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Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin(er) 2024/25 - 2025/26
Institution Aalborghus Gymnasium
Fag og niveau Engelsk B
Lærer(e) John Mahoney, Peter Bruhn Westergaard
Hold 2024 En/p (1p En, 2p En)

Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 SONGS from my CHILDHOOD
Titel 2 Young People and Different Worlds in fiction texts
Titel 3 Grammatikkursus
Titel 4 EXAM TOPIC: MIGRATION to the UK / US
Titel 5 EXAM TOPIC: AUSTRALIA: Outlaws and Outcasts
Titel 6 EXAM TOPIC: Black Voices and Structural Racism
Titel 7 Divided America
Titel 8 Løvlige links og hjælpemidler til terminsprøve/eks

Beskrivelse af de enkelte undervisningsforløb (1 skema for hvert forløb)
Titel 1 SONGS from my CHILDHOOD

FOCUS: Vocabulary; presentation and group work skills; connection between childhood songs and culture; basic poetry analysis: e.g. end-rhyme, internal rhyme, alliteration, assonance, imagery.

Core texts:
1) “Mairzy Dotes” https://mairzy-doats.com/about-mairzy-doats/the-song/
Songwriters: Al Hoffman / Jerry Livingston / Milton Drake (1943)
2) "Children's Songs" (Library of Congress publication) - https://www.loc.gov/collections/songs-of-america/articles-and-essays/musical-styles/traditional-and-ethnic/childrens-songs/#note1

Researched and presented in groups:
1. “Camptown Races”
2. “(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?”
3. “Hush Little Baby”
4. “I’m a Little Teapot”
5. “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad”
6. “Mary Had a Little Lamb”
7. "Ughniyah li al-Atfal" (a historical Lebanese folk song)
8. "Children of America"
9. "The old man with a beard"
10. "Crawdad"
11. "Government camp song"
12. "Sea Lion Woman"
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 7 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 2 Young People and Different Worlds in fiction texts

Young People and Different Worlds in fiction texts

- Fairy tale world: “The Shining Mountain”, Alison Fell (CONTEXTS pp. 18-22)
- Wales: “The Sin Bin or Lucy’s Heart”, Lucy Cross (CONTEXTS pp. 33-38)
- Northern Ireland: “Good Girl”, Marita Conon-McKenna (CONTEXTS pp. 68-76)
- Australia: “Going Home”, Archie Weller (CONTEXTS pp. 107-119)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 19 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 3 Grammatikkursus

1) AFNSIT (paragraphs) – PERIODE* (periods) – SÆTNINGER (sentences)
+ response to written assignment 1 "My Favorite Teacher"

2) Del PERIODER op + sæt dem sammen; SÆTNINGENS vigtigste elementer (X og O)
+ find subjekter og verballed i sætninger fra “The Shining Mountain”

3)

Anvendt materiale: A New Start af Poul Tornøe. 2002: Gads Forlag. ss. 6-14.
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 0 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 4 EXAM TOPIC: MIGRATION to the UK / US

In this topic, we've taken our point of departure in the European Refugee Crisis of 2015 to today. Eleverne får derudover et bredt kendskab til hvordan man kategoriserer mennesker, der af den ene eller anden grund befinder sig uden for deres oprindelsesland (ex-pats, immigranter, flygtninge, asylsøgere, osv.) og får læst værker skrevet om og af disse mennesker. Målet er dermed at give eleverne en historisk, kulturel og litterær indsigt i
livet under flugt eller immigration.

Primary texts:

1) - ‘The Observer view on Europe’s shameful response to the growing refugee crisis’
2) - ‘Staggering’ number of European jihadis: EU’s own horder agency admits terrorists are exploiting refugee crisis and lax controls - but has no idea how many illegal immigrants there are
3) - Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Begins
4) - ‘The Hidden Scars Ali Refugees Carry’
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 13 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 5 EXAM TOPIC: AUSTRALIA: Outlaws and Outcasts

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.  

Core material:
1) “In Search of Ned Kelly: Hero or Villain?” https://digitalclassroom.nma.gov.au/sites/default/files/202007/6._in_search_of_ned_kelly_hero_or_villain.pdf. Focus areas: photograph analysis; grammar standards vs. variations in Kelly's own writings.
2) “Ned Kelly: The outlaw who divides a nation” (Phil Mercer: BBC News). Focus: argument analysis; newsworthiness; modes of appeal; what decides if a historical figure is remembered as a hero or a villain (written assignment).
3) FILM: "Rabbit-Proof Fence" (dir. Noyce, 2002). Focus: characterization, cinematic techniques; theme of Nature = the Feminine vs. Civilization = the Masculine. Analyses of sequences from the film: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DpDAMn9xSvk1XJoblq-8G9k8a6wCALmXE82qDgR4hTU/edit?tab=t.0
4) "N'goola" by Katharine Prichard (1959). Focus: Issue of RACE (skin-color); Importance of the SETTING; stylistic analysis (written assignment); parallels between Mary's and Molly's stories; internal conflict; language (English as lingua franca; Australian English).    

Supplementary material:
a) Intro to Australia – Webquest
b) Australia: Outlaws and Outcasts: 4 background videos to give us background knowledge about why the OUTLAW is such a defining character for Australian identity. Viewed and presented in groups:
- The Historians – The Voyage (convict transportation to Australia) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3fm2skYbdg
- Indigenous Perspectives of Cook's Visit - Endeavour 250th Anniversary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IfqSS8kpLA
- First Fleet - Behind the News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnUNEkMsjfY
- Child convicts of Australia - Chapter 5 - Escape and Punishment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w37wWPzLW30
c) "Waltzing Mathilda" – Sammensatte verballed + song lyrics https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HU3UUjfbnWAeYSGEflwTArUDDgZvWALW25x1rdEnuAA/edit?tab=t.0
d) Video: "The Ancient Cosmic Spirituality of Aboriginal Australians." Focus: semantic field analysis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU2xCWZTlbw
e) Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdJgyeTeMzw – "The ecological disaster of the rabbit-proof fence."
f)  Video: "The Secret of Dreaming: An Australian Aboriginal Myth of Creation"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYgdBRCb88o
g) My notes: “Reading through a Postcolonial lens”
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 18 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 6 EXAM TOPIC: Black Voices and Structural Racism

Formålet med forløbet er at give eleverne indsigt i historiske og aktuelle former for strukturel racisme i USA gennem mødet med sorte stemmer i både fiktion, non-fiktion og medietekster. Eleverne arbejder med, hvordan racisme kommer til udtryk i lovgivning, samfundsstrukturer, litteratur og medier, og hvordan sproglige og retoriske virkemidler bruges til at formidle erfaringer med ulighed og undertrykkelse.
Forløbet styrker samtidig elevernes evne til at analysere, diskutere og formidle samfundsmæssige problemstillinger på engelsk.

Primary material:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ_8eOaiz8o – Structural Racism Explained

from the Black Voices (Systime) anthology:
- A Law against Teaching the Enslaved to Read and Write. North Carolina (1831). Law
- “The Clotilda – the Last Slave Ship”. Non-fiction
- James Allen: withoutsanctuary.org   Website


NOVEL READING:
- The Hate U Give (2017) by Angie Thomas


Supplementary material.
- The Charlottesville rally 5 years later: 'It's what you're still trying to forget'
AUGUST 12, 2022 Debbie Elliott https://www.npr.org/2022/08/12/1116942725/the-charlottesville-rally-5-years-later-its-what-youre-still-trying-to-forget AND
https://abcnews.go.com/US/happen-charlottesville-protest-anniversary-weekend/story?id=57107500

- Descendants of the Last Slave Ship Fight to Preserve Their History | NowThis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-33REROn76A
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 18 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 7 Divided America

Forløbet Divided America undersøger polariseringen i nutidens USA med fokus på, hvordan politiske, kulturelle og moralske uenigheder præger samfundsdebatten. Eleverne arbejder med polarisering som begreb og ser på årsager til og konsekvenser af den voksende splittelse i det amerikanske samfund. Forløbet behandler både generelle tendenser i amerikansk politik og kultur samt to centrale konfliktområder: abortion and gun culture. Der fokuseres på, hvordan personlige erfaringer, ideologi og identitet former holdninger og argumentation. Eleverne arbejder med analyse af forskellige teksttyper og medier og udvikler deres evne til at diskutere komplekse samfundsmæssige problemstillinger på engelsk.

Kernetekster:
1) - Excerpt from Divided We Fall by David French
2) - Civil War directed by Alex Garland
3) -  "I Prayed and Protested to End Roe. What Comes Next" by Karen S. Prior
4) - Excerpt from Unpregnant by Jennifer Hendricks and Ted Caplan
5) - An Important Message from Wayne LaPierre
6) - If Anything Happens I Love You by Will McCormack & Michael Govier
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 18 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 8 Løvlige links og hjælpemidler til terminsprøve/eks

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.

Minlæring:
https://app.minlaering.dk/bog/6

Ordbøger: DA/EN EN/DA
http://www.ordbogen.com

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: 7 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer