Holdet 2023 En/w - Undervisningsbeskrivelse

Undervisningsbeskrivelse

Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin(er) 2023/24 - 2024/25
Institution Nærum Gymnasium
Fag og niveau Engelsk B
Lærer(e) Nadja Marie Mariager
Hold 2023 En/w (1w En, 2w En)
Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 (Why) is that frightening?!
Titel 2 Coming of age (ORAL EXAM)
Titel 3 Travelling
Titel 4 American beliefs and values
Titel 5 Harris versus Trump: The presidential election
Titel 6 Voices of South Africa (ORAL EXAM)
Titel 7 World War One - The Great War (ORAL EXAM)
Titel 8 Aotearoa - New Zealand (ORAL EXAM)

Beskrivelse af de enkelte undervisningsforløb (1 skema for hvert forløb)
Titel 1 (Why) is that frightening?!

Taught by Nadja Marie Mariager

At the end of the unit, you should be able to:
-explain what characterized the Romantic age in Britain
-explain how both nature poetry and the Gothic relate to changes in British society
-explain what characterizes romantic nature poetry
-explain what characterizes the Gothic
-explain how Gothic relates to horror fiction
-explain how horror may be blended into a comedy theater play
- preparing and presenting a fiction analysis of Frankenstein.


Primary materials: William Wordsworth "The Tables Turned" (poetry, 1798)
Mary Shelley "Frankenstein" (excerpt from the novel, 1818), Chapters 1-3 & 5.
Frankenstein (Mini Series - in two parts) from 2004, directed by Kevin Connor

Secondary:
Through Literary Landscapes p.8-23.
Crazy Christmas (theatre play by Vivienne Key and her Team, 2023)
https://www.tivoli.dk/da/kultur-og-program/teater/2023/crazy-christmas-cabaret

(App. 50 standard pages)

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Titel Afleveringsdato
Frankenstein 28-11-2023
Horror production 22-12-2023
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 10 moduler
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Titel 2 Coming of age (ORAL EXAM)

Taught by Nadja Marie Mariager

The unit focuses on the theme of growing up and on working with the genres of fiction.
At the end of the unit you will be able to:

- recognise the features and the structure of a coming of age story
- analyse fiction using relevant terminology  
- focus on character analysis

Primary literature:
Indian Camp (Ernest Hemingway)
Just Like That (Michael Richards)
From "Contexts" (2004), red. af Grønvold, m.fl. Gyldendal,

Film: Dune (directed by Dennis Villeneuve, 2021)

Herudover anvendes Do it, Write! (minlæring), hvor vi arbejder med afsnit omhandlende 'Fiction analysis' og 'The analytical essay'.  

(app. 20 standard pages)

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Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Summary + Essay intro 30-01-2024
Essay final 07-02-2024
Essay rewriting 27-02-2024
Test 09-04-2024
Omfang Estimeret: 16,00 moduler
Dækker over: 18 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 3 Travelling

Taught by Nadja Marie Mariager

Focus is on the theme of travelling. The students are practicing the use of non-fiction analytical approaches.

At the end of the unit you will be able to:
- discuss the meaning of travelling
- analyse non-fiction using relevant terminology
- discuss the different ways to communicate the theme of travelling in non-fiction and fiction (the film)

Primary materials:
The Value of Traveling by Rick Steves (Speech)
Into the Wild (film)
What it means to be Florentine (travel article)
https://italysegreta.com/what-it-means-to-be-florentine/

Group work with and presentation concerning non-fiction analysis of a specific non-fiction article that revolves around travelling in various forms.

(App. 25 standard pages)

Kernestof:
det engelske sprogs grammatik, ortografi og tegnsætning
̶- udtale, ordforråd og idiomer
̶- principper for tekstopbygning
̶- kommunikationsstrategier
- et genremæssigt varieret udvalg af primært nyere ikke-fiktive tekster
- tekstanalytiske begreber og metoder til analyse af ikke-fiktive tekster
- fiktionsanalyse (film)

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Titel Afleveringsdato
Oral presentation 23-04-2024
Creative group task about Florence 14-05-2024
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 11 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 4 American beliefs and values

Taught by Nadja Marie Mariager

American beliefs and values

At the end of the unit you will be able to recognise and to discuss:
- various elements of American beliefs and values
- various elements of American society and culture
- non-fiction and fiction analysis, incl. film analysis

Class discussions and group work.  Multiple choice tests. Vocabulary games.

Primary literature:
Fiction/film: The Pursuit of Happiness (2006, Director: Gabriele Mucchino).

Secondary literature:
From American History: Early American history (Chapter 1: Discovery to Colonization) and The American Revolution and creation of the Constitution (Chapter 3: The Creation of a New Nation).

From 'Being American':
Chapter 1: American identity: Being an immigrant, being a frontier man, having rights and values, the new American identity.

(app. 60 standard pages)

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Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Revisions Mock Exam 25-08-2024
American History multiple choice 28-08-2024
Multiple Choice Am History II 16-09-2024
Exam paper 1 19-10-2024
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 12 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 5 Harris versus Trump: The presidential election

Taught by Nadja Marie Mariager

Teaching unit about the presidential election, 2024

Non-fiction: Campaign videos, selected sources on presidential election.
Secondary Literature:
American Politics: Republican party, Democratic party, populism, new political tendencies.
The Presidential Election: Political parties, fundraising, campaigning, electoral college. Mediacoverage
From "Being American"


Workforms: Presentations about political parties, campaign videos.
Listening to lecture (in Danish) about the American election.
Writing sessions: non-fiction texts revolving around issues in the US. Different point of views, different types of rhetorical devices.
Essay writing: Andrea Elliot's The Invisible Child (excerpt)  - the issue of poverty in the US.

App. 40 standard pages

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Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Exam paper 2 08-12-2024
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 11 moduler
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Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 6 Voices of South Africa (ORAL EXAM)

Taught by Nadja Marie Mariager and Rikke Sterum

A teaching unit that revolves around the autobiographical comedy book ”Born a Crime”by Trevor Noah (2017).

At the end of the unit you will be able to analyse and discuss:
- the basics of apartheid in South Africa
- the consequences of British colonialism in South Africa
- cultural identity, when cultures clash and/or intermingle
- the strenghts and drawbacks of using different genres to thematize the complex issue of apartheid and its aftermath

Primary literature apart from "Born a Crime":
"The Moment Before the Gun went of" (1988) by Nadine Gordimer (short story)
"The New South Africa" (1991) by Athol Williams (poem)
"The child who was shot dead by soldiers in Nyanga" (1963)  by Ingrid Jonker (poem)

Youtube videos:
History summarized: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_72a0J25cI (South Africa's history
Examples of Trevor Noah's stand up comedy sessions.
Africa is the new black: https://www.dr.dk/drtv/se/afrika-er-det-nye-sort_189038

Film: Mandela - A Long Walk to Freedom. (first hour of the film)

App. 300 standard pages

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Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 12 moduler
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Titel 7 World War One - The Great War (ORAL EXAM)

Taught by Rikke Sterum

The unit focuses on analysing campaigns and poetry from World War One. The aim is to trace the development of the attitude towards the war. At the end of the unit you will be able to:

- analyse the development of the attitude to The First World War
- analyse the most known poems from WW1 with special focus on figurative language
- discuss the individual soldier's experience in the trenches
- rephrase the background and political implications of WW1

Texts (from: Timeless Themes, Lindhardt & Ringhof, 2013):
The Charge of the Light Brigade (Alfred Lord Tennyson,1854)
Lord Kitchener's Advice
The Call (Jessie Pope)
The Soldier (Rupert Brooke, 1914)
Anthem for Doomed Youth (Wilfred Owen, 1916)
Dulce et decorum est (Wilfred Owen, 1920)
Armistice Day (Francis Brett Young, 1933. From the collection The Prisoner's Defence, 2017)

Illustrations:
Recruitment posters and campaigns

Film:
1917 (Sam Mendes, 2019)

Background:
Historical background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3UjJ5kxiLI
Life and death in the trenches: https://armistice-day.bbcrewind.co.uk/#/video/intro-trailer
Interviews with surviving soldiers of WW1 (https://armistice-day.bbcrewind.co.uk/#/interviews)

(app. 15 standard pages)

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Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 10 moduler
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Titel 8 Aotearoa - New Zealand (ORAL EXAM)

Taught by Rikke Sterum ORAL EXAM

At the end of the unit you will:

- be able to analyse and discuss how the modern Maori have fought to regain their indigenous identity  
- be able to rephrase the Maori myth 'Paikea and the Whale'
- be able to discuss how the poems and the film reflect this fight for indigenous identity
- 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)

The Womb (poem, Apirana Taylor)
Whakatu (poem, Keri Hulme)
Paikea and the Whale (Maori myth of origin) + the fictionalised version in the novel The Whale Rider (Witi Ihimaera, 1987, 3 standard pages)
Pig Sticker (short story, Anne French) (in: https://newzealand.systime.dk/?L=0)

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

(app. 15 standard pages)

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Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 9 moduler
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