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Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin(er) 2024/25 - 2025/26
Institution Århus Akademi
Fag og niveau Engelsk B
Lærer(e) Bjørn Christensen
Hold 2024 En/x (1x En, 2x En)

Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 1. Intro-forløb
Titel 2 2. Language of Politics
Titel 3 3. Englishes and Identity (eksamen)
Titel 4 4. Empire and Postcolonial Writing (eksamen)
Titel 5 5. Global Warming and Cli-fi (eksamen)
Titel 6 6. Surveillance and Privacy (eksamen)
Titel 7 7. Tribal InJustice (eksamen)

Beskrivelse af de enkelte undervisningsforløb (1 skema for hvert forløb)
Titel 1 1. Intro-forløb

Intro til tekstlæsning samt sprog og grammatik.

Faglige mål, progression:
- læse og analysere fiktionstekster
- amerikansk fiktion fra 20. årh.

Kernestof:
Ray Bradbury, “Calling Mexico” (1950)
Ernest Hemingway, “Indian Camp” (1924)  
John Steinbeck, "Breakfast" (1938)   

Supplerende stof:
"How to read fiction" (powerpoint)
Fotomateriale til "Daylaborers in the 1920s/1930s", bl.a. Dorthea Lang
Etymologi-quiz


I alt tekster i emnet svarende til ca. 15 sider.
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 8 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 2 2. Language of Politics

Emne: Fokus på politisk sprog og retorik med tekster fra USA, England og Ghana.

Faglige mål, progression:
- træne læse og lytteevne
- analyse af ikke-fiktionstekster + analysebegreber
- læsning af ældre tekst
- historiske og samfundsmæssige forhold
- indplacering af tekst i historisk kontekst
- korte præsentationer

Kernestof:
- "Immigration" (Chap. 7, pp. 165-170, in "Election Year". Gyld. 2024)
- J.D. Vance, "Hillbilly Elegy. A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis" (autobiography excerpt from introduction to the book)(2017)
- Joe Biden, "Remarks by President Biden on Border Security and Enforcement" (Ibid.)
- Donald Trump, "Former President Donald Trump's Speech on How to Secure American Borders" (Ibid.)
- "The Origins of the American Dream" (Podcast)(26:49 min.)(https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p054fwj1)
- Keir Starmer, "PM Speech in Birmingham". (July 2024)(speech) (https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/pm-speech-in-birmingham-28-october-2024)
- Kwame Nkrumah, "The motion of destiny" (1953)
- "The Declaration of Independence" (excerpt)(1776)
- "Preamble to the American Constitution" (1789)
- "First and Second Amendments" (1791)
- "Birth of the English Parliament" (Fra: https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/evolutionofparliament/originsofparliament/birthofparliament/)

Supplerende stof:
"TV ads in America" (Jim Heath Channel and 'Latest Campaign Ads'  (https://www.youtube.com/jimheathchannel )
"The Settling of America" (ppt)
"Amendment 14" (http://hrlibrary.umn.edu/education/all_amendments_usconst.htm )
"Number of Immigrants arrived from 1820 to 1870" (https://www.statista.com/statistics/1010123/nationality-immigrants-arriving-us-1820-1870/ )
"How many unauthorized immigrants in America?" (https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/07/22/what-we-know-about-unauthorized-immigrants-living-in-the-us/ )
"Unauthorized immigrants and jobs" (https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/06/10/a-majority-of-americans-say-immigrants-mostly-fill-jobs-u-s-citizens-do-not-want/)
Information about Ghana (www.thecommonwealth.org )

I alt tekster læst i emnet svarende til ca. 75 sider
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 20,5 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 3 3. Englishes and Identity (eksamen)

Emne: Fokus på engelsk som globalt sprog og som ELF. Undersøgelse af det engelske sprog i forhold til varianter, identitetsdannelse og -påvirkning, håb, drømme og muligheder. Værk indgår i emnet.


Faglige mål, progression:
- analyse og forståelse af video (talt sprog)
- ELF: English as Lingua Franca
- Værklæsning
- analyse og fortolkning af fiction

Kernestof:
- David Crystal, “Global English” (video YouTube)
- David Crystal, “World Englishes” (video YouTube)
- Kachru’s circles of English, “World Englishes” (2021) (video YouTube)(theoretical text)
- “Global English”. pp. 22-23 (“Worlds of English”. Eds. Finderup & Fog. Systime 2021)
- Joanthan Safran Foer, ”Everyting Is Illuminated” (Ibid.) (2002)    
- John Agard, “Listen Mr Oxford don” (1985). (Ibid.)
- John Agard: ‘Listen to Mr Oxford Don’”. (YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywy-Tthdg7w)
- Sanaz Toossi, “English” (drama/play)(2023)(VÆRK)
- Kushwant Singh, “Karma” (short story)
- Chris Cleave, "Little Bee" (novel; first chapter; pp. 1-13) (2008)(https://chriscleave.com/little-bee/read-the-first-chapter-of-the-other-hand-little-bee/ )

Supplerende stof:
“Features of English as a lingua franca. University of Southampton”. https://www.elanguages.ac.uk/los/mooc/features_of_english_as_a_lingua_franca.html
“Different Nationalities Speaking English”. YouTube 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpcG-xqPgRM
A dialect quiz.
”Gamle mænd i nye biler” (klip). YouTube 2011: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgdceI098dQ&t=159s

I emnet er læst i alt ca. 120 sider
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 22 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 4 4. Empire and Postcolonial Writing (eksamen)

Emne: Har dobbelt fokus og har dels givet indsigt, hvad 'the British Empire' er, dels hvad 'postcolonial writing' er. Der er læst tekster fra det 19. - 21. århundrede.
1. What was the British Empire?
2. What is postcolonial writing? How do writers from former British colonies write today? In what ways have they been affected by living in a country that was once a British colony?

Faglige mål, progression:
- analyse og fortolkning af både fiction (short stories; film) og non-fiction (TED talk’en)
- repetition af non-fiction analyse (analysis of communicative situation; rhetorical analysis, modes of persuasion)
- præsentationsteknik
- indplacering af tekst i historisk kontekst

Kernestof:
Group project about “The British Empire”
Rudyard Kipling, “The White Man’s Burden” (English)(1899)(poem)
Rudyard Kipling, "Lispeth" (1886)(short story)
“Viceroy’s House” (2017)(film about how India was partitioned and became independent in 1947)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, “The danger of a single story” (Nigeria and the USA) (TED talk)  (2009)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, “My Mother, the Crazy African” (short story)(2010)
Niq Mhlongo, “Dog Eat Dog” (South Africa)(novel excerpt)(2009)
Caryl Phillips, "A Life in Ten Chapters" (2005)(essay, non-fiction)

Supplerende stof:
“Postcolonialism and postcolonial literature” (background text; methodology)
“Director Gurinder Chadha on Viceroy's House, Partition, Brexit & Trump”
(YouTube website, Feb. 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8ez2tZbUiw)
"An interview with the South African writer Niq Mhlongo" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9KH-LoubVc)

I alt i emnet er læst tekster svarende til ca. 60 sider
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 39 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 5 5. Global Warming and Cli-fi (eksamen)

Emne: Om klimaforandringer og konsekvenser. Forholdet mellem menneske og natur i 'climate- fiction'/Cli-fi. Naturens indplacering i et 'power hierarchy'. Inddragelse af ecocriticism (metode), som eleverne også har arbejdet med i FF3.

Faglige mål, progression:
- analyse og fortolkning af især fiktion (short story og film)
- analysebegreber fiction
- cinematic devices
- træning af små præsentationer

Kernestof:
Morris Lurie, "The Larder" (short story)(1984) (Mette Grønvold et al. "Footprints". Gyld. 2017)
Mayhew Bergman, "The Lottery, Redux" (short story)(2015)
Roland Emmerich, "The Day after Tomorrow" (film) (2004)
Sanjay Patel, "If You Love Your Children" (2014) (short film; 20 min.) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmafYD5W7to)
Ernest Hemingway, "Green Hills of Africa" (novel excerpt)
Radha Zutshi Opubor, “The Beginning” (2020)(short story)(prøveeksamenstekst)

Supplerende stof:
Ordforrådsmateriale til emnet.
Video om Hemingway

I alt tekster i emnet svarende til ca. 40 sider.
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 16,00 moduler
Dækker over: 11 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 6 6. Surveillance and Privacy (eksamen)

Emne: Forløb om overvågning i samfundet. Undersøgelse af, hvad 'privacy' er, og hvor grænserne går. Hvor stort et problem er online-overvågning?

Progression, faglige mål:
- analyse og fortolkning af fiction og non-fiction
- træning af præsentationer
- sammenligning af tekster

Kernestof:
- W.H. Auden, “The Unknown Citizen” (poem)(1940)
- George Orwell, “1984”, chapters 1 + 3 (novel; published in 1948/49)
- “1984” (film directed by Michael Radford)(1984)
- Gary Kovacs, “Tracking the Trackers” (TED talk, 2012)(https://www.ted.com/talks/gary_kovacs_tracking_our_online_trackers)
- Dave Eggers, “The Circle” (novel excerpt)(2013)
- “The Circle” (film directed by James Ponsoldt)(2017)
- Vice News, “Exposing the NSA’s Mass Surveillance of Americans” (news story)(2024) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYVm62oEyWA)

Supplerende stof:
Individuelt læste tekster:
Silas:
Eliza Orlins, “Universal surveillance is here—how do we fight back?” TEDxHCCS Youth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MoYHJaKsZE
Signe:
Digits, “Privacy vs. Security in the Age of Digital Surveillance” (2024) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q86RKI-uZSc
Mathilde:
”The Handmaid’s Tale”, Chapter 6
https://ieas-szeged.hu/downtherabbithole/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Margaret-Atwood_-The-Handmaids-Tale-1.pdf  
Jafar:
Isaac Asimov, ”The Dead Past” (short story) https://xpressenglish.com/our-stories/dead-past/
Monika:
Industrial Cyber, “DHS warns Chinese-made internet cameras pose espionage threat to US critical infrastructure”, February 10, 2025. (article) https://industrialcyber.co/cisa/dhs-warns-chinese-made-internet-cameras-pose-espionage-threat-to-us-critical-infrastructure/
Leah:
Darrell M. West. Brookings website, “How AI can enable public surveillance” (a commentary) https://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-ai-can-enable-public-surveillance/


I alt tekster i emnet svarende til ca. 50 sider.
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 20 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 7 7. Tribal InJustice (eksamen)

Emne: Focus on indigenous peoples and (in)justice. Minorities: aboriginals of Australia, Native Americans in the USA, Canadian Indians; their positions in these countries and societies in a historical context.

Faglige mål, progression:
- analyse og fortolkning af non-fiction
- indplacering af tekster i historisk kontekst
- træning af præsentation

Kernestof:
INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS
- Glenys Ward “Wandering Girl” (1987)(autobiography)
- Glenys Ward "Testimony". Excerpt. Stolen Generations Interviews. (Video)(https://www.stolengenerationstestimonies.com/glenys-ward.html )
- Kevin Rudd “Sorry Speech” (pp. 1-2 + 5-6)(2008)(speech)(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDvome0bCXs)
INDIGENOUS CANADIANS AND AMERICAN INDIANS
- CBS News "Canada's unmarked graves: How residential schools carried out "cultural genocide" against indigenous children" (news story, 13 minute excerpt from "60 Minutes" with Anderson Cooper, 2022) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1CfRdEd_PI)
- Paul Dixon, "I spent 10 years in residential schools. This is what I want my grandchildren to know". (article)(2022) (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/first-person-facing-genocide-mohawk-institute-la-tuque-residential-school-1.6527631)
- Stephen Harper, "Statement of Apology" (speech) (2008) (https://www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca/eng/1100100015644/1571589171655)
- Global Indigenous Council website, “Global Indigenous Council Issues - MMIW CAMPAIGN” (article) (https://www.globalindigenouscouncil.com/missing-murdered-p1)
- VICE News, "Indigenous Women Keep Going Missing in Montana" (News story, 2021) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib0GDAPeymo)


Supplerende stof:
Information about indigenous First Nations of Australia
Powerpoint about American Indian peoples
Reserves in Canada (https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/aboriginal-reserves)

I alt tekster i emnet svarende til ca. 40 sider.
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 14,00 moduler
Dækker over: 10 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer