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Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin(er) 2025/26
Institution Næstved Gymnasium og HF
Fag og niveau Engelsk A
Lærer(e) Susan Duvander
Hold 2025 EN/3 EN (3 EN)

Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 Dead v. Dangerous EXAM TOPIC
Titel 2 Canada Multiculturalism & Lingua Franca EXAM TOPIC
Titel 3 Sorry Not Sorry EXAM TOPIC
Titel 4 American Minimalism EXAM TOPIC
Titel 5 Monsters and Madness EXAM TOPIC
Titel 6 Tilladte hjælpemidler til prøver og eksamen
Titel 7 Repetition og eksamensprep.

Beskrivelse af de enkelte undervisningsforløb (1 skema for hvert forløb)
Titel 1 Dead v. Dangerous EXAM TOPIC

This topic will give the students the opportunity to look at educationally themed films from a fresh angle. The topic called “Dead Poets Society Vs. Dangerous will examine how these films can shape teachers’ ideas of what an educator is, the different teaching strategies and how the way in which social issues are portrayed shapes the way the films are perceived. The poetry from both the movie Dead Poets Society and Dangeous Minds will be a part of the curriculum, as well as group work, presentations and journal assignments.

N. H Kleinbaum: Dead Poets Society, Bantam Books 1989.

Poetry analysis

Poem analysis:
Lord Byron "She Walks in Beauty"
Walt Whitman " O Me! O life!
Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken"
Robert Herrick " To the Virgins, to make Much of Time"
Arthur O'Shaughnessy " Ode"
William Shakespeare: “Sonnet CXVI”
William Shakespeare’s "Sonet 12"
Thomas Dylan: "Don't Go Gentle into that Good Night"

Film: Dead Poets Society, USA 1987
Film: Dangerous Minds, USA 1995
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Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Who am I... 12-08-2025
Fiction assignment 07-09-2025
Journal Assignment 12-10-2025
Omfang Estimeret: 16,00 moduler
Dækker over: 16 moduler
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Titel 2 Canada Multiculturalism & Lingua Franca EXAM TOPIC

This topic focuses on multicultural Canada as one of the former British colonies which still to this day has got Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state. The topic focuses primarily on Canadian culture and multiculturalism. Assimilation, integration, segregation, diversity and "the cultural mosaic" are key terms.

We will work a little with Lingua Franca and the historical spread of the English language and culture, as well as the relationship between the English language and other languages.

The purpose is also to help the students distinguish between written formal English and informal spoken English - with the use of Lingua Franca.
The purpose of the topic is also to train the students with the spoken language and different communication stategies by having focus on oral communication and not pronunciation and grammar.

Introductory material:


Texts from Cross Country Canada, Eva Pors, Lindhardt og Ringhof, 2015.:
1. The Canadian Multiculturalism Act pp. 69-71
2.Robert Chr. Thomsen: Introduction to Canadian Multiculturalism.(historical background info) pp. 63-66.
3. Anne Jew: Everyone Talked Loudly in Chinatown (short story) pp. 79-86


Prime Minister Justin Trudeau:  “Statement on the Canadian Multiculturalism Day”, Pm.gc.ca/eng/news, Ottawa, Ontario, June 27, 2016.(political statement)

Jack Jedwab: “Canada Deserves Better Than Those That Bash Multiculturalism”, Huffington Post, June 29, 2016 (article)

YouTube videos
Where are you from? Many Canadians struggle with identity crisis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSKM6tQxRms&t=5s

How Immigrants’ Resilience has Made Canada Better | Melissa Grelo | TEDxCentennialCollegeToronto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsJgdGMYxMg


Other material:

"The Chinese Violin" (2002) by Joe Chang, National Film Board Office, https://www.nfb.ca/film/chinese_violin/ - 8 min.

The People's Party- The Canadian Identity Policy.

Lingua Franca:
Compendium on Lingua Franca

TED Talk: How to Speak Bad English Perfectly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dum2Z4B3js - approx. 20 min.

ELF strategies and usage:
https://routledgetextbooks.com/textbooks/9780415638449/intercultural.php
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Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 14,00 moduler
Dækker over: 6 moduler
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Titel 3 Sorry Not Sorry EXAM TOPIC

This topic focuses on apology speeches, rhetorics and style of writing + nonfiction analysis in general.

How, when and why do we say sorry? And what is the difference between being truly sorry and then saying sorry, not sorry?
This topic focuses on the many kinds of apologies, both the personal, the public and the political apology and what distinguishes these types of apologies.

Keywords: Apology (expression of regret) vs apologia (defense), personal/public/political apology, William Benoit's 5 strategies (denial, evasion of responsibility, reducing offensiveness, corrective action, mortification), style of writing and terms in non-fiction (forms of appeal, the rhetorical pentagram, etc).

Texts: From Narrating Truth, Katrine Brøndsted and Mathias Larsen, Alt i ord, 2021./compendium

1. Truly Sorry, introduction p.104-108
2. Justin Trudeau's apology to the indigenous children placed in the Canadian Indian Residential Schools, speech + youtube clip p.109.
3. Apology from Dan Harmon in his podcast Harmontown, pp.113-117 (+ Megan Ganz' response article)
4. Nikki Glaser's Instagram post to Taylor Swift, pp.118-120
5. Kevin Spacey's tweet in response to accusations of sexual assault, pp.110-112. (+ Anthony Rapp's tweet response to Spacey being found not guilty in 2022, the alleged sexual misconduct between them happened in 1986)
6. Bill Clinton's formal apology to the victims of Tuskegee experiment, pp.121-123
7. "Stop saying I'm sorry. research says it makes others think less of you - here's what succesful people do instead", article, cnbc.com, April 16, 2019
Song lyrics:
1. Tracy Chapman: "Baby, can I hold you?", 1988
2. Shaggy: "It wasn't me", 2000
3. Blue: "Sorry seems to be the hardest word", 2002
4. Eminem: "No apologies", 2006
5. Justin Bieber: "Sorry", 2015
The students chose their own "sorry, not sorry?" songs from their playlists.
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Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 9,00 moduler
Dækker over: 10 moduler
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Titel 4 American Minimalism EXAM TOPIC

The students will learn about minimalism as a literary sub genre. They will analyse some examples of Raymond Carver's minimalist fiction. Ernest Hemingway will be read as the starting point of American minimalism with the introduction of the theory of ommission and the Iceberg Theory.
We will also read minimalist fiction of Raymond Carver's and introduce concepts such as "dirty realism",

Ernest Hemingway - A very short story, 1924
Ernest Hemingway - A clean well-lighted place, 1933
Raymond Carver - Little Things, 1981
Raymond Carver - The Bath, 1981
Raymond Carver - Neighbors, 1971
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 7,00 moduler
Dækker over: 10 moduler
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Titel 5 Monsters and Madness EXAM TOPIC

Horror: We will explore the concept of the horror genre in general but mostly the gothic horror in the Victorian era through different articles, excerpts of classic novels from Shakespeare to the modern age. We will discuss the ways of human nature and predestination vs free will, the latter with particular focus on the main characters in Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth as well as the Elizabethan era. We will talk about which features a story and its characters have to contain in order to be considered gothic horror.

Jonna Engberg-Pedersen, Mette Grønvold og Hanne Ohland-Andersen : Wider Contexts: Sean Spence, Bad or Mad - Gyldendal 2012

Jonna Engberg-Pedersen, Mette Grønvold og Hanne Ohland-Andersen : Wider Contexts: William Shakespeare: Macbeth, Gyldendal 2012 (Ikke pre-reading)

Edgar Allan Poe: The Raven, 1845
Edgar Allan Poe: The Cask of Amontillado, 1846
Edgar Allan Poe;: The Black Cat - (1845) http://poestories.com/read/

Gothic fiction: Short excerpt from: The Grey Woman, Elizabeth Gaskell: 1861, Frankenstein, Mary Shelley: 1817, Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte:1847

Article: How Did Victorian England Create Gothic Literature? Lauren Nitschke, 2021 - https://www.thecollector.com/gothic-literature-victorian-england/

Info on The Picture of Dorian Gray: https://aithor.com/essay-examples/the-use-of-gothic-elements-in-the-picture-of-dorian-gray

Summary of the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ploKa2hE-ts

Excerpts from The Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)

Excerpts from Bram Stokers Dracula (1887) - Horror- Systime 2017 af Johanne R. Hansen og Rasmus D. Hansen

Movie: Dorian Gray, USA, 2009 1:32 min

Powerpoint: Gothic Horror and Macbeth

Movie: Macbeth, USA 2015, approx. 2 timer

The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Gilman Perkins (1892)


www.genius.com
www.myshakespeare.com
https://nosweatshakespeare.com/
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 27,00 moduler
Dækker over: 27 moduler
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Titel 6 Tilladte hjælpemidler til prøver og eksamen

Følgende links må eleverne bruge til hele den skriftlige årsprøve/terminsprøve/eksamen og den mundtlige årsprøve/terminsprøve/eksamen:

Rules for the written test exam

At the exam it is forbidden to use  AI and the internet for random googling! The only things you may use are the webpages below:
Everything else you need on Lectio or Edulife, you must download to your computer.

Make sure you bring headphones, Toolbox, your grammar books (and other books if you need them) and e.g. old assignments and notes (download to you computer beforehand)

Use the Writing Essay compendium

https://www.ordbogen.com/da/  (Dansk ordbog)

https://www.ordbogen.com/en/  (Engelsk ordbog)

https://www.thesaurus.com/  (Synonym Dictionary)

https://www.ldoceonline.com/  (Longman’s dictionary)

https://www.minlaering.dk/login (Min Læring)

https://www.genius.com

https://www.myshakespeare.com

https://nosweatshakespeare.com/


Sørg for at have disse links åbne inden eksamen starter, da I ikke må søge efter dem på Google.
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Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 24 moduler
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