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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, Per Hessellund Frederiksen, Peter Bruhn Westergaard
Hold 2024 En/s (1s En, 2s En)

Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 1. Growing Up
Titel 2 2. National and Cultural Identity
Titel 3 EXAM TOPIC: 3. America
Titel 4 EXAM TOPIC: 4. India and the British Empire
Titel 5 EXAM TOPIC: 5. FEMALE BLACK VOICES
Titel 6 EXAM TOPIC: 6. HORROR FICTION incl. "værklæsning"
Titel 7 Løvlige links og hjælpemidler til terminsprøve/eks

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: 24 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: 52

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.
- "What Is The British Class System? A comprehensive guide from a tired Brit, for Americans" - fra Medium, 19. Sep. 2021 (https://roguepsych.medium.com/what-is-the-british-class-system-63ee7731b33f)

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: 16 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
  • Forelæsninger
  • Gruppearbejde
  • Individuelt arbejde
  • Lærerstyret undervisning
  • Pararbejde

Titel 3 EXAM TOPIC: 3. 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: 43

Historisk baggrund:
- "The Frontier Heritage" (afsnit) - Fra "The American Way - An Introduction to American Culture", Prentice Hall, 1984.
- "The Tea-Party That Triggered a Revolution" (kapitel 16) - "Let's Face The World", Systime A/S, 2002.

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: 26 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
  • Forelæsninger
  • Gruppearbejde
  • Individuelt arbejde
  • Lærerstyret undervisning
  • Pararbejde
  • Projektarbejde

Titel 4 EXAM TOPIC: 4. India and the British Empire

The focus of this topic is to trace India's self-perception as a nation starting from the end of its time as a British colony to "the Empire writing back" in newer texts from India addressing various aspects of life and language in the country. In connection with language we worked with Hinglish as a specific variety of English (English as lingua franca).

Background material:
India and the British Empire: quiz + quotations (from Wider Contexts)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TvDwC_29RFQM-n5F0yC8MhqQpP0Y0oFnVwYnohygEJQ/edit?usp=share_link

MAIN TEXTS:
1. Nehru: “Tryst With Destiny” (pp. 26-29) in: Narrating India.
    Focus: rhetorical analysis + devices; imagery; message https://quizlet.com/dk/560569771/nehrus-tryst-with-destiny-completing-phrases-with-important-rhetorical-devices-flash-cards/?i=7w1dp&x=1jqt
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sLzBXSOQOEZp6bXe84rcfVvN0Rludv01LFDXKgHYTWo/edit?usp=sharing – class notes, “Tryst with Destiny”
2. “Midnight’s Children” by Salman Rushdie in: Narrating India.
    Focus: vocabulary, 4 important THEMES CONNECTED to the NARRATOR
• “a swallower of lives” (Rushdie 1981, p. 38 ll. 22-23).
• “the business of remaking my life …” (Rushdie 1981, p. 38 ll. 28-29).
• “I am falling apart” (Rushdie 1981, p. 38 l. 35).
• “(We are a nation of forgetters)” (Rushdie 1981, p. 39 ll. 1-2).

INDIA part 2: COLONIALISM and INDIA SEEN through FOREIGN EYES
3. “Lispeth” by Rudyard Kipling. Focus: Orientalism

SECTION 3 of our INDIA AREA STUDY: INDIA and POST-COLONIAL AMBITION
4. Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger (excerpts) 2008, pp. 290-296 in Wider Contexts
• Focus: Balram as white tiger / social entrepreneur; power relationships; symbolism: rooster coop, the White Tiger; critique of institutions

SECTION 4 of our INDIA area study:: INDIAN CINEMA
5. FILM: Devdas (dir. Sanjay Leela Bhandali, 2002) https://einthusan.tv/movie/watch/0480/?lang=hindi.
Focus: a) The “larger than life” elements of the film
b) when + how the ‘nau raz’ (9 emotions) are expressed in the film

SECTION 5
6. “The Blind Dog” – Narayan (1943), pp. 238-243 in Narrating India.
Focus: POSTCOLONIAL issues / themes: Identity; Oppression; INTERNALIZATION (internal colonization); resistance; signs of Orientalism; subaltern agency; the meaning of the TITLE

SECTION 6: INDIA and ENGLISH (e.g. Hinglish)
7.  “Englishes of the Subcontinent” – from World Englishes, pp. 85-88, 93-94
Major concepts: pidgin – register – transfer – ornate (language) – hybridization – tags


Supplerende materiale:
- Video one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkLFGWTKPY4 - India and Pakistan: What was partition? | Al Jazeera Newsfeed
- Video two: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmaNi_c2Dm8 - Partition... 70 years on: A primer - BBC Newsnight
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_FSUcZfcx0 - The creation of modern India and Pakistan, explained

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73T2qSbWMac - Scheherazade and the 1001 Nights
- Benedict Andersen’s idea of IMAGINED COMMUNITIES; p. 312 in Narrating India

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZST6qnRR1mY - Orientalism and power: When will we stop stereotyping people? | A-Z of ISMs Episode 15 - BBC Ideas

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35jJNyFuYKQ – official trailer, The White Tiger (dir. Bahrani, 2020)

- EVOLUTION and Audience (of Indian Cinema) – Narrating India pp. 201-202
- The “masala” FORMULA (of Bollywood films) – Narrating India p. 204
- Common THEMES (of Bollywood films) – Narrating India p. 205
- HINGLISH (language in Bollywood films) – Narrating India p. 206
- SONG and DANCE sequences (in Bollywood films) – Narrating India p. 207-210
- Films for the NRI + PARALLEL CINEMA – Narrating India p. 211-212

- Background material on pp. 336-337 in Narrating India. Post-colonial criticism: what to look for WHEN the EMPIRE WRITES BACK.

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBCq5WM-V1o
Professor Daya Kishan Thussu speaks to BBC about Hinglish
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBPMn8y7pfo  Pepsi: “Yeh Dil Maange More” – translate this example of Hinglish after watching the commercial (from 2024)?
- Why Are Indians Obsessed With Speaking ‘Good’ English?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tcBzn3uqvY
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 23 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 5 EXAM TOPIC: 5. FEMALE BLACK VOICES

TOPIC FOCUS: This topic was designed to explore the importance and contributions of women's voices to African-Americans' fight for equal rights from Harriet Tubman to Angie Stone. We focused on historical knowledge -- e.g. the Abolitionist movement; the Underground Railroad; the Civil Rights Movement; Post-Racist America -- and on text analysis -- e.g. film analysis; extended metaphor; the connection between language and mood/tone; choices of words.       

MAIN MATERIAL:
1) Background material on Harriet Tubman in Black Voices (pp. 48-50).
Focus: Harriet Tubman and why her (BLACK) VOICE was important.
- Also: the Abolitionist movement; the Underground Railroad;
- Scene analysis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaVxTsAVP2I  - the Hollywood version of how Harriet Tubman’s first Underground Railroad mission played out
2) SONG: “Strange Fruit” (1939) by Lewis Allan, as sung by Billie Holiday, on page 94ff in Black Voices https://youtu.be/Web007rzSOI.
Focus: (extended) metaphors; mood; contrasts
3) AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Coming of Age in Mississippi (1968) by Anne Moody; pp. 124-130 in Black Voices.
- Focus: the “alphabet soup” of the Civil Rights Movement: CORE, NAACP, SNCC; the “Jim Crow” years; “whiteness pass”; sammensatte verber; the Birmingham, AL church bombing (1963); connection between language and MOOD  
4) ARTICLE: Denise A. Herd: “Pain of police killings ripples outward to traumatize Black people and communities across US” (2021)
Focus: POST-RACIST AMERICA?; the “ripple effect”; connection between choices of words (language) and modes of appeal and the main POINT of this article.
5) FILM: The Hate U Give (2018) – dir. George Tilman, Jr.
• Focus: Starr’s double identity; people ASSUMING things about others; speaking up or staying silent; POST-RACIST AMERICA?


Supplementary material:
• Analysis + discussion: photograph of Harriet Tubman on p. 47 in Black Voices
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqoEs4cG6Uw - the trailer for Harriet (2019), a biopic about Harriet Tubman’s life

• “Strange Fruit the movie” by Daniel Weidlein (on p. 96 in Black Voices) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isU_OjY94NY&rco=1

• “The Charlottesville rally 5 years later: 'It's what you're still trying to forget'” AUGUST 12, 2022 https://www.npr.org/2022/08/12/1116942725/the-charlottesville-rally-5-years-later-its-what-youre-still-trying-to-forget

• https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/150806-voting-rights-act-anniversary-jim-crow-segregation-discrimination-racism-history
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guV7uzd0J-o - The March on Washington (August 28, 1963)
• Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream Speech”

• “Timeline of police shootings 2012-2022” (pp. 174-177 in Black Voices)

• Quotes rrom Angie Thomas’ “author’s note” in the back of The Hate U Give
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 13 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 6 EXAM TOPIC: 6. HORROR FICTION incl. "værklæsning"

TOPIC FOCUS: This topic was designed to trace the historical evolution in what has scared us as humans. We adopted the three-part structure of the HORROR anthology: a) Horror as a mirror of the human psyche; 2 Horror as a mirror of society; 3) Horror as a mirror of human nature.
       
Main source anthology: HORROR. Eds. Rasmus Drisdal, Johanne Riktrup Hansen og Systime A/S. Første udgivelsesår 2016.


MAIN MATERIAL:
1) Essay by Stephen King: “Why We Crave Horror Movies”, pp. 16-19 in HORROR
Focus: King’s 3 TYPES of TERROR

2) excerpt from T. Harris' novel "The Silence of the Lambs" – pp. 61-73 in HORROR
Focus: Direct vs. Indirect Characterization;  theme pairs: the RATIONAL vs. the IRRATIONAL and the PREDICTABLE vs. the UNPREDICTABLE

3) Bram Stoker's DRACULA: a graphic novel. Edited by Jason Cobley; illustrations by Staz Johnson. -- https://archive.org/details/draculagraphicno0000cobl
Focus: the UNCANNY; HORROR – TERROR – the GROSS OUT; devices used by Stoker to convince us that this is a true story; panel analysis; character retrospectives; and throughout --> potential THEMES:
• The RATIONAL vs. the IRRATIONAL
• SCIENCE (and CHRISTIANITY) vs. SUPERSTITION
• POSSESSION (by the DEVIL*) and SEXUAL DIFFERENCE (or deviance)
*the name "Dracula" is derived from the Romanian word for "devil”

4) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAXB2H3SsFg – “The Tell-Tale Heart” (originally written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1843, this animated film version was created by Columbia Pictures just over 100 years later, in 1953).
Focus: the NARRATOR. How would you describe him, and why?

5) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djgj1Z98swA&t=225s -- Emily Carrol, “His Face All Red” (2010) – graphic short story
Focus: Written analysis of a video text


Supplementary material:
a) excerpts from Freud: the UNCANNY (das Uheimliche) (pp. 7-11)
- Finding and analyzing examples of the UNCANNY in the opening scene (4:50) of "Pilot" , the first episode and the series premiere of the television series American Horror Story at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-WSuifxOvI

b) “Horror, sex and repression – the fear of what may lie beneath the surface”  p. 40 in HORROR
- REPRESSION (not the same as “oppression” or “suppression” 😊)
- APPEARANCE vs REALITY
- FEAR of SEXUAL DIFFERENCE (or “deviance”?

c) https://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-did-dracula-become-the-world-s-most-famous-vampire-stanley-stepanic
Focus: Why has Dracula (the vampire) become a horror ARCHETYPE?

d) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc93hC9WAfo  Dracula: The First Modern Vampire | Monstrum + aural assignment about this video

e) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYRWvMaFJjE&t=3s – “Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman” – trailer

f) https://astatetheherald.com/2025/10/29/modern-horror-knows-what-truly-scares-us/ + written discussion based on this article

g) “Why is being scared so fun?” (2016) – TedEd presentation by Margee Kerr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oetVvR5RQUs + exam-style exercises based on this TedEd video
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 12 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 7 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.

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.

The Apple Dictionary-app. built in dictionary app on newer macbooks (note: Wikipedia must be deselected).

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: 0 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer