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Undervisningsbeskrivelse

Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin(er) 2023/24 - 2025/26
Institution Viby Gymnasium
Fag og niveau Engelsk A
Lærer(e)
Hold 2023 EN/a (1a EN, 2a EN, 3a EN)

Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 Roald Dahl’s heroes and villains
Titel 2 Grammatik og skiftlighed
Titel 3 Football and Identity
Titel 4 Poverty in Britain (exam 2026)
Titel 5 Love and relationships (exam 2026).
Titel 6 The American Dream (exam 2026).
Titel 7 The US Presidential Election 24
Titel 8 Jamaica (exam 2026).
Titel 9 The Troubles in Northern Ireland (studietur).
Titel 10 Ireland past and present (studietur).
Titel 11 Post-modernism (exam 2026)
Titel 12 Perceptions of City Life
Titel 13 Evil & Macbeth (exam 26)
Titel 14 Back to the Dystopian Future of 1984 (exam 2026).

Beskrivelse af de enkelte undervisningsforløb (1 skema for hvert forløb)
Titel 1 Roald Dahl’s heroes and villains

1)
Roald Dahl, ”Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” (1964):
As a pdf.: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (primarysite-prod-sorted.s3.amazonaws.com)
As a recorded version: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (primarysite-prod-sorted.s3.amazonaws.com)

2)
Four short movie 2023 adaptations of Roald Dahl's stories by  Wes Anderson (instructor) for Netflix:
-The Rat Catcher
-The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
-The Swan
-Poison

3) Additional material:
The dark side of Roald Dahl - BBC Culture (23. May, 2023).
Excerps from: John Bridcut (instructor), Fantastic Roald Dahl, doc. 2007. 62. Min. (a biographical doc.).
Quiz/doc. about chocolate (Netflix/first 20 min.).
Film: Wonka (Christmas outing to CinemaxX).


Possibly: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/22/books/review/roald-dahl-black-charlie-chocolate-factory.html?fbclid=IwAR1ykMpzt19PkiOmG7lYkEB4Rr8Qlr8JJwLwSSXHhR1tYnGqala1wHlRB_8
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 15,00 moduler
Dækker over: 8 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 2 Grammatik og skiftlighed

Introduktion i grammatik:
A) Kongruens (Getting Started, ss. 11-14):
B) Verbets tider (Getting Started 15-22)
C) Uregelmæssige verber
D) Do omskrivning ss. 28-30
E) Passiv og aktiv (Getting Started).
F) Udvidet og simpel

G) Genitiv

H) Del 4 i Getting Started, pp. 82-104
Stedord/pronominer:  Relative, personlige og possessive, refleksive, definerende og parentetiske relativsætninger, iterrogative (spørgende) og demonstrative (påpegende).

I ) Foreløbigt subjekt, øvelse med ordstilling, øvelse i at finde subjekt og verballed.
Bl.a. øvelse 5, 6, 7, 9, 10 og 11 i kap. SA 3.3. i Minlaering.dk

J) Adjektiver og adverbier
Forskelle, gradbøjning, substantiverede adjektiver og støtteord
Placering af adverbielled

K) Placering af komma

L) Bestemt og ubestemt artikel

Eksamensgrammatik:
Engelsk B (18/8-2021)
ENG/A (20/08 2019)
Opgave, hvor de skal identificere aktiv/passiv, udvidet/simpel og tid.
Stilanalyse af et et brev fra Boris Johnson (ENG/B-12/12-2023).
Grammatikdelen fra: https://portal.supportcenter.dk/Eksamen/EngA_2023-08-11/index.html#???
Non-fiktions essay fra 27. maj, 2013 (My Little Bit of Country).
Grammatik A fra eksamensopgaven fra Dec. 12, 2022 (find verballed i bestemte tider og skriv om deres funktioner, kategorisering af stedord mv.).
27/05/24(adv/adj., verballed, do som hovedvb./hjælpevb., that).

Opgave 6/eksamensopgave Minlaering.dk
Opgave 13/eksamensopgave Minlaering.dk
Kort gennemgang af 3. års opgave (delelementer).

Øvelser med idiomer (diverse).

Indledende øvelser til essay skrivning.
Film om essayets opbygning fra minlaering
Essay i grupper
Tekstanalyse indtalt
Eksempler på tragtindledninger - herunder fra ChatGPT
Essay om Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (i grupper).
Essay om Poverty Safari (autobiografi af Darren McGarvey/individuelt arbejde).
Film om retoriske pentagram fra The English Handbook (og om topic sætninger).

På 3. år: Getting Started A, kap.
1(grammatiske betegnelser), 2.: Hvad er adjektiver og adverbier?
Ligefrem og omvendt ordstilling, ss. 75-76

Opslagsbøger anvendt i undervisningen:
ORDBØGER:
Ordbogen.com (m. Uni-login): https://www.ordbogen.com/da/
Oxford Learners Dictionary: https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/  
Thesaurus (synonym- og antonymordbog): https://www.thesaurus.com/
OCTAVIUS – hjælp til skriftlige opgaver på Viby Gymnasiums hjemmeside: http://octavius.vibygym.dk/

Årsprøver:
https://portal.supportcenter.dk/Eksamen/EngA2023-05-25/index.html


GRAMMARS:
Min Læring (Uni-login): https://app.minlaering.dk/login
Getting Started,

Repetition 3. år
Forskel AA, tegnsætning, artikler og substantiver
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 125 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer


Titel 4 Poverty in Britain (exam 2026)

Texts:
Francesca Baker, London Short Fiction: Not Enough. Source:  London Short Fiction: Not Enough | Londonist

George the Poets: My City
George the Poet -My City -by deuce films -director Rob Ryan (youtube.com)

Darren McGarvey: Poverty Safari (2017). Excerpts.
Katriona O'Sullivan: Poor (autobiography, 2024?).

Other sources:
- Poverty and children Britain’s Breadline Children (Mit CFU).
-Ken Loach: Sorry We Missed You (film/2019).
-Film on YouTube: https://youtu.be/S6kgllALcRc
-Poverty Safari: About The Author (TRAILER), Darren McGarvey. YouTube.com
-Watch BBC video interview with Marcus Rashford here_ https://youtu.be/vyHZ8rbJQUQ
-Why middle class kids get the best jobs - BBC Stories
https://youtu.be/OVLBIxuWfRM
-How to sip tea: Sip Tea Like Royalty | The Crown | Netflix (youtube.com)

Creative assignments:
Marcus Rashford – Footballer for free school meals.
Also remember SRO text: Katriona O’Sullivan, "Poor" (2023/excerpt of an autobiography).

Individual presentations about Britons who made an impact.
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 13 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 5 Love and relationships (exam 2026).

A topic about love, loss and longing which includes the following aspects:
-Conventional love poetry and inverted love poems (with cynical, negative, or heartbreaking views on love).
-Love marriages and arranged marriages.
-Innocent love, twisted love and crossing sexual boundaries.

In order to get under the skin of imagery students create pick-up lines and poems that require plenty of metaphors and similes.  They will also practise words such as: Alliteration, personification, stanza, rhyme/rhythm, contrasts and imagery. Other literary terms we have applied:  Narrator (1. and 3.) and perspective (e.g. reliable/unreliable).

Briefly, we have looked into some conventional poetry traits by the Italian lyric poet Petrarch (1304–74) in order to detect how other poets have inverted these conventions:  
-an idealized mistress (poetry praising the beauty of the woman in exaggerated manner).
-the mistress is often absent or otherwise unavailable
-the mistress is chaste
-the poet is less worth than the mistress.

Finally we have tried to categorize different types of love poetry in relation to different types of love:

Eros (sexual passion)
Philia (deep friendship and platonic)
Ludus (playful love, dating?)
Agape (love for everyone/selfless love/not expect anything in return)
Pragma (longstanding love, commitment)
Philautia (love of the self)
Storge (parental love)
Mania (obsessive love)

Core texts:

Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy (1993). Poem.
Lyrics: https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/valentine/
Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpeMawmYPqo

Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare (1609).
Recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP06F0yynic

Rupi Kaur: In an Ideal World" (Poem, 2014)
Rupi Kaur "For the Passionate Ones" (Poem, 2014)

Cigarettes in Heaven by John Pearson (short story 2013) + written assignment. Fik vi nogensinde læst den?

Joe R. Lansdale: Love Doll (short story, 2014).

Rajinder Kaur: A Marriage Made in Hounslow (2016/short story) & Matchmaking India (series).


Additional material:
-Quizlet (metaphor, simile, oxymoron, foreshadowing, alliteration, meter, rhythm and rhyme, a couplet): https://quizlet.com/100936651/literary-terms-flash-cards/

Quotes about love (from Wider Context).

Handouts point of view, words modern dating, boardgame love.
.
Film: A Beautiful Mind

Dane McCusker, “The Complex”, a short film, 2020 (approx. 10 min). https://filmshortage.com/shorts/the-complex/
About a girl who moves into a complex and feels intimidated by a very outspoken male neighbour. The film deals with personal boundaries and internalised stereotypes and also raises questions about micro aggressions - i.e. actions that negatively targets a  person or group.

The theory of the male gaze (film bite).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVFHwTp2qRg

Steven King: The Man Who Loved Flowers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqIR9SD89j4&t=7s

Different types of love (Greek style): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTDfpJZyJoY
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 16 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 6 The American Dream (exam 2026).

An introduction to the USA and so-called  "American values" such as independence, mobility, can-do spirit/optimism, patriotism, liberty and the American Dream (estimation of pages read: 20 ns.).

The "American values" are related to various "dreamers" and their ups and downs in the USA.

The values are briefly related to:
a)  The  Constitution of the USA
b) The Declaration of Independence - the document that declared the thirteen American colonies independent from Great Britain in 1776 and stated: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness".
c) Frederik Douglas Turner's Frontier Theory
d) Various film bites and examples.

Core texts:
a) Film naturalization process ( a process immigrants go through to become American citizens): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so14G_BOPbI&t=736s
b) ”I am American,” Great Immigrants: The Pride of America  (video, 4:22). Kilde: https://youtu.be/j5M7W0DYOEA?si=sKnbz3UweDDJBlrh
c) Edward O. Kearny: The Frontier Heritage, 1989 (Appears in Systime's English in a Global World).

Additional material:
Film: Gran Torino (2008) by Clint Eastwood.
Jonathan Santlofer: Hope (short story/2018) (an exam paper about abortions and the time before Wade vs. Roe in 1973).














Indhold
Kernestof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Your opinion 30-08-2024
American Dream 25-09-2024
Assignment 2 (Hope) 25-09-2024
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 17 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 7 The US Presidential Election 24

This year's run-up to the presidential election is characterized by division and attacks (verbal and otherwise). An example:
‘“I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution." ( Donald Trump).

-We have examined  the divisive nature of the election and the forces and main issues behind the great divide.

a) Lionel Shriver: “Making America Great Again“ (Abridged version/fiction)
(full version can be found at: https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/fiction/2017/04/making-america-great-again-new-short-story-lionel-shriver).

b) Trump and the future of the United States of America | Four Corners (youtube.com)(documentary/full version is 54 min). About the present political situation in the USA (made by an Australian broadcast company). (we only watched 32 min.).

C) The trailer for the film Civil War by Alex Garland:
Civil War | Official Trailer HD | A24 (youtube.com)

d) Republican Town and Republican values in Family Guy's song
-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9Io780oFlI

e) Foredrag ved Claire Gothreau 21/10: Women in American politics
The topics Claire Gothreau covers in her lecture are:
-Short history of women's representation in the U.S.
-Women's level of representation in the U.S. today
-Public opinion on women in public office/gendered policy issues/gender divides
-Why the nomination and campaign of Kamala Hariss is so historic (maybe with some contrasts to the Clinton campaign)

Info about Claire Gothereau:
From Center for the Experimental-Philosophical Study of Discrimination (CEPDISC)
Department of Political Science,
Aarhus University.

f) Abortions on Oprah: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fp3PirxE0w
Følgende er ikke udført endnu (24/09).

g) Margaret Atwood, "The Handmaid's Tale (fiction, 1985). PP. 37-47
(and episode one/series one of the series).

Additionally we have pratised using the following rhetorical devices in relation to a written speech analysis of Kamala Harris' concession speech of Nov. 6, 2024:  Repetition, anti-thesis, modes of persuasion (ethos/logos/pathos), rhetorical questions, allusion (references to something familiar to everybody) etc.
.
Finally we have practised using Lashwell’s Communication Model when   analysing non-fictional texts (by asking the questions: who - says what - to whom - where/when - how - why?). Students have turned in a recorded analysis as an oral assignment.


Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 18 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 8 Jamaica (exam 2026).

Jamaica's National Motto, ‘Out of many, one people’ reflects the diversity of the Jamaican people.

Jamaica is not just sun, sea and sand but also a mix of different races, cultures and religions due to its past history of colonization. It became independent from Britain in 1962, but remains a member of the British Commonwealth.

We will look at Jamaica past and present - in language, songs and music - and also examine informal/spoken language and symbols (imagery) in literature.

Jamaicans speak English as the official language, but they also speak Jamaican Patois. We will try to look a little bit into the latter.

Finally, we will relate Jamaica's past to the Windrush Generation.

Shortage of labour in Britain after World War II and and increased ease of international movement pulled a large number of immigrants from the former British Empire to Britain and to London. Back then all "colonial subjects" were given the right to freely reside and study in Britain and many did: Approximately three million people arrived in the late 1940s-1970s. Later the tides turned and racial tension rose - culminating perhaps in 2018 with the "Windrush scandal" and the wrongful deportation of 83 people of Caribbean descent who had helped rebuild e.g. London after WW2. The heritage from these immigrants is immanent in Britain today - for instance in the language (MLE/Jafaican), which we will examine a bit.

We will also practise the terms of mataphors, symbols and similes.


Core Texts:
"Smile Jamaica" (song by Chronixx, 2015).
"History of Jamaica" (song by Early B, 1884).
Jamaica Kincaid, "The Ugly Tourist" (Harpers, 1988). ????
Roger Mais: "Read Dirt Don't Wash" (short story, 1939).
Laura Clark: ''Jafaican' Is Wiping Out Inner-City English Accents' (Daily Mail (non-fiction, 2006)


Additional material:
One Love  (film about Bob Marley, 2023).

Karen Attiah, "William and Kate's colonia Caribbean tour was cringeworthy" (The Guardian, March 24, 2022).

Jamaica: King's coronation accelerates plans for a referendum to become a republic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TQQ7a_WX1Q&t=112s

BBC 2021: The Paradise Island with a Lesson about Pride (7:26).
The paradise island with a lesson about pride

Small videos about the Windrush Generation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GamxNrkwqMw&t=100s
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/43793769
Why Jamaicans can't access their own beaches
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dPzd8Su92U
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 8 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 9 The Troubles in Northern Ireland (studietur).

Work in progress (skal opdateres).

Texts:
-The Troubles (ca. 11 sider om urolighederne) fra:  "The Island of Ireland". Systime, 2014. Written by Rosanne McCollum.

- Bernard Mac Laverty, "Father and Son" (short story, 1978). Kilde: The Lift.

- Safia Moore. “That Summer”. Bath Short Story Award Anthology 2015. Bath: Brown Dog Books, 2015. Teksten er brugt til eksamen i engelsk B, 27. maj 2019. Eleverne har skrevet et analytisk essay om teksten og vi har relateret resultaterne til censorkommentarer fra Anglo Files (tidsskrift for engelsklærere i gymnasieskolen).

Film and series:
-Derry Girls (ep. 1, season 1). Derry Girls is a British period teen sitcom set in Northern Ireland, created and written by Lisa McGee, that premiered on 4 January 2018 on Channel 4. It can presently be watched on Netflix.
- Belfast (film/2021). British coming-of-age drama, written and directed by Kenneth Branagh.

Assignment and exercises:
- distribution of terms, political parties and paramilitary groups in relation to a) Catholics and b) Protestants
- making a time-line of events
- presentation of various events during the Troubles.
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 5 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 10 Ireland past and present (studietur).

General introduction to Irish literature and contemporary society.

James Joyce: The Boarding House
Sally Rooney: Excerpt: Conversations with Friends

Additional: Ep. 1/series one of "Conversations with Friends" (watched on MAX).

Research into different Irish persons and figures (authors, rulers, musicians etc.): Michael Higgins, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Conor McGregor, Molly Malone, Bram Stoker, William of Orange, Gun, Arthur Guinness, the Murphy family, Cillian Murphy, Roy Keane, Leprechaun, Saint Patrick etc.

Visit to Dublin where we visited St. Brigit Church, EPIC museum and Howth island. Students also went on sightseeing on a "mission impossible". Students who did not participate in the tour made a graphic rendition of Irish history (taking their departure in two different sources in Danish and English). On our return they made an oral presentation of their efforts.
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 12 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 11 Post-modernism (exam 2026)

In this topic we have covered some of the following questions:

-What are the characteristics of post-modernism in literature and film?
-What is a yuppie - and why all that talk about alienation, hedonism and consumption?
- Why are post-modern fiction often set in cities?
- How does Bret Easton Ellis write and for what end?

Reading list:
Bret Easton Ellis: “Tuesday” ( excerpt from “American Psycho”, a novel from 1991). Appears in ” New York, Systime 1993.

Bret Easton Ellis, On the Beach  (short story, 1995).
Appears in René Bühlmann et al. Departures Systime 1998.

Todd Alcott: "Television is a Drug" (poem/2010):
Full version of the poem: https://la8armbruster.pbworks.com/f/Television.pdf

Video of the poem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmh_8TWjtsM

Film: American Psycho (2010/directed by Mary Harron).

Additional material:
Opening scenes from American Psycho (film) and Dexter (series, HBO).

Wang Chung: Hold Back the Tears: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOgAZfSaef4
DR 2, Deadline June 19., 2023.

Huey Lewis and the News: It's hip to be square (song).

Niels Randbo Back & Pia Rørkær Sigh: Through Literary Landscapes. Systime, 2020 (pp. 255-274). NOT all - only ex.

Entry about post-modernism from Along Literary Lines, pp. 107-110
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 21 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 12 Perceptions of City Life

A short theme about urban life - the positive and negative aspects of living in small spaces, not knowing your neighbours and being surrounded by poverty and great culture/parks.

Some of the questions we will deal with in relation to the topic citylife" are:
- How is it different living in a city as opposed to the countryside?
- How are urbanites shaped by the city?
- Why do an increasing amount of people prefer to live in cities?

To put the topic into perspective we discussed some quotes about how living in a big city affects how human beings behave and relate to each other by the American sociologist Louis Wirth. In 1938 he studied "urbanism" and wrote a scientific essay called "Urbanism as a Way of Life". The quotes are listed below after our primary sources.

Sources used:
I Do Not Make the Rules by Law Chen
I DON’T MAKE THE RULES on Vimeo (2016): https://static.shortoftheweek.com/2017/05/08/dont-make-rules/

Susan Cheever, My Little Bit of Country (2012). From exam paper A, 27. May, 2013.

Siri Hustvedt, Living With Strangers (2002). Exam paper, A levels, 25. May, 2011. http://glahder.dk/engelsk/eksamensopgaver/stx-A/2011_maj25_STX-A_del2.pdf

Song by Alicia Keys og Jay Z: Empire State of Mind:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk6014HuxcE&t=1s

American Sociologist Louis Wirth's quotes about city dwellers/ urbanites from 1938:

A
"The larger the number of persons in a state of interaction with one another the lower is the level of communication… Typically, our physical contacts are close but our social contacts are distant.The necessary frequent movement of great numbers of individuals in a congested habitat gives occasion to friction and irritation. Nervous tensions which derive from such personal frustrations are accentuated by the rapid tempo and the complicated technology under which life in dense areas must be lived.The close living together and working together of individuals who have no sentimental and emotional ties foster a spirit of competition, aggrandizement, and mutual exploitation."

B
"The city is characterized by secondary rather than primary contacts. The contacts of the city may indeed be face to face, but they are nevertheless impersonal, superficial, transitory, and segmental. The reserve, the indifference, and the blasé outlook which urbanites manifest in their relationships may thus be regarded as devices for immunizing themselves against the personal claims and expectations of others.
The superficiality, the anonymity, and the transitory character of urban-social relations make intelligible, also, the sophistication and the rationality generally ascribed to city-dwellers. "


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Indhold
Kernestof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
My Little Bit of Country (non-fiction). 02-10-2025
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 8 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 13 Evil & Macbeth (exam 26)

Is man born good or evil?
- That is a questions we will try to answer when working on this theme which also includes the play Macbeth by Shakespeare.

First we will try to categorize different types of evil and talk about responsibility and punishment. Next we will draw parallels to the world of literature.

The categories of evil used are presented in the book: "Psykologiens veje" by Ole Schultz Larsen (Systime, 2008). He uses the terms: sardistic evil (i.e. someone taking pleasure in inflicting pain on others) instrumental evil (someone who wants to achieve something for personal gratification), idealistic evil (a person who wants to change the world to fit with his/her ideals  - e..g Nazism or Anders Breivik) and stupid evil.

We are already acquainted with Patrick Bateman and Dexter - from our post-modern theme - but now we will also look at "instrumental evil"  as  represented by Lady Macbeth and Macbeth and their lust for power in Macbeth. How do they develop throughout the play and what are the physical and psychological effects of those who seek power for its own sake?

Core texts:
From Wider Contexts, Gyldendal, 2012.
- Mick Hume, Is Abu Ghraib the miliary version of reality TV? 2004. Article.
- (Stephen Reicher and Alexander Haslam, Why not everyone is a torturer. 2004. Article).
- Sean Pence, Bad or Mad? New Scientist. 2004. Excerpt. Article.
- William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 1. Sc. 5, ll. 1-70. C. 1605-1607 (first published in 1625). Play.
- Born of Man and Woman

Additional tasks:
Students have taken turns presenting various background texts in relation to the overall topic

Additional sources:
Macbeth - film (2015). Instructed by Justin Kurzel.
Excerpts of Polanskis version of Macbeth (film/1972).
Lecture on Shakespeare by Jesper Gissel (January, 2026).
Handouts in relation to the Elizabethan period.
A summary of Macbeth from Cliff Notes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnFHtx9Lb8g
Dateline Throwback Thursday: Abu Ghraib - Lifting the Hood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0iZ2M3ZESQ
Video allegedly showing US Marines urinating on Taliban dead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=va-wV6EQR9Q
Varius in relation to the murder of James Bulger:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Bulger

Summaries of different scenes before watching the latest film version of Macbeth with Denzel Washington
Indhold
Kernestof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Prøve med cookies 13-11-2025
On War and Redemption (non-fiction). 24-11-2025
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 22 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 14 Back to the Dystopian Future of 1984 (exam 2026).

Orwell’s  novel "1984" warned of a dystopian future of perpetual war, censorship, and surveillance. A future where ignorance was considered a strength.

-We will read the novel and discuss Orwell's warnings in relation to Big Tech,  autocracies and "fake news" in contemporary society. We will also look into Orwell's writing style and  how it differered from the "modernists".

George Orwell, 1984 (first published 1949).

Animated or cinematic versions of the book:
a) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PArP8h1qSw
b) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrgOxQ1RohA

Michael Radford, Storbritannien, 1984 (film, 113 min.).

Additional sources:
Introduction to George Orwell (see doc. attached). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvXU3vzHq8E

Dave Eggers. The Circle (excerpt from novel 2013).

Orwell: 2+2=5 - Official Trailer + film

As preparation for the oral exam, the class has made a table with shared notes about specific writers and periods (intermodernism, modernism, postmodernisn). Information from Literary Landscapes from Systime.
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