Holdet 2z En (2025/26) - Undervisningsbeskrivelse

Undervisningsbeskrivelse

Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin(er) 2024/25 - 2025/26
Institution Viborg Katedralskole
Fag og niveau Engelsk B
Lærer(e) Nanna Sønderby Christensen, Ole Jensen
Hold 2024 En/z (1z En, 2z En)

Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 American dreams
Titel 2 Novel: The Collector
Titel 3 Narrating truth
Titel 4 WWI poetry
Titel 5 English as a lingua franca
Titel 6 The British Empire
Titel 7 Gender studies
Titel 8 Violence and punishment in the US
Titel 9 New Zealand

Beskrivelse af de enkelte undervisningsforløb (1 skema for hvert forløb)
Titel 1 American dreams

We will look into the idea and promise of ’The American Dream’, explore what it means, and assess whether or not the dream is still alive today. As we move along, we will identify core American values and touch upon four versions of the American dream: The immigrant dream, the middleclass dream, the entrepreneurial dream, and the new American dream.
Key words are: Individuality, freedom, mobility, equality/inequality, privilege, immigration and education.


Texts:
BBC podcast. ‘The Origins of the American Dream’, (00:00-10:53, BBC) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b08k2fmj (BBC, 2017)

Sarah Churchwell. A brief history of the American dream, essay 2021
https://www.bushcenter.org/catalyst/state-of-the-american-dream/churchwell-history-of-the-american-dream

The Declaration of Independence

Barack Obama. Speech at Wakefield High school, September 2009.

Housing Segregation and Redlining in America (Npr, 2018)
https://www.wgbh.org/news/2018/04/11/video-housing-segregation-everything

Lee Daniels. Precious, (film, 2009)

George Blecher. “More Than Coffee; New York’s Vanishing Diner Culture”, (NY Times, 2016)

Courtney Martin. ‘The New American Dream’, 2016 Tedtalk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPf0LjZAS14

Emma Lazarus. The new Colossus.

Father tells his son about the Statue of Liberty
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 15 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 2 Novel: The Collector

The purpose of reading the novel is to actually read a novel, a complete work, at your own pace. The book club form makes you work in small groups, and you are in charge of analytical focus points, summaries and debate. Along the way we will also touch upon aspects like conflict, characterization, environment and the gothic genre, social class, types of love, the unreliable narrator, and intertextuality. In order to understand some of the intertextual references you will become familiar with the outline of Shakespeare's the Tempest and Romeo and Juliet.

Texts
Chris Baldick. 'Introduction' in "The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales", Oxford University Press, 1993.

John Fowles. The Collector.

Who is Caliban? Cliffnotes.com
https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/t/the-tempest/critical-essays/caliban-and-the-natural-world

The Tempest - A summary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diz1y0ELIWM

Romeo and Juliet - A summary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yv-9Tj1U0k

William Shakespeare. Sonnet 18.
Roger McGough. At Lunchtime
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 15 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 3 Narrating truth

True crime and apologia
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 14 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 4 WWI poetry

The course will introduce to WWI with special focus on Britain’s engagement in the Great War. The course material addresses questions such as:
Why did the young men go?
How did they deal with the unexpected realities of the first full-scale industrialised war?
Why did shellshock become an important new word in the English language?
What roles were assigned to the women behind the lines?
How could the gap between the Home Front and the real frontline be bridged?
What is the story behind the poppy of Remembrance Day?
Is Remembrance Day still relevant today? – WWI ended more than 100 years ago.

We will practice analytical skill, consider genre characteristics and develop our vocabulary and conversational skill.

Key terms are: Stanza, verse line, speaker, patriotism, masculinity, femininity, propaganda, mobilization, allied powers vs. central powers, trench warfare, no man's land, shell shock, imperialism.


TEXTS
WWI propaganda posters
Lloyd George. ”This is what we are fighting” (speech)
Thomas Hardy. ”Men who march away” (poem)
Jessie Pope. "The Call" (poem)
Edward Berger. "All quiet on the Western Front", 2022 (film)
Wilfred Owen. “Dulche et decorum est” (poem)
Mary Gabrielle Collins. “Women at munition making” (poem)
John McCrae. “In Flanders Fields” (poem)
Simon Jenkins. "No more Remembrance Days", the Guardian, Nov 2017 (opinion)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 13 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 5 English as a lingua franca

Indhold: I dette forløb undersøger vi det engelske sprog som et lingua franca og diskuterer fordele og ulemper ved Global Englishes.


TEXTS
Anne Mette Finderup. "Global English" and "English as a Lingua Franca" i 'Worlds of English', Systime, 2012.  (p. 25-27).

Guillaume Thierry. 'The English Language is the world's Achilles heel', in The Conversation, April 3 2018.
Source: https://theconversation.com/the-english-language-is-the-worlds-achilles-heel-93817

John Agard. Listen Mr. Oxford Don.

David Malouf. 'The only speaker of his tongue' (1986)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 10 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 6 The British Empire

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

Titel 7 Gender studies

Texts
Budweiser ads
The Prodigy, Smack my bitch up (music video, 1997)
William Shakespeare. 'Unsex me here' - Lady Macbeth soliloquy
Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The yellow wallpaper, 1892.
Kate Chopin. The story of an hour, 1894.
Podcast on the Tradwife phenomenon: "Inside the toxic tradwife subculture", ABC Radio National
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/lifematters/tradwives/105282582
Annie Proulx. Brokeback Mountain, 1997
Natalie Morin. What K-pop's beautiful men can teach us about masculinity
Judith Butler on gender theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD9IOllUR4k

Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 13 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 8 Violence and punishment in the US



Texts
Serrusalmus
Sean Spence. Mad or mad
Raymond Carver. So much water so close to home
William Faulkner. Dry September
Stephen King. Why we crave horror movies
Why we are fascinated by true crime
Fargo (Netflix season 1, episode. 1, extract)
Do we want prisons to punish or rehabilitate?
Why the death penalty saves lives
Black Mirror - White Bear (Netflix, season 2, episode 2)
Verner Herzog. Into the abyss (documentary)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 15 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 9 New Zealand

Forløbet introducerer til Maorikultur i New Zealand, og vi undersøger tematikker i relation til forholdet mellem Maori og Pakeha. Herunder træner vi analyse og fortolkning af fiktion og non-fiktionstekster.

Centrale fokuspunkter: Waitangi Treaty, colonial history, racism, identity, belonging, ancestor, education, NZ Child Servises Agency/Oranga Tamariki and Maori children in foster care.


Tekster
Alan Duff. Once were warriors (1999, novel extract, opening chapter)

James Napier Robertson. The dark horse (2014, film/filmstriben)

Jacinda Ardern. Re Rangiwaituhi - Maniapoto apology. (December 4, 2020) (Speech)
https://www.beehive.govt.nz/speech/te-rangiwaituhi-maniapoto-apology

Gregory O´Brien. The verge of losing somebody (short story)

Charlotte Graham-McLay. Jacinda Ardern faces Maori wrath over inhuman treatment of families, (Feb 3, 2020, The Guardian)

NZ Newsroom. NZ's own "taken generation" (documentary 2019, opening)
https://newsroom.co.nz/2019/06/10/nzs-own-taken-generation/
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 15 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer