Holdet 2023 EN/d - Undervisningsbeskrivelse

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Undervisningsbeskrivelse

Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin(er) 2023/24 - 2025/26
Institution Nærum Gymnasium
Fag og niveau Engelsk A
Lærer(e) Cecilie Wernberg Dalhoff, Rikke Sterum
Hold 2023 EN/d (1d EN, 2d EN, 3d EN)

Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 Food and Food Culture
Titel 2 Crime in Fiction
Titel 3 Travellers and Tourists
Titel 4 Aotearoa New Zealand
Titel 5 Forløb#5 Paris and the Lost generation
Titel 6 American politics and contemporary issues
Titel 7 Horror
Titel 8 Africa - The empire writes back (Exam)
Titel 9 Diversity in the UK (EXAM)
Titel 10 Forløb#11 Feminism (m. værklæsning)
Titel 11 Shakespeare - Love and relationships (EXAM)
Titel 12 Forløb#10 North American Wilderness (EXAM)
Titel 13 Fight Club and postmodernism (Værklæsning) (EXAM)
Titel 14 Forløb#8 Nigeria

Beskrivelse af de enkelte undervisningsforløb (1 skema for hvert forløb)
Titel 1 Food and Food Culture

The unit focuses on non-fiction and fiction texts about different aspects of food.

After the unit you will be able to:

- distinguish between the different approaches to food in fiction and non-fiction texts
- discuss figurative language and metaphors used in the fiction texts/films of the unit
- spot and discuss the ways of appeal used in the texts/films of the unit
- explain how Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is a parody of the disaster film genre

Texts:
Penne with Sundried Tomato Pesto
Recipe for Love (poem, unknown origin)
Meat is Murder (lyrics, The Smiths, 1985)
Forget Meat. There's a World of Vegetarian Food Out There (article, The Guardian, 2012)
Food With Feeling (short story, Nicola Barker, 1993)
The Naked Chef Goes to School (in: From Where You Are, Systime) + Jamie Oliver Ted Talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go_QOzc79Uc

Film:
Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs (Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, 2009)

Approx. 15 pages

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

Titel 2 Crime in Fiction

Crime and Fiction

The unit will look at different ways crime is expressed and presented to the reader and the viewer.

Special analytical attention is paid to a literary classic and a modern short story, both within the genre of crime fiction. We will focus on characters, setting and point of view/narration. Another focal point is the introduction of film analysis.

After the unit you will be able to:
- account for different kinds of crime fiction
- discuss the popularity of crime fiction
- discuss the difference between American action-packed tradition vs. British low-keyed tradition
-  use the analytical terms characters, setting, and point of view/narration

Texts and Internet resources:
- Introduction to Crime in Fiction (Barkholt and Jepsen, Systime, 2008)
- A Very British Murder (BBC https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5puo1z Historical murdercase)
- Death on The Nile (Agatha Christie, 1937, extracts)
- Tell Me (short story, Zoë Sharp, in Crime in Fiction, Barkholt and Jepsen, Systime, 2008) + interview with the author Zoë Sharp (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Knu4IGxFCio)

Film:
Death on The Nile (Kenneth Branagh, 2022)

Approx. 20 pages
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 9 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 3 Travellers and Tourists

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

- define and discuss the different approaches to travelling reflected in the dualism 'traveller' vs. 'tourist'
- analyse the paradox of travelling that Alain de Botton defines in 'On Anticipation' and discuss how de Botton's character The Duc des Esseintes and Simon Reeve are direct opposites in their approach to travelling
- detect figurative langugage in texts, especially poems

Texts:
Sea-Fever (poem, John Masefield, 1902)
The Express (poem, Stephen Spender, 1966) + Sassenachs (poem, Jackie Kay)
On Anticipation (non-fiction, Alain de Botton, 2002)
Simon Reeve's incredible journeys: https://www.dr.dk/drtv/se/simon-reeves-fantastiske-rejser_428178
The Larder (short story, Morris Lurie, 1984)

Film:
The Beach (Danny Boyle, 2000)

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

Titel 4 Aotearoa New Zealand

Aoteroa New Zealand

At the end of the unit you will:

- know many facts about New Zealand in the areas of history, geography, government, language and religion
- be able to discuss elements of New Zealand identity
- be able to rephrase two Maori myths: 'Paikea and the Whale' and 'Rona and the Moon'.
- be able to discuss how the film 'The Whale Rider' reflects the myth about Paikea and the whale and applies it to the conditions of modern Maori + also how it is used in the Disney film (Vaiana/Moana, 2016).
- be able to discuss the aspect of growing up in Whale Rider, Moana and Pig Sticker.

Material:
Background on Maori ancestry and British colonisation (ppt lecture + internet resources).
https://newzealand.systime.dk/?L=0 (i-book)

Short story:
Pig Sticker (in: https://newzealand.systime.dk/?L=0)

Films:
The Whale Rider (Niki Caro, 2002)
Moana (Vaiana, Disney, 2016, first 30 minutes)

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ordbogen.com
oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com
https://www.merriam-webster.com
thesaurus.com
sproget.dk
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 7 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer


Titel 6 American politics and contemporary issues

I dette forløb undersøger eleverne amerikansk politik. De får et bedre kendskab til det politiske system og de to politiske partier republikanerne og demokraterne. Fokus har været på arbejderklassen, abort og immigration. Eleverne har arbejdet med retorisk analyse samt diskurs analyse. De kender til appelformerne: patos, etos og logos.

Forløbet har haft til hensigt at undersøge holdninger og forhold i USA i og omkring det amerikanske valg 2024.
Desuden har eleverne analyseret valgvideoer af de to præsidentkandidater og lavet deres egne.

Kernestof:
The white working poor:
Hillbilly Elegy - introduction

Trump Victory:
Donald Trump declares victory in 2024 presidential election
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9P4z59H6aw

Election videos:
Morning in America (Regan)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa8Qupc4PnQ

Abortion:
Alyssa Milano on Roe v. Wade & Abortion Rights in the U.S. | Exclusive (Youtube)
Enforced childbirth is slavery’: Margaret Atwood on the right to abortion, The Guardian
I’m a Pro-Life Pastor but I Support a Woman’s Right to Choose (NY Times)
Marco Rubio speech: On the Dignity of Life and Need for Pro-Family Policies https://floridadaily.com/marco-rubio-speaks-on-senate-floor-on-the-dignity-of-life-and-need-for-pro-family-policies/

Immigration:
Massdeportation, Last Week Tonight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UEhMDAlX1Y
La Puerta by Jose Antonio Burciaga (short story)
article (CDA FINDER DEN LIGE)


Supplerende stof:

- How does the US electoral system work? (Youtube)
How the Republican Party went from Lincoln to Trump (Vox - YouTube).
- The American Presidential System (pptx)
- Rhetorics (pptx)
Which US states make it hardest to vote? (the guardian).
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 10,00 moduler
Dækker over: 10 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 7 Horror

Why does horror fiction continue to fascinate? From Dracula and Frankenstein to the modern day monster and the societies they reflect and question.

Stoker: Dracula excerpt, pp. 1-9 + Draculs and the women
Shelley: Frankenstein
Wilde: Dorian Gray (excerpt)
H.P Lovecraft: The Statement of Randolph Carter
Edgar Allan Poe: Tell-tale heart
Willam Faulkner: Rose for Emily
Bret Easton Ellis: American Psycho: Kids at the zoo

Movie: the Shining

Written assignment: Stephen King's why we crave Horror".

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Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 10,00 moduler
Dækker over: 17 moduler
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Titel 8 Africa - The empire writes back (Exam)

focus:
Imperialism
The danger of the single story
Negotiating the colonial past
Post-colonialism
Independence
Nollywood


lingua franca - in general and in Africa

Representations of Africa
What is home?
How African storytelling reflects a political/cultural development.
Focus on Nigeria

Texts:
"Rule, Brittania" (poem)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sgd9nYqVz2s&list=RDSgd9nYqVz2s&start_radio=1
Rudyard Kipling, "The White Man's Burden"
A Kind of Paradise - Twelve African Stories (DR documentary)
Binyavanga Wainaina, How to Write about Africa
Postcolonial perspectives, Introduction from Africa Unfold, L&R (theory)
C. N. Adichie, The Danger of the Single Story (Ted Talk - non-fiction)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Ihs241zeg
Achebe - Things fall apart ch. 21 (fiction)
Magate Wade - No more pity shit (opinion piece)
Do they know it's Christmas (song)
This is nigeria - Falz(rap song)



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https://dictionary.cambridge.org/
Indhold
Kernestof:

Supplerende stof:
Omfang Estimeret: 15,00 moduler
Dækker over: 13 moduler
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Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 9 Diversity in the UK (EXAM)

In this course, we focus on multiculturalism in Great Britain. Through poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and political speech, we explore questions of identity, belonging, and cultural hybridity.

We have worked with potery analysis, literary analysis, rhetorical analysis and discourse analysis.

We have had a special focus on the following terms: immigration, assimilation, segregation, collective identity, belonging, the national "we", cultural hybridity, the windrush generation, sociolect and code switching.

Baggrundsinformation:
Everyone is here ch.1

Materialer:

John Agard, Listen mr. Oxford Don (Poem)
Bernadine Evaristo: Women, Girl, Other (novel excerpt)
Home is not here, Laura Blake (Short story)
Zadie Smith: Speaking in Tongue (essay) - In Everyone is here
David Cameron: Speech on Radicalization, Islamic Extremism and the Failure of State Multiculturalism (speech) - In Everyone is here
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 13,00 moduler
Dækker over: 12 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 10 Forløb#11 Feminism (m. værklæsning)

In this unit, you will get an overview of the four waves of feminism. You will read a central piece of fourth wave feminism, "Dear Ijeawele" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
The goal of the unit is to understand the dialogues that feminist texts participate in and create - and to explore the social and political contexts of each of the waves of feminism.
Furthermore, "Dear Ijeawele" can both be categorized as a manifesto and an epistolary novel, and the opportunities and limitations of these genres will be explored.

Text:

- Intro text: “Four Waves of Feminism”, Martha Rampton, Paper from Pacific University (2015)

Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own (Excerpt from chapter 3)
Betty Friedan: The Feminine Mystique (chapter 1)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Dear Ijeawele, or a feminist manifesto (værklæsning)

Supplementary:
Bring back the manly man
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 13 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 11 Shakespeare - Love and relationships (EXAM)

Core texts:
- "The Renaissance (1500-1660)", The English Handbook

- "Why Shakespeare Loved the Iambic Pentamenter - David T. Freeman and Gregory Taylor", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5lsuyUNu_4

- "Pop Sonnets - Shakespeare Unlimited", episode 41, Erik Didrikson interviewed by Barbara Bogaev. Link: https://www.folger.edu/shakespeare-unlimited/pop-sonnets

- Sonnet 130, "My Mistress Eyes are Nothing like the Sun"
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45108/sonnet-130-my-mistress-eyes-are-nothing-like-the-sun

- Sonnet 18, "Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?"
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45087/sonnet-18-shall-i-compare-thee-to-a-summers-day

Romero and Juliet:
- The prologue to Romeo and Juliet
- Romeo and Juliet's first meeting (Act 1, scene 5)
- The famous balcony scene (Act II, scene 1)
- Romeo and Juliet (movie), Bad Luhrmann



Supplementary material:
- "The History of English - Shakespeare", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMkuUADWW2A&list=PLA052734D94263ED4
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 13 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 12 Forløb#10 North American Wilderness (EXAM)

The American Wilderness as both threatening and threatened, liberating and capturing, welcoming and hostile, conquerable and impenetrable. An ambiguous space where man meets his true self and is both repulsed and captivated by what he sees.

Materials:
Romanticism:
Wordsworth: The Tables Turned (poem)
Group presentations on William Blake, Percy Shelley, and Lord Byron.
The sublime: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU1w_tfaN_4


Roderick Nash: Wilderness Defined


The frontier:
Painting: American Progress


Leaving Civilization Behind:
Eddie Vedder: Society
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAphzAmDc4w
Thoreau: Walden
Into the Wild – the movie


Man and Nature:
Jack London: The Law of life
Robert W. Service: Call of the Yukon (poem) (and the Gold Rush)
Emily Carr: Time (memoir) (from The Book of Small)

Eco-criticism:
Rachel Carson: Silent Spring (preface)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 16 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 13 Fight Club and postmodernism (Værklæsning) (EXAM)

In this course, students have read Chuck Palahniuk’s novel Fight Club at home, while classroom activities have framed the novel through relevant thematic, theoretical and cultural perspectives. The course has focused on masculinity, consumerism, postmodern identity and psychoanalytic approaches to literature.

Students have worked with literary analysis of the novel, as well as media analysis, visual analysis and contextual material. At the end of the course, students worked in literary circles, where they prepared and presented an independent group analysis of the novel.

Main Text

Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club

Thematic Focus
Gender and masculinity
Consumerism and capitalist society
Postmodernity and identity
Fragmentation, masks and the doppelgänger motif
Freud’s model of the human mind: id, ego and superego
The subconscious and repression

Additional Material
Eminem: “The Real Slim Shady”

- Judith Butler, gender trouble rouble:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3i-8JEWSk8
- Video on toxic masculinity and Andrew Tate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rphaTP3uBWI
- Toxic masculinity explained (BBC): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kAqAFOHIxw

Student-selected commercials on hegemonic masculinity
Pew Research Center statistics on masculinity/gender roles:
Selected artworks related to consumerism

Documentary: Inside the Manosphere
David Fincher: Fight Club (the movie)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 17 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 14 Forløb#8 Nigeria

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Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 0 moduler
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