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Undervisningsbeskrivelse

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

Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 0. Tilladte hjælpemidler til eksamen
Titel 2 1. Intro-forløb
Titel 3 2. Language of Politics
Titel 4 3. Englishes and Identity
Titel 5 4. Empire and Postcolonial Writing
Titel 6 5. Suffragette Sisters (eksamen)
Titel 7 6. Nature - Empowered or Oppressed (eksamen)
Titel 8 7. Alienated WoMan (eksamen)
Titel 9 8. Disconnections (eksamen)
Titel 10 9. Banned Books and Censorship (eksamen)
Titel 11 10. Shakespeare (eksamen)

Beskrivelse af de enkelte undervisningsforløb (1 skema for hvert forløb)
Titel 1 0. Tilladte hjælpemidler til eksamen

Tilladte hjælpemidler til eksamen

Liste med online ordbøger, som du må anvende til mundtlig og skriftlig eksamen

Generelle ordbøger:
www.ordbogen.com
Longman (https://www.ldoceonline.com/)    (UK)
Merriam-Webster (https://www.merriam-webster.com/)  (US) Denne ordbog har også en synonymordbog, hvis du vælger 'Thesaurus'.
Cambridge Dictionary (https://dictionary.cambridge.org/thesaurus/), som også har en synonymordbog, hvis man vælger “Thesaurus” i hovedmenuen.


SKRIFTLIG OG MUNDTLIG EKSAMEN
Du må bruge:
- Udleverede og læste tekster og bøger fra undervisningen
- "Skriftlig eksamen i engelsk STX & HF" (den lyseblå)
- Notater fra gennemgangen af emner og tekster.
- Notater og materialer i Notesbogen/Onenote. NB: Ikke i online-version!

Du må IKKE gå online i forberedelsestiden til mundtlig eksamen - bortset fra ordbøgerne.
Du må IKKE anvende software, programmer eller hjemmesider, som kan hjælpe dig med at skrive tekst. Det gælder enhver form for oversættelsesprogrammer, AI, korrekturprogrammer.

Stave- og grammatikkontrollen i Word er tilladt hjælpemiddel.
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 90,5 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 2 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
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 8 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 3 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)
- 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)
- 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 THE USA?" (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 )
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 20,5 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 4 3. Englishes and Identity

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 5 4. Empire and Postcolonial Writing

Emne: Har dobbelt fokus og har dels givet indsigt, hvad 'the British Empire', 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)

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)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 35 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 6 5. Suffragette Sisters (eksamen)

Emne: Focus on the suffragettes and emancipation, gender roles, marriage as a social institution/convention, women's position in society. Texts from the Victorian Age to early Postmodernism.

Faglige mål. progression:
- analyse og forrtolkning af fiktion
- indplacering af tekster i kontekst (litterære strømninger)
- metode: feminist approach, psychoanalytical approach
- fokus på style of writing
- træning af små oplæg

Kernestof:
Kate Chopin, "The Story of an Hour" (1894)(short story)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1895)(short story)
Sarah Gavron, "Suffragette" (2015)(film)
Emmeline Pankhurst, "Freedom or Death" (1913)(speech)
Susan Glaspell, "Trifles" (1916)(play/drama)(VÆRK)
Anne Stevenson, "The Marriage" (1974)(poem)
Denise Levertov, "In Mind" (1963)(poem)
Denise Levertov, "The Ache of Marriage" (1966)(poem)
Timeline. Women's suffrage in England. (https://www.bl.uk/votes-for-women/articles/womens-suffrage-timeline)
Timeline. Women's Suffrage Timeline in the USA. (https://www.americanbar.org/groups/public_education/programs/19th-amendment-centennial/toolkit/suffrage-timeline/)

Supplerende stof:
Om Kate Chopin: https://americanliterature.com/author/kate-chopin
Reading of "The Story of an Hour": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9S4btsmp70
Genre and "Story of an Hour": https://www.katechopin.org/the-story-of-an-hour/
Om Charlotte Perkins Gillman: https://americanliterature.com/author/charlotte-perkins-gilman
Reading of "The Yellow Wallpaper": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSlJ98eLHUc   (30 min.)
Emmeline Pankhurst: https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-42772858
The Anti-Suffragette Movement: https://www.bl.uk/votes-for-women/articles/the-anti-suffrage-movement
Who were the suffragettes? https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/museum-london/explore/who-were-suffragettes

I dette forløb er læst: ca. 60 sider
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 26 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 7 6. Nature - Empowered or Oppressed (eksamen)

Emne: The theme focusses on the role of nature, man’s understanding of nature, and man’s relation to nature.
Texts are read from these periods: the Romantic Age in England, the Victorian Age, American Romanticism as well as contemporary cli-fi (climate fiction) belonging to Metamodernism (Post-postmodernism, roughly 1995-today).


Faglige mål, progression:
- analyse og fortolkning af forskellige typer fiktions- og ikke-fiktionstekster
- specifikt: analyse af lyrik
- metodebevidsthed (fx nykritisk læsning over for ecocriticism)
- indplacering af tekst i litteraturhistorisk kontekst
- læsning af ældre tekst (18. og 19 århundrede)
- træning af præsentation


Kernestof:
William Wordsworth, “The Tables Turned” + “I wandered lonely as a cloud” (poems) (from: Fields of Vision)
William Wordsworth "On Westminster Bridge"
William Blake, three poems: “Tyger, Tyger”, "The Sick Rose", "London"
Charles Darwin, “The Struggle for Existence” (1859) (non-fiction) (an excerpt from On the Origin of Species, 1859)
Henry David Thoreau, “Walden” (1854)(non-fiction) (an excerpt)
Walt Whitman, “When I Heard the Learned Astronomer” (1855) (poem)(from: Fileds of Vision)
Clare Dudman, "Like Canute" (2013)(short story) (from: "Beacons - Stories for our not so distant future". Oneworld Books, 2013)
Prøveeksamenstekst: Yakos Spiliotopoulos, “Into the Storm” (2016)(short story)


Supplerende stof:
Baggrundsmateriale om the Romantic Age: gruppeprojekter.
"William Wordsworth - Life and Work" (from "Fields of Vision" Volume I, pp. E22-23)
Jane Austen, "Emma" (novel)(short excerpt from "Fields of Vision")
"American Romanticism"
“American Transcendentalism” (Source: https://adhc.lib.ua.edu/site/literarylandscapes/transcendentalism-context/)
"Political Theory: Henry David Thoreau" (video; 2015; YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJL9S0J8-4k)
Walt Whitman: pp. F116-117 (Fields of Vision)
Charles Darwin: “The Making of a Theory: Darwin, Wallace, and Natural Selection” (docufiction; 30 minutes) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOiUZ3ycZwU)
Selina Nwulu: "Interview: Selina Nwulu". (video, 2016) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mdf9L2idSIU)
The ecocritical method; introduceret i et FF3-forløb (tværfagligt med biologi)

I alt er læst i emnet ca. 45 sider
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 22,00 moduler
Dækker over: 22 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 8 7. Alienated WoMan (eksamen)

Emne: Focus on modernism and the modern age; the effect of urbanisation on the modernist writer and her/his protagonists as well as the alientation of the writer and his characters. The novel "Passing" focusses on race as part of the Harlem Renaissance.

Progression, faglige mål:
- analyse og fortolkning af fiktion
- indplacering af tekster i litterær periode
- analyse af style
- præsentationstræning

Kernestof:
Aldous Huxley, "Time and the Machine" (1936) (essay)
James Joyce, "Eveline" (short story)(1914) (From: Irene Allerslev, "James Joyce". Forlaget Modtryk, 2001)
Gertrude Stein, "Ada" (1909/1922)(story) + a reading of the story (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDLRU8VTjYo&t=4s)
Nella Larsen, "Passing" (1929)(novel; VÆRK)(Blacksburg: Wilder Publications. 2010)
Ernest Hemingway, "Now I Lay Me" (1927)(short story)(From: 'Men Without Women')
Prøveeksamenstekst: Ernest Hemingway, "Cat in the Rain"

Supplerende stof:
Baggrundsmatriale om Modernism, the Modernist Period c. 1890-1930.
"Gertrude Stein: A complex pioneer of modernism". (Biographical articel )(https://www.dw.com/en/gertrude-stein-a-complex-pioneer-of-modernism/a-58591036)
"The Lost Generation". A documentary from YouTube website, 2016 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPJ2Yqtc1Dk)(90 min.)
"The Hemingway Code Hero". (Material about Hemingway's Code Hero.
Documentary about James Joyce and his life. (30 min.)(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SuHkY2wAQA)
Documentary about Ernest Hemingway and his life. (30 min.)
"Nella Larsen and the Ambiguity of Race" (2019) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4SsLpnAmHU)
A review of the novel "Passing". It's a podcast from NPR (National Public Radio), 2021 (https://www.npr.org/2021/11/10/1054025599/passing-novel-nella-larsen-review)
A review of the film "Passing" from the British newspaper The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/oct/28/passing-review-rebecca-hall-racial-identity-tessa-thompson-ruth-negga

I alt er læst i emnet ca. 175 sider
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 20,00 moduler
Dækker over: 14 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 9 8. Disconnections (eksamen)

Theme: Focus on the postmodern period (c. 1970-2000), primarily American writing. Keywords: minimalist writing, a materialist consumerist society, many freedoms, discontinuity, disconnections between humans, escapism, pleasure as the highest good, fulfilment.

Progression, faglige mål:
- analyse og fortolkning af fiktion
- indplacering af tekst i litterær periode
- kendetegn ved postmoderne fiktion, herunder begreber


Kernestof:
Frederic Jameson "Postmodernism and Consumer Society" (1982)
Tessa Brown "In Reference to Your Recent Communications" (2005)(short story, sudden fiction)
Raymond Carver "Neighbors" (1971)(short story)
Raymond Carver "Lemonade" (poem)
Bret Easton Ellis "The Informers" (1994)(novel/short story collection). The following stories have been read in groups:"Bruce Calls from Mulholland" + "At the Still Point" + "The Fifth Wheel" + "The Fifth Wheel" + "On the Beach"
Robert Altman "Short Cuts" (1993)(film)
In groups, the following five short-short stories have been read:
Ellen Hunnicutt, "Blackberries" (1987)
Paul Milenski, "Leg" (1984)
Jim Heynen, "The Good Hider" (1993)
Toshio Mori, "Abalone, Abalone Abalone" (1979)
Larry Fondation, "Deportation af Breakfast" (1991)
(alle i :B. Christensen. Looking for America. Systime, 2002):


Supplerende stof:
"Postmodernism" (description of period and keywords)(background text)
"Bret Easton Ellis interview on 'The Informers'" (1994)(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2a6GnykMWU)
"About the short-short story" (B. Christensen. Looking for America. Systime, 2002)

I alt er læst i emnet ca. 40 sider
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 13,00 moduler
Dækker over: 9 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 10 9. Banned Books and Censorship (eksamen)

Emne: The theme focusses on censorship and freedom of speech in the UK and the USA, and why for example books, fiction, texts or simply ideas are censored or banned - and have been so for centuries.

Progression, faglige mål:
- analyse og fortolkning af forskellige genrer
- uddrag af Shakespeare
- indplacering af tekster i samfundsmæssig og historisk kontekst
- træning af analyse af 'style of writing'
- træning af præsentation

Kernestof:
What is "freedom of speech"? Vocabulary, definitions and legislation worldwide, in the UK, the USA and the UN.
William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice" (FILM)(AI Pacino as Shylock the Jew) + two scenes from the play (1597): Act III, scene 1 + Act IV, scene 1.
Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1884), chapter 2.
CBS website, 60 Minutes "Huckleberry Finn and the N-word debate". (2011) (TV debate programme) (http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/huckleberry-finn-and-the-n-word/) [12 minutes] + transcript.
George Orwell "1984", Chapters 1-3 (novel)(1948/49)
Sky News Australia, "UK university slaps trigger warning on George Orwell's 1984" (2022)(news story)(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAQqiquCwMQ)


Supplerende stof:
Informationssøgning på forfatterne og på definitioner på "freedom of speech" og "freedom of expression".
Selvstudium: Brendan O'Neill, "Freedom of Speech and Right to Offend". (speech) (2015) The Oxford Union website. Video + transcript (https://www.voutube.com/watch?v=BtWrliX9HRA)

I alt er læst i emnet ca. 60 sider
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 12,00 moduler
Dækker over: 24 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 11 10. Shakespeare (eksamen)

Theme: about Shakespeare's "Macbeth" and its central themes as well as the Elizabethan Age.

Faglige mål, progression:
- analyse og fortolkning (drama, lyrik)
- indplacering af tekst i historisk kontekst
- træning af præsentationer

Kernestof:
William Shakespeare "Macbeth" ("Illustrated Shakespeare. Macbeth." Ed. Neil King.)
Flg. er læst
Act I, scenes 1, 3, 4, 5, and 7
Act II, scenes 1 and 2
Act III, scenes 1 and 3
Act V, scene 5 (ll. 1-25)
"The Elizabethan World Picture" (pdf)
"The English Dramatic Tradition" (pdf)

Supplerende stof:
William Shakespeare info (https://www.slideshare.net/caromeo/william-shakespeare-powerpoint)
"Macbeth" (RSC film with Ian McKellen and Judy Dench; watched Acts I to III)
Klip fra fem forskellige filmatiseringer af "Macbeth" I, sc. 1 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWyegNZOqQE)
David and Ben Crystal "Shakespeare. Original Pronunciation" (Video)(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPlpphT7n9s)
"Ian McKellen as Macbeth". RSC Masterclass, McKellen's analysis of V, sc. 5 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LDdyafsR7g&t=3s)
"James I and Witchcraft" (www.historylearningsite.co.uk)
Slutscenen i Polanskis filmudgave (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0waVOnG-PEw)

I alt er læst i emnet ca. 70 sider
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 22 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer