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Undervisningsbeskrivelse

Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin(er) 2023/24 - 2025/26
Institution X - Nærum Gymnasium
Fag og niveau Engelsk A
Lærer(e) Cecilie Wernberg Dalhoff, Rikke Sterum
Hold 2023 EN/d (1d EN, 2d EN, 3d EN)

Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 Food and Food Culture
Titel 2 Crime in Fiction
Titel 3 Travellers and Tourists
Titel 4 Aotearoa New Zealand
Titel 5 Forløb#5 Paris and the Lost generation
Titel 6 Forløb#7 American politics and contemporary issues
Titel 7 Horror
Titel 8 14. Africa - The empire writes back
Titel 9 Forløb#10 Diversity in the UK
Titel 10 Forløb#11 Feminism (m. værklæsning)
Titel 11 Forløb#14: Shakespeare - Love and power
Titel 12 Forløb#10 North American Wilderness
Titel 13 Fight Club and postmodernism (Værklæsning)
Titel 14 Forløb#8 Nigeria

Beskrivelse af de enkelte undervisningsforløb (1 skema for hvert forløb)
Titel 1 Food and Food Culture

The unit focuses on non-fiction and fiction texts about different aspects of food.

After the unit you will be able to:

- distinguish between the different approaches to food in fiction and non-fiction texts
- discuss figurative language and metaphors used in the fiction texts/films of the unit
- spot and discuss the ways of appeal used in the texts/films of the unit
- explain how Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is a parody of the disaster film genre

Texts:
Penne with Sundried Tomato Pesto
Recipe for Love (poem, unknown origin)
Meat is Murder (lyrics, The Smiths, 1985)
Forget Meat. There's a World of Vegetarian Food Out There (article, The Guardian, 2012)
Food With Feeling (short story, Nicola Barker, 1993)
The Naked Chef Goes to School (in: From Where You Are, Systime) + Jamie Oliver Ted Talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go_QOzc79Uc

Film:
Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs (Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, 2009)

Approx. 15 pages

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Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 10 moduler
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Titel 2 Crime in Fiction

Crime and Fiction

The unit will look at different ways crime is expressed and presented to the reader and the viewer.

Special analytical attention is paid to a literary classic and a modern short story, both within the genre of crime fiction. We will focus on characters, setting and point of view/narration. Another focal point is the introduction of film analysis.

After the unit you will be able to:
- account for different kinds of crime fiction
- discuss the popularity of crime fiction
- discuss the difference between American action-packed tradition vs. British low-keyed tradition
-  use the analytical terms characters, setting, and point of view/narration

Texts and Internet resources:
- Introduction to Crime in Fiction (Barkholt and Jepsen, Systime, 2008)
- A Very British Murder (BBC https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5puo1z Historical murdercase)
- Death on The Nile (Agatha Christie, 1937, extracts)
- Tell Me (short story, Zoë Sharp, in Crime in Fiction, Barkholt and Jepsen, Systime, 2008) + interview with the author Zoë Sharp (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Knu4IGxFCio)

Film:
Death on The Nile (Kenneth Branagh, 2022)

Approx. 20 pages
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 9 moduler
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Titel 3 Travellers and Tourists

At the end of the unit you will be able to:

- define and discuss the different approaches to travelling reflected in the dualism 'traveller' vs. 'tourist'
- analyse the paradox of travelling that Alain de Botton defines in 'On Anticipation' and discuss how de Botton's character The Duc des Esseintes and Simon Reeve are direct opposites in their approach to travelling
- detect figurative langugage in texts, especially poems

Texts:
Sea-Fever (poem, John Masefield, 1902)
The Express (poem, Stephen Spender, 1966) + Sassenachs (poem, Jackie Kay)
On Anticipation (non-fiction, Alain de Botton, 2002)
Simon Reeve's incredible journeys: https://www.dr.dk/drtv/se/simon-reeves-fantastiske-rejser_428178
The Larder (short story, Morris Lurie, 1984)

Film:
The Beach (Danny Boyle, 2000)

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Dækker over: 10 moduler
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Titel 4 Aotearoa New Zealand

Aoteroa New Zealand

At the end of the unit you will:

- know many facts about New Zealand in the areas of history, geography, government, language and religion
- be able to discuss elements of New Zealand identity
- be able to rephrase two Maori myths: 'Paikea and the Whale' and 'Rona and the Moon'.
- be able to discuss how the film 'The Whale Rider' reflects the myth about Paikea and the whale and applies it to the conditions of modern Maori + also how it is used in the Disney film (Vaiana/Moana, 2016).
- be able to discuss the aspect of growing up in Whale Rider, Moana and Pig Sticker.

Material:
Background on Maori ancestry and British colonisation (ppt lecture + internet resources).
https://newzealand.systime.dk/?L=0 (i-book)

Short story:
Pig Sticker (in: https://newzealand.systime.dk/?L=0)

Films:
The Whale Rider (Niki Caro, 2002)
Moana (Vaiana, Disney, 2016, first 30 minutes)

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Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 7 moduler
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Titel 7 Horror

Why does horror fiction continue to fascinate? From Dracula and Frankenstein to the modern day monster and the societies they reflect and question.

Stoker: Dracula excerpt, pp. 1-9 + Draculs and the women
Shelley: Frankenstein
Wilde: Dorian Gray (excerpt)
H.P Lovecraft: The Statement of Randolph Carter
Edgar Allan Poe: Tell-tale heart
Willam Faulkner: Rose for Emily
Bret Easton Ellis: American Psycho: Kids at the zoo

Movie: the Shining

Written assignment: Stephen King's why we crave Horror".

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Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 10,00 moduler
Dækker over: 17 moduler
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Titel 8 14. Africa - The empire writes back

ocus:
Imperialism
The danger of the single story
Negotiating the colonial past
Post-colonialism
Independence
Nollywood


lingua franca - in general and in Africa

Representations of Africa
What is home?
How African storytelling reflects a political/cultural development.
Focus on Nigeria

Texts:
"Rule, Brittania" (poem)
Rudyard Kipling, "The White Man's Burden"
A Kind of Paradise - Twelve African Stories (DR documentary)
Binyavanga Wainaina, How to Write about Africa
Postcolonial perspectives, Introduction from Africa Unfold, L&R (theory)
C. N. Adichie, The Danger of the Single Story (Ted Talk - non-fiction)
Achebe - Things fall apart ch. 21
Magate Wade - No more pity shit
Do they know it's Christmas
This is nigeria - Falz(rap song)







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Supplerende stof:
Omfang Estimeret: 15,00 moduler
Dækker over: 10 moduler
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Titel 9 Forløb#10 Diversity in the UK

In this course, we focus on multiculturalism in Great Britain. Through poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and political speech, we explore questions of identity, belonging, and cultural hybridity.

We have worked with potery analysis, literary analysis, rhetorical analysis and discourse analysis.

We have had a special focus on the following terms: immigration, assimilation, segregation, collective identity, belonging, the national "we", cultural hybridity, the windrush generation, sociolect and code switching.

Baggrundsinformation:
Everyone is here ch.1

Materialer:

John Agard, Listen mr. Oxford Don (Poem)
Bernadine Evaristo: Women, Girl, Other (novel excerpt)
Home is not here, Laura Blake (Short story)
Zadie Smith: Speaking in Tongue (essay)
David Cameron: Speech on Radicalization, Islamic Extremism and the Failure of State Multiculturalism (speech)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 13,00 moduler
Dækker over: 12 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 10 Forløb#11 Feminism (m. værklæsning)

Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 13 moduler
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Væsentligste arbejdsformer


Titel 12 Forløb#10 North American Wilderness

Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 15 moduler
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Titel 13 Fight Club and postmodernism (Værklæsning)

The American Wilderness as both threatening and threatened, liberating and capturing, welcoming and hostile, conquerable and impenetrable. An ambiguous space where man meets his true self and is both repulsed and captivated by what he sees.

Materials:
Romanticism:
Wordsworth: The Tables Turned and My Heart Leaps Up
The sublime (in literature and art)

Roderick Nash: Wilderness Defined

Emily Carr: Time (from The Book of Small)

The frontier:
Atwood  - The Frontier
Painting: American Progress


The Yukon Gold Rush:
Robert Service: Spell of the Yukon

Leaving Civilization Behind:
Eddie Vedder: Society
Thoreau: Walden
Into the Wild – the movie
Into the wild - excerpt (Wider context pp. 108-109)

Man and Nature:
Robert Pack: Dominion Over Nature
Chief Seattle: Selling Our Land

Eco-criticism:
Nature Is Speaking – Lupita Nyong'o is Flower


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Titel 14 Forløb#8 Nigeria

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