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Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin(er) 2023/24 - 2024/25
Institution Silkeborg Gymnasium
Fag og niveau Engelsk B
Lærer(e) Anna Le Ker
Hold 2023 23 En/k (1k En, 2k En)
Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 #1 The Evil Within_EXAM
Titel 2 The search for identity (part of SRP1 with samf)
Titel 3 #2 Transitions_EXAM
Titel 4 #3 Culture Clash_EXAM
Titel 5 Introduction to Shakespeare_ Midsummer Night's Dre
Titel 6 Made in Europe SRP4_studietur
Titel 7 #4 Beast Fable and Animal Farm_EXAM
Titel 8 #5 American Dreams and Nightmares_EXAM
Titel 9 #6 Cool Britannia_EXAM

Beskrivelse af de enkelte undervisningsforløb (1 skema for hvert forløb)
Titel 1 #1 The Evil Within_EXAM

In this course we read texts around the theme of 'evil within'. This means looking at the human psyche and examining whether evil is a natural part of being human. We have focused on reading fiction texts and have worked on analysing the texts using English analytical methods (setting, theme, character, point of view and narrator).

Amongst other things, we have read the following texts:
Rendezvous
Don't you Hate Having Two Heads
Tell Me
Popular Mechanics
Where the Wild Roses Grow

Film: Sleepy Hollow
Indhold
Kernestof:

Supplerende stof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 8 moduler
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Titel 2 The search for identity (part of SRP1 with samf)

The Seach for ourselves is about how people develop and change - obviously with a focus on the development of young people and the troubles they face when growing up.

Texts read will include:

SRP1 texts:
Amanda Todd
Selfies are Good for Girls
Noah
The Day I Confronted My Troll
Look Up
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Kernestof:

Supplerende stof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 8 moduler
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Titel 3 #2 Transitions_EXAM

Transitions II is a supplement of the basic 'Transitions' course that all 1st years take in the first three months - this is so that 1f can have this at the exam and so that we all have the same basic texts we can refer (compare with) back to.

Transitions is about how people develop and change - obviously with a focus on the development of young people and the troubles they face when growing up.

Innovationselement: While reading the fiction (re. very humanistic) texts in English, we have worked on why and how English can be relevant for a biology class in the futture; the class came to the conclusion that this was one way of improving their English, so they were ready to read more academic English texts when they started in further education.

Texts read include:
Hemingway's Indian Camp
It Ain't What you Do; It's What It Does To You
Mike Skinner song
The Black Cat
The Shining Mountain
Indhold
Kernestof:

Supplerende stof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 14 moduler
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Titel 4 #3 Culture Clash_EXAM

The texts in this theme are based around the idea of a clash of cultures in its widest sense. The course starts with the most obvious clash of cultures - that of the clash between different peoples living within a set 'national' culture.

We will read a variety of texts from different English speaking countries; our main focus will be on Australia and the UK; where we will read different texts on the clash between the whites and the Aborigines and the different societies / classes in the UK, and the conflicts that arise in society as a consequence.

Texts include:
The Film: Once Were Warriors / Rabbit Proof Fence
'Going Home'
Kevin Rudd's Apology
Project work on Aboriginals
Indhold
Kernestof:

Supplerende stof:
Omfang Estimeret: 12,00 moduler
Dækker over: 15 moduler
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Titel 7 #4 Beast Fable and Animal Farm_EXAM

In this course we will read George Orwell's book 'Animal Farm' as our starting point. We will use the book to help us understand why writers write stories about talking animals and how these stories help the writer to put a message across and appeal to a wider reading audience.

We will work on the idea of the beast or animal fable and how this trope has been used in literature as far back as Ancient Greece in Aesops Fables.

Other works we might read in connection with the course include:
Oscar Wilde's fairy story 'The Happy Prince' (which has a talking statue and a talking swallow)

We have looked at the animal fable and discussed how these animals have both characteristics that we associate with the animal itself (Pigs = inteliigence); but also how they also show human traits in the stories
e.g. (The pigs in Animal Farm love food and luxury).

Thus these stories are written both for children and for adults;
The child reader recognises the animal's traits while the adult reader understands that humans, like pigs, have baser instincts that we need to keep in check to maintain our humanity.
Indhold
Kernestof:

Supplerende stof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 14 moduler
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Titel 8 #5 American Dreams and Nightmares_EXAM

This course focuses on the American dream; we will be working on non-fiction and fiction texts. We will start the course with a short focus on the history of the USA, in order to gain an understanding of the American psyche and how the colonisation of America and the push to the West in the 1800's have contributed to the ideal of 'a pioneer spirit'.

The course started with us reading 'The New Colossus' (the poem from the foot of the Statue of Liberty. This is meant as an introduction to the ideals that lie behind the American Dream. Texts read also include texts on the American Frontier Spirit, the study of the film 'Into the Wild' from 2004.

We have read:
The New Colossus
Into the Wild
The Flowers, by Alice Walker
One Friday Morning by Langston Hughes

We have also worked with the situation for African-Americans during the course (the Nightmare part of the course) and have read texts by Alice Walker (the Flowers) and the short story by Langston Hughes

We finished off the course with project work on the USA as a nation who have enshrined the right to bear arms in their constitution (2nd amendment) and why this might be. The pupils made projects that they presented for the class. They based their project around an article that they were supposed to include in their presentation.

Useful words include: American dream, Pioneer spirit,  the push to the West, slavery, inequality, Afro-American,
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Kernestof:

Supplerende stof:
Omfang Estimeret: 15,00 moduler
Dækker over: 28 moduler
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Titel 9 #6 Cool Britannia_EXAM

A look at modern Britain. We start with a brief introduction to politics and society in Britian today. After this introduction we look at British Society as a whole; we will examine the British Class system and examine whether this leaves Britons as a whole divided through reading articles on the subject, through songs by amongst others John Lennon and Pulp.

We have also examined Marcus Rushford's attempt to alliviate Food Deserts and Food Poverty in the UK.

While working on class we have also looked breifly at how language is affected by class (sociolects) and seen comedy clips on the subject from British television.

Texts read include (amongst other things):
John Lennon: Working Class Hero
Pulp: Common People
'Happiest days of their lives' by Penelope Lively
'Letter to Parliament on Food Poverty' by Marcus Rushford
+ 'The Riot Club'
Indhold
Kernestof:

Supplerende stof:
Omfang Estimeret: 10,00 moduler
Dækker over: 23 moduler
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