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Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin(er) 2023/24 - 2025/26
Institution Hjørring Gymnasium / STX og HF
Fag og niveau Engelsk A
Lærer(e) Brit Hjarsbech Uhrskov Nielsen
Hold 2023 EN/b (1b EN, 2b EN, 3b EN)

Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 VÆRKLÆSNING - NORMAL PEOPLE
Titel 2 CHOICES
Titel 3 EKSAMEN: FANTASY - PART ONE
Titel 4 SCOTLAND
Titel 5 EKSAMEN: FANTASY - PART TWO
Titel 6 EKSAMEN: THE BRITISH EMPIRE - INDIA
Titel 7 VÆRKLÆSNING - ANIMAL FARM
Titel 8 EKSAMEN: THE AMERICAN DREAM OR NIGHTMARE
Titel 9 EKSAMEN: HORROR
Titel 10 EKSAMEN: SHAKESPEARE AND HIS TIME
Titel 11 MUSIC AS A SELF-HELP GUIDE
Titel 12 HJÆLPEMIDLER

Beskrivelse af de enkelte undervisningsforløb (1 skema for hvert forløb)
Titel 1 VÆRKLÆSNING - NORMAL PEOPLE

NORMAL PEOPLE

Reading a novel.

Focus is on characterisation and the development (if any?) of the characters throughout the novel.
Focus on analysis and language: close reading and the use of P.E.E.

Working with various aspects of choices. Linking the novel to the next theme: Choices.

Novel:
Sally Rooney: "Normal People" (2018)

Forløbets omfang: 200 ns
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 35,00 moduler
Dækker over: 38 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 2 CHOICES

Choices

Linking to the work we did on Sally Rooney's "Normal People".

Focus on various choices.
Analytical focus, close reading, learning the literary terms etc.

Texts from the anthology:
"Choices - en grundbog til 1.g", Mette Herman, Columbus, 2023

Texts read:
Jojoba Mansell: "Hard Choices" (poem, 2012)
Sonya C. Dodd: "New Beginnings" (short story, 2013)
Jon Krakauer: "Into the Wild" (excerpt, non-fiction novel, 1996)

Film:
Sean Penn: "Into the Wild" (2007)

Forløbets omfang: 25 ns
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 22,00 moduler
Dækker over: 23 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 3 EKSAMEN: FANTASY - PART ONE

FANTASY

Forløbet introducerer fantasygenren og "fantasy terms" fra antologien "Worlds of Fantasy".
Fokus er på tekstanalyse generelt også: characters and character development, point of no return, theme.

Background texts + theory / terms:
"Entering worlds of fantasy" (from "Worlds of Fantasy" anthology)

Film:
Jim Henson: "Labyrinth" (1986)

Forløbets omfang: 25 ns
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 8,00 moduler
Dækker over: 7 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 4 SCOTLAND

SCOTLAND

Forløb i forbindelse med klassens studietur til Edinburgh.
Forløbet introducerer kort Skotlands historie, skotsk sprog, ønsket om skotsk uafhængighed.

Poetry:

Robert Burns:
Auld Lang Syne (video: Auld Lang Syne for the noseflute: NoseFluter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lmnPn-jL5g
Red Red Rose
Video: Sam Heughan "Address to the Haggis": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vRSOIOjBQw

Len Pennie: "Poyums":
Anthology of poems in the Scots language. The students chose one to work with.
Video: Len Pennie recites "Hings Tae Mind": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHGMjU6_10I (Oct 2023)

Texts:
Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister: "Independence in the modern world. Wealthier, happier, fairer: why not Scotland?" - from Scottish Government, June 14 2022: https://www.gov.scot/publications/independence-modern-world-wealthier-happier-fairer-not-scotland/
Jack Dudgeon: "Imagine a Country" (2020) (from Val McDermid's "Imagine a Country - Ideas for a Better Future" (2020) - a collection of essays/personal opinion pieces on Scotland/Scottish Independence)

Explainer / historical background videos:
Geodiode: "The History of Scotland" (27 mins): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc4Czmt56Vg

Forløbets omfang: 25 ns
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 20,00 moduler
Dækker over: 22 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 5 EKSAMEN: FANTASY - PART TWO

FANTASY - PART TWO

Se beskrivelse og teorimateriale i PART ONE

Texts:
From "Worlds of Fantasy"-anthology, Systime:
C.S. Lewis: The Narnia Chronicles (excerpt from the novel) (1950)
J.R.R. Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring: "The Bridge of Khazad-Dûm" (excerpt from the novel) (1954)

Other texts:
J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone: Chapter One:  "The Boy Who Lived" (1997)
J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Chapter One: "The Dark Lord Ascending" (2007)

Film:
Peter Jackson: "The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring" (2001)

Forløbets omfang: 75 ns
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 18,00 moduler
Dækker over: 18 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 6 EKSAMEN: THE BRITISH EMPIRE - INDIA

THE BRITISH EMPIRE - INDIA

Forløbet introducerer kort det britiske imperiums historie med nedslag i den tidlige periode.
Fokus er på "the colonizers" overfor "the colonized".

Background texts:
From Wider Contexts-anthology: "General questions / quiz".
From Narrating India-anthology: The East India Company and the British Raj, Bollywood: Formula Films and Genre Expectations

Texts:
William Shakespeare: "The Tempest" (excerpt, drama), 1611
Khushwant Singh: "Karma" (short story), 1950

Film:
Ashutosh Gowariker (director): "Lagaan" (2001)

Forløbets omfang: 50 ns
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 17,00 moduler
Dækker over: 18 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 7 VÆRKLÆSNING - ANIMAL FARM

ANIMAL FARM

Værklæsning, med særligt fokus på propaganda, allegories, herd behaviour and how power corrupts.

Texts:
George Orwell: "Animal Farm", 1945
(Systime-udgave med arbejdsspørgsmål, Trine Østergaard, 2021)

Forløbets omfang: 150 ns
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 8,00 moduler
Dækker over: 8 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 8 EKSAMEN: THE AMERICAN DREAM OR NIGHTMARE

THE AMERICAN DREAM OR NIGHTMARE

The theme explores the idea of The American Dream, its origin and its development. What has happened to the dream?

Texts:
The Declaration of Independence (excerpt, 1776)
+ dramatic reading of the Declaration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEPX1TWfMgI
The Constitution of The United States (excerpt, 1787)
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/1600/constitution

Jonathan Hunt: "The Negro's Place in Nature" (scientific article, excerpt, 1863)

John Clellon Holmes: "This is the Beat Generation" (article, The New York Times Magazine, 1952) (from "The Beat Generation - an Introduction" antologi, Praxis)
"Where are we going, America?" introduction text (from "The Beat Generation - an Introduction" antologi, Praxis)

Short story:
Dorothy Parker: "Arrangement in Black and White" (short story, 1927)

Excerpt from a novel:
Jack Kerouac: "On the Road" (novel, excerpt from Chapter 1, 1957) (from "The Beat Generation - an Introduction" antologi, Praxis)

Poems:
Emma Lazarus': "The New Colossus" (poem, 1883)
Walt Whitman: "I Hear America Singing" (poem, 1860)
Langston Hughes: "I, Too" (poem, 1925)
Allen Ginsberg: "Howl" (poem, part 1, 1956)

Speech:
Martin Luther King: "I Have a Dream" (speech, 1963)
American Rhetorics audio: https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm

Video:
Jonathan Groff, Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton: "You'll Be Back" (song, 2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5JAjAR_AjY&list=RDi5JAjAR_AjY&start_radio=1

Film:
John G. Avildsen: "Rocky" (1976)
John Lasseter: "Cars" (2006)

Opinion pieces:
Robert Reich: "The Sleeping Giant is Awakening" (Sep 23, 2025) https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-sleeping-giant-is-awakening
Robert Reich: "Sunday thought: The slumbering giant is awakening" (Sep 28, 2025) https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-7f6?utm_source=publication-search

Forløbets omfang: 150 ns
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 32,00 moduler
Dækker over: 33 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 9 EKSAMEN: HORROR

HORROR

Introduction to the horror genre, horror characteristics.

Background texts, from the "Horror - a book about texts that scare you", Johanne Hansen og Rasmus Hansen, Systime, 2017:
Horror: A mirror of the human psyche
Reading, writing and watching with Freud - Freudian psychology and horror fiction
Freud: "The Uncanny" (extract, 1919)
How modern man was scared - Horror in Victorian Britain - Imagining and creating the monster

Texts:
Stephen King: Why We Crave Horror Movies (essay, 1982)
Bram Stoker: Dracula - "The Morning of 16 May" (novel, excerpt, 1897)

Charles Dickens: "A Christmas Carol" - Stave 1: "Marley's Ghost" + excerpt Stave 3: "The Second of the Three Spirits" (novel, 1843)
A Christmas Carol audiobook, read by Elliot Fitzpatrick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe0jzsj_Kpc

Film:
Robert Zemeckis: "A Christmas Carol" (2009)

Forløbets omfang: 50 ns
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 15,00 moduler
Dækker over: 15 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 10 EKSAMEN: SHAKESPEARE AND HIS TIME

SHAKESPEARE AND HIS TIME

Introduction to Shakespeare's language, the Elizabethan World Picture, imagery and metaphors etc.

Reading parts of the play Macbeth:

Act 1: Scenes 1, 2, 3, 5, 7
Act 2: Scenes 2, 4
Act 3: Scene 4
Act 4: Scenes 1, 3
Act 5: Scenes 5, 8

Texts:
Ole Juul Lund: background text on "The Elizabethan World Picture"
From: MACBETH, Gyldendal (1994)

Background texts / guide:
Understanding the play
Acts scenes and soliloquies
How the play was acted
The play's in poetry and prose
Understanding the poetry
Some tricky old words
From GSCE Books: "Macbeth - The Text Guide".

Films:
John Madden: Shakespeare in Love (1998)

Forløbets omfang: 65 ns
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 20,00 moduler
Dækker over: 21 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 11 MUSIC AS A SELF-HELP GUIDE

MUSIC AS A SELF-HELP GUIDE

Forløbet præsenterer forskellige idéer omkring musikkens muligheder. Analyse af non-fiction, fiction og lyrics er i fokus.
Klassen arbejder med egne små fremlæggelser af selvvalgt musik.

Texts:
The New Yorker: Joe Garcia: "Listening to Taylor Swift in Prison" (Opinion piece, Sep 2, 2023) https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/listening-to-taylor-swift-in-prison

The Guardian: Emma Lee-Moss: "Emmy the Great: "It's time to retire English as pop's lingua franca" (article, opinion piece, May 30, 2016) https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/may/30/emmy-the-great-its-time-to-retire-english-as-pops-lingua-franca

Carson McCullers: "Wunderkind" (short story) https://static.oprah.com/images/obc_classic/book/2004/thlh/thlh_wunderkind.pdf


TEDTalk:
Sadie Higgins: "Be The Conductor: Using Music to Navigate Your Emotions" (TEDTalk, 2025) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMFALpw7VzM

Forløbets omfang: 15 ns
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 15,00 moduler
Dækker over: 16 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 12 HJÆLPEMIDLER

TILLADTE HJÆLPEMIDLER

Klassen har arbejdet med følgende online hjælpemidler:

MinLæring: https://www.minlaering.dk

Ordbogen.com: https://www.ordbogen.com (dansk-engelsk, engelsk-dansk, engelsk-engelsk, synonymer osv.)

Oxford Learner's Dictionaries: https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com (engelsk-engelsk ordbog, synonymer, sammenhæng)
Indhold
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 0 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer