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Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin(er) 2023/24 - 2025/26
Institution X - Silkeborg Gymnasium
Fag og niveau Engelsk A
Lærer(e) Anna Le Ker
Hold 2023 23 EN/a (1a EN, 2a EN, 3a EN)

Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 #1 The Evil Within
Titel 2 #2 The search for identity (part of SRP1 m sa)
Titel 3 #2 The Search for Identity part 2
Titel 4 #3 Culture Clash
Titel 5 #4 Shakespeare part 1; Midsummer Night's Dream
Titel 6 #5 Made in Europe (SRP4 + studietur)
Titel 7 #6 The Beast Fable and Animal Farm
Titel 8 #7 American Dreams and American Nightmares
Titel 9 #8 Cool Britannia
Titel 10 #9 Post-modernism; from Hemingway to Fight Club
Titel 11 #10 part 1: WHY READ Classic works_SRP m. DA
Titel 12 #10 part 2: READING a classic work
Titel 13 #4 Shakespeare part 2; Macbeth
Titel 14 #11 LOVE or ZOMBIES

Beskrivelse af de enkelte undervisningsforløb (1 skema for hvert forløb)
Titel 1 #1 The Evil Within

In this course we read texts around the theme of 'evil within'. This means looking at the human psyche and examining whether evil is a natural part of being human. We have focused on reading fiction texts and have worked on analysing the texts using English analytical methods (setting, theme, character, point of view and narrator).

Amongst other things, we have read the following texts:
Billy Ellish; All the Good Girls Go to Hell
Rendezvous
Don't you Hate Having Two Heads
Where the Wild Roses Grow
Ciel Azul
Popular Mechanics

(Tuesday)

Film: Sleepy Hollow
Indhold
Kernestof:

Supplerende stof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 11 moduler
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Titel 2 #2 The search for identity (part of SRP1 m sa)

The Seach for ourselves is about how people develop and change - obviously with a focus on the development of young people and the troubles they face when growing up.

Texts read will include:

SRP1 texts:
Amanda Todd
Selfies are Good for Girls
Noah
The Day I Confronted My Troll
Look Up
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Kernestof:

Supplerende stof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 9 moduler
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Titel 3 #2 The Search for Identity part 2

Transitions II is a supplement of the basic 'Transitions' course that all 1st years take in the first three months - this is so that 1f can have this at the exam and so that we all have the same basic texts we can refer (compare with) back to.

Transitions is about how people develop and change - obviously with a focus on the development of young people and the troubles they face when growing up.

Innovationselement: While reading the fiction (re. very humanistic) texts in English, we have worked on why and how English can be relevant for a biology class in the futture; the class came to the conclusion that this was one way of improving their English, so they were ready to read more academic English texts when they started in further education.

Texts read include:
Hemingway's Indian Camp
It Ain't What you Do; It's What It Does To You
Mike Skinner song
The Black Cat
Indhold
Kernestof:

Supplerende stof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 12 moduler
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Titel 4 #3 Culture Clash

The texts in this theme are based around the idea of a clash of cultures in its widest sense. The course starts with the most obvious clash of cultures - that of the clash between different peoples living within a set 'national' culture.

We will read a variety of texts from different English speaking countries; our main focus will be on Australia and the UK; where we will read different texts on the clash between the whites and the Aborigines and the different societies / classes in the UK, and the conflicts that arise in society as a consequence.

Texts include:
The Film: Once Were Warriors
'Going Home'
Kevin Rudd's Apology
DNA Detective with Rane Willerslev (about Aboriginals as the 'oldest' peoples in the world)
Indhold
Kernestof:

Supplerende stof:
Omfang Estimeret: 12,00 moduler
Dækker over: 16 moduler
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Titel 7 #6 The Beast Fable and Animal Farm

In this course we will read George Orwell's book 'Animal Farm' as our starting point. We will use the book to help us understand why writers write stories about talking animals and how these stories help the writer to put a message across and appeal to a wider reading audience.

We will work on the idea of the beast or animal fable and how this trope has been used in literature as far back as Ancient Greece in Aesops Fables.

Other works we might read in connection with the course include:
Oscar Wilde's fairy story 'The Happy Prince' (which has a talking statue and a talking swallow)

We have looked at the animal fable and discussed how these animals have both characteristics that we associate with the animal itself (Pigs = inteliigence); but also how they also show human traits in the stories
e.g. (The pigs in Animal Farm love food and luxury).

Thus these stories are written both for children and for adults;
The child reader recognises the animal's traits while the adult reader understands that humans, like pigs, have baser instincts that we need to keep in check to maintain our humanity.
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Kernestof:

Supplerende stof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 14 moduler
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Titel 8 #7 American Dreams and American Nightmares

This course focuses on the American dream; we will be working on non-fiction and fiction texts. We will start the course with a short focus on the history of the USA, in order to gain an understanding of the American psyche and how the colonisation of America and the push to the West in the 1800's have contributed to the ideal of 'a pioneer spirit'.

The course started with us reading 'The New Colossus' (the poem from the foot of the Statue of Liberty. This is meant as an introduction to the ideals that lie behind the American Dream. Texts read also include texts on the American Frontier Spirit, the study of the film 'Into the Wild' from 2004.

We have read:
The New Colossus
Into the Wild
The Flowers, by Alice Walker
One Friday Morning by Langston Hughes

We have also worked with the situation for African-Americans during the course (the Nightmare part of the course) and have read texts by Alice Walker (the Flowers) and the short story by Langston Hughes

We finished off the course with project work on the USA as a nation who have enshrined the right to bear arms in their constitution (2nd amendment) and why this might be. The pupils made projects that they presented for the class. They based their project around an article that they were supposed to include in their presentation.

Useful words include: American dream, Pioneer spirit,  the push to the West, slavery, inequality, Afro-American,
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Kernestof:

Supplerende stof:
Omfang Estimeret: 15,00 moduler
Dækker over: 32 moduler
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Titel 9 #8 Cool Britannia

A look at modern Britain. We start with a brief introduction to politics and society in Britian today. After this introduction we look at British Society as a whole; we will examine the British Class system and examine whether this leaves Britons as a whole divided through reading articles on the subject, through songs by amongst others John Lennon and Pulp.

We have also examined Marcus Rushford's attempt to alliviate Food Deserts and Food Poverty in the UK.

Texts read include (amongst other things):
John Lennon: Working Class Hero
Pulp: Common People
'Happiest days of their lives' by Penelope Lively
'Letter to Parliament on Food Poverty' by Marcus Rushford

2a will continue the coursein the 3rd year with a brief look at the UK as a multicultural society and its consequences.
Indhold
Kernestof:

Supplerende stof:
Omfang Estimeret: 10,00 moduler
Dækker over: 23 moduler
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Titel 10 #9 Post-modernism; from Hemingway to Fight Club

We will examine postmodern literature and how it reflects the age we live in today.

We will start by reading one of Hemingway's works, as it can be seen as a natural area to start to examine the development from the modern era to the post-modern. We will continue by reading some of Carver's work and explore the post-modern in his literature.

We have worked on the development of the 'iceberg prinicple' in which 7/8ths of the story is hidden below the surface to Carver's minimalistic style. We have also worked on the main characters' sense of isolation and confusion and how this reflects our 'post-modern' society.

We have focused on literary history: working on the post-modern era and the development that takes place after 1945 within literature.

We started the course reading:
Hemingway's 'Cat in the Rain';

Then we read Carver texts including:
'Popular Mechanics'
'Tell The Women We're Going'
'So Much Water So Close to Home' and
'One More Thing'

We also saw the film; Fight Club

Faglig fokus:
- væsentlige strømninger i amerikansk litteraturhistorie
- væsentlige kulturelle og samfundsfaglige forhold i USA
- standardsprog og variation

Useful words:

Omfang: ca. 70 sider
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Kernestof:

Supplerende stof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 25 moduler
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Titel 12 #10 part 2: READING a classic work

In this course the pupils will be able to choose one of several books within a particular theme (Horror, Dystopia, Family life, War/ Racism, Mental illness, Love).

The idea then is that the pupils will meet in reading circles to discuss the book; similar to the reading circles they worked in while we read Animal Farm. The pupils build up a joint website (for their own revision and for subject assessment). Finally, they will hand in individual papers discussing one of the important aspects of the book they have worked on.

Max. three-four pupils in each group.
Omfang: minimum of 100 pages
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Kernestof:

Supplerende stof:
Omfang Estimeret: 10,00 moduler
Dækker over: 17 moduler
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Titel 13 #4 Shakespeare part 2; Macbeth

In this course we have listened to, read and seen Shakespeare's work and play 'Macbeth'.

We have spent time reading the play together both in class and at home.

While reading Mabeth, our focus has been to understand the two main characters and look at the relationship between them (Macbeth and Lady Macbeth).

Much of the work on the themes in the play was done through pupil participation and project work; here the pupils taught the class - focusing on important aspects of the play.

During the course, we have :
1. attempted to understand the two main characters and look at the relationship between them (Macbeth and Lady Macbeth).
2. looked at the language of the play and examined how English has developed since the period.
3. We attempted to place the novel within its historical context and looked at how the play reflects the thinking of the times; - that there is a natural 'cosmic order' in the universe that is disturbed by the murder of the king; how this order had to be 're-established' before society could function properly again.
4. We examined tragedy and how it affected the characters within the context of the tragedy: we learn new terms such as hubris, tragic flaws, tragedy, pride, humanity, gender and sex.
5. Finally, we looked at how Macbeth has influenced literature since the 1600s when it was written. Here we saw an episode of 'House of Cards'

Faglig fokus:
- uddrag af værker af Shakespear
- elementer af det engelske  sprogs udvikling
- ordforråd, herunder orddannelse og idiomer
- tekster fra forskellige perioder

Useful words:

Omfang: ca. 100 sider
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Kernestof:

Supplerende stof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 24 moduler
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Titel 14 #11 LOVE or ZOMBIES

Here we will read Annie Proux's 'Brokeback Mountain'
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 18 moduler
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