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Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin(er) 2024/25 - 2025/26
Institution Københavns åbne Gymnasium
Fag og niveau Engelsk B
Lærer(e) Mogens Skot-Hansen
Hold p 2024 Engelsk B (1p En, 2p En)

Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 Godkendte hjælpemidler til eksamen
Titel 2 1 - Short Stories and Literary Terms (1p Autumn)
Titel 3 2 - The Climate Divide (1p Winter)
Titel 4 3 - Autism (1p Spring)
Titel 5 4 - Love and Marriage in Literature (2p Autumn)
Titel 6 5 - The British Empire (2p Winter)
Titel 7 6 - Northern Ireland and The Troubles (2p Winter)
Titel 8 7 - Writing, grammar and revision (2p Spring)

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

Godkendte hjælpemidler til mundtlig og skriftlig eksamen:

Disse sites:
- minlaering.dk (Engram Basis, online grammatikbog)
- ordbogen.com (Diverse simple ordbøger)
- https://www.ldoceonline.com/ (Longman, god til betydning)
- www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus (Merriam-Webster, god til synonymer)
- www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary (Merriam-Webster)
- dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/ (Cambridge)

Alt som er på papir. Notater, kopiark opslagsværker og andre bøger.

Digitale dokumenter vi har arbejdet med, og som du har downloadet i forvejen så de kan bruges uden internet.
Indhold
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 0 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 2 1 - Short Stories and Literary Terms (1p Autumn)

Forløbet var mest en øvelse i at anvende grundlæggende begreber: Genre,
language, characterization, setting, composition, point of view, narration, language, quotations. Desuden om short story-genren, om forfatterne og om de meget forskellige former for engelsk der indgår.
Forskellige former for skriftlige og mundtlige opgaver om novellerne i par og små grupper.
Materiale:
- Everything is Illuminated (excerpt from a novel), Jonathan Safran Foer, 2002
- Me Talk Pretty One Day (autobiographical essay), David Sedaris, 2000
- Cat in the Rain, Ernest Hemingway, 1925
- They’re Not Your Husband, Raymond Carver, 1971
- The Fly, Katherine Mansfield, 1922
- Little Red Riding Hood Has A Gun, Amelia Hamilton, 2015, nrafamily.com
- Coffee Break, Langston Hughes, from Tales of Simple, 1965
Indhold
Kernestof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Cat in the Rain 03-10-2024
Summary 1 - Manipulating the Media 06-11-2024
Dancing to Nat King Cole 28-02-2025
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 17 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 3 2 - The Climate Divide (1p Winter)

Who gets hurt int the climate ciris? Does knowing how people think in the Global South make a difference? Do we really care what gets destroyed by the global economic system? Do we even know? Does the rich world still practice a form of colonialism?

Meget konkret etablering a grundlæggende viden om sjældent omtalte steder. Digtet Bursts of Bianca og uddraget fra The Wall blev særligt grundigt behandlet.

Materiale:
Steen Pultz Moslund: The Climate Divide, Systime, 2024. pp. 16-17, 28-31, 83-90, 102-5.
De 4 uddrag:
- "Love" (poem), Ben Okri, 2019.
- "Bursts of Bianca" (poem), Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner,
- "The Wall" (excerpt from a dystopian novel), John Lanchester, 2019.
- "Laila Pines for the Wolf" (flash drama) Hassan Abdulrazzak, 2020.

- 6 First Nation Creation Myths (canadiske myter, eget kompendium, ikke-udgivede tekster fra blogs om 1st Nation-sprog og kultur).
- "How climate change is making inequality worse", BBC News. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHF4HHeOtkc (4m30s)
- “Haida Gwaii: Restoring the Balance” (The Haida Council & UBC Studios 2016, public domain, available on youtube). (approx 30 minutes).
- "An Incovenient Truth Grammar". Blandet tematisk og sproglig materiale om de oficielle trailer (3 min) til "An Inconvenient Truth" Al Gore, 2006. Eget materiale.
- "On colonialism" (Deutsche Welle, 2023). (5 minutes)

Supplerende materiale, uden for tema.:
- "Dancing to Nat King Cole" (short story), James Wall, 2013
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 23 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 4 3 - Autism (1p Spring)

Is autism a disability or an type of personality? Are we thinking it right? How should society deal with it? Why is autism booming? Parenting.
A lot of close reading.
The narrative voice - an attempt to show how the minds of autistic people work.
Humour. The use of metonymies. Realist fiction. The murder mystery genre.

Math topics that play a role in the novel: Prime numbers, probability (The Monty Hall problem).
Ideals of 'the murder mystery novel', comparisons with The Hound of the Baskervilles.
On parenting: Rewriting Mother’s Letter (the first one). Rewriting the scene in which Father spills the beans.
Discussing how society (schools and private companies) ought to deal with people on the autism spectrum.

Materiale:
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Mark Haddon, entire novel, 2013.
- Beautiful minds, wasted (non-fiction, Economist, 2016).

Supplerende materiale:
- Emotions and facial expressions. (A drill for autism training that is also useful for rehearsing adjectives that express emotions). Public on quizlet ("Mogens_Skot-Hansen").
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 20 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 5 4 - Love and Marriage in Literature (2p Autumn)

Materialer:
Engberg-Pedersen, Grønvold, Ohland-Andersen: Wider Contexts. Gyldendal, 2012. pp 66-67, 97-104. Herunder:
Introduction.
- Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice, 1st chapter (1813).
- Seth Grahame-Smith: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, 1st chapter (2009)

- Pride and Prejudice (motion picture, Joe Wright, 2005)
- Kate Chopin: The Kiss (1895) & A Respectable Woman (1894)
- The anatomy of love. Helen Fisher's obituary (The Economist, August 2024)
- Covid Counselling by Romy Tennant, 2021. Four 15-minute short films. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpjuAkBhKus
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 18 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 6 5 - The British Empire (2p Winter)

Generelt om det britiske imperium, om forståelsen af civilisation, om missionsvirksomhed.
Kun fokus på Britisk Indien, herunder kastesystemet, etniske grupper, The Partition of India.
Opmærksomhed på ELF.

Materialer:
- "Lispeth", Rudyard Kipling, 1886. (6,4 ns)
- Short History of the British Empire fra eget kompendium 'Jewel in the Crown' som består af materiale fra britishempire.co.uk.
- "White Man's Burden" (poem), Rudyard Kipling, 1899.
- "India's Survivors of Partition Begin to Break Long Silence" (newspaper article), Rama Lakshmi, Washington Post 12 March 2008. (ca. 4 ns)
- "The Raj explained in 12 minutes". Captivating History, 2024. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcWqcS6d7GE

Supplerende i samme periode, men uden for tema:
- "Tenth Mother" (short story), Susanna Rickards, from "Hot Kitchen Snow", Salt Publishing, 2010.
- "Clerical Error", (short story) James Gould Cozzens, 1935.
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 9 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 7 6 - Northern Ireland and The Troubles (2p Winter)

Focus:
Basic knowledge about geography, history and politics.
Imagining daily life with civil war in a rich, Northern European country that is not too different from Denmark.
Discuss the origins of the conflict. Is it about religion? Or class? Are the priests and school teachers of the 20th century responsible?
Discuss how long the scars of civil war take to heal. Does the past weigh young people growing up?

Materiale:
- "The Mother", (poem), Patrick Pearse, 1916.
- "Zombie" (song lyrics), The Cranberries, 1994.
- "Sunday Bloody Sunday", (song lyrics), U2, 1983.
- "Derry Girls", Season 1, Ep. 1 (Catholic school life), and Season 2, Ep. 1 (Catholic-Protestant student dialogue). Lisa McGee og Netflix, 2018-19.
- The Lighter Side of Life in a Conflict Zone. Alice Jones interviews Lisa McGee, NY Times, 31 July 2019.
- "The Spoiled Child" (modern fairy tale) Sinead de Valera, 1923.
- "In the Name of the Father" (motion picture), Jim Sheridan, 1993.
- "The Magdalene Sisters" (motion picture), Peter Mullan, 2002.
- The San Patricios. Text for ELA diagnostic assesment. Prestwick House, 2021.
- Irish Trivia (basic + intermediate) https://quizlet.com/join/vtNHNx9YE
- Historical and Political Background on Northerne Ireland ('History of Ireland in Green and Orange'). (3 ns)
- Theme-specific vocabulary. Political violence, civil war.
- Famous mural paintings of Belfast and Derry (eget billedkatalog)

Supplerende materiale i samme periode men uden for tema:
- "The Old Flame" (short story), Cyril O'Hare, 1952.
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 20 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 8 7 - Writing, grammar and revision (2p Spring)

Quick revision of all themes, also for the benefit of the students who weren't part of the class last year.
Quick revision of the fundamentals of the subject English: Describing a text, analysis, interpretation. Non-fiction analysis.
Quick revision of some grammar topics that continue to cause problems.
Quick revision of how to write the different types of texts that are part of the written exam.

Eksempler fra hvert forløb blev genbesøgt.
Desuden læst:
Isaac Asimov: True Love (1977)
Stephen King: the Boogeyman (1973)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 19 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer