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Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin(er) 2023/24 - 2025/26
Institution X - EUC NORD
Fag og niveau Engelsk A
Lærer(e) Louise Olsson
Hold h23hhxh_EngelskA (h23hhxh_1h_EngelskA, h23hhxh_2h_EngelskA, h23hhxh_3h_EngelskA)

Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 Area study: USA
Titel 2 Business ethics and CSR
Titel 3 Area Study: UK
Titel 4 USA - politics and election (PG-kandidat forløb)
Titel 5 Animal Farm - The Power of Words (Værklæsning)
Titel 6 Nike company profile
Titel 7 Dystopia
Titel 8 The History of Black America
Titel 9 South Africa

Beskrivelse af de enkelte undervisningsforløb (1 skema for hvert forløb)
Titel 1 Area study: USA

The class has worked with American history, social conditions, identity, and values. Thus, the teaching has included both historical and contemporary perspectives to provide a deeper understanding of how the United States has developed and which core values shape the country today.

Fokus:

- The American Revolution and the declaration of independence
- The Bill of rights
- American identity & values
- The American Dream

Kernestof
Reading List:

- Dengler., C. N., 1959. The American revolution. Out of our past. PDF på OneNote.
- Tang, L., 2006.The Declaration of Independence. Columbine and Beyond. PDF på OneNote.
- Holm., M., 2016. American Identity – section; Being and immigrant + Be-ing a frontier man. Gyldendal. PDF på OneNote.
- Archives.gov. The Bill of Rights cartoon. PDF på OneNote.
- Joe Biden's victory speech, from pbs.org - 7. november 2020

Supplerende stof:
- Being an Immigrant - from Being American. Identity, politics and contemporary society, Systime 2020
- American values - from Being American. Identity, politics and contemporary society, Systime 2020




Documentaries:
- E Pluribus Unum, Netflix 2018
- Explained: Whose vote counts, Netflix 2020




Omfang (ca. 37 lektioner)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 25,00 moduler
Dækker over: 22 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
  • Gruppearbejde
  • Individuelt arbejde
  • Lærerstyret undervisning
  • Pararbejde

Titel 2 Business ethics and CSR

The focus of this course is for the students to become familiar with human rights, ethics, business ethics, and CSR. The class worked with various ethical issues, both in terms of human-to-human relationships and also in relation to business-to-human, business-to-environment, and similar contexts.
Students work with topics such as Fair Trade, watchdog organizations, and fast fashion.

Kernestof:
Apple's Broken Promises, BBC Panorama, 2014
The Price of Fast Fashion, BBC, 2020
What is Business Ethics - Definition, Principles, and Importance, Investopedia.com,  updated 27. June, 2024
What Is CSR? Corporate Social Responsibility Explained, Investopedia.com,  updated 6. March 2024


Supplerende materiale:
Chapter 5 in FED Engelsk - task-based Business English, Systime.
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 18,00 moduler
Dækker over: 12 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 3 Area Study: UK

The class has worked with British history, social conditions, identity, and values. Thus, the teaching has included both historical and contemporary perspectives to provide a deeper understanding of how the UK has developed from an Empire to today's Britain.

Fokus:

- The British Empire (and Global English here)
-Immigration
- Social classes
Economy and inequality


Kernestof
Reading List:

-The White Man’s Burden, Rudyard Kipling (1899).
- Shooting an Elephant, George Orwell (1936)
- Greatbritishmag.co.uk, 2019. What is the British Class System? Great British Mag.
- Burton, K., 2021. A country divided: why England’s North-South divide is getting worse. Geographical. Word Doc på OneNote.
- "Huge survey reveals seven social classes in UK" in BBC News, 3. April 2013
- "How the UK economy is changing in the 21st century - OCR - The north-south divide in the UK" in BBC.co.uk
- Growing Up Poor - Origin (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaROQtcnDEQ)
- overview of the British Parliament - Parliament.co.uk with focused questions for the students.




Supplerende materiale:
- AFP News Agency, 2015. Britain’s political system explained (vid-eo). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkfC8J95lGw
- How did the British Rule the World? Knowledgia on Youtube, 2020
- "Timeline The history of immigration and diversity in Britain", in Everyone Is Here. New Shapes of Diversity and Belonging in Britain



Omfang (ca. 35 lektioner)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 35,00 moduler
Dækker over: 20 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
  • Faglige
  • Lytte
  • Læse
  • Søge information - sub-topics in groups; skinheads, The National Front (UK), Immigration into the UK, The Falklands War, the UK in the 80s
  • Diskutere
  • Almene (tværfaglige)
  • Analytiske evner
  • Kommunikative færdigheder
  • Personlige
  • Selvstændighed
  • Ansvarlighed - Matrix-grupper
  • Sociale
  • Samarbejdsevne
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
  • Gruppearbejde
  • Individuelt arbejde
  • Lærerstyret undervisning
  • Pararbejde

Titel 4 USA - politics and election (PG-kandidat forløb)

The class has previously been introduced to the American political system and electoral system, but in this course, they have received a review and outline of these topics in preparation for the U.S. presidential election.
In addition, the students worked—individually, in pairs, and in groups—on the election, the Presidential candidates, the two parties, etc. There was a high degree of individual research using American news media (including work on the political bias of various news outlets), where students presented relevant pieces news to the class or in groups.


Kernestof:

  - The presidential campaign is not real life, opinion article from Washington Post, 16. September 2024
- American democracy is in trouble — even if Harris wins, opinion article from Washington Post, September 23, 2024
- Democrat vs. Republican, www.diffen.com (a comparison chart used for two lessons to discussion and group work)
- Americans’ Views of 2024 Election News, from Pew Research, 10. October 2024
- Who do Europeans want to win the 2024 US presidential election? from YouGov.co.uk, 1. November 2024
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 15,00 moduler
Dækker over: 12 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 5 Animal Farm - The Power of Words (Værklæsning)

In this course, the class has worked with George Orwell's Animal Farm as a set text, focusing on both literary analysis and the text's social critique. The aim has been to strengthen the students’ analytical skills through various approaches and to relate the novel’s themes to current phenomena such as propaganda and fake news. We have drawn lines to the current world climate, among these the US and its current president and the parallels that can be drawn to the novel.

Fokus:
- Analytiske værktøjer:
         - Fiktionsanalyse
         - Argumentationsanalyse
         - Language features, herunder; Konnotation / denotation
- Propaganda
- Fake news

Kernestof
Reading List:

- George Orwell, 1945. Animal Farm.
-      Fictitious Fascism or Frightening Reality? The Univeristy Press, March 30, 2024
-       We’re Still Living in the World That Inspired Animal Farm—75 Years Later, by Téa Obreht, TIme Magazine, 2020

Video materials:
- British Library, 2013. Propaganda: Power and Persuasion - Defining Propaganda - YouTube

Supplerende materiale:
- Halas, V. 2009. Animal farm (1954). Youtube: Animal Farm (1954)





Omfang ca. (25 lektioner)
Indhold
Kernestof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Squealer's speech 24-01-2025
Omfang Estimeret: 25,00 moduler
Dækker over: 25 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
  • Faglige
  • Lytte
  • Læse - dybdelæsning
  • Formidling
  • Almene (tværfaglige)
  • Analytiske evner - Fiktionsanalyse
  • Personlige
  • Selvstændighed
  • Ansvarlighed - Matrix-grupper
  • Sociale
  • Samarbejdsevne
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
  • Gruppearbejde
  • Individuelt arbejde
  • Lærerstyret undervisning
  • Pararbejde

Titel 6 Nike company profile

Focus in the course is for the students to work on Nike's branding, CSR, strengths, weaknesses, blunders and controversies. For the students to be able to analyse commercials, understand woke washing, green washing and celebrity endorsement.

- Nike - a Growth Company (from Nike.com)
- How Apple and Nike have Branded your Brain - Big Think, 27. july 2021   (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eIDBV4Mpek)
- How Nike Became the Most Powerful Brand in Sports, CNBC, 20 June, 2019 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbnGIh1aad0&t=61s)
- Nike is the Latest Brand to be "woken" by a Botched Ad, Forbes, 8 May 2025
- Nike's Purpose, from Nike.com (CSR)
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Supplerende materiale:

Film: Air, from 2023

Group work - analysis of commercials
- Find Your Greatness (2012)
- You Can't Stop Us (2020)
- What are Girls Made of? (2017)
- What Will they Say about You?( 2021)
- Dream Crazy (2017)
- Winner Stays (2014)
- Dream Crazier (2019)

In these, also a focus on Nike's CSR - minorities, community etc.

Group work and research on woke washing, green washing and celebrity endorsement.
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 20,00 moduler
Dækker over: 16 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 7 Dystopia

The focus of the course is that the students are introduced to the dystopian genre, that they can identify and actively analyze texts within the genre, and that they can relate the genre to contemporary society. (group work: Dystopia IRL?)

kernestof:

- Harrison Bergeron Kurt Vonnegut 1961
- 1984 (first chapter) George Orwell 1949
- 2br02b, Kurt Vonnegut 1962
. The Handmaid's Tale (Season 1, episode 1)
- White Bear, Black Mirror (season 2, ep. 2, 2013)

Supplerende stof:
- How to recognize a dystopia - Alex Gendler, Ted Ed, 2016
- Dystopia in the US?


Væsentligste arbejdsformer:
Pararbejde, gruppearbejde og klasseundervisning
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 20,00 moduler
Dækker over: 44 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 8 The History of Black America

Black American History
The focus of the course is to give students an expanded understanding of American history, the Black experience, systemic racism etc.

Kernestof:
- LAW - Slaves Are prohibited to Read and Write by Law — in “Black Voices"; Erlich-Mahler og Thomsen, 2017
- W.E.B. Du Bois — On Being Crazy - in “Black Voices”; Erlich-Mailer og Thomsen, 2017
- Billie Holiday: Strange Fruit - in “Black Voices”; Erlich-Mahler og Thomsen, 2017
- Civil Rights Movement — from History.com
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou 1983
- The 13th Amendment (documentary) - Ava DuVernay on Netflix

Supplerende materiale:
The Triangular Trade — in ”Slavery — from Africa to the Americas”; Hatt, Christine; 2008 Newspaper clippings...

Spirituals and songs of social change - in “Black Voices"; Erlich-Mahler og Thomsen, 2017
Separate but Equal - introduction - in “Black Voices”; Erlich-Mahler og Thomsen, 2017
Minstrel Show and the Jim Crow Character - in “Black Voices“; Erlich-Mahler og Thomsen, 2017
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Group work - analysis of songs:

Joyner Lucas - i'm Not Racist
Beyonce - Formation
Childish Gambino - This is America
Jay Z - the Story of OJ
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 36,00 moduler
Dækker over: 41 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 9 South Africa

The focus in the course is for the students to be able to account for apartheid in South Africa in broad terms, for them to understand South Africa's current challenges, both with inequality and economy.

Kernestof:
- The State of the Rainbow Nation, Jeff Cangialosi (2012)
- Interview, Mandela - 26 February 1990, from Time.com
- Thirty Years after the end of Apartheid, Equality Eludes South Africa, 22 May, 2024 - Reuters
- Born Free in South Africa, 16 July 2024, Wilsoncenter.org



Supplerende materiale:

Webquest on Apartheid (focus on Apartheid laws)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 12,00 moduler
Dækker over: 25 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer