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Undervisningsbeskrivelse

Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin(er) 2024/25 - 2025/26
Institution Viby Gymnasium
Fag og niveau Engelsk B
Lærer(e)
Hold 2024 En/p (1p Enh, 2p Enh, 2p Enh1)

Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 Growing up / Family
Titel 2 The USA - The Presidential Election
Titel 3 Violence
Titel 4 Twisted Minds and Stories
Titel 5 Black Voices (EKSAMEN)
Titel 6 Multicultural Britain (EKSAMEN)
Titel 7 The USA (EKSAMEN)
Titel 8 Homelessness and Nomadism  (EKSAMEN)

Beskrivelse af de enkelte undervisningsforløb (1 skema for hvert forløb)
Titel 1 Growing up / Family

Growing up /Family:
Being a child or parent in a family involves navigating a complex array of experiences and responsibilities. For children, family is the primary environment where they learn, grow, and develop their identity. It is within the family that children first encounter love, support, and guidance, forming the foundation of their values and social skills. However, in many families, many conflicts arise, and thus, family life is not always pleasant.

Parents, on the other hand, take on the critical role of caregivers and role models. However, many parents also find it hard to live up the societal norms that are implied in being a good and caring parent.

In the text about "family" and "Growing up", we have taken a look at some of the challenges parents and children face.


Texts and materials we have read:

Penelope Lively: Clara's Day (short story)

Raymond Carver: Popular Mechanics (short story)

Philip Larkin: This Be the Verse (poem)

Michael Richards: Just Like That (Short story)

Lucy Cross: The Sin Bin or Lucy's Heart (short story)

Jason Reitman/Diablo Cody: "Juno" (2007, film, teen pregnancy, unplanned)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 12 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 2 The USA - The Presidential Election

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.

Trump: His use of rhetorics

Presidential candidates: short presentations

Acceptance Speech (2024): Donald J. Trump

Acceptance speech (Aug. 2024): Kamala Harris

Campaigns: Campaign ads (Television, internet, etc.)

Seven swing states: The importance of the seven states in the Presidential Election.
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 9 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 3 Violence

Violence:
Emnet læses bredt, idet vi kommer ind på vold i meget forskellige sammenhænge. Nogle af de centrale spørgsmål, som vi kommer ind på, er eksempelvis:
Hvad er vold, og hvordan opstår vold mellem mennesker?  er vold altid/ofte tilsigtet?    kan vold forklares og måske berettiges?
Vi læser forskellige tekster og film, der afspejler denne problematik.

Anvendt materiale:
- Violence (introduction, vocab etc.)
- Raymond Carver: Popular Mechanics
- The Sin Bin Bin or Lucy's Heart (fra: Contexts)
- Football Fight Club (documentary)
- Daniel Ransom: Rendezvous (fra: Contexts)
- Lesley Glaister: Serrusalmus (fra: Contexts)
- William Carlos Williams: The Use of Force (novel)
- Michael Moore: Bowling for Columbine
- The Second Amendment (US Constitution)

Grammatik:
- verber, adjektiver, adverbier
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 18 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
  • Faglige
  • Lytte
  • Læse
  • Skrive
  • Diskutere
  • Selvrefleksion
  • Almene (tværfaglige)
  • Analytiske evner
  • Personlige
  • Selvstændighed
  • Selvtillid
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 4 Twisted Minds and Stories

Twisted Minds and stories:

Besides introducing and repeating a number of literary terms, we will in the course of this topic examine how stories with a plot twist have other purposes than creating suspence and surprise. Themes like "Urbanism", "Madness", "Love", "Greed" etc. can be found in the texts. Can the texts thus give us insight into our own lives?

Material and texts:
INTRO: different Pre-reading activities, vocab and discussion
Richard Matheson: Button, Button (in: "Choices", Columbus)
Sonya C. Dodd: In an Instant (in: "Choices, Columbus)
James Reasoner: House Names (in: "Choices", Columbus)
Michele Finn: Yosemite (in: Choices, Columbus)
Jonathan Demme(director): Silence of the Lambs
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 12 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 5 Black Voices (EKSAMEN)

Black Voices:

"We went from picking cotton, to chaingang line chopping/To be-bopping, to hip-hopping". Således rapper den amerikanske rapper Mos Def, og med det peger han på forbindelsen mellem hip hop/rap og afroamerikansk historie. Hvordan og hvorfor hip-hop opstod, og hvordan genren siden har udviklet sig, er nogle af aspekter, som vi har arbejdet med i dette forløb, primært udgangspunkt i rap-tekster, musikvideoer og film for på den måde at blive klogere på genren, samt lidt om afroamerikansk historie og kultur.

Materiale:

Old school hip Hop:
1) Grandmaster Flash: "The Message"

The Golden Age of Hip Hop:
2) Run-DMC: "Proud to Be Black"
3) ICE-T: "Colors"

Mainstream Hip Hop:
4) Notorious B.I.G: "Ten Crack Commandments"
5) 2Pac: "Brenda's Got a Baby"

The Female Perspective:
6) Eve: "Love is Blind"

7) "Characteristics of Rap"

8) John H. McWhorter: "How Hip-Hop Holds Blacks Back" (article, 2003, City-Journal)

9) "Straight outta Compton" (film, DVD)

10) Ladies First, episode 2

11) "Rap and Hip Hop: Crash Course Black American History #47"
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHCA5b9TkVg)

12) "Rap Analysis Guide"   fra: "Open Wide", L og R, 2015
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Panel discussion

Creative tasK: Write your own rap song
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 21 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 6 Multicultural Britain (EKSAMEN)

Multiculture in the UK / Immigration

Multicultural Britain:
Hvordan ser Storbritannien ud i dag?  Hvad motiverer immigranter til at rejse til Storbritannien?   Hvilket billede gives af det multikulturelle Storbritannien i litteraturen?

Vi kommer omkring tekster og materiale, der berører de konflikter, der bl.a. opstår mellem generationerne i familien, hvilket kan ses i novellen "Chameleon" af Ranbir Sahota og ikke mindst "My Son the Fanatic" af Hanif Kureishi. I digtet "Mr and Mrs Xenophobia" af John Agard vises en reaktion på immigrationen.
I artiklen "The man who fell to earth" fornemmes immigranters motivation til at komme til Storbritannien, og hvilke drastiske metoder, der anvendes for at komme ind i landet. Filmen "East is East" bruger humoren til at skildre et livet i et arbejderkvarter, hvor diversiteten er stor - både i kvarteret  og i den familie, som er omdrejningspunktet for handlingen.

Tekstmateriale og andet:
1.

- Immigration in Britain INTRO

- Kate Nivison: Just below the Surface

- Ranbir Sahota: Chameleon

- Hanif Kureishi: My Son the Fanatic

- East is East (filmuddrag)

- Esther Addley/Rory McCarthy: The Man who fell to earth (fra: The Guardian, artikel fra: "Worlds of English", systime)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 21 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 7 The USA (EKSAMEN)

Formålet med dette forløb er at undersøge centrale træk omkring USAs historie og amerikansk kultur. Der lægges især vægt på "The American dream" og basale amerikanske idealer omkring lighed, frihed og materiel lykke. I diskussionen om The American Dream inkluderes blandt andet  og "The cultural mosaic", immigration, opnåelse af the American Dream, og i hvor høj grad er den amerikanske en myte eller realitet?

Læst materiale:
- Edward N. Kearny: The Frontier Heritage
- Arnold Schwarzenegger: Speech at Republican National Convention, 2004
- At 14, I Walked through the Desert to the US (fra:  (2018)
- Teresa Ronan: "The Road Home" (2019)
- Circus Lady (drama)
- Hillbilly Elegy (film)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 39 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 8 Homelessness and Nomadism (EKSAMEN)

Theme about homelessness in the UK and nomadism in the USA. We have discussed different reasons for why people become homeless and what is and can be done to help them. The texts and films about nomadism deal with American nomads and why they leave their permanent homes and constricting lifestyle to live the free life on the road -  very often away from the cities and modern civilisation.

- Andrea Levy: Loose Change (short story, 2005)
- "Homelessness Facts and Statistics: The Numbers you need to know in 2026"  (from: The Big Issue (article),  5 March, 2026)
- Robert Swindells: Stone Cold (novel, 1994)
- My walk to work shows me how homelessness is transforming Britain (by Hadley Freeman, article, The Guardian, 12 Jan 2019)
- America's modern nomads give up their homes for life on the road (News clip, CBS, 2018)
- The New Nomads: Living Full-Time on the Road" (article, Jessica Bruder, The Saturday Evening Post, 2018)
- The Glass Castle (film)
- Nomadland (film instr. af Chloé Zhao, 2020)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 34 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer