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Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin(er) 2025/26
Institution Viborg Katedralskole
Fag og niveau Engelsk B
Lærer(e) Stine Thorup Nielsen
Hold 2025 En/PreIB1 (PreIB1 En)

Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 Third Culture Kids
Titel 2 American dreams + Graphic novel
Titel 3 Man and nature
Titel 4 Evil (American literary history)
Titel 5 Gender, sexuality and inequality

Beskrivelse af de enkelte undervisningsforløb (1 skema for hvert forløb)
Titel 1 Third Culture Kids

In this unit, the focus has been on introducing different analysis tools and applying them to different types of texts related to the topic of Third Culture Kids. The students have also been asked to reflect and discuss how their parents' choices on how and where to live have affected them in their first hand-in (assignment 1: Growing up in a globalized world). We have both worked with non-fiction (blog, feature article, TedX speech) and fiction (short stories and short film)

At the end of the unit, we have branched out thematically and presented web comics in small groups as preparation for reading a graphic novel as part of the next unit.

Core materials:

"Third Culture Kids: Citizens of everywhere and nowhere" (feature article)

"I used to live here once" (short story)

"Green Velvet" (short story)

Blog by Feroz Salam

"The Road Home" (shortfilm) https://roadhomefilm.com/  

"Third Culture Kids: the impact of growing up in a globalized world" (TedX speech by Ruth Van Reken - used for assignment 1)

Bo Høpfner Clausen: "Getting Graphic" pp. 6-16 - theory introducing the genre and characteristics of the graphic novel

Grammar in focus:
- concord between the subject and the verb
- the genitive (especially how to place apostrophes correctly)
- word order
- adjectives and adverbs

Link to all Google slides for the unit:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/15uXdvHI9y-JPWzEYzqZNgaEYNPcuCnBLoJBSB_toRCA/edit?slide=id.g37f2a5c1534_0_0#slide=id.g37f2a5c1534_0_0
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Titel Afleveringsdato
Eng assignment 01 Growing up in a globalized world 09-09-2025
Omfang Estimeret: 12,00 moduler
Dækker over: 12 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
  • Faglige
  • Læse
  • Diskutere
  • Formidling
  • Personlige
  • Selvstændighed
  • Sociale
  • Samarbejdsevne
  • IT
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  • Gruppearbejde

Titel 2 American dreams + Graphic novel

All google slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Zd9T3YYq1O3z2VnFI-A9DZ7hpKp2NVvLL4NmLzuCIdw/edit?slide=id.p#slide=id.p

During this unit we have focused on American history, society, values and identity. We started with basic American history and the Declaration of Independence and have covered the following topics: individual freedom, self-reliance, equality of opportunity, material wealth, hard work , the frontier and the concept of the American dream.

During the unit, there has also been an emphasis on analysis of a graphic novel and how this novel reflects on the American dream and immigration. We have also worked with rhetorical analysis of "The Gettysburg address" by Lincoln.


Materials
Thi Bui: "The Best We Could Do" (graphic novel), 2018

Kearney: "The frontier Heritage" (1984)

"American History" in: Contemporary American Society af David Nye, Akademisk Forlag 2005

"Understanding Americans" in: Targets, af Berntsen, Bårtvedt et. al.,. Gyldendal Uddannelse, 2001, pp. 170-173

"The Declaration of Independence" (1776) , https://founding.com/the-declaration-of-independence/the-declaration-of-independence/

"The Gettysburg Address" (1863) speech by Abraham Lincoln, http://www.d.umn.edu/~rmaclin/gettysburg-address.html
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Omfang Estimeret: 20,00 moduler
Dækker over: 15 moduler
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Titel 3 Man and nature

All Google slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qdKRKUnKW4WxDEUHVoIDw-VWacl8TYO8SN-0ce1Wa0c/edit?slide=id.g3cef91cd943_0_32#slide=id.g3cef91cd943_0_32

Contents:

This unit explores the relationship between man, nature and society. It looks into the portrayal of nature at different times in history and its impact on society.
Central focus points: Discourse analysis, the big 5 (for non-fiction analysis),  poetry analysis, film analysis, the sonnet form, British Romantic poets, the role of the poet, the Byronic hero, narrative non-fiction, essay writing (introduction, body text, conclusion)

Texts:
Chief Seattle (attr.): "Selling Our Land", 1854. (speech)
Eric Hoffer: "Nature and the city", 1968. (essay)
William Blake: "London", 1794 (poem)
William Wordsworth: "Preface to Lyrical Ballads", 1798 (preface to poetry collection)
William Wordsworth: "Composed upon Westminster Bridge", 1802 (poem)
William Wordsworth: "I wandered lonely as a cloud", 1807 (poem)
Sean Penn: Into the wild, 2007 (film)
Dr. Frederick Treves:"The Elephant Man" (excerpt of memoir)
Liz Jensen: "Survivor Syndrome", 2011 (short story)
Mark Slouka: "Crossing" (short story)
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Titel Afleveringsdato
Eng assignment 05 16-03-2026
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 16 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 4 Evil (American literary history)

Alle Google slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1e4Uz5L_6IUjzkOswCNlgJ-ZkCx-vbveqs2LAUxT2Rio/edit?slide=id.g3d094508ccf_0_108#slide=id.g3d094508ccf_0_108

Forløbet beskæftiger sig særligt med litteraturhistorie i USA, som kan knyttes til det overordnede emne "Evil". Vi har arbejdet med gotisk litteratur og forbundet den gotiske litteratur med romantikken. Vi har også arbejdet med den samfundsmæssige og historiske kontekst for postmodernismen.

Vi har primært analyseret fiktion nykritisk, men har også lavet biografisk læsning af Edgar Allan Poe, hvor vi har diskuteret, hvordan hans liv ses afspejlet i hans værker. Vi har lavet filmanalyse af "American Psycho" (og kortfilmen "Vincent") samt brugt det retoriske pentagram til at analysere non-fiktion teksten "Bad or Mad". Vi har også diskuteret Stephen Kings essay "Why We Crave Horror Movies"  

De fleste af teksterne er samlet i kompendiet, herunder også baggrundstekst om gotikken og Freuds personlighedsmodel (fra The Gothic Universe, Systime). Her er også en oversigt over postmodernisme fra Wider Contexts online.

Kernestof:
Edgar Allan Poe: “The Tell-Tale Heart” (1843) (Fields of Vision)
Edgar Allan Poe: “The Raven” (1845) (digt)
Stephen King: “Why We Crave Horror Movies” (1982) (fra Horror, Systime online)
Stephen King: "It" (excerpt from the novel)
Bret Easton Ellis: "Killing Child at Zoo" (1991) (Wider Contexts), uddrag fra romanen American Psycho.
American Psycho directed by Mary Harron (2000) (film)
Sean Spence: “Bad or Mad” (2004) (fra Wider Contexts)
Tim Burton: “Vincent” (1982) (kortfilm)
William Faulkner: "A Rose for Emily"
Tim Jonze: "From incel culture to the White House: American Psycho’s dark hold on modern masculinity", 29 Jan 2026

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Omfang Estimeret: 18,00 moduler
Dækker over: 19 moduler
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Titel 5 Gender, sexuality and inequality

All Google slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1HQh8lLu1yZk2QK1JTY5gn_37DwuGAsMgN3rkDyBsrBs/edit

During this course we have worked with definitions on biological sex, gender, sexuality, and inequality and how this can be discussed and expressed in different genres. There has been an emphasis on practicing oral proficiency as well as reflections (for example of whether or not it makes sense to do a queer reading of the film "Frozen").

There has been an emphasis on examining culture with this gender perspective, for example the culture of masculinity in the US (and the cowboy myth) and what the West can learn from Korean popstars' expression of masculinity.

We have worked with the following genres: song, slam poetry, speech, opinion articles, TV series episode

The class had a visit from an LGBTQ+ activist for which the class worked with understanding and applying terms such as: norms, normative, gender as a spectrum, non-binary, transgender, privilege, polyamory, monogamy, intersectionality, allyship

Texts:
* "Women's Suffrage | When and why did the Suffragettes turn to militancy?": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UPkmbgihEA&feature=youtu.be

* Emmeline Pankhurst: "I incite this meeting to rebellion", 1912 (speech)

* Lee Mokobe (he/him): "A powerful poem about what it feels like to be transgender" (slam poetry), 2015 https://www.ted.com/talks/lee_mokobe_a_powerful_poem_about_what_it_feels_like_to_be_transgender

* Paris Paloma: “Labour” (2023) (song and music video) https://youtu.be/jvU4xWsN7-A

* "Cowboys and Indians: How has the mythology of the wild west impacted
U.S. culture and identity?" by Zoe Rabbani, May 1st, 2021, in The Manchester Historian
* "Brokeback Mountain" by Annie Proulx, 1999, excerpt of the short story

"What K-pop’s beautiful men can teach us about masculinity" by Natalie Morin, Refiner29, May 12, 2020
https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2020/05/9674149/kpop-male-singers-masculinity

The first epidode of the series "Fellow Travelers", 2023

Aditional texts:
Lady Macbeth, act I, scene 5 – ‘Unsex me’ soliloquy (Macbeth, 1623)
“Gender and Sexuality - Vocabulary”
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Titel Afleveringsdato
Eng assignment 07 26-05-2026
Omfang Estimeret: 20,00 moduler
Dækker over: 14 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer