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Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin(er) 2023/24 - 2025/26
Institution Nærum Gymnasium
Fag og niveau Engelsk A
Lærer(e) Helle Mejer Lauridsen, Sanne Brixen
Hold 2023 EN/a (1a EN, 2a EN, 3a EN)

Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 Barbie - is plastic fantastic?
Titel 2 The short story
Titel 3 Individual novel
Titel 4 Global English including Lingua Franca
Titel 5 The short film genre
Titel 6 SRO Bias and the Media
Titel 7 South Africa + værk (EKSAMEN)
Titel 8 Multicultural Britain
Titel 9 Literary Periods - an overview
Titel 10 Modernism and Minimalism in fiction (EKSAMEN)
Titel 11 American Rhetorics
Titel 12 The Gothic Universe
Titel 13 Britain: 10 years post Brexit
Titel 14 Reading Shakespeare in Our Time - EKSAMEN
Titel 15 Narrative Non-fiction:True Crime

Beskrivelse af de enkelte undervisningsforløb (1 skema for hvert forløb)
Titel 1 Barbie - is plastic fantastic?

Vi undersøger Barbie-universet med fokus på kønsroller og forbrugerisme/klimaforandringer, som var et hovedtema i grundforløbet. Gennem analyse af forskellige fiktions- og nonfiktionsgenrer lærer vi vores analyse-værktøjskasse endnu bedre at kende.


Film: Greta Gerwig (dir): Barbie, Warner Bros (2023)

Popsang: Aqua: Barbie Girl (1997)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyhrYis509A, hentet december 2023

Popsang: Ryan Gosling: I´m Just Ken (2023)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDCnJHyMuyU, hentet december 2023

Is Barbie Pushing us Towards Overconsumption?
https://www.plasticreimagined.org/articles/is-life-in-plastic-fantastic-after-all-the-aftermath-of-barbie, hentet december 2023

The world´s first Downs Syndrome Barbie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXyoNgFBQVs, hentet december 2023

Barbie as a stereotype: https://theconversation.com/yes-the-original-barbie-is-a-stereotype-but-children-also-create-their-own-barbie-worlds-211333, hentet november 2023

Barbiecore: https://www.litlookzstudio.com/blogs/news/barbiecore-aesthetic-guide, hentet december 2023

HUMAN BARBIE RACHEL EVANS: “I’ve Had 100 Surgeries to Look Like Barbie”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRVksvQPcTs, hentet december 2023

Supplerende artikler:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jul/24/so-beautiful-i-cried-barbie-obsessives-give-their-verdicts-on-the-movie, hentet december 2023

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/07/19/barbie-icon-consumption/, hentet december 2023


(Est 50 ns)
Indhold
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 9 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 2 The short story

Vi går i dybden med short story som genre, og vi udvider vores kendskab til forskellige analysemetoder og modeller gennem analyse af noveller, der som omdrejningspunkt har temaet "Coming of Age".

Folktale: Little Red Riding Hood

Ernest Hemingway: Indian Camp (1924)

Alice Walker: The Flowers (1973)

Raymond Carver: Tell the Women We´re Going (1982)

Alison Fell: The Shining Mountain (1987)

Paul Auster: Auggie Wren´s Christmas Story (1990)

Peter Carey: Joe (1994)


Perspektiverende:
Film, Tony Kaye (dir): American History X (1998)
New Line Cinema

(Est 50 ns)
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Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 21 moduler
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Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 3 Individual novel

Hver elev læser en individuel roman som SRP-træning til at kunne læse, analysere, fortolke og formidle et længere værk.

Students have read the following titles:

Alexander: "Death of a Salesman" by Henry Miller
Amalie: "The Great Gatsby" by F.Scott Fitzgerald
Anton: "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" by Alan Silitoe
Benjamin:"The Great Gatsby" by F.S Fitzgerald
Bernhard: "Crazy" by Benjamin Lebert
Camille: "We were Liars" by E. Lockhart
Carl: "The War of the Worlds" by H.G Wells
Ella P.: "The Mockinjay" by Suzanne Collins
Ella S: "Five feet apart" by Rachael Cippinicott
Gustav: "The Great Gatsby" by F.S Fitzgerald
Hugo; "Death of a Salesman" by Henry Miller
Isabella: "Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator" by Roald Dahl
Josefine: "Coraline" by Neil Gaimann
Kamma: "Montana 1948" by Larry Watson
Karla: "The Great Gatsby" by F.Scott Fitzgerald
Kasper: "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad
Klara: "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Kim: "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
Lukas: "The Snobs" by Julian Fellowes
Malthe: "The Great Gatsby" by F.S Fitzgerald
Mathilde: "Where the Crowdads Sing" by Delia Owens
Nina: "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson
Simone: "It ends with us" by Colleen Hoover
Sofija: "It ends with us" by Colleen Hoover
Sophia: "My Sister's Keeper" by Jodi Picoult
Sophie: "Slammed" by Coleen Hoover
Victoria: "Coraline"
Vilhelm: "The Great Gatsby" by F.S Fitzgerald
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 4 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 4 Global English including Lingua Franca

In this topic we have worked with different types of English and their characteristics.
We have read fictional texts and theoretical texts about the use of Englishes.

On our study trip to Paris the students have made films about the use of English as a lingua franca.

fields covered:

Lingua Franca - definition and usage
Kachu's model
standard and non-standard English
American/British English - differences in pronounciation, vocabulary/spelling, and grammar
Indian English
African American Vernacular English
Black English


texts read in class

Chapters in  Worlds of English about the different Englishes - pdf documents

English in the European Union by Open University, on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKAeFi1IT54&fbclid=IwAR14U33p5Xq_3gv5YepewkXliflW2F3ySHBb5pTK4C3VEjxWaBW2iJxKKcQ

How did English evolve by Kate Gardoquoi, Tedtalk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIzFz9T5rhI

Singh Songh by Daljit Nagra, poem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Duq_-tMAGgQ

National Anthemn of South Africa

3 ways to speak English by Jamila Lyiscott, Ted talk https://www.ted.com/talks/jamila_lyiscott_3_ways_to_speak_english

omfang: 25 ns
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Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 15,5 moduler
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Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 5 The short film genre

In this topic about short films we have worked with 3 different formats of short films:

The slice of life format
The narrative format
the  experimental format

We have watched a number of short films together and practised analytical skills belonging to film analysis. Focus has been on recognising the genre and explaining visual/audio effects of the film including use of camera.

We have focused the concepts: unity - characters - endings - plot

The topic ended with a presentation of a selected short film in groups.

We have worked with the following films in class:

https://vimeo.com/841202538
Spider (9:00 min) (2007),


https://offstream.dk/play/28
Nursery Rhymes (5:00 min) (2018)


https://offstream.dk/play/637
The Betrayal (5:00 min) (2015)

https://www.shortoftheweek.com/2024/09/09/measure/
Measure (14 min) (2013)

Plus everyone has watched the following list of films and picked 1 for the project

https://www.shortverse.com/films/she-always-wins
https://www.shortverse.com/films/honesty
https://www.shortverse.com/films/under-pressure-award-winning-microfilm-quiet-mediation-on-unspoken-trauma-and-love
https://www.shortverse.com/films/vote
https://www.shortverse.com/films/the-dream-machine-1

(25 sider)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 5 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 6 SRO Bias and the Media

This topic is related to the SRO project and is a cross curricular topic with Social Science.

The aim of the topic has been to work with non-fiction analysis and look into how the U.S media works and how bias is expressed in the news,  especially in relation to the American election and key political issues.

Therefore we have looked into different types of bias, how the media in the U.S is controlled by political interests, and in doing so we have worked with discourse analyses of different texts with the aim that the students could use it in their project.

We have used the following material

chapter 1+2 about the American Political system in the anthology "Election Year" (pdf)

Model and theory of discourse analysis in From: Everyone Is Here – New Shapes of Diversity and Belonging in Britain (in pdf)

article from the Daily Beast on October 3rd 2022: "Pro-Life’ Herschel Walker paid for Girlfriend’s Abortion"(in pdf)

material with examples of 16 types of bias from American media (in pdf) and  on https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/how-to-spot-types-of-media-bias

The media bias chart - an overview of online U.S political content and their political bias
https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-chart
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 7 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 7 South Africa + værk (EKSAMEN)

This course on South Africa has focused on life during apartheid and the idea of identity. Our focus has been on how the system has influenced the indivdual and on basic rights and living conditions.
We have also touched on the British Empire and the role of the British in South Africa including the role of English as a foreign language and language and identity. (This ties with the topic 'Global English')

We have read the autobiography: 'Born a Crime' by Trevor Noah and the students have made group analyses as a project. Our focus in reading the book was on the characters, the setting, history and identity.

The students were also assigned a topic about South African culture/history to present in class (list on lesson 1)


In class we have read the following texts from the anthology 'From Dompass to Democracy'

The Soweto Protest turns violent p. 20

Humpfrey Tyler's eye-witness report, nonfiction

Major historical events: the great trek, the first and second boer wars, the native question and the land act of 1913 pp. 48-52, nonfiction

Excerpts from 2  Mandela speeches:
- Statement from the dock at the opening of the defence case in the Rivionia Trial, 1964 p. 40, nonfiction
- I am not prepared to sell the birthright of the people to be free p. 41, nonfiction
- Nelson Mandela's address to ANC rally, August 2 2008, p. 43-45, nonfiction

2 poems from the anthology XXX

In addition, the following texts have been read:
The national anthem of South Africa (text and video)
Apartheid: the rise and fall of South Africa (video)
Skin by Anthony Fabian (film)
The ANC Freedom Charter https://www.anc1912.org.za/the-freedom-charter-2/


As part of the topic we also had the opportunity to meet Gerald Jacobs from South Africa. He shared how it was to grow up in the townships in Cape Town and talked about identity and belonging.



(omfang: 150 s)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 19 moduler
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Titel 9 Literary Periods - an overview

The topic on literary periods provides an overview of significant characteristics of the different periods in terms of literature, genres and authors.

It is designed primarily as project work where the students start by gaining some knowledge of all the periods and then research one period which they must explain to class with use of references and examples.

(omfang: 15 s)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 3 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 10 Modernism and Minimalism in fiction (EKSAMEN)

Modernism and Minimalism in fiction focuses on these two literary movements.
First we'll read a selection of modernist texts with focus on their characteristics, use of language and ambiguity. We'll tie the ambiguity to the periods of the texts.
This is followed by a selection of short stories by American minimalist writers such as Ernest Hemingway, Amy Hempel, Raymond Carver and Barthelme. The focus in our readings are the traits of the minimalist genre the themes, the characters and the style of writing as well as the subtext. (-Also see the learning objectives in the powerpoint in the first lesson)


The students completed the course with a presentation of one of the text and with focus on the differences and similarities of the two styles.

All minimalist texts are from the book: Less is More

Hemingway: Cat in the Rain
F. Barthelme: Harmonic
Amy Hempel: The Annex
Amy Hempel: Celia is Back
Richard Brautigan: Lint
Jayne Anne Phillips: Solo Dance
Raymond Carver: 'One more Thing'

We have read the following modernist texts in class:
Virginia Woolf excerpt from 'To the Lighthouse' from Fields of Vision
Anthem for a Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen (poem)
Repression of War Experience by Sassoon (poem)
Sylvia Plath: 'The Bell Jar' - opening pages of chapter 1


(omfang: 100 s)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 10 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 11 American Rhetorics

In our course on American rhetorics the focus is on contemporary political texts and how the sender uses language and rhetorical devices to reach his/her audience.

We'll focus especially on the use of references to the American Dream and American values, use of religious language, historical references. We'll focus on the intention of the text and the relationship between sender and audience. We'll look into traditional rhetorical devices and how they work as well as semantic fields and discourse.

The focus in the texts has been political polarization and the purpose was to refresh knowledge of discourse and media bias before the SRP project.

The texts read in class are:

Civil War, directed by Alex Garland (2024), film

ICE officer who shoved a mother to the floor at an immigration courthouse is _relieved of his current duties,_ agency says _ CNN (pdf)

ICE leader blasts 'violent rioters,' mayor disrupting immigration operations _ Fox News (pdf)

Government shutdown latest; Democrats and Republicans are still at odds, USA Today News (link: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/10/19/shutdown-senate-donald-trump-democrats-republicans/86713476007/)



10 sider
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 7 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 12 The Gothic Universe

For the topic on the Gothic Universe we have worked in the online book from Systime with the same title.

Our focus in this topic has been on the three archetypes: the vampire/demon, the mad scientist and the psychopath

In the topic we have analysed the texts with focus on background knowledge of the genre (its characteristics), the Victorian Age, the development from the Englightenment to the Romantic period, Freud's personality model, the Oedipal crisis, Stephen King's definitions of horror, terror and gross out as well as different approaches (methods) to understanding the texts.

In our analyses we have focused on setting, characters, the uncanny and Gothic traits


Texts read in the anthology:

The Monkey's Paw by W.W Jacobs
Sometimes they come back by Stephen KIng
Frankenstein, film by Kenneth Branagh (1994)
The Terrapin by Patricia Highsmith

Theory in the book:

Horror fiction and the gothic
Typical features of early gothic fiction
Why are we so fascinated by horror - 3 theories
The Vampire and the Demon (description of the archetype)
The Scientist as an Archetype of Gothic Fiction (description of the archetype)
Romanticism and British literature https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJnTTlgjVso



supplerende materiale

How Horror became our social.... AI produced podcast about the genre
The Sea of Ice by Caspar David Friedrich. painting

(omfang: 100 p)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 14 moduler
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Titel 13 Britain: 10 years post Brexit

The focus in this topic is contemporary Britain and how Brexit has influenced the notions of class and inequality. We have worked around the questions: how did Britain turn out post Brexit and what was promised in the election?

Therefore we have watched the film "Brexit: The Uncivil War" as a backdrop for what was promised, who were involved and were the promises kept.

In the topic we have analysed various texts about themes relating to relevant societal themes.

film: Brexit: The Uncivil War, 2019

Are you a Precariat? in the Mail Online, 2018
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2303333/Great-British-Class-Survey-reveals-UK-7-social-classes-Are-precariat-new-affluent-worker-elite.html

UNITED KINGDOM declares WAR on IMMIGRATION by ‪@VisualPolitikEN‬
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtN1TO6QT14


Kae Tempest - People's Faces
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRULtXn6W0s
Plus transcript of the text

Fighting inequality in the UK by the Inequality Trust, (video)
https://everydayinequality.org.uk/2019/07/22/fighting-inequality-in-the-uk/

supplerende
Chapter 9 in UK NOW - an introduction to modern Britain (about inequality)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 7 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 14 Reading Shakespeare in Our Time - EKSAMEN

Shakespeare is considered one of the most important writers in English literary history. Not only did he write about universal themes that audiences still relate to today, his use of language and imagery also had a lasting impact on British culture and literature.

In this topic we have explored the form of the Shakespearian sonnet and worked with his play "Macbeth". In doing so we have learned about Elizabethan theatre and its form.

We have been especially preoccupied with the development of the characters, the use of supernatural elements in the play, traits from the Renaissance, the idea of the Great Chain of Being as well as the genre and Shakespearian language.

We have also worked with at number of  Shakespeare's sonnets and we have looked into their form, use of motifs, symbols and their themes.

Texts read in class:

sonnets: 116, 18, 144, 147
The Prologue from Romeo and Juliet
Excerpts from 'Macbeth' in 'Reading Shakespeare in Our Time'

(omfang: 50 s)
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Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 10 moduler
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Titel 15 Narrative Non-fiction:True Crime

The topic on narrative non-fiction/true crime has focused on the characteristics of the genre, the differences between fiction and non-fiction and where the two overlap in this genre. In our analytical work we have focused on 'how' the text presents its topic, dramatized elements in the text, the use of suspense etc.

We have discussed ethical considerations when producing texts in this genre, and we have also discussed why people are fascinated by these stories.

We have read various texts about true crime ranging from the true crime documentary to prose, and the podcast genre.

The students did a project on a chosen episode of the podcast series 'In the Dark'

Texts from class:

Texts from the anthology 'Narrating Truth' by Katrine Brøndsted et. al

- The Donkey: getting into the story pp. 18-20
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, excerpt from novel pp. 142-147

Obsessed: Unraveling Jodi Arias, true crime documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt4EHxymIlg

Podcasts:
'The Alibi' from the podcast Serial, season 1 episode 1
'The Crime' from the podcast series 'In the Dark', season 1 episode 1

Theory:
Narrative non-fiction
A Masterclass in Narrative Nonfiction with Ben Rawlence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ili2x0H-zpU

In addition the students have listened to a total of episode 1-5 from 'In the Dark' and they have selected an episode about which they made a conversational podcast.

(omfang: 75 s)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 14 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer