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Undervisningsbeskrivelse

Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin(er) 2024/25 - 2025/26
Institution Herning Gymnasium
Fag og niveau Engelsk B
Lærer(e) Marie-Louise Lindstrøm Dalager
Hold 2024 En/p (1p En, 2p En)

Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 Children's literature
Titel 2 Coming of Age
Titel 3 Gun Violence and School Shootings (EXAM)
Titel 4 The Music Video
Titel 5 Dystopian Worlds (EXAM)
Titel 6 India (EXAM)
Titel 7 The Life of The Urban Individual (EXAM)
Titel 8 Cults and Controversy (EXAM)

Beskrivelse af de enkelte undervisningsforløb (1 skema for hvert forløb)
Titel 1 Children's literature

This topic deals with British children's literature, with focus on "the golden age" of children's literature ( the period around 1900). While working with children’s literature analytically it is important to have the following things in mind, and therefore the focus will be the following analysis points:
Writen by adults for children – how does the adult author deal with his audience being children?
How can the target group ‘children’ be defined?
Language – what sort of language is used?
Characters – what kind of characters walk the pages of children’s stories?
Illustrations – what part do pictures play in children’s literature?
Problem – how do we as adults analyse and interpret stories that are written for children?

Literature:
Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie (1904) (excerpt)
Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Caroll (1865) (excerpt)
"Children's literature" https://education.stateuniversity.com/pages/1829/Children-s-Literature.html
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens (1843) (excerpt)

Written assignment on the article " Children's literature" by Barbara Z. Kiefer (2022)

Film:
Christopher Robin (2018), Marc Forster

Estimeret til ca. 55 nns
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 15,00 moduler
Dækker over: 15 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 2 Coming of Age

In the topic "Coming of Age", the focus is on the transition from childhood to adulthood – from innocence to experience. The texts highlight both the differences between these stages and the transition itself as a kind of rite of passage.
Throughout the course, students are introduced to basic concepts related to analysis and interpretation. Particular emphasis is placed on developing a shared academic terminology that they can use in their future work.
The course also encourages students to make connections between texts, working with how to compare and relate them meaningfully in terms of theme, plot and style.
As a bridge from the topic "Crime and Violence" (grundforløbet), we have watched the film We Need to Talk About Kevin, which addresses both themes and thus connects the two units.

Literature:
A whole new World (Aladdin)
Just like That, Michael Richards
Indian Camp, Hemingway
Stranger Things (episode 1, season 1)
We Need to talk about Kevin (film)

Estimeret til ca. 80 nns

Grammatik:
Do-omskrivning, genitiv
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 14,00 moduler
Dækker over: 14 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 3 Gun Violence and School Shootings (EXAM)

The course will follow up on the crime and violence course from the "grundforløb". Throughout this course we will work more intensely with the art of analysing non-fiction and begin working with how to analyse rhetorics. We will be reading texts concerning the theme of crime and violence and in particular the American phenomenon; school shootings.


The point of this course is for you to...
...improve your analytical skills
...learn how to analyse non-fiction, such as a documentary
... how to analyze rhetorical texts

Materiale:
Abraham Lincoln "The Gettysburg Address" 1863
Remarks by President Biden on the School Shooting in Uvalde, Texas, May 24, 2022
The Second Amendment

Film/documentary:
We Need to Talk about Kevin
If Anything Happens I Love You (short film, netflix)
My Child Became A School Shooter (2021) https://filmcentralen.dk/grundskolen/film/mit-barn-blev-skoleskyder



Estimeret til ca. 45 nns

Grammatik:
Do-omskrivning
Simpel vs. udvidet tid
Tricky verb patters



Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 15,00 moduler
Dækker over: 7 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 4 The Music Video

In this course, we will work with different music videos. Throughout the course, we will focus on a variety of film techniques, which will help us analyse and interpret the music video both as a genre and as an example of remediation. Music videos draw on and borrow elements from many different genres.
The course will include teacher presentations as well as project work on selected music videos, where students will apply relevant academic terms (fagbegreber).
- Lærerproduceret materiale om musikvideoen som genre og filmiske virkemidler.
- Kasabian: "Fire", dir. W.I.Z. (2009)
Different music videos chosen by different groups


Forløbet estimeres til have et omfang på 40 normalsider.
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 11 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 5 Dystopian Worlds (EXAM)

The purpose of this theme is to get an insight into different dystopian characteristics and learning how to identify these characteristics and interpret the stories as allegories of relevant problems and challenges in society in the 20th and 21st centuries. We will read extracts of novels and different short stories dealing with some type of dystopian world / society. This course will also include reading George Orwell's dystopian novel "Animal Farm".

Important terms: Dystopia, utopia, types of dystopian control (corporate control, bureaucratic control, technological control, philosophical/religious control), the dystopian protagonist, propaganda, restrictions of information, independent thought, and freedom, surveillance, illusions of the perfect utopian world.

Texts:
Primary:
Ray Bradbury - The Veldt (1950)
George Orwell - Animal Farm (Novel) (1945)

Secondary:
Dystopia - definitions and characteristics

Series:
Black Mirror "Be Right Back"

Fra læreplanen (kernestof):
- et genremæssigt bredt udvalg af fiktive og ikke-fiktive tekster fra forskellige perioder
- principper for tekstopbygning og tekstsammenhæng
- det engelske sprogs grammatik, udtale, ortografi og tegnsætning
- ordforråd, herunder orddannelse og idiomer
- tekstanalytiske begreber og metoder til analyse af fiktive og ikke-fiktive tekster

Sider læst: Ca. 130

Grammatik: udvidet tid, tricky verb patterns, bestemte artikel
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 18,00 moduler
Dækker over: 20 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 6 India (EXAM)

India – past and present

Based on a short historical presentation of the British Empire we will focus on a chronological view on the fall of the British Empire. We will focus on India and the development of the country. The theme will start out with a smaller project were groups make a booklet on different subjects relevant to India. A key text is Kipling's "The White Man's Burden". Through the topic we have discussed what the burden consists of, and how it changes through the development of India as a postcolonial country.
Furthermore, we will end the theme with watching the film "Slumdog Millionaire" where we will focus on filmanalysis and contemporary India

Materiale:
Ryduard Kipling "The White Man's Burden", 1899
George Orwell "Shooting an Elaphant" 1938
Bhisham Sahni "The Boss Came to Dinner", 1975
Documentary: "The Real Faces of India" (2024) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSwIHwFI1rs

FIlm: Danny Boyle "Slumdog Millionaire" (2009)

Estimeret 50 normalsider

Fra lærerplanen (kernestof:
- væsentlige historiske, kulturelle og samfundsmæssige forhold i Storbritannien og USA
- kommunikationsstrategier, standardsprog og variation
̶  det engelske sprog anvendt som globalt lingua franca
- historiske og aktuelle forhold i andre engelsksprogede regioner.

ALSO: In this short theme we focus on English as a lingua franca. Through a short project the students work on finding out what the term covers and reflect on how English as a lingua franca is important for them in their daily lives and during travel.


Fra lærerplanen (kernestof):
- kommunikationsstrategier, standardsprog og variation
̶  det engelske sprog anvendt som globalt lingua franca
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 15,00 moduler
Dækker over: 22 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 7 The Life of The Urban Individual (EXAM)

"The Life of The Urban Individual" will focus on how it is to live in big cities. We have specially focused on the US and big cities such as New York, but we have also touched upon stories set in London, and also Dickens' take on a new industrial town during the industrial period (Coketown), which serves more as a symbol of the rising of an industrial town than an actual town, just as Gotham City in "Joker" serves as a fictional picture of New York.

Important keyterms: Homelessness, urbanity, loneliness, poverty, marginalization, The American Dream, melting pot, inequality, loneliness, social ladder

Materiale:
Charles Dickens "Hard Times" (excerpt)
Charles Higson "The Red Line"
Vivian Gornick "A Ride on The New York Subway" (1972)
Ryan Lattanzio "Michael Moore Calls "Joker" a Masterpiece: The Greater anger to Society May Be If You Don't See This Movie" (2019)

Film and documentary:
Todd Phillips "Joker" (2019)
Netflix "Lead me Home" (2021)




Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 20,00 moduler
Dækker over: 13 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 8 Cults and Controversy (EXAM)

The course begins with a lecture that presents the emergence of new religious movements in the post-war period, the 1960s, and the 1970s from historical, social, and cultural perspectives. We examine both the appeal of these movements and the reactions they provoked. As examples of controversial movements, People’s Temple, Scientology, and The Family are introduced. We have also focused on what defines a cult - charismatic leader, isolation from the outside world, brainwashing, mind control etc.
This is followed by a short group project in which students investigate and present other movements.

Texts:
"The Cult Controversy. Spiritual Quest or Mind Control?" (Washington Post, April 26, 1997)
"Children of a Lesser God. Coming of new age for alternative religions" (Don Lattin, San Fransisco Chronicle, February 11, 2001)
"Misconceptions about Scientology" - uddrag fra http://www.scientologytoday.org/Common/question/index.htm
"What is Scientology?" - kritisk fremstilling af bevægelsen fra
http://xenu.net/roland-intro.html
South Park epiosede 12, season 9: http://www.southparkstudios.dk/full-episodes/s09e12-trapped-in-the-closet
"Snapping out" of a cult and sharing her healing with others", Tracy Simmons, 2021

Dokumentar:
Jonestown - The Life and Death of People's Temple (2006)

Podcast:
The John Harbinger Show, Daniella Mestyanek, "How to disengage from a Lifelong Cult"
https://www.jordanharbinger.com/daniella-mestyanek-young-how-to-disengage-from-a-lifelong-cult/


Estimeret nns. 35

Grammatik: opsummering af grammatiske emner 2g
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 10,00 moduler
Dækker over: 13 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer