Holdet 3e EN (SA-EN-Id) (2025/26) - Undervisningsbeskrivelse

Undervisningsbeskrivelse

Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin(er) 2025/26
Institution Risskov Gymnasium
Fag og niveau Engelsk A
Lærer(e) Jane Winum Thomsen
Hold 2025 EN/3e (SA-EN-Id) (3e EN (SA-EN-Id))

Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 Poverty in the UK and social realism
Titel 2 Mothering Sunday: postmodernism and storytelling
Titel 3 Shakespeare, the renaissance and Romeo and Juliet
Titel 4 Marginalized voices, language and power
Titel 5 Edgar Allan Poe and dark romanticism
Titel 6 Exam prep.

Beskrivelse af de enkelte undervisningsforløb (1 skema for hvert forløb)
Titel 1 Poverty in the UK and social realism

We already touch upon the English class system in the 2.g course "The Empire and the Victorian Age". This course stands on the shoulders of that course.
This course focuses on present day poverty in the UK and the genre social realism.

We ask:

How does poverty affect the human condition?

How does the fiction we read in this course portray the effect poverty can have on the human condition?

How can fiction (poetry, songs, films) help us understand this condition?


Also a focus on the realistic genre - which traits?
"Realism is a depiction of contemporary life and society often addressing social issues. Literary realism tries to communicate everyday life and activities from all levels of society - instead of a romanticized and conventional presentation"

Academic terms: The academic terms of film analysis and poetry analysis.

Method: Mostly: "Side by side readings" and "reader-response" keeping in mind the theory of "windows and mirrors"

TEXTS:
"You’ve heard stories of poverty in Britain. Now here’s the irrefutable evidence of a society failing its poorest". Tom Clarke. The Guardian. Article (2025)

"Sorry we missed you".Ken Loach. Film.'(2019)

"UK poverty" Report (2024)
https://www.jrf.org.uk/uk-poverty-2024-the-essential-guide-to-understanding-poverty-in-the-uk

‘Poverty is many things” a poem  (2016)
https://www.church-poverty.org.uk/poetry-and-poverty-1-poverty-is-many-things/

"God's country" Lambrini girls . Song. (2024)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 12 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 2 Mothering Sunday: postmodernism and storytelling

Mothering Sunday
Postmodernism: perspective and storytelling

Notes so far/work in progress:

Mothering Sunday: Post modernism, metafiction, subjectivity storytelling/narration
Roman + film
UK klasse-samfund + fiction
+ hotel des boobs
+ The importance of words, language and fiction writing
+ the present’s relation to past events or history.
+ The collective trauma of WW1is in the novel represented - unspeakable
+ notice the fairy tale elements
+ the marginalized individuel
+ Modern feature: inner monologue /free indirect discourse narration.

”To summarize, Mothering Sunday encompasses modernist techniques such as free indirect discourse, fragmentation/disruption of time, and repetition in order to represent and mimic trauma in the narrative.”

“openly assert[s] that there are only truths in the plural, and never one Truth; and there is rarely falseness per se, just others’ truths” (“Historiographic Metafiction” 834). Ultimately, the novel emphasizes the subjective view of the individual, while acknowledging the possibility of other truths. This postmodernist trait of acceptance of other truths helps the novel to go beyond the conventions of the 1920s and thus also the trauma that was triggered by these conventions”

”Mothering Sunday is a powerful, philosophical and exquisitely observed novel about the lives we lead, and the parallel lives – the parallel stories – we can never know: “All the scenes. All the scenes that never occur, but wait in the wings of possibility.””

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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/21/graham-swift-latest-novel-mothering-sunday-review

Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 17 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 3 Shakespeare, the renaissance and Romeo and Juliet

Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 12 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer


Titel 5 Edgar Allan Poe and dark romanticism

This course focuses on the works of Edgar Allan Poe  - and it stands on the shoulders of the course "Crime Fiction" (1.g)

Through analysis and interpretation of five of his works, we will try to pinpoint Poe's classic features in terms of language, setting, characters, theme and narration.

We also asks: What do these texts intend to bring the readers?

This course also focuses on Gothic/Literary Gothicism, Dark Romanticism, The unreliable narrator and idea of the danger from within.
This course also includes a quick visit to the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich.

Texts:
The Black Cat (1843) Short story
The Tell-Tale Heart (1843) Short story
The Conqueror Worm(1843) Poem
Alone (1829) Poem
Silence (1837 )Poem
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 10 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 6 Exam prep.

Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 2 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer