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Holdet 3a EN (2025/26) - Undervisningsbeskrivelse

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Termin(er)	2025/26
Institution	Frederikshavn Gymnasium
Fag og niveau	Engelsk A
Lærer(e)	Thomas Voigt Vejling
Hold	2025 EN/3a (3a EN)

Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb

Titel 1	The Canadian Experience
Titel 2	Growing up in the Postmodern World
Titel 3	Shakespearean Times
Titel 4	Future Technologies
Titel 5	Repetition

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Titel 1	The Canadian Experience Forløbet omkring Canada har fokuseret særligt på den canadiske litteraturtradition, med en introduktion til kerneforståelser i den canadiske litteraturkritik, med efterfølgende læsninger af eksempeltekster fra forskellige perioder af den canadiske litteraturkanon. De centrale principper handler om behandlingen af naturen som en medspiller i den canadiske historie og hvordan dette spiller ind i Canadas selvforståelse som land og dets identitet. Kernebegreberne til forløbet er: - Victim positions - Survival - Garrison Mentality Emnet afsluttes med et perspektiverende projekt med elevproduktioner som taler ind i den litterære strømning Kernestof (samlet 30 ns) : - "Conclusion to a Literary History of Canada", Northrop Frye, 1965 (uddrag i Canada: Native Peoples and Immigrants (ed. Inger Hastrup, 1981), s. 66-69 (ca. 3 ns) - "A Field of Wheat", Sinclair Ross (1968) (i Writing from Canada (ed. Jim Rice & Mike Hayhoe, 1994), s. 3-12 (ca. 8 ns) - Præsentation omkring "The Isolated North", m. inddragelse af Atwood's "victim positions" - "Late Nights on Air", Elizabeth Hay (2007, Penguin/Random House), (uddrag) s. 307-320) (ca. 8 ns) - "The Planters", Margaret Atwood (uddrag i Canada: Native Peoples and Immigrants (ed. Inger Hastrup, 1981), s. 55 (ca. 1 ns) - "Progressive Insanities of a Pioneer", Margaret Atwood (uddrag i Canada: Native Peoples and Immigrants (ed. Inger Hastrup, 1981), s. 57-60 (ca. 2 ns) - "The Loons", Margaret Laurence (fra "A Bird in the House"). I "Northern Lights" s. 49-57 (ed. Supplerende stof (samlet ca. 25 ns): "A Very Brief History of Canada", Claire Campbell (i Cross Country Canada (ed. Eva Pors, 2014), s. 10-25 (ca. 10 ns) - "Introduction to Indigenous Peoples of Canada", Robert Chr. Thomsen (i Cross Country Canada (ed. Eva Pors, 2014), s. 89-92 (ca. 3 ns) - "America is Sexy", Will Ferguson (i Cross Country Canada (ed. Eva Pors, 2014), s. 48-53 (ca. 3 ns) - Udvalg af "Heritage Minutes" fra https://www.historicacanada.ca/productions/minutes (ca. 3 ns) - "Green Grass, Running Water", Thomas King (1993, HarperCollins), (uddrag) s. 1-3, 9-15, 38-41 (ca. 6 ns)
Indhold	Kernestof: We're beginning our last year with English A-levels in a much more intimate setting - we'll go over some new "rules" for the new year to try and make the small class size work for us! We'll also look over your mock exam results and work a little with it Essay Rubric - STX.docx description A Very Brief History of Canada (CCC).pdf description In OneNote: Write a small summary (50-75 words) about your part of the text. Fill in the timeline-table as best you can. Finish reading the excerpt of Northrop Frye's conclusion to "Literary History of Canada". Focus is on understanding the broader lines, so write down three points/takeaways that you got from reading it. description Ferguson - America is Sexy (CCC).pdf description Canada - The Isolated North.pptx description Ross - A Field of Wheat.pdf Read until the marking in the text. Write down notes on: https://drc.usask.ca/projects/climate/ Read the rest of A Field of Wheat. Keep looking for interesting observations regarding Setting, nature and the literary theory. From your notes and things, write down a more structured paragraph of your style of writing analysis that you have done on "A Field of Wheat" Style of writing analysemodel.docx description Hay - Late Nights on Air.pdf we're reading this in class in prep for next time! description Individually, formulate 5 good analytical questions (work-questions) that you think will help bring the text's main points to light. Read the text before class and do the while-reading exercise (Write headlines for each paragraph) description Research the names Ishmael, Hawkeye, The Lone Ranger and Robinson Crusoe - their names are references, to what? Review our toolbox (in OneNote) for analysing Poetry - use the video as an example of a poetry analysis: Analyze ANY Poem With These Steps! Vi skal læse teksten her på timen Laurence - The Loons.pdf description Revisit your reading from last time and the questions you discussed in your groups - we'll begin class by having a collective discussion taking the starting point from your groups recordings. I'd also like to do an evaluation of our time spent so far - things you think that work well, and things you would change if you could. description Formulation for project: Choosing the book for the Postmodernity course. Options are: I'll be a few minutes late - we do not have to create our normal table setup as you'll be working on your projects We'll continue working on the project work. Hopefully you'll have time at the end of the module to practice your presentations of the material. If you need inspiration/a reminder of the texts and material we've covered, I've updated the "studieplan"
Omfang	Estimeret: Ikke angivet Dækker over: 14 moduler
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Titel 2	Growing up in the Postmodern World Forløbet "Growing up in the Postmodern World" er et studie i postmoderne stiltræk og den postmoderne strømning. Forløbet tager udgangspunkt i en filosofisk og sociokulturel forståelse af perioden efter 1945, med udgangspunkt i teoretikere som Derrida og Baudrillard. Igennem læsninger af eksempeltekster fælles udforskes stiltræk i postmoderne litteratur som: - Metafiction - Deconstruction - Fragmentation - Temporal distortion - Intertextuality Ved siden af den fælles undervisning læser eleverne selvvalgte værker fra en lærerkureret liste som i mindre eller højere grad kan ses som eksempler på postmoderne litteratur. Værkerne deler en tematik som berører det tyske litterære begreb "Bildungsroman", som omhandler bevægelsen fra barn til voksen, med særligt fokus på den indre udvikling i hovedkarakteren. Kernestof: - "Slaughterhouse 5 (chapter 1)", Kurt Vonnegut (1969) (ca. 12 ns) - "Orientation", Daniel Orozco (2011) (ca. 5 ns) - "The Lesson", Toni Cade Bambara (1972) (ca. 6 ns) + Elevernes selvvalgte værker (ca. 175-250 ns): - "The Catcher in the Rye", J.D. Salinger (1951) - "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime", Mark Haddon (2003) - "The Lord of the Flies", William Golding (1954) Supplerende stof: "Where the Crawdads Sing", dir. Olivia Newman, 2022 (ca. 30 ns) "Postmodernism explained for beginners! Jean Baudrillard Simulacra and Hyperreality explained" - The Media Insider: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D86_ptqd8I (ca. 3 ns)
Indhold	Kernestof: We'll continue working on the project work. Hopefully you'll have time at the end of the module to practice your presentations of the material. If you need inspiration/a reminder of the texts and material we've covered, I've updated the "studieplan" We're working with "Death By Landscape". Make sure you have properly prepared the text (it's in "Opgaver" and you have also had it handed out in paper). Essay on Death By Landscape.docx description Watch these two videos ahead of class as an introduction to get you thinking: Remember that you will be presenting your material on the Canada course in class. We'll do our presentations sitting down, but try to avoid looking at notes too much (writing key words etc.) Postmodernism - intro 2021.pptx description vocab for postmodernism.docx Little vocabulary exercise to help us remember key words. The black spots are when words do not have that particular word class. description Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut.pdf We've read the first chapter of Slaughterhouse 5 description You will get time to read in your books, so make sure you bring it! Before you get some reading time, we'll talk a little bit about Slaughterhouse 5 and your impressions from it. We'll work a little bit more with the grammar exercises about adverbs, and also read a short, different postmodern text and work with it. Orientation kopi.pdf description Remember, you must have read the first section of your book by today. We'll revisit your character diaries from "Orientation", do a little adverb exercise work and you'll get roughly 50 minutes of reading time. Third book-club meeting. Make sure you've read until the part listed in OneNote. You'll get your assignments back in class and the short answer questions from last week. We'll visit your assignments and then talk a bit about Bildung before the movie :) We're watching the rest of "Where the Crawdads Sing" and then a brief talk about the movie, your thoughts/analysis and relate it to the term "Bildung". We'll read a new text in the Postmodernity theme, and slowly start to wrap up ahead of the last Book Club! We'll try to review the course on Postmodernism together, and do a bit of final grammar work with pronouns. We began writing the "forløbsbeskrivelse" for the Postmodern course. You'll get a bit of time in the beginning of class to do it, and we'll share them with each other. If you were not here monday, I suggest that you spend a few minutes checking up on We're gonna work with an example of a grammar-set from a previous exam and take a look at the different exercises and how to solve them. Last module for the book-club. We'll be wrapping up your books with a writing exercise and we'll be creating our own reviews of the books to present. REVIEWS
Omfang	Estimeret: Ikke angivet Dækker over: 19 moduler
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Titel 3	Shakespearean Times Forløbet er et periodestudium i Elizabethan England med særligt fokus på Shakespeares forfatterskab, herunder læsning af udvalgte sonnetter samt uddrag af Macbeth. Der er fokus på fremførelse og fortolkning af den dramatiske tekst som et kerneelement i undervisningen. Fokus for læsningen er primært det tematiske indhold i Macbeth, som bliver parallelført til mere moderne fortællinger og perspektiver, for at understrege Shakespeares teksters eviggyldige tematikker. Key period concepts: - Humanism - Great Chain of Being - Tragedy - Catharsis Kernestof (samlet 27,5 ns): "Historical Context" i Bo Høpfner & Jesper Kaalund: "Romeo & Juliet", s. 6-15 (ca. 6 ns) Shakespeare Sonnets (ca. 1 ns): - Sonnet 29 - Sonnet 73 Excerpts from Macbeth (ca. 20,5 ns): - Act 1, sc. 1, 3, 5 - Act 2, sc. 1+2 - Act 3, sc. 2 - Act 4, sc. 1 - Act 5, sc. 3+5 Supplerende stof (samlet 62 ns) : "A Verily New Hope" i Bo Høpfner & Jesper Kaalund: "Romeo & Juliet", s. 24-31 (ca. 4 ns) "Tragedy" i Bo Høpfner & Jesper Kaalund: "Romeo & Juliet", s. 46-53 (ca. 4 ns) "What Is a Sonnet", https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-a-sonnet-2985266 (ca. 2 ns) "House of Cards", season 1, episode 1 (dir. David Fincher, author Beau Willimon) (ca. 15 ns) "Macbeth" (2015, dir. Justin Kurzel) (ca. 30 ns) Udvalgte klip fra "Act 4, sc. 1" af Polanski (1971) og Goold (2010) versionerne (ca. 5 ns) "Act 1, sc. 5", 1979 (dir. Trevor Nunn) (ca. 2 ns)
Indhold	Kernestof: I'll begin by asking you a question: "What do you know about history in the 1500's?". Consider this question at home ahead of class. Shakespeare - Historical Context.pdf description Excerpt for reading: A Verily New Hope - Bo Høpfner Jesper Clausen excerpt.pdf description https://www.literarygenius.info/shakespeare-insults-dictionary.htm Shakespeare common words.pptx description Sonnet 29 Fields of Vision.pdf description Please prepare Sonnet 73 https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45099/sonnet-73-that-time-of-year-thou-mayst-in-me-behold If there's questions regarding the essay, we can have a chat about it at the start of class. A better version of a Shakespeare Dictionary: https://www.shakespeareswords.com/Public/Glossary.aspx Macbeth excerpts.pdf (text-compendium for Macbeth, I've selected scenes that we're going to read) description Rehearse sc. 1 from Act 1 in your respective groups at home so you know the lines. You'll get time to do a dress rehearsal :) Finish the comprehension questions for sc. 1 + 3 We'll talk a bit of SRP after we've finished working with scene 3, approaches, things to be mindful of etc. We'll begin by recapping what we saw yesterday - prepare a one-minute summary of the action. I'll choose someone at random to present Search at home for images of "Lady Macbeth" from different productions/films. Find the one you think fits your impression of Lady Macbeth (that is not Marion Cotillard from the movie we saw) Rehearse with your partner ahead of class - one person will be "acting", one person will be speaking. Please finish the grammar exercise posted in OneNote for 12/1 ahead of class. Practice your part of the soliloquy from Act 2, sc. 1 with your emotion. Use a mirror at home so you become aware of your facial expressions https://www.litcharts.com/lit/macbeth https://myshakespeare.com/macbeth/act-3-scene-2 See the assignment in "Opgaver" - make sure to come prepared with a read text and notes so you're ready to write! Read the summary of Act 4, sc. 1 you can find at the top of the page - we'll be reviewing the scene in several different versions, so start by understanding the basic content. Act 4, sc. 1 arbejdsark.docx description Romeo & Juliet Character Map.docx description Read Act 5, sc. 3 ahead of class. Write a short report like the ones Macbeth has received at the start of the scene about news from the frontlines. Write down detailed notes for the "tomorrow and tomorrow" monologue in sc. 5. You need to consider each line and how it could/should be spoken dramatically. Practice speaking the lines as well (from "She should have died hereafter..." to "Signifying Vi ses på Teams - vi kigger på terminsprøve i stedet for at køre Shakespeare færdigt, og så samler vi det op på mandag. Engelsk stx A_retteark_2025.docx description We're continuing the work with House of Cards we began last time and we're gonna "finish" Shakespeare and Macbeth. We'll revisit your own corrections to the midterms - talk strategies and make a collective sheet of things to remember when writing the essay. Read the essay that I handed out to you on tuesday - give the essay a grade with a short justification!
Omfang	Estimeret: Ikke angivet Dækker over: 22 moduler
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Titel 4	Future Technologies Formålet med forløbet i Technology and Ethics er at undersøge en større diskussion i verdenen globalt, både i Danmark men også i de engelsktalende lande. Gennem arbejde med forskellige fremstillinger af teknologi undersøger vi bredt teknologiens anvendelser og synet på udviklingen. Forløbet munder ud i elevpræsentationer af konkrete teknologiske udviklinger inden for de sidste 20 år og en vurdering af disse ud fra en teoretisk rammesætning. Kernestof (36,1 ns): - Aldous Huxley: "Brave New World" (1932), chapter 1 (10 ns) - "The Shortest Science Fiction Story Ever Written", in Jesper Kaalund: "The Future is Written" (Columbus, 2024), p. 46 (0,1 ns) - Manuel Velasquez et. al: "Thinking Ethically" in Merethe Laustsen Urth: "Technology and Society" (Systime, 2022), p. 245-249 (4 ns) - Alan Aster: "My A. I. Girlfriend" in Jesper Kaalund: "The Future is Written", (Columbus, 2024), p. 120 (1 ns) - Emma Berthold: "AI and the Robotics Revolution" in Merethe Laustsen Urth: "Technology and Society" (Systime, 2022), p. 239-242 (2 ns) - Louisa Hall (2017): "How We Feel about Robots that Feel" in Jesper Kaalund: "The Future is Written", (Columbus, 2024), p. 156-162 (4 ns) - "Nosedive", Black Mirror Season 3, ep. 1 (dir. Joe Wright) (15 ns) Supplerende stof (19 ns): - Andrea Loubier: "Is Society Moving In The Right Direction with Technology Rapidly Taking Over The World", Forbes, June 1 (2021) (3 ns) - "Robots and A. I." in Jesper Kaalund: "The Future is Written", (Columbus, 2024), p. 19-21 (2 ns) - "Be Right Back", Black Mirror Season 2, ep. 1 (dir. Owen Harris) (12 ns) - Elle Hunt (2016): "Peeple, the 'Yelp for people' review app, launches in North America on Monday", The Guardian (2 ns)
Indhold	Kernestof: Our last course will be about Future Technologies - attached is the compendium we'll be working with. description Read p. 15-19 in the compendium - remember the reading focus (bottom p. 14) Groups: No homework :) Read the article on p. 34 ahead of class. Please take note and write down observations on how the article's style of writing is constructed. Make sure you finish your short sci-fi fiction! Read p. 44-46 in the compendium. Consider Asimov's three laws and summarise them in your own words. Additionally look up "The Empty Chair" technique used in psychotherapy. You can use the links provided or do your own search: Please answer the following questions from home: For those who might've left too early or was not present, please watch the episode of Black Mirror (Season 2) titled "Be Right Back" in order to participate in class. If you do not have access to Netflix, I have a DVD-copy you can borrow. No real homework. I'm preparing a bunch of vocabulary games to get your vocabulary updated a bit (considering our last sessions before SRP), so I've attached a word list that we'll be using words from. description Please read the article on p. 52-54 in the compendium. As you read, find examples of how AI and robotics may change society. If anyone would like to chat about grades, we'll do it in this lesson as well :) Read the article from p. 59 to 63 in the compendium. Write down notes for following focus: You will have the module to begin your presentations that are due May 1st. Groups made in class: Read the article linked below and prepare an oral summarisation of the article that takes exactly 60 seconds You'll have the first 30 minutes to finish and prep your presentations!
Omfang	Estimeret: 12,00 moduler Dækker over: 15 moduler
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Titel 5	Repetition Repetition af det 3. årige forløb. Der er fokus på elevernes eget medansvar i repetitionsarbejdet med elevudarbejdede repetitionsøvelser og lege.
Indhold	Kernestof: We're gonna begin our repetition - and I'm giving you guys a lot of responsibility in terms of getting the "thing" done. I'll introduce a framework and a task that you'll be working with for the entire lesson. Make sure you've checked the "studieplan" (for both 3a EN but also for our 2a En class, which is also part of the curriculum) ahead of class, and made sure you have all the texts/materials that are listed - if not, you need to let me know at the star Battleships template.docx Use this to make your battleship game-board description Battleships template example.docx Here's an example of a finished game-board. You can use the wording of the questions as inspiration. description Skabelon til forløbsrepetition Engelsk.docx Should you finish your board, feel free to begin filling out this template for your topic. It's a great tool for revising and creating a good overview of notes to texts in a topic. description We'll be playing the games you guys made for two of the courses for the exam. I've uploaded the "forløbsrepetition"-skabeloner, which you should look at and fill out by reading your notes for the texts from the two courses and make sure you remember Battleships British Society.docx Battleships Being Black in America.docx Battleships Canada.docx Battleships Future Technologies.docx Battleships Shakespeare.docx Remember to do yourselves the service of prepping for the battleships. If you do not remember the texts in the course, look at your notes/the texts and jog your memory. I've changed course a bit as I found out that the "Grønne Bord" text fits quite nicely into our Future Technologies course, so we'll use that text as our model for an exam before you guys get to try a mock exam on Monday. Read this text ahead of class. You will get 30 minutes to individually prep (so you won't have the full 60 minutes here on class), so make sure you've done some homework. We'll do a rotating Mock Exam structure description You'll get your written assignments back in Lectio ahead of class. Look at my comments and prepare questions/points for a short talk I'd like to have with each of you about your assignment. We'll also talk do's and don't's for the written exam and perhaps do a few grammar exercises if we have time. Practice options for grammar: https://app.minlaering.dk/opgavesaet/fag/1/type/5 I'll bring breakfast!
Omfang	Estimeret: 8,00 moduler Dækker over: 7 moduler
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