBC Radio 5, Why are we so fascinated with true crime?
- The Jack the Ripper Casebook - suspects, introduction to the case
- The Guardian, A Jack the Ripper Mural - Are You Serious? 2020
- Derf Backderf, My Friend Dahmer, preface + prologue (graphic novel)
- Dahmer - Monster, TV Series, Episode One
- The Sun, Horror Scene (tabloid crime)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 12,00 moduler
Dækker over: 17 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 4 African Stories (Eksamen)

Focus:
Imperialism
The danger of the single story
Negotiating the colonial past
Post-colonialism
Afropolitanism/diasporic writing
identity, sense of belonging
representation, perspective and who gets to tell the story


Texts:

Ben Okri, The Mysterious Anxiety of Them and Us (Stoku)
Postcolonial perspectives, Introduction from Africa Unfold, L&R (theory)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah (novel excerts, chapters11 and 12)
C. N. Adichie, The Danger of the Single Story (Ted Talk - non-fiction)
Achebe, Things Fall Apart (novel excerpt)
Toto, Africa (video clip, music and song lyrics)
Stolen Home (poem)
T. Selasi, I am a Local (TED-Talk)
Taylor Swift, Wildest Dreams (video clip, music)
M. Wade, African Aid, No More Pity Shit (non-fiction)




Følgende har løbende været anvendt i undervisningen og er således tilladt til eksamen:
Ordbogen.dk
Minlaering.dk (Engram)
dictionary.com - inkl. thesaurus-funktionen
oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com

Indhold
Kernestof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Analytical essay Africa 12-09-2024
skr. øvelse i timen 18-09-2024
Omfang Estimeret: 10,00 moduler
Dækker over: 11 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 5 The American Presidential Election (Eksamen)

This course focused on the way the campaign was run and the factors that affected it.


-Central concepts and values, the historical roots of American national identity

- rhetorics and discourse

-A divided country from the very beginning, polarisation and America's Eleven Nations (Woodard, podcast)

- Voting guides, candidates, political values and issues.

- Republican campaign and music

- How Democrats are using music to reclaim Republican values of freedom, patriotism and leadership. (article)

- Oliver Anthony, "Rich Men North of Richmond" (songlyrics)

- Beyoncé, "Freedom" (song lyrics)  + Kamela Harris, Acceptance speech, extract

- J. D. Vance, "Hillbilly Elegy", (memoir), Chapter One

- Tim Walz, Acceptance Speech.

The class also participated in Forlaget Columbus' competition and made creative products in the form of campaign videos and reflections on these.

Forløbet er kørt i samarbejde med samfundsfag
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 10,00 moduler
Dækker over: 8 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 6 Lord of the Flies (Eksamen)

The course has revolved around William Golding's novel 'Lord of the Flies' and the concept of evil.

focus:
- the banality of evil
- mob mentality
- the British public school system
- the historical context, WW2 aftermath
- Hobbes and Rousseau - is man innately good or evil?

Other texts:
- Why public school boys like me and Boris Johnson are not fit to run this country - The Guardian, 2021 (non-fiction)
- The Simpsons, Das Bus (Lord of the Flies pastiche)
- Scherfig, The Riot Club (film)
- R. Bretgen, The Real Lord of the Flies, The Guardian (non-fiction)

Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 14,00 moduler
Dækker over: 20 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 7 Lingua franca (Eksamen)

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
The Problem with English as a Lingua Franca in India
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 4,00 moduler
Dækker over: 2 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 8 Horror fiction (Eksamen)

Texts:
Stephen King, Why we crave horror (non-fiction)
Edgar Allan Poe, "The Tell-Tale Heart" (short story)
Bram Stoker, Dracula (novel excerpts)
William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily (short story)
Neil Gaiman, "Click-Clack, the Rattlebag" (short story)
Stephen King, "Strawberry Spring" (short story)
American Psycho (film)


focus:
- why we crave horror
- gothicism and the Victorian Age
- postmodern horror and horror pastiche
- elements of horror - timeless or time specific?
- The US South and Southern gothicism
- yuppie culture
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 10,00 moduler
Dækker over: 11 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer