Holdet 3c EN-s (2025/26) - Undervisningsbeskrivelse

Undervisningsbeskrivelse

Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin(er) 2023/24 - 2025/26
Institution Horsens Gymnasium & HF
Fag og niveau Engelsk A
Lærer(e) Mette Mølgaard Pedersen, Steen Karsten Laursen
Hold 2023 EN/c (1c EN-s, 2c EN-s, 3c EN-s)

Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 00 - Tools for Class
Titel 2 01 - Homelessness in the UK
Titel 3 02 - American values
Titel 4 03 - Mini-forløb om Minimalism
Titel 5 04 - Fairy Tales and Fantasy
Titel 6 05 - This Is America
Titel 7 06 The Island of Ireland
Titel 8 07 - American Election - SRO
Titel 9 08 - Normal People - værklæsning
Titel 10 09 Victorianism
Titel 11 10 - Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet
Titel 12 11 - Not All Child's Play
Titel 13 12 - Repetition

Beskrivelse af de enkelte undervisningsforløb (1 skema for hvert forløb)
Titel 1 00 - Tools for Class

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Grammatik: https://www.minlaering.dk/
Ordbog: https://www.ordbogen.com/da/
Ordbog Longman's: https://www.ldoceonline.com/
Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet: https://myshakespeare.com/play/romeo-and-juliet
Indhold
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 0 moduler
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Titel 5 04 - Fairy Tales and Fantasy

This short course explores the fairy tale genre in traditional and modern versions.
The particular focus is on the cultural norms underlying the different versions of the explored texts as well as structural differences between the classical fairy tale and modern versions.

Texts:
"Little Red Riding Hood" (folktale)
"Little Red Cap" (folktale)
Angela Carter: "Company of Wolves"
Oscar Wilde, "The Selfish Giant"
C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe excerpt

Andrew Adamson (director), The Chronicles of Narnia - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Walt Disney Pictures. 2005
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 20 moduler
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Titel 7 06 The Island of Ireland

This course aims to provide an overview over the history and political landscape of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Course methods have included the use of AI for written work, the aim of which has been to explore ways of condensing, curating and organising information that is sometimes a little confusing due to the nature of Ireland's relations with Britain.

Core texts:
W. B. Yeats, "Sixteen Dead Men"
W. B. Yeats, "A Stare's Nest by My Window"
Declan J. Connaughton, "Field of Tears"
Neil Jordan (director), Michael Collins. Warner Bros- Pictures, 1996

Background reading: Article on the Irish economy
Indhold
Kernestof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
2.cEN opg 3 - research for Ireland 27-11-2024
2.cEN opg. 4 - Individual task Ireland 28-11-2024
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 16 moduler
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Titel 8 07 - American Election - SRO

This brief course serves as preparation for the SRO (English and Social Studies) and continues the work from course no. 05. The focus is on campaign speeches by the two presidential candidates of the 2024 American Presidential election.

Core texts:
Donald Trump, "Campaign Rally Speech in State College, Pennsylvania” – October 26, 2024"
Kamala Harris, ""Remarks by Vice President Harris at Campaign Event, Shell Energy Stadium, Houston, Texas – 25 October, 2024"
Indhold
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 8 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
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Titel 9 08 - Normal People - værklæsning

This course focuses on Sally Rooney's 2018 novel, Normal People. Additionally, episodes from the BBC tv-series, also entitled Normal People, from 2020.
The course has incorporated a number of analysis methods: close readings focusing on characterisation, narrator, point of view and setting, long reads dealing with the structure of the novel, communication analysis, and analysis of film as well. Also, remediation has been a topic.

Core texts:
Rooney, Sally, Normal People. Faber and Faber, 2018
Abrahamson, Lenny and Hettie Macdonald (directors), Normal People. BBC, 2020
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 23 moduler
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Titel 10 09 Victorianism

This course deals with Britain's industrial heritage and the issue of class, specifically the living- and working conditions of the working classes in England in the Victorian Age. The main focus of the course has been a reading of a substantial part of Jack London's narrative journalistic book The People of the Abyss, which was the result of Jack London's months-long experience of living undercover in London as a day labourer and relating his first-hand experiences of working-class life in the East End.

Core texts:
Benjamin Disraeli, excerpt from Sybil - or The Two Nations. 1845
Jack London, excerpt from The People of the Abyss. 1903
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "The Cry of the Children" 1843
Indhold
Kernestof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
3.cEN - Opg. 1 - grammatik 08-09-2025
Presentations Cry of the Children 03-10-2025
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 17 moduler
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Titel 11 10 - Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet

This course has provided an introduction to the works of Shakespeare and specifically Romeo and Juliet. The focus has been on understanding the characters and on the structure and progress of the play as well as on an examination of the social codes of Renaissance England. Apart from excerpts of the play, the course has included a viewing of Baz Luhrman's film Romeo + Juliet from 1996

Texts used:
My Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet - https://myshakespeare.com/play/romeo-and-juliet

William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet. Cambridge School Shakespeare, 2014
The following scenes:
Prologue
Act 1, scene 1, 2, 3, 5
Act 2, scene 2
Act 3, scene 1, 5
Act 5, scene 3

Baz Luhrman, Romeo + Juliet 1996
Indhold
Kernestof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Engram gl. eksamensopgave sprog 03-11-2025
3.cEN - Opg. 1 - Lightbox 21-11-2025
Analog gl. eksamensopgave grammatik 25-11-2025
Engram gl. eksamensopgave 1 01-12-2025
Omfang Estimeret: 20,00 moduler
Dækker over: 18 moduler
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Titel 12 11 - Not All Child's Play

This course examines classical British children's literature through postmodernist readings of the texts. The focus has been on examining how the child's point of view challenges the logic of the societies they inhabit, how language deconstructs itself, and how categories such as author, narrator, characters and readers are blurred in the telling of the stories.

Core texts:
Excerpt from Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Excerpt from J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
Excerpt from A. A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 10,00 moduler
Dækker over: 18 moduler
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Titel 13 12 - Repetition

This course sums up main points from other courses. The focus is on condensing core issues and creating clarity about the most important themes discussed in earlier work.

Also, the resources that have been available to the class in the course of teaching are recapped. These are:

Grammatik: https://www.minlaering.dk/
Ordbog: https://www.ordbogen.com/da/
Shakespeare: https://myshakespeare.com/
Shakespeare: https://www.folger.edu/explore/shakespeares-works/romeo-and-juliet/
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 18 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer