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Undervisningsbeskrivelse

Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin(er) 2024/25 - 2025/26
Institution Horsens Gymnasium & HF
Fag og niveau Engelsk B
Lærer(e) Julie Garm Mølgaard, Kasper Westergaard Knudsen, Simon Skov Skjoldborg
Hold 2024 En/q (1q En, 2q En)

Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 Young and Old
Titel 2 Fantasy Fiction
Titel 3 American Identity
Titel 4 Crime and Poverty: Youth Gangs in England
Titel 5 Nature, Climate and the Environment
Titel 6 Magic, Reason, Madness
Titel 7 Eksamenstræning
Titel 8 Watchmen: Heroes and Antiheroes

Beskrivelse af de enkelte undervisningsforløb (1 skema for hvert forløb)
Titel 1 Young and Old

Introductory course that focuses on the theme of child-adult relationships. It also has a focus on cultural and social issues across the English-speaking world, including Australia, New Zealand and North American Indian nations.

Material:

Philip Larkin: This Be The Verse
Alison Fell: The Shining Mountain
Ernest Hemingway: Indian Camp
National Geographic Documentary: Apache Girl's Rite of Passage
Michael Richards: Just Like That
Taika Waititi: Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Charles Bukowski: Son of Satan
Billy Collins: The History Teacher
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 18,00 moduler
Dækker over: 17 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
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Titel 2 Fantasy Fiction

A course that examines the origins and varieties of the fantasy genre.

Material:
Aesop's fables: a selection
J. K. Rowling: The Tale of the Three Brothers
Christopher Paolini: Eragon (excerpt)
Hayao Miyazaki: Princess Mononoke
Brothers Grimm: Rapunzel
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 13,00 moduler
Dækker over: 9 moduler
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Titel 3 American Identity

The course explores the formation of American cultural values ​​through a series of key texts. Fundamental legal texts, political speeches, fiction, poems, songs, and feature films form the basis for the course. The focus is particularly on the frontier and the values ​​perceived as arising from it.

Materiale:
Declaration of Independence
Bill of Rights
Maryanne Datesman: "Six Basic American Cultural Values" (2019)
Edward N. Kearny: "The Frontier Heritage" (1984)
John Gast: "American Progress" (maleri fra 1872)
Jack London: "To Build a Fire" (1908)
Laura Ingalls Wilder: uddrag fra "Little House on the Prairie," "By the Shores of Silver Lake" og "Little Town on the Prairie" (1932-1943)
Abraham Lincoln: "The Gettysburg Address" (1863)
Joel & Ethan Coen: "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs" (2018 film)
Emma Lazarus: "The New Colossus" (1883)
Walt Whitman: "O Captain, My Captain!" + "I Hear America Singing" (1892)
Childish Gambino: "This is America" (sang fra 2018)
Robert P. Jones: "The Collapse of American Identity" (artikel fra 2017)
Indhold
Kernestof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
American Identity: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs 02-03-2025
Eksamenssæt, deltræning 1 06-04-2025
Eksamenssæt, deltræning 2 28-04-2025
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 23 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
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Titel 4 Crime and Poverty: Youth Gangs in England

This course focuses on the problem of poverty and knife crime among young people in the UK, particularly East London.

Material:

Bernadine Evaristo: "Hello Mum" (2010 novella)
SV Croftblock: "No Fibz" (2021 song)
Guardian video: "The gym fighting gang violence in east London: 'Death and trauma shouldn't be normality" (2021)
Richard Kattah: "Step Back" (2021 film)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 20,00 moduler
Dækker over: 8 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
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Titel 5 Nature, Climate and the Environment

This course revolves around human interaction with the environment; the ideas that inform our perception of nature, the sometimes harmful consequences of human activity on our planet, and the reactions to becoming aware of this. We look at different views of nature, environmental fiction and non-fiction, climate literature, films, poetry and journalism.

Material:

Excerpt from Genesis: 1.1 - 2.1 (creation myth)
(attributed to) Chief Seattle: "We are Part of the Earth" (1854)
Jon Clay: "Breaking Boundaries - The Science of Our Planet" (2021 documentary film)
Severn Suzuki: Address at UN summit for environment and development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1992)
Greta Thunberg: Address at COP 24 in Katowicje, Poland (2018)
James Gorman: "Before Wolves May Be Hunted, Science, Faith and Politics Clash" (New York Times article, 2012)
George Monbiot: "For more wonder, rewild the world" TED talk (2014)
Sean Penn: "Into the Wild" (2007 film)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 15,00 moduler
Dækker over: 12 moduler
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Titel 6 Magic, Reason, Madness

Course that focuses on tales of the supernatural and the conflict between rationality and superstition/religion. The short story is the primary format. It also includes training in logical argument.

Material:
Robert Louis Stevenson: The Yellow Paint (1901)
Ambrose Bierce: Staley Fleming's Hallucination (1891)
Tim Burton: Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)
W. W. Jacobs: The Monkey's Paw (1902)
Tim Macy: The Brass Teapot (2006)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 14,00 moduler
Dækker over: 13 moduler
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Titel 7 Eksamenstræning

Træning til den mundtlige og skriftlige eksamen, med virkelighedsnære øvelser.
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 7,00 moduler
Dækker over: 4 moduler
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Titel 8 Watchmen: Heroes and Antiheroes

The course consists of a reading of the graphic novel "Watchmen," with discussion and analysis of each chapter. It focuses on concepts of right and wrong in these stories of vigilantism in a fantastic Cold War-setting.

Material:

Alan Moore/Dave Gibbons: "Watchmen" (1986)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 13,00 moduler
Dækker over: 11 moduler
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