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Undervisningsbeskrivelse

Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin(er) 2024/25 - 2025/26
Institution Nykøbing Katedralskole
Fag og niveau Engelsk B
Lærer(e) Mikkel Kjær Grindsted
Hold 2024 enB-o (1o enB, 2o enB)

Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 Growing Up and Finding Your Identity
Titel 2 Twisted Stories
Titel 3 Black America (E)
Titel 4 Conspiracy Theories
Titel 5 The Future Is Written (E)
Titel 6 The Curious Incident of the Dog... (E)
Titel 7 Empire and Beyond (E)
Titel 8 True Crime (E)
Titel 9 Repetition
Titel 10 Tilladte hjælpemidler til prøver og eksamen

Beskrivelse af de enkelte undervisningsforløb (1 skema for hvert forløb)
Titel 1 Growing Up and Finding Your Identity

A course which focus on the transition from child to adolescence to adult and how this is portrayed in various forms of media.

Core texts:
- Let it Go from Frozen
- The Flowers, Alice Walker
- Chapter 1 from The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
- Film: The Hunger Games (2012), Gary Ross
- Short film: Behind Closed Doors
- This Be the Verse
- The New Girl, Marc Mitchell

Student presentations on different songs relating to the topic: Fast Car, Family Portrait, 7 years, Freedom, Teenage Dirtbag, Forever Young.

Ca. 50 sider læst
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 20 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 2 Twisted Stories

In this course we focused on various different stories that somehow include a plot twist, twisted and evil personalities or people just doing or experiencing twisted and evil things. As central part of the course was to introduce the students to analytical concepts such as narrative style, types of narration, reliable/unreliable narrators and foreshadowing.

Core texts:

From the book "Choices" af Mette Hermann
- Yosemite, Michele Finn Johnson
- Mondays and Thursdays, Donna Moore

Other texts:
- The Man Who Loved Flowers, Stephen King
- Short film: The Tunnel
- Film: Shutter Island, Martin Scorsese

Ca. 20 sider læst
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 18 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 3 Black America (E)

In this course we explore the issue of racism and discrimination of black people in throughout the history of the US. We begun by exploring how the US started as a slavenation and then we traced the history of black people in the US all the way up to present day. This means, among other things, adressing the Jim Crow laws, the civil rights movement, systemic racism and the idea of post-racist America.

Core texts (kernestof):
- Excerpt from Twelve Years as a Slave (Black Voices)
- Merry-Go-Round, Langston Hughes (Black Voices)
- I Too, Langston Hughes: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47558/i-too
- Ballad of the Landlord, Langston Hughes: http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/maai3/protest/text11/hugheslandlord.pdf
- Strange Fruit, Billie Holiday (Black Voices)
- I Have a Dream, Martin Luther King (Black Voices)
- Straight Outta Compton, NWA (Black Voices) + music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMZi25Pq3T8&ab_channel=NWAVEVO
- The Help isn't a helpful recourse on racism: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2020/06/08/the-help-isnt-helpful-resource-racism-heres-why/5322569002/
- Historical background information from 'Black Voices' pp. 8-14 + 60-63 + 96-98 + 140-144
- Film: The Help, Tate Taylor

Other material (supplerende stof):
- Systemic racism explained YouTube-clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrHIQIO_bdQ
- George Floyd: A Killing that Shook the World (BBC World)

Ca. 50 sider læst
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 18 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 4 Conspiracy Theories

A very brief course on the topic of conspiracy theories. The aim was to examine what defines a conspiracy theory and what makes people believe them.

Core texts:
- Conspiracy theories - definition and chart (See document)
- Why Are Conspiracy Theories So Popular? | Between The Lines. From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1iD1ypnsWo&ab_channel=HuffPost

Ca. 10 sider læst-
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 9 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 5 The Future Is Written (E)

In this course we have examined the genre of dystopian science fiction and read about its characteristics.  We studied a varity of different stories and discussed how they mirror issues in our own society. We specifically focused on the portrayal of the issues: the fear of technology, surveillance, totalitarianism and artificial intelligence.

The majority of the texts below can be found in the compendium "Dystopia Compendium 2025 HF.pdf":

Core texts (kernestof):
- The Future is Written, Jesper Kaalund, pp. 6-11 (theoretical text on science fiction and dystopia/utopia)
- Dystopia characteristics. From: https://www.readwritethink.org/sites/default/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson926/DefinitionCharacteristics.pdf
- Our Future Without Privacy - Dystopian Short Film. From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v17hXg7f8Zo
-1984 (excerpt from chapter 1), George Orwell
- Muse - Uprising. From: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8KQmps-Sog (See lyrics in document)
- TVshow: Black Mirror - Nosedive, Season 3, Episode 1
- The Veldt, Ray Bradbury
- The Veldt, deadmau5 ft. Chris James. From: https://genius.com/Deadmau5-the-veldt-lyrics + music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_esYONwdKuw
- My A.I. Girlfriend, Alan Aster (The Future is Written)

Additional material (supplerende stof):
- How to recognize a dystopia - Alex Gendler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a6kbU88wu0

Ca. 70 sider læst.
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 15 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 6 The Curious Incident of the Dog... (E)

In this course we have worked with the novel 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time'. The major part of the course was spent reading the 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time' and discussing what issues the main character suffers from and how they impact his interactions with the world and are reflected in the style of writing/composition of the novel.

In addition to this, we also examined other texts in which mental issues played a role and affected the narrative style.

The students were introduced to analytical concepts such as narrative style, types of narration, reliable/unreliable narrators and foreshadowing.

Core texts (kernestof):
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon
- Atypical (TV-show), season 1, episode 1

Ca. 175 sider læst
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 16 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 7 Empire and Beyond (E)

In this course we read a variety of texts dealing with the British Empire and its legacy. We focus on texts which show the relationship between coloniser and colonised, how the British colonisers saw themselves and the impact of the British Empire, including the role it played in the spread of English as a global language/Lingua Franca. In addition to this, we also study examples of literature from African and by African writers to exemplify how the relationship with Britain impacted their society, culture and sense of self. In order to gain a modern perspective on how Britain's past as an empire still plays a role today, we also studied the reasons behind Brexit.

Core texts (kernestof)
- Imperial Federation, Map of the World Showing the Extent of the British Empire in 1886. From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:British_empire_1886.jpg
- Aspects of Britain (Worlds of English)
- Gentlemen of the Jungle, Jomo Kenyatta (Worlds of English)
- The White Man's Burden, Rudyard Kipling (Worlds of English)
- Alkebulan, Rosa Ree: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOYkZgkTOQg
- How Britain Made the Modern World, Niall Ferguson (Angles)
- Britain’s Empire: Resistance, Repression and Revolt, Richard Gott
- The Danger of a Single Story, Chimamanda Adichie
- Why Brexit? Because Empire, Paula Larsson. From: https://www.uncomfortableoxford.com/why-brexit-because-empire
- Golden Day of Destiny. From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiOf4CfwD3Q&t=0s
- "ELF"-PowerPoint with slides about English as a Lingua Franca (Worlds of English)

Additional material (supplerende stof):
- TED-Talk version of 'The Danger of a Single Story': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Ihs241zeg
- James Acaster on the absurdity of The British Empire. From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x73PkUvArJY
- White Saviour - The Movie Trailer. From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_RTnuJvg6U

Ca. 50 sider læst
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 15 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 8 True Crime (E)

In this course we examined the True Crime genre. The course began with an introduction to the term 'True Crime', and we then studied what it is that fascinates people about this genre. Afterwards, we analysed a variety of different True crime stories and talked about what techniques they use to draw us in an keep us hooked and engaged. We also discussed the ethical issues that journalists, writers and viewers must consider when creating and consuming True crime stories. This, among other things, involved trying to view the true crime genre from the perspective of the victims.

Core texts:
- True Crime - On Real-Life Atrocities (See the document "True Crime - introduction and definition"). From: Narrating Truth, 2021,  Katrine Brøndsted og Mathias Larsen
- The Knoxville Girl. From: Narrating Truth, 2021,  Katrine Brøndsted og Mathias Larsen
- TV show: Black Mirror, Season 6, Episode 2, "Loch Henry"
- In the Dark, Season 1 and 2, Episode 1. From:  https://features.apmreports.org/in-the-dark/season-one/
- My family was traumatised first by a murder, then by the TV serialisation (2016) by Lauren Bradford. Article from the British newspaper The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/may/02/the-secret-my-family-traumatised-murder-tv-drama-bereaved
- TV show: The Staircase (2022 version), Season 1, Episode 1
- Are you an Ethical true crime fan? 4 questions to ask, Lindsey A. Sherrill,: https://www.ted.com/talks/lindsey_a_sherrill_are_you_an_ethical_true_crime_fan_4_questions_to_ask?subtitle=en

Ca. 40
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 12 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer


Titel 10 Tilladte hjælpemidler til prøver og eksamen

Til mundtlig og skriftlig prøve/eksamen må eleverne anvende følgende digitale hjælpemidler:

Engram på minlæring: https://app.minlaering.dk/bog/6

Do It, Write på minlæring: https://app.minlaering.dk/bog/25

Ordbogen.com

abc.ordbogen.com/

Merriam Webster (Kun "Dictionary"-delen): https://www.merriam-webster.com/

Oxford English Dictionary (Kun "Dictionary"-delen): https://www.oed.com/

Thesaurus: https://www.thesaurus.com/
Indhold
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 0 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer