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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) Maria Dart Kirkelund, Trine Brohus
Hold 2024 En/t (1t En, 2t En)

Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 Growing up
Titel 2 The American Dream + værklæsning (EKSAMENSEMNE)
Titel 3 Crime fiction
Titel 4 Dirty Realism
Titel 5 Humour (EKSAMENSEMNE)
Titel 6 Australia - man and nature (EKSAMENSEMNE)
Titel 7 Language and diversity in the UK (EKSAMENSEMNE)

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

I dette forløb har eleverne arbejdet med temaet Growing up gennem forskellige genrer. De fleste af teksterne er fra antologien ”Context”, og eleverne er blevet introduceret til analyseredskaber til fiction og non-fiction.

I begyndelsen af forløbet blev eleverne præsentereret for Hemingways værk ”Indian Camp” og ”Bjerge som Hvide Elefanter” (Den danske oversættelse), hvor eleverne arbejdede med den minimalistiske skrivestil. Efterfølgende læste de The Shining Mountain, som er udformet som et moderne eventyr. Eleverne arbejdede med eventyrgenren (folktales / fairytales) for at opnå en større forståelse af konstruktionen og tematikkerne i de klassiske eventyr, og hvorfor disse er interessante for ”growing up”. Yderligere arbejdede eleverne med intertekstualitet i ”Shrek”.

Som en del af forløbet arbejdede eleverne med teksten ”Just like that”, som bl.a. beskæftiger sig med man vs. boy og toxic masculinity. I forlængelse af dette indrog vi Emma Watsons UN tale “Gender equality is your issue too”. Eleverne arbejdede her med den retoriske analyse.

Afslutningsvist læste eleverne teksterne "PM's Wife crusades against bullies" og "Together, we can beat bullies” for at kunne arbejde videre med de retoriske virkemidler, der bliver anvendt til at analysere non-fiction. Eleverne så efterfølgende kortfilmen ”One Small Step” for at afslutte forløbet ”growing up”. Her blev de introduceret til Cinematic techniques.

Materiale:
"Indian camp" Contexts
"Hills Like White Elephants"
“The Shining Mountain” p. 18-22.
"Just like that" page. 24-29 in Contexts
Boys Don't Cry | White Ribbon PSA (youtube.com)
Emma Watsons's UN Speech emma watson's un speech - Google Search
"PM's Wife crusades against bullies" p. 39.41 Context
"Together, we can beat bullies" p.42-44 Context
"One Small Step" https://mitcfu.dk/Login/?path=L2luZm8uYXNweA==

Grammar:
Ordklasser Fejlstøvsugeren page 11-12 + 115-117
Verbets tider: Fejlstøvsugeren p. 22-24
(nutid, datid, førnutid, førdatid samt fremtid)
Genitiv (ejefald)
Indhold
Kernestof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Write a summary of the short story "Delaney" 19-11-2024
Analytical essay Delaney 08-12-2024
Omfang Estimeret: 16,00 moduler
Dækker over: 16 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 2 The American Dream + værklæsning (EKSAMENSEMNE)

The American Dream

I dette forløb får eleverne en dybere forståelse af, hvordan USA er blevet til det land, vi kender i dag. Forløbet har taget udgangspunkt i centrale historiske begivenheder, for derved at give bredere indsigt i landets udvikling. Eleverne er først blevet introduceret til "The Frontier Heritage" og "American Values," som danner grundlaget for begrebet The American Dream.

Gennem arbejdet med "The Declaration of Independence" har eleverne udforsket USA’s kerneværdier: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. De har også arbejdet med Jacob A. Riis’ fotografier fra den anden immigrationsbølge, hvor de fik til opgave at skrive en fortælling baseret på et selvvalgt billede. I denne proces er de blevet introduceret til creative writing og figurative language.

Forløbet har desuden inkluderet Martin Luther Kings tale "I Have a Dream" og "Kamala Harris’s Democratic Convention Speech" hvor eleverne har lært om appelformer og rhetorical figures. Derudover er de blevet introduceret til forskellen mellem fiction og non-fiction.

I forbindelse med The Civil Rights Movement og Black Lives Matter har eleverne analyseret teksterne "Let America Be America Again", "The Help" og "The Hate U Give". Under arbejdet med digtet "Let America Be America Again" har de igen fokuseret på brugen af figurative language.

En stor del af forløbet har omhandlet værklæsningen af "The Hate U Give" af Angie Thomas. Eleverne har beskæftiget sig med "narrative techniques" herunder fortællertype, synsvinkel, karakteristik, sprog og setting. Eleverne har også anvendt "The three act structure" med henblik på værkets struktur: Begining, Middle, End (introduction, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution). Værkets tematikker og problemstillinger gav afstluningsvist anledning til reflektion og debat omkring afrikanske amerikanske borgere i USA.

Materiale:

"The Frontier Heritage", Worlds of English pp. 103-106.

Uddrag fra The Declaration of Independence (1776)

Jacob A. Riis – The Second Wave of Immigration to the US

"I Have a Dream", Martin Luther King.

Uddrag fra "The Help" (2009), a novel by Kathryn Stockett. Uddraget findes i Worlds of English pp. 145-148.

Kamala Harris’s Democratic Convention Speech

"The Hate U Give",  Angie Thomas (værklæsning)

"Let America Be America Again" (1935), a poem by Langston Hughes, read by Danez Smith

Grammar:

Vi har arbejdet videre med verbets tider, herunder hvad der danner førnutid, førdatid, passiv og aktiv. Vi har arbejdet med hjælpeverbum og hovedverbum.
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 13,00 moduler
Dækker over: 13 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 3 Crime fiction

Dette forløb har taget udgangspunkt i tekst- og medieanalyse. Eleverne har gennem serier, tekster og podcast skulle komme frem til hvorfor netop crime genren er så enormt populær. For at kunne genrebestemme de forskellige former for crime fiction, blev eleverne introduceret for ”Subgenres in Crime fiction”. Eleverne har fokuseret på Nordic Noir (Nordisk Crime Fiction), True Crime, Hard-boiled Crime Fiction, "whodoneit", The Cosy Mystery,  psychological suspense.

Materiale:

“A Study in Pink" Sherlock: Episode 1, Paul McGuigan 2010, BBC  

"Mr. Preble Gets Rid of His Wife" | The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1933/03/04/mr-preble-gets-rid-of-his-wife

"A Guy Walks into a bar" Case reopened - An Anthology of Crime Fiction, Tine Rønlev 2017 Eriksen.


"Darkly Dreaming Dexter," Case reopened - An Anthology of Crime Fiction, Tine Rønlev Eriksen 2017.


"Forbrydelsen": Sæson 1 – 1. episode | Se online her | DRTV

Case 20: Phoebe Veitch (WHANGANUI CHRONICLES – PART I) | True
Crime New Zealand (NZ) (truecrimenz.com)
Listen! Podcast in English, Martin Houlind, Mimi Olsen 2023.

Scandi Realism and Nordic Noir - Glimpse from the Globe
Why Are We So Obsessed With True Crime? (lawyer-monthly.com)


Grammar:
Vi har arbejdet med adjektiver og adverbier og hvilke ordklasser de lægger sig til.

Ordbøger:
https://da.bab.la/
https://www.ordbogen.com/da/gyldendal-migration/
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Kernestof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Grammar assignment 07-05-2025
Oral presentation 20-05-2025
Omfang Estimeret: 14,00 moduler
Dækker over: 14 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 4 Dirty Realism

Jeg skal lige huske at I er på studietur i uge 37.

Texts:
- "Neighbors" (1971), a short story by Raymond Carver
- "Son of Satan" (1982), a short story by Charles Bukowski
- "Love for 17.50" (1973), a short story by Charles Bukowski
- "Say Yes" (1985), a short story by Tobias Wolff
- "Dirty Realism: Authenticity in the 20th Century" (January 7, 2018), an article in The Stanford Daily by Gracie Newman

Supplerende materiale:
"Rise of the Sex Robots" (video made by The Guardian in 2017, found via Facebook)
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Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Fiction essay ("Neighbors") 21-09-2025
Omfang Estimeret: 13,00 moduler
Dækker over: 11 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 5 Humour (EKSAMENSEMNE)

In this topic, we focused on the use of humour in texts and which humour theories and devices are used to achieve certain effects.
The three humour theories are .
- Incongruity theory (= uoverensstemmelsesteorien)
- Relief theory (= forløsningsteorien)
- Superiority theory (= overlegenhedsteorien)

Methods of analysis:
We have worked with fiction AND non-fiction texts, so we have practised using analytical models for both genres.
- Fiction: Setting, characterisation, narrative point of view, symbolism, theme and message.
- Non-fiction: Rhetorical pentagram: Sender, topic, receiver, language, circumstances, intention. Specifically for LANGUAGE: the three forms of appeal and how they connect with humor theories and humor devices, such as irony, sarcasm, exaggeration (hyperbole), satire.

Texts:
from Serious Business:
“Toolbox for analysing humourous texts” (pp. 8-9)
“The Philosophy of humour” (pp. 10-13)
“Humour devices” (pp. 14-25)
"The Penis" (1999), a short story by Hanif Kureishi
"No Death Penalty, No Easter Bunny" (2003), an essay by Colin Cohen

Clips:
Monty Python, “Hell’s Grannies” (1971) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBcb
dvGhEM
Monty Python, “Upper-class twit of the year” (1970) https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=J1FfrnOXGHg
“Beer run” (2013) – Cyanide and Happiness shorts https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=vWvBxIEgL44&t=5s

from "Full Frontal Nudity" (1969), Monty Python's Flying Circus, season 1, episode 8.

Gary Larson comics
"Working-Class Playwright" by Monty Python
"Mr Bean's Christmas"

Forløbet inkluderede også et tværfagligt arbejde med fysik, hvor vi brugte "Flat Earthers" som emne. Her skulle eleverne øve sig i at lave en problemformulering, som træning frem mod SRO.
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 13,00 moduler
Dækker over: 12 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 6 Australia - man and nature (EKSAMENSEMNE)


This topic focuses on Australia, more specifically on aspects of Australian nature and how human beings interact with nature. We have read texts that focus on climate and the issues involved with climate change. For example, when tourists treat nature badly and it leads to unsustainable tourism (the short story "The Larder"). We have also read an article that criticises the Australian government for not taking the climate crisis seriously and not acknowledging that there is a connection between climate change and extreme weather events ("Australia, your country is burning").  We have looked into the topic of the so-called "Stolen Generations" and how Aborigines have a connection with nature which is sacred and harmonious. Here we watched the movie "Rabbit-Proof Fence" where we see the harshness of Australian nature and how, although it can pose as an obstacle for the girls in returning home, Molly's survival skills bring them home, as as she's used to this sort of environment. The eagle (the spirit bird) becomes a guide for Molly in becoming reunited with her home.  
In Ian Mudie's poem, "This Land", Australian nature is depicted with contrasts (as harsh AND beautiful at the same time) through the use of imagery such as personification, metaphors and similes.

Texts:

"Australia, your country is burning" (2020), an article by Michael Mann (pp. xx in "Worlds of English", 2nd edition)
"The Larder" (1984), a short story by Morris Lurie (pp. xx in Footprints, ed. by xx)
"This Land" (1935), a poem by Ian Mudie (pp. xx in "Worlds of English", 2nd edition)
"Rabbit-Proof Fence" (2002), a film by Phillip Noyce (findes på cfu)
"The Stolen Generation" (2000), an article by Terry McCarthy (in TIME Magazine)
"Lars Jensen: Australian land as protagonist", a video on the "Worlds of English" e-book website.

Arbejdsområder:
- træning af non-fiction essay (=> terminsprøven)
- træning af mundtlighed og filmanalyse (præsentation af Rabbit-Proof Fence analyser)
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Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Non-fiction essay 31-01-2026
2t En skr. prøve 12-02-2026
2t En skr. prøve#2 03-03-2026
Video assignment Rabbit-Proof Fence 08-03-2026
Summary and essay - choose A or B 27-03-2026
Omfang Estimeret: 13,00 moduler
Dækker over: 18 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 7 Language and diversity in the UK (EKSAMENSEMNE)

This topic focuses on variations of English in the UK/Britain and how language is closely linked to one's identity. We will also look into how English became a Global Language.
We have mostly read poems,  and have discussed what to focus on at the oral exam.

Texts:
- “How English took over the World”, YT video
- Introduction to chapter 2 "Language and Diversity" in the book "Everyone Is Here: New Shapes of Diversity and Belonging in Britain, Systime 2021 pp. 24-31) edited by Sten Pultz Moslund.
- “Listen Mr Oxford Don” (1985), a poem by John Agard
- "Reporting from the Frontline of the Great Dictionary Disaster" (2006), a poem by John Agard.


”Language and Diversity” text – students’ notes from the blackboard:
- How Ngugi wa Thiong’o was forced to speak English, rather than Kikuyu, his native (Kenyan) language, during colonization of Kenya by the English.
- John Agard’s experience with 'criminalization' in his poem “Listen Mr. Oxford Don” because his use of (Carribbean) English is different from Standard English and he wants it to be acknowledged on equal terms with "the Queen's English". => he wants immigrants to be included.
- Reshaping of English by immigrants to express their cultural background
- How colonized people created ethnolects as a form of expression and culture.
- Ethnolects are seen as “Bad English” from a racist perspective, and may therefore be looked down upon.

In "Reporting from the Frontline of the Great Dictionary Disaster", John Agard wants to draw attention to the fact that if loan words/foreign words 'left' the English language and 'returned' to their native origin, English would grow thin. In other words, English has relied on other languages historically AND the UK is a multicultural nation. (the words leaving could be an analogy for immigrants leaving).
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Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Minlæring opgavesæt 29-04-2026
Essay - genaflevering 10-05-2026
Omfang Estimeret: 11,00 moduler
Dækker over: 10 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer