Holdet 3b EN (2025/26) - Undervisningsbeskrivelse

Undervisningsbeskrivelse

Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin(er) 2023/24 - 2025/26
Institution Randers Statsskole
Fag og niveau Engelsk A
Lærer(e) Stinne Kibsgaard Bell
Hold 2023 EN/b (1b EN, 2b EN, 3b EN)

Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 Coming Out Stories
Titel 2 Violence
Titel 3 Anthems of Change
Titel 4 South Africa and Noah's, Born a Crime - EKSAMEN
Titel 5 POTUS
Titel 6 The Promised Land - EKSAMEN
Titel 7 London - Mind the Gap - EKSAMEN
Titel 8 Minimalism: Hemingway and Carver
Titel 9 London - study trip
Titel 10 Love and Shakespeare - EKSAMEN
Titel 11 Lingua Franca - EKSAMEN
Titel 12 Gothic Stories - EKSAMEN

Beskrivelse af de enkelte undervisningsforløb (1 skema for hvert forløb)
Titel 1 Coming Out Stories

Methods: LGBT fiction and Queer Theory
Jazz Jennings: When I First Knew I was Transgender, Time Magazine, adapted from Jennings’ autobiography, 2016
Renaude by Charlotte Bondy
Anonymous: a Coming Out-story
Speech by Caitlyn Jenner, 15 July 2015: at the ESPY awards
Oranges are not the Only Fruit, by Jeanette Winterson, 1985
You Are My Sister, by Antony and the Johnsons, 2005
Born This Way, song by Lady Gaga, 2011
www.gayexpress.co.nz: Sexuality and Success: How Lil Nas X changed the game, 20 August 2021.
Sun Goes Down and One of Me (feat. Elton John): songs by Lil Nas X, 2021
Methods for analysing fiction and non-fiction
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 12,00 moduler
Dækker over: 20 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 2 Violence

As an introduction to this topic we talk about the various forms of violence and do some vocabulary exercises before diggimg into both fictional and non-ficion texts about violence.
These stories and reallife events display violence in many different forms, violence between school friends who are affected by the political conflict in Northern Ireland during the late 1990's, violence that happens as a result of a chance meeting in Rendezvous and lastly we have more focus on gum-violence in the US and we discuss the moral aspects of the death penalty.

Primary texts:

Good Girl, by Marita Conlon-McKenna
Rendezvous, by David Lansom
Justice Story: 16-year-old girl shoots up school, tells reporter “I Don’t Like Mondays”, by Mara Bovsun
I Don’t Like Mondays, by Boomtown Rats
My Sons on Death Row, by Kevin o’Sullivan
Emma Gozalez speech after the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, 2018.
Film: Quentin Tarantino’s, Pulp Fiction, (1994)

Other materials used:

Introductory exercises: Vocabulary
                                           Images
                                           Pre-understanding
Rhetorical analysis - methods
Violence in fiction, 6 Archetypes, by Usvaldo De Leon, Junior, November 6, 2023
The Satirist: Pulp Fiction: Violence in broad daylight
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 12,00 moduler
Dækker over: 18 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 3 Anthems of Change

1bEN/En - PROJECT:
Songs that became anthems of change

Lesson 1 Intro to the topic.
Behind the Civil Rights Message Of "Blackbird" by The Beatles (americansongwriter.com)
An analysis of Lennon/McCartney: Blackbird, 1968.

Lesson 2 The groups choose a song and start working with the product.

Lesson 3 Group work continued.

Lesson 4 Group presentations in class

Lesson 5 Hannah Miller: Where Have All the Protest Songs Gone? 2021

For this project you’ll be working in groups. Each group is assigned a decade from which they must choose a song that became an anthem of change during this period.

THE PRODUCT AND CLASS PRESENTATION
1) You must prepare a presentation of a song (of your choice) and artist, and the historical event that it marks (the circumstances for which it was written). Consider also here if the song had an impact on things at the time it was released.
2) An analysis of the song lyrics and the music (see methods for analysing poetry and music in the back of this compendium).
3) Your product must be presented as a power point presentation which includes central points and images that match your presentation – and of course also the actual song.
All members of the group must participate in the oral presentation (approx.. 15 mins.)

GROUPS and choice of song:
Oliver, Isha, Rebecca og Victor: “Imagine” by John Lennon
Peter, Sofie og Emily: “Do They Know it’s Christmas” by Band Aid
Astrid, Alma og Alberte: ”Earth” af Lil Dicky
Wilma, Nicoline og Olivia: “Freedom” by Pharrell
Kathrine, Rosa og Elisabet: ”Keep Your Head Up” by 2pac
Asta, William og Izabella: “Waiting on the World to Change” by John Mayor


Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 5,00 moduler
Dækker over: 5 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 4 South Africa and Noah's, Born a Crime - EKSAMEN

During this topic, we learn about the Apartheid system in South Africa. We zoom in on the two anti-apartheid activists, Steven Biko and Nelson Mandela and their ardent struggle for equality and civil rights. We learn about idea behind The Black Consciousness Movement and watch the film, Cry Freedom, based on the true story about the friendship between Steve Biko and Donald Woods. We also read three short stories: one about a young black boy for whom apartheid is mainly something that shuts him out of the park that white kids play in. Another about the illegal relationship between a white man and a black woman, and finally, one about the guilt wiyhin white people after the end of apartheid.

With Trevor Noah's memoir: "Born a Crime" we moreover learn more about what it was like growing up as a mixed race child in South Africa around the time when Apartheid was dimantled, and about the consequences the now no longer existing Apartheid system still has on South Africans today and why it is important, now maybe more than ever, to teach young people about the dangers of racism and unjust regimes.

Non-fiction:
Apartheid in South Africa, from Encyclopædia Britannica online
Interview with Steve Biko: What is Black Consciousness? from Broadbridge, Finding Our Strength - South Africa  Today, Gyldendal, 1990.
Byerin Blakemore: Explainer, National Geographics: How Nelson Mandela fought Apartheid - and why his work is not complete. (17.07.2020)
Nelson Mandela's Inaugural Speech, 5 October, 1994.

Interview with Trevor Noah: "Trevor Noah's Lesson To Young Readers: "It's Freeing to Define Yourself On Your Own Terms" (including an excerpt from his memoir, "Born a Crime". (2019).

Literature:
The Park (1974), by James Matthews
The Moment Before the Gun Went Off (1991), Nadine Gordimer

The memoir by Trevor Noah: "It's Trevor Noah, Born a Crime", Adabted for Young Readers. 2019 (VÆRKLÆSNING).

Film:
Cry Freedom (1987), directed by Richard Attenborough.
Indhold
Kernestof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Sprogopgaver - South Africa 22-09-2024
The Park 06-11-2024
Biko 08-12-2024
Rhetorical analysis: Nelson Mandela 02-03-2025
Omfang Estimeret: 16,00 moduler
Dækker over: 29 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 5 POTUS

The US election 2024
Vocab: The Election Day dictionary

POTUS - what it stands for...

Biden drops out…: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtbLeUmEnZ8 6 mins.

Biden's official resignation

Are you a Democrat or a Republican? Quiz – link on Lectio https://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/quizzes/-democrat-or-a-republican-quiz

Trump v. Harris:

1) Trump/Harris and his/her policies.
2) What signifies his/her core voters?
3) Who is their “running mate”?

We watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aw5FziSc14 10 mins.

(And the SNL video with Harris).

JD Vance: Childless catlady remark scandal

Homework: pp. 41-43 in the compendium.

The Election 2024: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiuQ4nOyqZk 3 minutes

Swift about her endorsement of Hillary Clinton in 2019: “Would I be an endorsement or would I be a liability”:
Netflix: Miss Americana, fra 1:01-1:08 og 1:12-1:21 (ca. 18 min i alt)

Election night - research in groups:

1) Highlights from the election night
2) Swing States – who won? Who won the popular vote? Congress: The Senate and The House of Representatives – status? Give us numbers…
3) Reactions from the Harris camp
4) Reactions from the Trump camp
5) An election 2024 themed kahoot
The Election 2024


Semantiske felter - election: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-giQvPj4J0
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 3,00 moduler
Dækker over: 4 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 6 The Promised Land - EKSAMEN

Description:
We take our starting point looking at the Declaration of Independence and the pioneer and "can-do" spirit of the frotiersmen. We read the Italian sonnet by Lazarus with focus on poetic devices and its message. With outset in Adichie's talk about the Dangers of a Single Story, we discuss the importance of seeing thing from different perspectives. Adichie also lets us in on her views on the English language and through her short story, The Ting Around Your Neck, we learn about the compications of immigration and fitting in.
We work with a rhetorical analysis of Obama's speech and consider what his main message is, about what it means to be an American and what the most important American values are. This (and Lazarus' poem) we finally compare with the policies of the current American President, Trump.

The film, The Pursuit of HappYness, reflects that story of the American "can-do" spirit, and the right to pursue one's happiness.

List of contents:

The Declaration of Independence, 1776
Edward N. Kearny, The Frontier Heritage (1984)
Emma Lazarus, The New Colossus (1883) 8
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, TED Talk: The Danger of a Single Story (2009)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Thing Around Your Neck (2009)
Dr. Ada Uzoamaka Azodo, Interview with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

English as a Lingua Franca (global language):
Modern English
American English
Global English

Barack Obama, The American Promise (2008)
Film: The Pursuit of HappYness (2006)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2025/01/22/what-did-the-bishop-say-to-trump-during-prayer-service-heres-the-full-transcript/

Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 15,00 moduler
Dækker over: 12 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 7 London - Mind the Gap - EKSAMEN

The aim of this topic is to learn more about the city of London: We take the starting point in William Blake's and Charles Dickens' depictions of London, with their focus on the social injustices and inequality shown in Blake's poem and Dickens', "Oliver Twist". We read an essay about London written by Charles Dickens, with focus on his very elaborate use of descriptive words to capture a certain atmosphere.. We talk about the class system, about homelessness and look at poverty in London today. The overall focus is on the gap between the rich and the poor.

Materials:
Poem: London by William Blake, 1794
Excerpt from Oliver Twist, ch. 8, by Charles Dickens, 1838
Charles Dickens: The Streets of London, essay from 1836
from Chris Plougheld’s, Britain – Past and Present, Systime, 2008:
Riven by class and no social social mobility – Britain in 2007
Leader from The Guardian:
The Rich: Mind the Gap, 2008
Class, by Jilly Cooper, 1979
DHSS, a short story by Doris Lessing, 1991
The Hand, Poem by PJ Harvey, 2015
Ralph McTell:
Streets of London, 1969
Heléne Schumacher:
Why Ralph McTell’s Street of London resonates with so many, 2019
David Hewitt:
Rich London, Poor London – a tale of two cities, opnion piece, 2012

Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 10,00 moduler
Dækker over: 16 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 8 Minimalism: Hemingway and Carver

Minimalism in literature: Hemingway and Carver (Eksamen)

As an introduction to this topic on Minimalism, the students were introduced to the literary techniques of the genre, i.e., the Iceberg Theory, style of writing (when less is more), general characteristics of minimalist characters, themes and other basic qualities. On top of this, the students have also had a very brief introduction to "reader-response criticism": the active role which the reader must take when reading minimalism.
The texts we have read and worked with are:

Ernest Hemingway's:
Hills Like White Elephants (1927)
Cat in the Rain (1925)

Raymond Carver's:
So Much Water So Close to Home (1975)
One More Thing (1981)
Neighbors.(1971)

Creative writing based on
Richard Brautigan's,
Lint (1976)
Indhold
Kernestof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Hills Like White Elephants 31-08-2025
Ord, der ofte forveksles 19-09-2025
Omfang Estimeret: 15,00 moduler
Dækker over: 19 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 9 London - study trip

For this short topic, we look at different dialects in Britain and prepare for our trip to London: The students look into the events and places that we are going to explore in the capital and give creative class presentations on their subjects.
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 4,00 moduler
Dækker over: 8 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 10 Love and Shakespeare - EKSAMEN

This theme holds two overall elements, namley the reading of a novel and a look at love in its various forms as seen in different types of genres through time:

Curriculum:
Sally Rooney's, "Normal People" (2018) - the novel (værklæsning)
We primarily focus on the characters, how they develop as individuals and as a couple. Themes: love, coming of age, social class.

and: Love and Shakespeare:

Intro – general questions (from Wider Contexts)
W.H. Auden Stop All the Clocks (1936): reading poetry (poetic devices): Love and loss. Life after love. Tone.

John Legend's speech: All in on Love (2014): Rhetorical analysis: Love vs. fear (not hate).

Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress (1650): Poetry: Literary devices, rhyme scheme and rhythm. Metaphors and hyperbolic language. Carpe diem. Young love.

Barkholt og Jepsen The Renaissance (an intro from 2010) - The Elizabethan Period: The Elizabethan world picture.
BBC documentary: England - Shakespeare and us (2014): https://hval.dk/mitcfu/materialeinfo.aspx?mode=-1&page=1&pageSize=6&search=titel:%20England&orderby=title&SearchID=22d67ad2-d009-4769-8811-a4882b3395ed&index=6

Intro to the Shakespearean sonnets: Reading Sonnets – how to: the poetic features of Shakespearean sonnets, and form/structure, rhythm and rhyme scheme.
William Shakespeare: Sonnets 18 and 116 (1599)

Romeo and Juliet: Young and passionate love. Starcrossed lovers.
A summary
William Shakespeare
Excerpts from Romeo and Juliet (1597):
Act I, Scene 5 (v. 92-105)
Act II, Scene 1 (v. 25-73) – The Balcony Scene

Baz Luhrman's film: Romeo  + Juliet (1996)

Rupi Kaur's poems: In an Ideal World (2014) and For the Passionate Ones (2014)

Songs by Taylor Alison Swift': Illicit Affairs (2020) and The Great War (2022)

Donna Ferguson: How online dating has changed the way we fall in love (2022)


Indhold
Kernestof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Paper on Normal People 10-10-2025
All in on Love 09-11-2025
Sproglige opgaver 07-12-2025
Sonnet 18 or 116 17-12-2025
Romeo + Juliet review - student tasks 12-01-2026
Romeo and Juliet 18-01-2026
Analysing a love song 15-02-2026
Omfang Estimeret: 16,00 moduler
Dækker over: 36 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 11 Lingua Franca - EKSAMEN

A very brief introduction to Lingua Franca and English as a second language (or recap, since we worked with the topic in relation to the South Africa course last year too):

ELF – English as a lingua franca

Listening
2 Billion Voices: How to speak bad English perfectly | Heather Hansen | TEDxOdense
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dum2Z4B3js (20 mins.)
- Why should we embrace “bad” English?
- What is Heather’s point about language and fitting in?
- What must we be aware of when communicate in English as a lingua franca?
- What does she say about cultural codes?
- Why do we need to be better listeners? What can we do to become better listeners?

Reading and discussing
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/sep/30/10-grammar-rules-you-can-forget
Discuss: what is correct English according to this article?

Listening to EFL  learners communicating over lunch
Read the introduction first, then listen to the recordings. Pause the recording sometimes and discuss where you think the speakers may come from (sometimes this is revealed as they mention their native countries):
https://routledgetextbooks.com/textbooks/9780415638449/intercultural.php

Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 1,00 modul
Dækker over: 1 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 12 Gothic Stories - EKSAMEN

In this course on Gothic Literature, the students are introduced first to the features of the genre and the notions of the Other and the Uncanny. We'll be working primarily with fiction: short stories and poetry and an excerpt from Frankenstein. Reading Poe, we will in particular focus on his style of writing, narrative technique and the gothic features in The Raven and The Tell-Tale Heart. In Elisabeth Gaskell's, The Old Nurse's Tale, we focus on the narraton, POV, setting, themes and the moral of the story. The students are in relation to this story introduced to the term, The Uncanny.
The terms The Other and Otherness are explored before we read excerpts of Frankenstein, in interpreting this story we furthermore consider its narration and gothic features. Lastly, we read, Eatmouth as a gothic or horror story set in a modern context.

M.H. Abrams The Gothic Novel
Robert Harris Elements of the Gothic Novel
The vocabulary of the gothic (worksheet)
The Other – a definition
Marjorie Sandor: The Uncanny

Edgar Allen Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)
Edgar Allen Poe: The Raven (1845)
Elizabeth Gaskell: The Old Nurse's Story (1852)

Kira Cochrane: Ghost stories: why the Victorians were so spookily good at them (2013):
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/dec/23/ghost-stories-victorians-spookily-good

Stephen’s Top Ten Victorian & Edwardian Ghost Stories
(excerpt) - only the part about Gaskell's short story:  https://wordsworth-editions.com/stephens-top-ten-victorian-edwardian-ghost-stories/

Mary Shelly: Excerpts from Frankenstein (1818)

Alison Moore: Eastmouth (2014)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 14,00 moduler
Dækker over: 20 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer