Holdet 2022 EN/b - Undervisningsbeskrivelse

Undervisningsbeskrivelse

Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin(er) 2022/23 - 2024/25
Institution Nærum Gymnasium
Fag og niveau Engelsk A
Lærer(e) Camilla Løye, Mads Stenbæk, Morten Klausen
Hold 2022 EN/b (1b EN, 2b EN, 3b EN)
Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 Science Fiction
Titel 2 Man and Nature
Titel 3 South Africa
Titel 4 Pseudoscience and Disinformation
Titel 5 SRO-emne: U.S. Election: Divided States of America
Titel 6 Atrocities of Man
Titel 7 Værklæsning - Frankenstein
Titel 8 Vampires etc. (eksamen 2025)
Titel 9 Australia (eksamen 2025)
Titel 10 The Great Gatsby (eksamen 2025)
Titel 11 Minimalism (eksamen 2025)
Titel 12 Shakespeare: Macbeth (eksamen 2025)

Beskrivelse af de enkelte undervisningsforløb (1 skema for hvert forløb)
Titel 1 Science Fiction

Analysis and interpretation of a number of science fiction short stories, novel excerpts and two films..

Focus on genre characteristics, utopia/dystopia and the Cold War..

Kernestof:

Short stories:
Ray Bradbury:The Veldt (1951), (17 ns)
Ray Bradbury: 2BR02B (1956), (9 ns)
Brian Aldis: Super-Toys Last All Summer Long (1969), (10,1 ns)
Kurt Vonnegut: Harrison Bergeron (1961), (6,3 ns)

Excerpts from novels:
George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), excerpts from chapter 1 and ch. 20, (6,1 ns)
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein chapter 5 (1818), (

Supplerende stof:

Alex Garland: Ex Machina, film (2014)
Kenneth Branagh: Frankenstein, film (1994)

Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 11,00 moduler
Dækker over: 9 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
  • Faglige
  • Læse
  • Søge information
  • Formidling
  • Almene (tværfaglige)
  • Analytiske evner
  • Kommunikative færdigheder
  • Sociale
  • Samarbejdsevne
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
  • Individuelt arbejde
  • Pararbejde
Titel 2 Man and Nature

Focus on man's relationship with nature in various literary periods.

We will look at the differences between attitudes to nature and life in the city, and at present views on the environment, particularly climate change.

Kernestof:

Non-fiction:
Chief Seattle: Selling Our Land (1854) (1,5 ns)
Eric Hoffer: Nature and the City (1968) (2,4 ns)
Jon Krakauer: Into the Wild (excerpt) (1992) (3,6 ns)
Robert Pack: Dominion over Nature (1 ns)
Ian McEwan: The Hot Breath of Our Civilisation (1 ns)
Charles Dickens: Coketown (uddrag)
Greta Thunberg's speech at the UN Climate Action Summit (240919) (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAJsdgTPJpU
Greta Thunberg's Speech At The U.N. Climate Action Summit (240919): How Dare You (7,2 ns)
Snow Fall at Tunnel Creek by John Branch:
https://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/index.html#/?part=tunnel-creek (video, speak and text)

Fiction:
William Blake: The Ecchoing Green (1789) (1 ns)
William Wordsworth: The Tables Turned (1798) (1 ns)

Paintings and drawings:
Thomas Gainsborough: Mr and Mrs Robert Andrews (c. 1750)
Lin Jammet:  Mr and Mrs Robert Andrews (c. 1975)
David Simonds: How green is our Tony? (2005)

Film:
Jon Krakauer: Into the Wild (2007)

Rhetorical devices: anaphora, epiphora, triad and rhetorical questions
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 13,00 moduler
Dækker over: 8 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
  • Faglige
  • Lytte
  • Læse
  • Søge information
  • Skrive
  • Diskutere
  • Projektarbejde
  • Formidling
  • Almene (tværfaglige)
  • Kommunikative færdigheder
  • Overskue og strukturere
  • Personlige
  • Selvstændighed
  • Initiativ
  • Ansvarlighed
  • Sociale
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 3 South Africa

Forløbet fokuserer på Sydafrika før, under og efter Apartheid. Der indledes kort med den historiske baggrund fra hollændernes/Boernes kolonisering i midten af 1600-tallet til briternes kolonisering i begyndelsen af 1800-tallet.

Det primære fokus ligger på Apartheidperioden fra 1948-1990, herunder Nelson Mandela og andre anti-apartheidforkæmperes rolle, samt situationen i Sydafrika efter det første demokratiske valg i 1994.

Der analyseres fiktionstekster, non-fiktionstekster og film.

Kernestof:

Fiction:
Peter Abrahams: One of the Three (1942) (aflevering), (4,4 ns)

Non-fiction:
Solomon Plaatje: Native Life in South Africa, excerpt (1916), (6 ns)
Humphrey Tyler's eye-witness report (1960), (2 ns)

Humphrey Tyler: Days that shook the World (2010) https://mg.co.za/article/2010-03-19-days-that-shook-the-world

Video from The Sharpville Massacre: https://mg.co.za/article/2010-03-19-days-that-shook-the-world (1960), (5,8 ns)

Nelson Mandela: Excerpt from Statement from the dock at the opening of the defence case in the Rivonia Trial (speech, 1964), (0,9 ns)

BBC: Soweto protest turns violent (article.1976), (1,9 ns)

Nelson Mandela: Excerpt from I am not prepared to sell the birthright of the people to be free (speech delivered by Zindzi Mandela, 1985), (1,8 ns)

Nelson Mandela: I Am No Prophet (interview, 1990), (5,3 ns)
Obituary: Donald Woods, The Guardian (20 August 2001), (3,7 ns)

Jeff Cangialosi: The State of the Rainbow Nation (2012), (3,4 ns)

Supplerende stof:
K.B. Holmgaard Andersen and Birger Axen (From Dompas to Democracy):
- The Great Trek
- The First and Second Boer Wars
- The Native Question and the Land Act of 1913
- The Land Act of 1913
- Solomon Plaatje
Gorm Gunnasen: Owning land in South Africa (2015)

Film:
Richard Attenborough: Cry Freedom (drama, 1987)
Nelson Mandela Foundation: Nelson Mandela's Life Story (documentary, 2011) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgQBoXsxr8w
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 12,00 moduler
Dækker over: 4 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 4 Pseudoscience and Disinformation


In this unit, there will be a special focus on what constitutes peer-reviewed science, and what does not. An increasing wave of pseudoscience and belief in “alternative sciences”, such as homeopathy, Creationism and even astrology, have muddled the waters of what is deemed to be scientifically correct. Science literacy has gone down in many countries, which leaves open the door for fearmongering about the apparent dangers of vaccines and the rise of conspiracy theories. We will be studying the Intelligent Design Movement that is advocating for Equal Time in biology classrooms in the states. Additionally, we will be studying the pseudoscience of Dianetics, which is primarily used by the “Church” of Scientology. I have also arranged for us to pay a visit to the Scientology Church in Copenhagen, where we can get some answers to our questions on the mechanics of Dianetics.

At the end of the unit, you will be able to:

- give an overview of the defining features of science, as opposed to pseudoscience.


- analyze a number of different sources: poems, articles, short stories/excerpts from novels, documentaries.
- Define peer-reviewed science versus pseudoscience.

Material:
Articles:
“How Darwin anticipated Intelligent Design” – The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2008/feb/09/darwin.intelligent.design

“Who are the Creationists?” – The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/andrewbrown/2009/nov/24/religion-creationism-theos

“The long, strange history of anti-vaccination movements” – Vox.com

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22958419/covid-vaccine-mandate-pandemic-history

“‘Vaccine Police’ Founder Claims Drinking Urine Is Covid-19 Antidote” – Forbes.com

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2022/01/10/vaccine-police-founder-claims-drinking-your-own-urine-is-covid-19-antidote/?sh=7fef83d63735
“Ivermectin frenzy” – The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/13/ivermectin-treatment-covid-19-anti-vaxxers-advocates

Documentary:

Going Clear: Scientology & the Prison of Belief (2015)

Books:
First chapter of “God Is Not Great” by Christopher Hitchens

Poem:

Storm – Tim Minchin (9 minute beat poem)

Key Terms:
Science vs Pseudoscience
Intelligent Design
Scientology
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 12,00 moduler
Dækker over: 9 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 6 Atrocities of Man

In this course, we will be studying three rather uncomfortable incidents of human history; The genocide of Native American people at the hands of European settlers, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, and lastly, The incident known as the Rape of Nanking - the massacre and horrific treatment of civilians in the siege of the city of Nanking, China in 1937 by the hands of Japanese soldiers. These texts are by no means pleasant to read, and yet, it is important that these annals of man’s darkest hours be not erased because of our sensibilities. In this course, we take a hard look at human cruelty and try not to avert our eyes.

At the end of the unit, you will be able to:

- give an overview of the historical context of the three historical incidents;
Native American Genocide (1492-1850), The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (August, 1945) and the massacre known as The Rape of Nanking ( 1937).
A part of this overview will focus on the cruelty of mankind, and how people are able and, in some cases, conditioned to carry out such atrocities.
- analyze a number of different sources: poems, articles, short stories/excerpts from novels, documentaries.
- Define what constitutes a genocide.


Documentaries:
White Light, Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (2007)

Web articles:
The Trail of Tears
https://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/trail-of-tears#treaty-of-new-echota

Broken Treaties
https://www.history.com/news/native-american-broken-treaties


Atomic Bomb Survivor Stories:

https://time.com/after-the-bomb/

Speeches:
President Truman’s Speech after the atomic bombings of Japan in 1945.
- President Truman’s Speech on August 6, 1945
- President Truman’s Speech on August 9, 1945

Songs:

Buffy Sainte-Marie: My Country Tis of Thy People You’re Dying

Pete Seeger: I Come and Stand at Every Door
Pete Seeger: Last Train to Nurnberg

Books:
Chang, Iris - The Rape of Nanking
- Excerpt from the chapter “Introduction”
- Excerpt from the chapter “The Fall of Nanking”
-Excerpt from the chapter “The Killing Contests”

Key Terms:
Genocide versus “regular war”
Native American Reservation
The Trail of Tears
“Never Again”
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 14,00 moduler
Dækker over: 16 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 7 Værklæsning - Frankenstein

Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 24 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 8 Vampires etc. (eksamen 2025)

Fictional texts dealing with vampires, werewoles and zombies. Traditional text analysis with emphasis on the historical and social contexts and the setting of the specific text.

The wider perspective deals with what it means to be human through stories about non-human creatures.
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 18 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 9 Australia (eksamen 2025)

Subject dealing with both the traditional anglo-saxon Australia and the modern multicultural Australia.

* Colonial period
* Federation
* Nationalism
* World War One
* Mateship
* Multiculturalism
* The Stolen Generations

Primarily a non-fiction subject with use of the fictional movie Gallipoli (Peter Weir 1981)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 12 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 11 Minimalism (eksamen 2025)

Reading and analysis of short fictional texts with emphasis on the writing styles of Ernest Hemmingway and Raymond Carver with themes of intense human relationships.
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 5 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer