Holdet 2a En (2025/26) - Undervisningsbeskrivelse

Undervisningsbeskrivelse

Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin(er) 2024/25 - 2025/26
Institution X - Herlev Gymnasium og HF
Fag og niveau Engelsk B
Lærer(e) Charlotte Siboni
Hold 2024 En/a (1a En, 1a En SK, 2a En, 2a En SK)

Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 American Values and Election
Titel 2 Australia and The Stolen Generation
Titel 3 Horror
Titel 4 Multicultural Britain
Titel 5 American Minimalism
Titel 6 The Great Gatsby and the Roaring Twenties
Titel 7 World War 1 Poetry
Titel 8 The African American experience
Titel 9 From Folk tales to Fantasy
Titel 10 xxx

Beskrivelse af de enkelte undervisningsforløb (1 skema for hvert forløb)
Titel 1 American Values and Election

The focus of the theme American Values and election has focused on  the American election 2024/25 - Haris vs. Trump, but the theme has also focused on the backbone of the American identity and values. The class stayed over night at the school to watch the election night together.

Fokuspunkter:
Amerikanske værdier: individualism, self-reliance, hard work, freedom, equality of opportunity, can-do spirit. Forløbet har særligt fokuseret på, hvordan disse værdier er blevet opfattet forskelligt og brugt politisk både i historisk perspektiv og i 2024 valgkampen mellem Trump og Harris.
Retoriske virkemidler i taler af Obama, Trump og Walz.
Det republikanske parti og det demokratiske partis ideologi, politik og vælgere


Materiale:

Edward N. Kearny: The Frontier Heritage (1984) (artikel)
Thomas Jefferson mfl. The Declaration of Independence (1776) (uddrag)
Emma Lazarus: The New Colossus (1883) (poesi)
Bob Hamilton: A father Tells His Son about The Statue of Liberty (poesi)
Barack Obama: A More Perfect Union (2008) (uddrag af tale)
Donald Trump: Speech at the January 6th Ellipse Rally (tale)
John Gast: American Progress (1872) (maleri)
DR Horisont: Frihedsgudinden fra Texas  (dokumentar)
DR Horisont: Jackson stak sin far for at redde USA (dokumentar)

(Ns. ca.25)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 7,00 moduler
Dækker over: 10 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 2 Australia and The Stolen Generation

THE STOLEN GENERATION

The Theme has worked with short stories, personal accounts, poems and non-fiction to cover the chapter of The Stolen Generation in Australian history as well as bringing the theme into contemporary time.

General introduction fra CS kompendium:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsERYZFY87A&t=1432s
European discovery and The Colonisation of Australia
The First Fleet
Contacts and Colonisation
Immigration

Tekster i undervisningen:

Stolen Generatio (Fact Sheet):
http://reconciliation.org.au/nsw/education-kit/stolen-generations/-bringing them home
Forced removal
Bringing them home
Continued Impact
National Apology
Aboriginal Protection Act 1869
Evie's story:
https://humanrights.gov.au/our-work/bringing-them-home-evie-story
Greg's story:
https://humanrights.gov.au/our-work/bringing-them-home-greg-story
Article: essay udfyld

Fictions tekster
"Heart is where the home is" by Thea Astley, 1987 in "The Grass was Greener"  af Mogens Frølund (1999)
"Going Home" by Archie Weller, 1986 in "The Grass was Greener"  af Mogens Frølund (1999)

Poems on and by Aboriginals in Australian identity by Hanne Kjeldsen (1986) Forlag: DR
Beside The Highway by Les Murray
We are Going by Grannie Coolwell
Not Choosing by Kevin Gilbert (1990)


Apology Speech by Australia Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, Februrary, 2008
file:///Users/charlotte/Downloads/apology-full-text.pdf

CS Power point about The Commonwealth countries

The film: Rabbit Proof Fence (CFU-lån)

Hand in non fiction:
“Alarming rate: removal of Australia’s Indigenous children escalating, report warns” by Lorena Allam, The Guardian,2020.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/nov/16/alarming-rate-removal-of-australias-indigenous-children-escalating-report-warns
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 12,00 moduler
Dækker over: 12 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 3 Horror

The theme has worked with how the human psyche is reacting to reading horror stories and watching horror film and why it often fascinates people.
Texts:
Introduction to the Horror theme in "Horror" (Systime 2017)
The Monkey's Paw (short story) by W.W. Jacobs 1902
https://www.owleyes.org/text/monkeys-paw/read/i#root-74483-66
youtube: The Monkeys Paw (short film)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugjegclLNhM
Bret Easton Ellis In American Psycho (1991): Killing a Child at Zoo (extract from the novel)
The Film: American Psycho: Extract of the scenes. Killing a Child at Zoo
Angela Carter: The Bloody Chamber in "Horror"  (Systime 2017)
W.,F. Harvey: August Heat (1924) http://www.public-library.uk/ebooks/12/44.pdf
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 12,00 moduler
Dækker over: 12 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 4 Multicultural Britain

Multicultural Britain

Multicultural Britain er et tema, hvor der er fokus på Englands forandring fra tiden efter anden verdenskrig og frem til i dag, hvor England har  gennemgået en transformation fra at være britisk til at være et land sammensat af mange forskellige kulture. Temaet har fokus på immigrationsproblemer. Klassen diskuterer særligt, hvad det vil sige for indvandrere at skulle forholde sig til to kulturer.

Tekster i undervisningen:
"Immigration a long and colorful history". I Modern Britain af Jan Mustard og ulla Rahbeck (2012)

"Colour me English" (s. 3-7) I essay samlingen "Color me English" (2013)

You're a Muslim-you'lll never be English, internet artikel. The Guardian jun.19 (2002)

"You Can't  Go Home Again" af Tariq Ramadan, Time, 24 Dec. (2001)

"This is My England" af Andrea Levy. The Guardian Weekend, Feb. 19 (2000)

"Girl" af Hanif Kureishi i antologi "Texting" Systime, 2005 repetition forår 2026

Burhan Wazir: "Long nights, low pay and no play" in  The Observer, December 8, 2002
(Ns. ca. 33)

Filmen: "Brick Lane" CFU -lån
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 11,00 moduler
Dækker over: 11 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 5 American Minimalism

Temaet har arbejdet med minimalismen som genre med fokus på amerikanske forfattere.. Kendetegnet ved "less is more"-filosofien, fokuserer genren på at reducere tekster til deres absolut mest nødvendige elementer, ofte ved en objektiv, nøgtern stil.

Ernest Hemingway:“The Three - Day Blow”, in The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemmingway, Scribner, 1983

Ernest Hemmmingway: "Up in Michigan"
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/59603/59603-h/59603-h.htm#UIM

Raymond Carver:“They’re Not Your Husband” in Short Cuts, The Harville Press, London 1995

Raymond Carver:“Neighbors” in
https://www.scribd.com/doc/248632006/They-Are-Not-Your-Husband-Raymond-Carver

Ann Beattie:”What Magical Realism Would Be.” in The State We’re In. Scribner 2016
Indhold
Kernestof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Minimalism Up in Michigan 19-08-2025
What Magical Realism would be 04-09-2025
Omfang Estimeret: 8,00 moduler
Dækker over: 8 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 6 The Great Gatsby and the Roaring Twenties

Værklæsning "The Great Gatsby"

The Grat Gatsby af Scott Fitzgerald er læst gennem Systimes I-bog https://thegreatgatsby.systime.dk/?loopRedirect=1.

Perioden: Modernismen. I ibogen er der set på følgende litterære og historiske aspekter af perioden

The Modernist Worldview
Forfatteren Fitzgerald samt The American Dream.
Flappers
Liquor prohibition/Boot leggers
The society in the 1920's and the Yellow press and fake news
Old money or new money
The Jazz age

Den litterære og analytiske tilgang har været præget af
Character
narration
environment
Mortif (her symboler og temaer der fremhæver budskabet)
Tragedy or fairy tale
framed story tellling
Foreshadowing
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 12,00 moduler
Dækker over: 13 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 7 World War 1 Poetry

First World War Poetry. Forløbet  har fokuseret på genren og britisk historie i WW1
Nogle af digtene er gengangere fra 2g.

Forløbet har fokuseret på analytisk forståelse af poesi med tilhørende analyse af billedsprog samt rim og rytme i digtene. Digtene er blevet perspektiveret til det engelske samfund og synet på at deltage i WW1. Forløbet er yderligere blevet suppleret med analyse af plakater fra krigen fra s. 18 i I ibogen. samt Flanders Fields images

Words of War-Poetry of WW1 TV documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU6jmbVPDKM

War and Conflict: pp.17-25
https://warandconflict.systime.dk/

Marcus Clapham: "First World War  Poetry", The Wordsworth Poetry Library (1995)

Introduction
Sigfried Sassoon:
Suicide in the Trenches (1918)
Glory of Women


Wilfred Owen:
Disabled

Rupert Brook:
The Soldier

Isac Rosenberg:
Returning, We Hear the Larks

NS:15
Indhold
Kernestof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Opgave A eller B + grammatik 16-11-2025
Omfang Estimeret: 10,00 moduler
Dækker over: 9 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 8 The African American experience

The focus of the theme has been to give an over all understanding og American history and literature by looking at the African- American experience. Through the work with different types of genres and texts in the class the vocabulary as well as the  literary and stylistic terms for the deeper understanding of the theme has been in focus.

The African-American Experience
Erlich-Møller, B. & Thomsen, M. (2020). Black Voices. The African-American Experience from Slavery to the Fight for Social Justice. Gyldendal. https://blackvoices.systime.dk

The class have read the following chapters in the iBook

Slavery:
Background information and text
The Cotton Kingdom
Slave voyages
The auction block
Life in enslavement
Slave codes
Abolitionism
Text: An act to prevent all persons from teaching slaves to read or write, the use of figures excepted 1831
Text: Penalties and Obeying the Law
Solomon Northup: Twelve Years a Slave (excerpt), 1853. Extract from the autobiography Character and point of view
The film CFU: 12 Years a Slave. 12 Years a Slave is a 2013 biographical historical drama film directed by Steve McQueen from a screenplay by John Ridley, based on the 1853 slave memoir
Text: Jacob D. Green: Narrative of the Life of J.D. Green, a Runaway Slave from Kentucky (1864)Focus on narrative and writing a summary.
Text: Jackson Whitney: Letter from Jackson Whitney (1859) FUGITIVE'S HOME, Sandwich, C.W., March 18, 1859. Looking into Persuasion and narrator
Song: Go down moses. Spirituality rhyme and meter
Runaway slaves original posters. Working with adjectives and style
Documentary Clotilda the last slaveship

Separate but Equal:

Background information and text
The civil war
Amendments to the constitution
Jim Crow
Text: Short story The Lynching of Jube Benson Frame story
Analysis of posters:  The Ministrel Shows
Text: Anne Moody: Coming of Age in Mississippi (Part 1+2) (1968)
The class have talked about who was Martin Luther King and Malcolm X
But the class have not read texts about the two
Text: John Lewis  ( I am a mam)

Mississippi Burning Documentary
https://www.google.com/search?q=mississippi+burning+documentary+david&oq=&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqCQgAECMYJxjqAjIJCAAQIxgnGOoCMgkIARAjGCcY6gIyCQg
The FBI Files - The FBI investigates the nationally known case of the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers in Philadelphia Mississippi amid the tension of the civil right movement.

Post racist America:

Background information an overview of the following
Educatopn and income
Racial and ethnic gap
Crime and Police shootings
Politics
Post Racist America
Text: Barack Obama: Speech on Selma (March 2015)

NS. 30


Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 15 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer


Titel 10 xxx

Indhold
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 0 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer