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Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin(er) 2023/24 - 2024/25
Institution X - Gentofte HF
Fag og niveau Engelsk B
Lærer(e)
Hold 2023 En/l (1l En, 2l En)

Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 Forløb#1 The English-speaking world
Titel 2 Forløb#2 fiktionsanalyse
Titel 3 Forløb#3 Global Britain - Everyone is here
Titel 4 Dystopia - EKSAMEN
Titel 5 The US - a Nation United/Nation Divided? EKSAMEN
Titel 6 Victims or Villains - EKSAMEN
Titel 7 The British Empire - EKSAMEN

Beskrivelse af de enkelte undervisningsforløb (1 skema for hvert forløb)
Titel 1 Forløb#1 The English-speaking world

Studieplan: The English-speaking world
Første del af forløebt er en generel introduktion til engelsk som Lingua Franca og England, GB samt UK. Dernæst er det videre formål med forløbet at få introduceret klassen til forskellige dele af den engelsktalende verden.
Der medtages en række engelsktalende lande, derfor har der ikke været dybdegående arbejde med hvert enkelt land, men istedet har forløbet fungeret som en bred introduktion.

Eleverne har læst forskellige fiktive og ikke-fiktive tekster i forskellige genrer fra de forskellige engelsktalende lande fx en tale, et digt, en sang, en novelle og en nyhedsartikel. Herigennem er forskellige analysemetoder og -begreber til de forskellige genrer blevet introduceret løbende.

Der har desuden været en sproglig og grammatisk tilgang, da der har været mulighed for at undersøge forskelle i landenes udtale og grammatik. Her har eleverne også aktivt arbejdet med disse forskelle.

Eleverne blev fordelt ud i grupper med hvert sit tilhørende land. Hvert modul startede ud med en elevpræsentation omhandlende landet, der skulle være i fokus det modul. Oplæggets fokus var på landets: historie, kulturel og sprog, hvilket skulle danne grundlag for det senere analysearbejde af en fiktiv eller non-fiktiv tekst.

Grammatik: Vi har løbende arbejdet med grammatik via minlæring og sprogtilegnelse (vocabulary excercises) gennem forskellige engelsksproget ordbøger herunder Oxford Learners Dictionary, Cambridge Dictionary og ordbogen.com.

Materiale til 1. del: Fra lærebogen Worlds of English (2022)
Texts:
Global English
Comma Gets a Cure
Video: Crystal on English as a Global Language

Uddrag:
Arthur Christopher Benson: Land of Hope and Glory (1902)
James Thompson: Rule Britannia (1740)
Anonymous: God Save the Queen (or King) (1745)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZGRxn9eCxU


Supplerende:
"The History of English": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfKhlJIAhew&t=12s

"What is Lingua Franca" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9ZdC6wZnks

“Why did English become the international language”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqDFPU9YeQM&t=286s
Global Map of Accents and Dialects | IDEA: International Dialects of English Archive (dialectsarchive.com)

https://www.dialectsarchive.com/globalmap
Villy Søvndal (vores tidligere udenrigsminister) taler "Engelsk" – YouTube
Løkkes festtale fik Obama til at knække af grin - YouTube

The Difference between the UK, Great Britain & England Explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNu8XDBSn10

Materiale til 2 del:
Tekster:

'The English-speaking world - introduction' (article)

'Alien' fra Xiaolu Guo: A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers: A Novel (Chatto and Windu, 2008)

'Who am I' (poem)

'This Land' (poem)

'Karma' (short story)

'Trainspotting' (novel excerpt)

'Sorry Canada, but Trudeau’s right, we are America’s kid sibling' (article)

'Chase the Devi'l (song, Max Romeo)

'The Danger of a Single Story' (speech/ TED talk)

Movie, This is England.
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 38 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer


Titel 3 Forløb#3 Global Britain - Everyone is here

This topic focuses on the development of Britain into its status today as a superdiverse and, to some extent, convivial society. Firstly, the theme looks briefly - as a backdrop - at Britain as a colonial power. Then follows an introduction to the Windrush Generation including background reading, a letter representing the immigrants from former colonies arriving in Britain in the 50s, and a film dealing with the recent Windrush Scandal, and how it has affected people from the Windrush Generation. The next part centers on the concept of racism and problems with multiculturalism today. Finally, the terms “superdiversity” and “conviviality” are dealt with using background reading and an analysis of both a poem and a song/music video.

Sources:
Sten Pultz Moslund: Everyone Is Here. New Shapes of Diversity and Belonging in Britain, Systime 2021, p. 7-9, 68-69, 175-179 (background reading)
E. L. Norry: A Letter Home
TV movie BBC 1: Sitting in Limbo, 2020
My Son the Fanatic, Hanif Kureshi.
Shapes of Diversity and Belonging in Britain, Systime 2021, p. 90-106
Riz Ahmed: The Long Goodbye, 2020 (short film)
Benjamin Zephaniah: The British (Serves 60 Million), from the poem collection “Wicked Worlds”, 2020
Riz Ahmed: Englistan, https://genius.com/Riz-ahmed-englistan-lyrics
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 35 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 4 Dystopia - EKSAMEN

Dystopia vs Utopia. Eleverne er blevet præsenteret for de forskellige definitioner og karakteristika og kan redegøre for de 4 dystopiske samfundsformer samt "the dystopian hero". Fokus har været på personkarakteristik og miljøbeskrivelse samt overvejelser om hvorvidt vores samfund er på vej i en dystopisk retning.

Baggrundslæsning:
A History Lesson: Utopia & Dystopia

Dystopia: "Definition & Characteristics”


Tekster:
John Lennon: ”Imagine” (lyrics) + music video, 1971

Ray Bradbury: ”The Pedestrian”, 1951

Kurt Vonnegut: ”Harrison Bergeron” , 1961

George Orwell: "1984" (uddrag, kap. 1), 1949

W. A. Auden: "The Unknown Citizen" 1940

Kurt Vonnegut: "2BR02B", 1986


Film:

"2081" (kortfilm; filmatisering af "Harrison Bergeron")

"Black Mirror": season 3, episode 1, "Nosedive"

"The Handmaid's Tale", season 1, episode 1 (HBO)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 39 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 5 The US - a Nation United/Nation Divided? EKSAMEN

I dette emne undersøger vi først, hvilke værdier, det amerikanske samfund er bygget op omkring. Vi undersøger derefter, hvordan disse værdier faktisk danner grobund for noget af den splittelse vi ser i det amerikanske samfund i dag. Eleverne skal bruge denne grundviden til at undersøge to af de emner, der i skaber splittelse i det amerikanske samfund i dag: Gun control og abortion.

Sources:
- “Having Rights” from chapter 1 in: Holm, Mette (2016). Being American. Identity, politics and contemporary society. Gyldendal.
- “The Bill of Rights”
- Guy Reel (2005). “American Values”. From: Daugaard, Anders & Jonas Kjær Andersen (2014). Angles – Grundbog til HF. Gyldendal.
- “Gun Nation” (Documentary) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUpCqBonOFw
- Katherine Schaeffer (2023). “Key facts about Americans and guns”.
- Tang, Liselotte & Liv Stilling (2006). Columbine & Beyond. Pp. 82-83, 88-105
- "If Anything Happens I Love You". (2020). Netflix Short Film.
- ”Reversing Roe” (Netflix Documentary)
- Margaret Atwood (2022). “Enforced childbirth is slavery: Margaret Atwood on the right to abortion”.
- Elizabeth Warren (2022). “New Op-Ed: Elizabeth Warren: I Am Angry but Determined to Protect Roe”.
- Marco Rubio (2021). “Senator Marco Rubio’s speech on the Senate floor on the dignity of life”.
- Dorthe Hjort Jensen (2024). "Pro-Life or Pro-Choice?". In: Dorthe Hjort Jensen (2024) Liberty, Guns & Babies.

Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 35,00 moduler
Dækker over: 47 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 6 Victims or Villains - EKSAMEN

This course takes a point of departure in the refugee crisis which began in 2015. Via newspaper articles, poems, a short story, personal essays and a novel, its aim is to examine the complex ways in which refugees are represented, that is, how they are described and depicted, and how such representations are always bound up with power and politics. More specifically for example in the contrast between the two UK papers The Daily Mail and The Observer. Consequently, students are encouraged to take into consideration how representation is always by somebody, about somebody, and to somebody and thus never neutral or (ideologically) innocent. Finally, the course aims to shed light on the morality of (seemingly) bystanders in the conflict via the representation of the main character in the novel The Optician of Lampedusa.



Texts:


The Observer view on Europe’s shameful response to the growing refugee crisis
Observer editorial, Sunday 9 July 2017 (extract)

'Staggering' number of European jihadis: EU's own border agency admits terrorists are exploiting refugee crisis and lax controls - but has no idea how many illegal immigrants there are.
James Slack, The Daily Mail, 5 April 2016 (extract)

'Europe welcomes Ukrainian refugees, others less so'

'The Hidden Scars All Refugees Carry' (2016) by Viet Thanh Nguyen. New York Times.

'I Feel Like a Stranger Where I Live' (2013) by Jane Kelly.

'The Unaccompanied Minor’s Tale' (2016) by Inua Ellams.
https://www.shortstoryproject.com/story/unaccompanied-minors-tale/ (Comma Press, 2016)

'The Old Oak' (2023). Movie by Ken Loach.  

'Home' by Warsan Shire. https://www.amnesty.ie/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/home-by-warsan-shire.pdf

Lampedusa: Opening our eyes to the migration crisis (Jan 9th, 2017)
https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/lampedusa-opening-eyes-migration-crisis/

The Optician of Lampedusa (Emma Jane Kirby, 2016)

Cardiff Book Talk: The Optician of Lampedusa (excerpt)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uuqFI0oWhg



Suppl. material:

Inua Ellams - Reading The Unaccompanied Minor’s Tale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G6idsemEDY
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 31 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 7 The British Empire - EKSAMEN

The students are presented with a historical outline of British imperialism. Through their engagement with historical as well as contemporary texts, the students learn about some of the ways in which the legacies of British imperialism continue to influence the present. During the course, the students become familiar with central terms and concepts which enable an informed and critical engagement with the history and contemporary repercussions of British imperialism, including: imperialism, colonization, The White Man’s Burden, Orientalism, mimic men and post-colonialism. These terms comprise a ‘tool box’ that the students use throughout the course when reading and analyzing course material.
The first two texts and the "Scramble for Africa" podcast offer a historical outline of the rise of the British Empire. Kipling’s poem, the Pears’ advertisement, Singh's short story and Orwell’s novel all provide a historical perspective on imperialism and a focus on the beliefs and motives that gave rise to it. Furthermore, the students have worked with a critical (post)colonial perspective through their analysis of the short story by Kate Nivison, offer a critical (post)colonial perspective, which gives the students an understanding of the lingering influence of imperialism on the contemporary world. Finally, the course finishes with John Agard’s poetry as an example of the postcolonial struggle for regaining identity and power through language.


Sources:
“The Empire and the Commonwealth” (background info)
Pears’ soap (1899) (advertisement)
Rudyard Kipling: ”The White Man’s Burden” (1899) (poem)
Scramble for Africa (2012) (podcast by Christopher Rose and Caycee Hoyer) https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-3-the-scramble-for-africa/
Jomo Kenyatta: "The Gentlemen of the Jungle" (1938)
George Orwell: “Burmese days” (excerpt from novel)
Edward Said: Orientalism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aNwMpV6bVs&feature=youtu.be (background info)
Kushwant Singh: Karma (1950)
Mimic men (background info)
Kate Nivison: ”Just Below the Surface” (1993) (short story)
"Why Did English Become the International Language?" (youtube video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqDFPU9YeQM
John Agard: “Reporting from the Frontline of the Great Dictionary Disaster” (2006)
John Agard: "Listen Mr Oxford don"
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 37 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer