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Undervisningsbeskrivelse

Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin(er) 2023/24 - 2024/25
Institution Aalborghus Gymnasium
Fag og niveau Engelsk B
Lærer(e) John Mahoney, Per Hessellund Frederiksen
Hold 2023 En/s (1s En, 2s En)

Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 1. Growing Up
Titel 2 2. National and Cultural Identity
Titel 3 3. EXAM TOPIC: America
Titel 4 4. EXAM TOPIC: AUSTRALIA: Outlaws and Outsiders
Titel 5 5. EXAM TOPIC: DYSTOPIAN FICTION inkl. værklæsning
Titel 6 6. EXAM TOPIC: CLASSIC COMIC BOOK SUPERHEROES
Titel 7 Løvlige links og hjælpemidler til eksamen

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

Fokusområder i dette forløb er:
- Arbejde med opvækst i Danmark og andre steder i verden.
- Overgang fra barn til voksen. Manddomsprøver, ritualer ('rites of passage').
- At flytte hjemmefra
- Mobning
- Feminisme, opvækst og "gender equality".
- Identitetsdannelse

Samlet sidetal, inkl. film: 42

Kernetekster:
- "I Changed My Mind About Growing Up" - Chun Sun. Fra "The Collegian", California State University - Oct. 21, 2005 (Tekst ikke længere tilgængelig på website).
- "The Beginning of Tomorrow" - Charles E. Turner. Fra "Windows on the World", Systime, 1999.
- "Growing Up Potter" - Time Magazine, 7. Nov, 2005. Fra Time Magazine website, 31. Okt. 2005.
- "Indian Camp" - Ernest Hemingway, 1921. Fra "Contexts", Gyldendal, 2004.
- "HeforShe" - Emma Watson. Tale til U.N. om HeforShe-kampagnen, 2014. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkjW9PZBRfk&t=17s
- "PM's Wife Crusades Against Bullies" - Kamal Ahmed, The Observer, 11. Maj 2002. Fra "Contexts", Gyldendal, 2004.

Supplerende materiale: Musik, Film, TV, etc.
- "She's Leaving Home" - John Lennon and Paul McCartney, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts' Club Band, 1967. Fra "50 tekster", Gyldendal, 1988.
- "Cat's in the Cradle" - Harry Chapin. Fra "Vereties & Balderdash", 1974 (tekst fundet på nettet).
- "Onwards" - Disney/Pixar Studios, 2020 (DVD).
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 22 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
  • Forelæsninger
  • Gruppearbejde
  • Individuelt arbejde
  • Lærerstyret undervisning
  • Pararbejde
  • Projektarbejde

Titel 2 2. National and Cultural Identity

Fokusområder i dette forløb:
- Det engelske sprogs udvikling, og engelsk som lingua franca.
- Kort rids af Storbritanniens historie
- Hvad vil det sige at være Amerikaner/Tysker/Brite/Dansker? (Mind Map)
- Gruppearbejde med det Britiske klassesystem (før 2013-versionen)
- National og kulturel identitet. Hvordan ser vi os selv? Hvordan ser andre os?
- Hvordan skaber man sig en identitet i en fremmed kultur? Når man er fanget mellem to kulturer?
- Identitetsskabelse gennem en subkultur (skinheads). At passe ind. Gruppepres.

Samlet sidetal, inkl. film: 46

Historisk baggrund:
- "What's in a Name?" - Fra "Life in the United Kingdom", 2007
- "Britain - A Sense of the Past" - Fra "Targets", Gyldendal Uddannelse, 2001
- "English and Me" - (flere små kapitler, der gennemgår det engelske sprogs udvikling over de sidste 1000 år). Fra "Worlds of English" (side 10-23), Systime, 2010.

Kernetekster:
- "Working-Class Playwright - Monty Python's Flying Circus." Fra "Worlds of English", Systime, 2010. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLoVF7vcBtY)
- "Meet the Danes 1-4" (billedanalyse). Fra "Windows on the World", Systime, 1999.
- "For 'New Danes', Differences Create a Divide" - Roger Cohen. Fra www.nytimes.com, 18. dec. 2000
- "You Can't Go Home Again" - Tariq Ramadan. Fra "Contexts", Gyldendal, 2004.

Supplerende tekster: Musik, Film, TV, etc
- Monty Python: "Original Four Yorkshiremen sketch" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eDaSvRO9xA)
- "This is England" - film af Shane Meadows, UK Film Council, 2007.
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 20 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
  • Forelæsninger
  • Gruppearbejde
  • Individuelt arbejde
  • Lærerstyret undervisning
  • Pararbejde

Titel 3 3. EXAM TOPIC: America

Fokusområder for dette forløb:
- Det historiske grundlag for de Amerikanske værdier.
- Informationssøgning om vigtige, historiske dokumenter.
- Gruppearbejde med udarbejdelse af undervisningsmateriale og fremlæggelser af disse dokumenter (Declaration of Independence, The US Constitution + Amendments, The Emancipation Proclamation)
- "Den Amerikanske Drøm" set fra forskellige vinkler i nutiden. Lever drømmen? Hvordan står det til med 'visionen'?
- (politisk) retorik, herunder appelformer og retoriske strategier/virkemidler

Samlet sidetal, inkl. film: 40

Historisk baggrund:
- "The Frontier Heritage" (afsnit) - Fra "The American Way - An Introduction to American Culture", Prentice Hall, 1984.

Informationssøgning, læsning, og gruppevis fremlæggelse:
- "The Declaration of Independence" (4. juli, 1776)
- "The Constitution" (1787)
- "The Emancipation Proclamation" (1. janur, 1863)

Kernetekster:
- "Arnold Schwarzenegger" - Studs Terkel. Fra "The Sky's the Limit", Systime, 1984.
- "La Puerta" - José Antonio Burciago. Fra "Mirrors Beneath the Earth", 1992
- "The President Speaks on Fixing America's Broken Immigration System" - Barack Obama, 21. november, 2014. Transcript fra: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/11/20/remarks-president-address-nation-immigration (tilgået 30/4, 2024)
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q_Xk66gsRU (tilgået 30/4, 2024)


Supplerende tekster: Musik, Film, TV, etc.
- "National Treasure" - Walt Disney Pictures, 2004. Producer: Jerry Bruckheimer (DVD)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 14 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
  • Forelæsninger
  • Gruppearbejde
  • Individuelt arbejde
  • Lærerstyret undervisning
  • Pararbejde
  • Projektarbejde

Titel 4 4. EXAM TOPIC: AUSTRALIA: Outlaws and Outsiders

In this topic, the focus has been on two groups of people who have
traditionally been outsiders in the history of Australia: outlaws (British
criminals subjected to transportation to the colony of Australia to serve their
prison term, or offspring of such criminals - e.g. Ned Kelly) and outcasts (half-
caste Aboriginal people like Molly (in "Rabbit-Proof Fence") and Mary (in
"N'goola")). We have worked with the Aboriginal culture and religion (especially
the concept of the Dreaming and the Aboriginal creation myth) as well as the
concept of the Stolen Generation. Finally, we have worked on how our analyses
and understanding of the texts in this topic are influenced by viewing the texts
through a Postcolonial lens.

Link to folder containing documents used in this topic: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1mvX8Mcb_2PJNiLlVVJ_KgHXeLzwOoYvX?usp=sharing

Core material:
1) article: “Ned Kelly: The Outlaw Who Divides a Nation” by Phil Mercer, BBC News, 20 January 2013. Focus: argument analysis; newsworthiness; modes of appeal; what decides if a historical figure is remembered as a hero or a villain.  
2) short story: "N'goola" (1959) by Katharine Prichard. Focus: Issue of RACE (skin-color);
Importance of the SETTING; stylistic analysis (written assignment); parallels
between Mary's and Molly's stories; internal conflict.
3) film: "Rabbit-Proof Fence" (2002), dir. Noyce. Focus: characterization,
cinematic techniques; theme of Nature = the Feminine vs. Civilization = the
Masculine. Link to GoogleDoc with analysis of short sequences: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ml_MflnTojYlm418bmlRoYeu1PiUoOADJSS45L3rz-4/edit?tab=t.0
4) short story: ”Once Giants Roamed the Earth” (2004) by Rosaleen Love. Focus: cultural appropriation (vs. appreciation); summary writing; anti-colonial resistance.

Supplementary material:
a) Ned Kelly: https://digital-classroom.nma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-07/6._in_search_of_ned_kelly_hero_or_villain.pdf
b) The voyage to Australia for convicts from the British Isles turned colonists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3fm2skYbdg
c) Video 1: The Ancient Cosmic Spirituality of Aboriginal Australians
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU2xCWZTlbw
d) Video 2: The Secret of Dreaming: An Australian Aboriginal Myth of Creation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYgdBRCb88o
e) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wikX7V3nXDE&t=12s
A Look Inside the Heartbreaking Story of Australia's "Stolen Generation." (written assignment)
f) “Waltzing Mathilda” (1895) performed by Slim Dusty. (Lyrics: Banja Paterson; Music: Christina MacPherson).
g) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y1T3JfzRGE - What Is It Like to Be Aboriginal? | Tui Raven. Jan 10, 2018
h) ex-Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s 2008 apology to the Stolen Generations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3TZOGpG6cM
i) My notes: “Reading through a Postcolonial lens”
j) https://theconversation.com/10-ways-aboriginal-australians-made-english-their-own-128219
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 16 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 5 5. EXAM TOPIC: DYSTOPIAN FICTION inkl. værklæsning

What informs a dystopia? What kind of control forms tend to play roles in
dystopias? What are the correlations between dystopia and utopia, and were
masters of sci-fi dystopia like Vonnegut, Bradbury and Atwood prophets?
These have been some of the chief questions we worked with in this topic
along with parallels between the works we read and the American society of
today.

This theme has also provided the context for the class' reading of a graphic novel (4 groups of students read and worked on the novel using the Literature Circle structure).

LINK to class notes GoogleDoc for this topic: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GFjRzqAbTQCvd6GRS_3MItwi2tsSWMhNXNqXsbHJ01A/edit?usp=sharing

Core material:
1) "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut. Focus: Proving types of dystopian control. Film analysis. "2081" - film based on the short story --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEgOuZzjI8o
2) "The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury. Focus: conflicts, technological dystopian control, PEEL (textual) analysis --> characterization; inter-character relationships; symbolism. Class notes from this analysis: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18MFjy_7_N-EoKHkHn2Y8VOfecWtQOF2blKeVMR5inBw/edit?usp=sharing
3) “2 + 2 = 5”  (dir. Babak Anvari, 2011) - short film. (written assignment)

4)  "Værklæsning" in Literature Circles:
V for Vendetta, “Vertigo” (Book One) - by Alan Moore and David Lloyd (1982). Link to reading guide for this first book of V for Vendetta: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kxRJ9vuT_SZhBi0S5H-iC27B7Npy0ASs1jx4INLIHqE/edit?tab=t.0

Supplementary material:
a) TED ED presentation: How to recognize a dystopia - Alex Gendler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a6kbU88wu0
b) https://quizlet.com/dk/932928938/utopia-and-dystopia-english-review-
flash-cards/?i=7w1dp&x=1jqt
c) https://quizlet.com/dk/932942003/themes-of-dystopian-fiction-flash-cards/
d) From Blade Runner (dir. Scott, 1982): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1jXmJmmj3o&t=265s
e) From V for Vendetta (dir. McTeige, 2006) – start from approx. 1:35  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJlgkgiBlTg
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 16 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 6 6. EXAM TOPIC: CLASSIC COMIC BOOK SUPERHEROES

In this topic, we have worked with comic book analysis theory and paired that with an overview of the American cultural and socio-historical connections in the development of the comic book medium and classic comic book superheroes -- especially Superman and Batman. In short, we have tried to get a sense of how comic books can be viewed as modern American mythology.

LINK to the class notes GoogleDoc for this topic: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ElWp94wI63kFwuBzW-5gqQYQRsbe-2S961964Ie8MHM/edit?usp=sharing

PRIMARY MATERIAL:
1. Batman, Superman and Spiderman origin strips: Superhero TYPES?
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e2223JjwgygsdWWktrbbMsJ0TgRQINg5V3ubvRNUIEs/edit?tab=t.0

2. Lecture: ”Superman and Batman”, Cliff Jacobs. In-depth investigation of the two heroes’ origins and beings.

3. 1st Superman issue:  Action Comics #1, June 1938
https://archive.org/details/superman-1938-issue-1 -

4. 1st Batman: Detective Comics #27 May 1939.
https://archive.org/details/batman-the-golden-age-vol.-01-2016-get-comics.-info/page/n5/mode/2up

5. excerpts from Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud. Focus areas: ICON (pp. 26-27 + 30-31 (pp. 1 + 2 in our set of handouts)); COLOR (pp. 190 – 191 (p. 12 in our set of handouts)); MOTION (pp. 110 – 111 (p. 9 in our set of handouts)); CLOSURE (pp. 62-63 + 66-67 + 70-73 (pp. 5-8 in our set of handouts)); WRITING/LANGUAGE (pp. 46 – 47 (p. 3 in our set of handouts)); EMOTION (pp. 118 – 119 (p. 10 in our set of handouts)); SENSES (pp. 120 – 121 (p. 11 in our set of handouts).

6. Detective Comics #69, Nov. 1942 – starts on p. 167 in this collection called The Golden Age of Batman volume 4: https://archive.org/details/batman-the-golden-age-v-04-2018-digital-son-of-ultron-empire/page/n1/mode/2up

ADDITIONAL MATERIAL
- Scott McCloud: The visual magic of comics TED talk https://www.ted.com/talks/scott_mccloud_the_visual_magic_of_comics?language=en%20
- https://quizlet.com/dk/1015555828/the-visual-magic-of-comics-flash-cards/?i=7w1dp&x=1qqt

- the Hero’s Journey connected to The Hunger Games: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-makes-a-hero-matthew-winkler

- Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked – History Channel documentary (1.5 hours long)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygx_rUJ3XaI

- "Create your own superhero" - storyboarding activity
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 16 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 7 Løvlige links og hjælpemidler til eksamen

Her er en oversigt over tilladte hjælpemidler og links. Bemærk at der også præciseres nogle ting, som IKKE må bruges under eksamen.

Grammatik:
Hermann, Mette og Poul Tornøe. Getting Started (grammatik øvelsesbog). Gyldendal: København, 2020.

Ordbøger: DA/EN EN/DA: http://www.ordbogen.com og https://ordbog.gyldendal.dk/

Ordbøger: EN/EN
Collins Online Dictionary:
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/ -- A very good online dictionary. This is also useful for looking up the parts of speech of words for grammar assignments.

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/ -- useful for looking up IDIOMS.

Oxford Learner’s Dictionary: http://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/dictionary? q=dictionary

www.dictionary.com

SYNONYM-ordbog:
http://www.thesaurus.com

WORD
Synonym, stave- og grammatikkontrol er tilladt i Word.
***VIGTIGT: Microsoft 365 Copilot og Microsoft 365 Word Editor må IKKE bruges under skriftlig eksamen. Disse funktioner skal slås fra i Word.
Alle andre funktioner i Word, undtagen direkte oversættelse og tale til tekst, er tilladt.
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 10 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer