Holdet 2022 EN/i - Undervisningsbeskrivelse

Undervisningsbeskrivelse

Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin(er) 2022/23 - 2024/25
Institution Odder Gymnasium
Fag og niveau Engelsk A
Lærer(e) Louise Margrethe Glejberg Holm Laursen
Hold 2022 EN/i (1i EN, 2i EN, SRO 2i EN, 3i EN)
Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 Growing Up
Titel 2 Violence and School Shootings
Titel 3 Immigrants
Titel 4 The Hate U Give
Titel 5 Black History (Exam)
Titel 6 SRO - To Die For
Titel 7 Crime Fiction (Exam)
Titel 8 India (Exam)
Titel 9 Shakespeare + Hamlet (Exam)
Titel 10 Tilladte Elektroniske Hjælpemidler
Titel 11 Feminism - Smash the Patriarchy (Exam)

Beskrivelse af de enkelte undervisningsforløb (1 skema for hvert forløb)
Titel 1 Growing Up

The theme growing up

The Shining Mountain
Indian Camp by Ernest Hemingway
Just Like That
The Sin Bin or Lucy's Heart


Texts from "Contexts" by Jonna Engberg

Texual analysis of short story fiction
symbol
metaphor
Characterization
Theme
Message

Writing an analytical essay
5-paragraph essay
Introduction
Conclusion
Topic sentence
Body text

Writing a news article
the inverted news triangle
Headline, subheadline, byline
body text
Tail
Catch-phrase
Tabloid vs Broad-sheet
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 17 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 2 Violence and School Shootings

Violence and School Shootings

Rendezvous (Contexts)
Warning (Contexts)
Andy Williams

US Gun Control politics
Declaration of Independence
2nd Amendment
NRA
The Brady Campaign

School shooting group project and presentation

Columbine
Film: Bowling for Columbine by Michael Moore

Rhetorics
Fundamental concepts and rhetorical devices

Speech analysis

fiction vs Non-fiction
Indhold
Kernestof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Just Like That 17-01-2023
School Shooting Speech 06-02-2023
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 18 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 3 Immigrants

The Theme Immigrants is about the clash of cultures and the conflicts that immigration poses. We discuss the motivation for emigration and the reaction in host countries and we investigate the consequences for the immigrants themselves.

Using texts from Contexts by Jonna Engberg, Mette Grønvold og Hanne Ohland-Andersen, Gyldendal

Who's Irish by Gish Jen, 1999 short story
Immigrants in our own Land by Jimmy Santiago Baca, 1982, poem
Long Nights, Low Pay and no Play by Burhan Wazir, 2002, article
My Son The Fanatic by Hanif Kureishi, 1997; short story
You Can't Go Home Again by Tariq Ramadan, 2001, essay

Crash by Paul Haggis, 2004, film

Sætningens led og funktioner (MinLaering.dk)
Indhold
Kernestof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Re handin School Shooting speech 08-03-2023
5 paragraph essay -My son the fanatic 14-04-2023
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 20 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 5 Black History (Exam)

Black History in the USA From Slavery to #BlackLivesMatter

This subject focuses on the the history, culture and literature of African Americans from the time of slavery to modern day. The subject starts with a historical overview, compendium attached.
Primary texts:
Brief look at:
Declaration of independence
Emancipation Proclamation

More in depth:
Jim Crow laws
Strange Fruit by Abel Meeropol, 1937, poem
Strange Fruit by Billie Holliday, 1939, song

Rosa Parks + Montgomery Bus Boycott  

VIPs of Black History. Research and presentation.

Martin Luther King
March on Washington  
The Civil Rights Movement
Sit Ins
"Coming of Age in Mississppi" Anne Moody
"I Have a Dream" speech. Speech analysis, rhetorical devices.

Emmett Till case and George Floyd Case

Black Panther Movement
10-point Program

Rap music and Black history
"Panther Power" by Tupac Shakur
"Gorgeous" by Kanye West

Film: "The Butler" by Lee Daniels, 2013

Race and Ethnicity, Bias in the judicial system.
Statistic material on sentences and inmates.

The Hate U Give, novel by Angie Thomas (is a part of the Black America theme)

Primary focus/concepts discussed:
Racism
Segregation
Lynching
Inequality and injustice

Grammar and writing:
Semantic Field
Verb tenses
Pronouns
rhetorical devices
Metaphor

Text genres:
news article and feature article
Speech
Historical documents
Indhold
Kernestof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Rosa Parks article 28-09-2023
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 29 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 6 SRO - To Die For

Dette forløb er baggrund for SRO i Engelsk og Samfundsfag.

Forløbet er døbt "To Die For" og undersøger hvorfor nogen er villige til at gå i krig og dø for deres land.
Samfundsfag varetager teori omkring Nationalisme og Patriotisme mm.
I Engelsk undersøger vi samfundsforhold og kultur der kommer til udtryk i litteraturen i hhv. Storbritannien omkring 1. verdenskrig, og USA omkring borgerkrigen.

Til forløbet er der i engelsk brugt et google site:
https://sites.google.com/apps.odder-gym.dk/2i-sro-to-die-for/start?authuser=0

Great Britain World War 1:

historical background
powerpoint on Trench Warfare (Imperial War Museum, London)
Background material on poets
Poetry:
The Hero by Sigfried Sassoon
Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen
Who's for the Game by Jessie

United States Civil War

historical background
background on poets/authors

Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln
Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Longfellow
The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus

Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 7 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 7 Crime Fiction (Exam)

This subject is about the subgenres and key elements of Crime Fiction in a both British and American context.

Theory on Crime Fiction
Subgenres of crime fiction

Key concepts:
The Detective
The Criminal Protagonist
Mafia + mafia-slang
Whodunnit
Howcatchem
Locked-room-mystery
Murder-mystery
Plot-twist

Don't You Hate Having Two Heads By Christine Paulson

The Hound of Baskerville
en excerpt from the original Sherlock Holmes novel by Arthur Conan Doyle. Followed by the corresponding episode of the BBC Tv series "Sherlock", episode "Baskerville".

Murder in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Alan Poe (full book)

Godfather , exerpt from the 1969 novel by Mario Puzo
Godfather film 1972 directed by Francis Ford Coppola

Death on the Nile, 1937 novel by Agatha Christie (full book)
Indhold
Kernestof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Sherlock Holmes discussion 13-03-2024
Godfather Discussion Test 01-05-2024
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 25 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 8 India (Exam)

This theme is about India, the recent history and culture. The theme focuses on The caste system and Ambedkar and on the situation for women. Furthermore it focuses on the the British Raj and the consequences thereof, Post-colonialism, Pigmentocracy and internalized structural racism as a colonial remnant. Hinglish and Lingua Franca is part of this theme.

Key terms:
Caste System
Dalit/Untouchable/Harijan
Untouchability
Ambedkar
Dowry and Dowry-related violence (Kerosene burns)
Infanticide and Child Marriage
Arranged Marriage
Wedding rituals
The British Raj and Imperialism
Mimic Men
Post Colonialism
Orientalism
White Man's Burden
Pigmentocracy
Luschan Colour Scale
Bollywood and Masala films
Hinglish
Lingua Franca

Primary texts:

"The Unfed Begging Bowl" poem by Sudhakar Ghaikwad
"This Country is Broken" poem by Bagpurao Jagtap
"Why is India so Bad for Women?" article
"Each year men get away with dowry-related murders" article
"I have been rejected by dosens of men over dowry" by Geeta Pandey, article, BBC, 2023
India loses 3 million girls in Infanticide, article The Hindu, 2012
Plan-International.org Child Marriage
"India Untouched" by Stalin K, 2007. documentary
Stench of Kerosene by Amrita Pritam, 2006
British Imperialism in India, documentary, minihistory thedailydose.com
BBC History: From Empire to Independence: The British Raj in India from 1857-1947, encyclopedic article, 2011
"Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell, 1936
"White Man's Burden" by Rudyard Kipling, 1899
Background on Bollywood
"It's Hinglish, Innit?" BBC article, 2006

"Rab Ne Bana Di jodi" by Aditya Chopra, 2008. film

Google site: https://sites.google.com/a/apps.odder-gym.dk/india---english---lh/startside


Indhold
Kernestof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
The Voice of the People 06-09-2024
Stench of Kerosene 27-09-2024
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 28 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 9 Shakespeare + Hamlet (Exam)

Shakespeare (site)https://sites.google.com/apps.odder-gym.dk/lh-shakespeare/home


this course focuses on Shakespeare and Hamlet

We work with:
Shakespeare, the man and his time
Elizabethan Age
Elizabethan Theatre
Shakespearian Play genres, with a focus on Tragedy
Shakesperian Language, the pun
Sonnets

In Hamlet, we focus on:
Act I, scene I
Act III, scene I
Act V, scene 1+2

Usbourne young readers version Hamlet (full book)
Hamlet, graphic novel version
Hamlet, Manga version
Films:
Hamlet, directed by Franco Zeferelli, 1990 (full version)
Hamlet, directed by Kenneth Branagh, 1996 (extracts)

Themes and motifs in Hamlet
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 38 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 11 Feminism - Smash the Patriarchy (Exam)

This course will evolve around the concept of feminism in a broad sense.  The weight of the course will be on literature both fiction and nonfiction and particularly feminist criticism with which we will apply different angels.


Key elements:
Google site with material: https://sites.google.com/apps.odder-gym.dk/lh-feminism/start
Introduction to Feminism and feminist criticism
Martha Rampton: "Four Waves of Feminism" article, 2008

Feminist (fiction) literature:
Angela Carter: short story "The Company of Wolves" 1979

Modern debate:
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: TED talk "We should all be Feminists". 2017 a

Layney Molnar: a collection a various cartoons commenting on female and/or feminist issues.
Illiza Shlesinger: Stand up comedy show "Confirmed Kills" 2016

Feminist Criticism theory.
Indhold
Kernestof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Adichie's Feminism 01-05-2025
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 10 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer