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Undervisningsbeskrivelse

Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin(er) 2023/24 - 2025/26
Institution Øregård Gymnasium
Fag og niveau Engelsk A
Lærer(e) Anna Preston
Hold 2023 EN/w (1w EN, 2w EN, 3w EN)

Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 Love Famliy and Relationships
Titel 2 Fantasy - værklæsning
Titel 3 Fantasy  revisited
Titel 4 American Politics
Titel 5 Horror (Værklæsning)
Titel 6 SRO  Engelsk Historie om Slavery
Titel 7 Skriftlighed og grammatik
Titel 8 Hiroshima and the Atomic Bomb I
Titel 9 Forløb om Ireland -Studietur til Dublin og Belfast
Titel 10 Atomic Bomb II
Titel 11 Shakespeare's Othello
Titel 12 Aspects of America

Beskrivelse af de enkelte undervisningsforløb (1 skema for hvert forløb)
Titel 1 Love Famliy and Relationships

Focus will be on fiction, non-fiction and films which all revolve around Love, Family and Relationships in a broad sense.
An important target in the subject is learning and practising concepts for text analysis; fiction as well as non-fiction.
Another important target is practising speaking English and discussing texts whilst using concepts for literary and non-fiction analysis.

Texts:
Fiction:
Jennifer Allott: "Mid-air" (8 ns)
Patricia Highsmith: "The Terrapin" (11 ns)
Jamie Attenburg : Edie 62 pounds and Edie 241 pounds:  Excerpt from "The Middlesteins" (25 ns)
Ryan O'neill "The Traveller" (8 ns)

Non-fiction:
Katrina Clark: "My Father Was an Anonymous Sperm Donor" December 17, 2006   Washington Post (7 ns)

'My entire existence is a lie' Article from BBC https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-42159574 (2 ns)


Film:
Tim Wardle (2018) ,Three Identical Strangers: Documentary
Stephen Daldry (2011) Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 49 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 2 Fantasy - værklæsning

We will read the novel Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and focus on the fantasy genre as well as literature written for teenagers.

Focus will be on
-reading a novel: the development of characters, the plot, foreshadowing and other literary and linguistic devices.
-features and elements specific for the fantasy genre; especially therole of the hero.
-We will also work on grammar in connection  with reading and discussing the novel.

Texts:
Ransom Riggs (2011) Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (350 ns)
Why is Fantasy Such a Popular Genre?
By Nicole on October 13, 2015 in Staff Picks, Teens (5 ns)
ELEMENTS OF FANTASY – HEROES AND HEROINES  2011 Source: http://fantasy-faction.com/ (3 ns)
Matt & Ross Duffer (2016)Episode 1 -4 from Stranger Things (Season 1)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 11 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 3 Fantasy revisited

Fantasy revisited
We will resume  reading  "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" and continue the subject "Fantasy".
We will look at some genre theory

We will watch episode 1-4 of Stranger Things (Season 1)( Matt and Ross Duffer and Shawn Levy,  Netflix 2016)
Grammar work incorporated throughout the subject
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 28 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 4 American Politics

In connection with the Presidential Election in USA, we will look at the American Political system and the current political and social climate in USA. Lastly we will read some political speeches. We have done some work on core concepts in American Identity:
- American Exceptionalism
- The Frontier

We have watched:

Horisont (Dr.dk): "Håb for Amerika? En korrespondents fortælling"
29. Okt 2024 | 28m  Steffen Gram

Texts:
Roger Darlington (online) : The American Political System (15 ns)

Speeches:
Barack Obama's Victory Speech November 2012 (5 ns)
Donald Trump'sVictory Speech november 2024 (8 ns)
Kamela Harris' Speech November 6th 2024 (after she had lost the election) (6ns)

Attempts at teaching grammar throughout the subject
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 21,5 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 5 Horror (Værklæsning)

Horror:

Focus: To explore the horror-genre in literature and film and different ways to understand and analyse horror. We have worked with specific genre features and traits and discussed psychologically as well as sociologically founded ways of interpreting horror.
In the text analysis, we have paid special attention to the narrator, narrative style and imagery.

Texts:
Stephen King:
- "Suffer The Little Children" (1973) (10 ns)
- "The Boogeyman" (1972) (15 ns)
- "A Good Marriage" (2010) (120 ns) VÆRK
- Edgar Allen Poe "Tell-tale Heart" (1843) (3 ns)


Film:
James Wan (2013): "The Conjuring"
Andy Muschietti (2017) IT

Other texts:

-Andrew O'Hehir (2013) “The Conjuring”: Right-wing, woman-hating and really scary" Reviews of The Conjuring (From Salon.com) (4 ns)

-Peter Bradshaw (6 Sep. 2017) Review of IT (The Guardian) (3 ns)

other material: ppt about the Horror Genre
Indhold
Kernestof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
assignment 3 non fiction træningsopgave 08-12-2024
Assignment 4 non-fiction 23-03-2025
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 35 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 6 SRO Engelsk Historie om Slavery

SRO om slaveriet i USA:
I engelsk kan eleverne vælge mellem flere forskellige opgaveformuleringer og en række tilhørende tekster. Men fælles for dem alle er at de handler om taler for og imod slaveriet og uddrag af såkaldte slave narratives. Alle læste som optakt (mere om) American Exceptionalism og "Declaration of Independence"

Tekster:
Frederick Douglas (1855) Excerpts from My Bondage and my Freedom"
Booker T. Washington (1901) Excerpts from "Up from Slavery"
Linda Brent (synonym for Harriet Jacobs) (1861) "Excerpts from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl"
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852) Excerpts from Uncle Tom's Cabin
Speech (1858) James Hammond "The Mudsill Theory (Speech)
Speech (1854) William Lloyd Garrison
Speech (1858) by Hon. Lucius J. Gartrell "SLAVERY AND THE SOUTH"
Speech (1852) Frederick Douglas 4th of July Speech
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 2 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer


Titel 8 Hiroshima and the Atomic Bomb I

This subject is about the Atomic Bomb dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the political and historical background for it in USA,  as well as the aftermath, both for the direct victims of the bomb, but also the global repercussions and consequences.

Focus is on reading understanding analysing and discussing mainly non-fiction, but also some fiction, and applying relevant concepts and theories to this process.

Texts:
Niels Bohr (1944): Letter to Churchill (3 ns)
Einstein (1939): Letter to Roosevelt (3 ns)
The White House Washington, D.C.(1945) Statement by the President of the United States: Truman informs the nation that an atomic weapon has been detonated in Japan. 2 ns

Fiction: Dennis Bock (2001) "The Ash Garden" (excerpts) 40 ns

Steven Okazaki (2007)White Light, Black Rain" (Documentary)

Øvrigt materiale:
https://hibakushastories.org/
Video: Interview with Paul Tibbett  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H36v-d6_NS0
Video: Hiroshima : Dropping the Bomb" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wxWNAM8Cso
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 12 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 9 Forløb om Ireland -Studietur til Dublin og Belfast

In connection with a study trip to Dublin and one day in Belfast, we will look at the history and culture of Ireland as a British Colony and later an independent European country, and needless to say, the conflict in Northern Ireland between Catholics/Republicans and Protestants/unionists/loyalists.

We will also look at the role of the Catholic Church in the so-called Magdalena Laundries.

We have read:

Short Stories:
-Bernard MacLaverty ( 1982 ) "Father and Son" (7 ns)
- Liam O’Flaherty (1923) "The Sniper" (7 ns)

Speeches:
King George V (1921) Speech on the opening of the first Northern Ireland Parliament in Belfast. (4 ns)
The Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s State apology to the Magdalene women given in  Dáil Éireann   (Feb 2013) (6 ns)

Poems:
-Frederic Weatherly (Who was British...) (1910) "Danny Boy" (2 ns)
-Molly Malone (Irish Traditional) (2 ns)
-Seamus Heaney: "When the Others Were Away at Mass" (1 ns)
-Yeats (1888): "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" (3 ns)

Film:
Peter Mullan (2002) The Magdalena Sisters

In connection with reading poetry, we have worked with core concepts for lyrical analysis.

In Dublin, we had a guided city tour with focus on the irish Independence War (1919-21) and the Irish Civil War (1922).

We also visited the Jeanie Johnston Famine Ship (Potato famine and emigration to USA)

We visited Trinity College Library.

In Belfast, we had a guided tour in two groups with a former IRA member and a former Ulster Freedom Fighter respectively and saw murals on both sides and heard the story about The Troubles and Good Friday Peace Agreement from both sides.
And we saw the Titanic Museum
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 25 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 10 Atomic Bomb II

Vi fortsætter (efter at have haft et forløb om Dublin i forbindelse med studieturen) forløbet om Hiroshima and The Atomic Bomb

This subject is about the Atomic Bomb dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the political and historical background for it in USA,  as well as the aftermath, both for the direct victims of the bomb, but also the global repercussions and consequences.

Focus is on reading understanding analysing and discussing mainly non-fiction, but also some fiction, and applying relevant concepts and theories to this process.

Texts:
Niels Bohr (1944): Letter to Churchill
Einstein (1939): Letter to Roosevelt
The White House Washington, D.C.(1945) Statement by the President of the United States: Truman informs the nation that an atomic weapon has been detonated in Japan. 2 ns

Fiction: Dennis Bock (2001) "The Ash Garden" (excerpts) 40 ns

Steven Okazaki (2007)White Light, Black Rain" (Documentary)

Øvrigt materiale:
https://hibakushastories.org/
Video: Interview with Paul Tibbett  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H36v-d6_NS0
Video: Hiroshima : Dropping the Bomb" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wxWNAM8Cso
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 18 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 11 Shakespeare's Othello

In this subject we will read parts of Shakespeare's tragedy "Othello".
As part of it we will work with core concepts related to Shakespeare:

The Elizabethan period and world picture
the Renaissance Drama
Concepts in the Shakespearean drama (The tragic hero, the villain, dramatic irony)
Shakespeare's language


We will also watch the film "Othello" (Oliver Parker 1995)

We will read: the following excerpts:
Act I:
sc ! l 1-30, l 70 - 115
sc 2: l 55 - end of scene
Sc 3: l 15-20. l 58 - 170, l 257 - 272, l 285 - 299, l 374 - end of scene

Act II:
sc. 1: l 87 - 93
sc. 3 l 155-169

Act III:
Sc 3: l 29 - 40. l 90-291, l 335 - 358

Act V:
Sc 2: 1-15, l. 335 - end

We will also read excerpts from Macbeth and discuss Macbeth and Lady Macbeth as tragic heroes/villains compared to Othello.

We will watch short educational videos about Macbeth
     
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 29 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 12 Aspects of America

This subject has its focus on America and the Westward Expansion, pioneer life, America as a "new" nation  and also the darker sides of this nation and its dreams: Poverty,  racism and slavery.
The concept of "images of the Savage",, is applied on Ingalls Wilder's accounts of her family's encounters with Native Americans.
Other central concepts are The American Dream, Manifest Destiny and The Frontier.
We will continue identifying, analysing and applying literary and non-fiction devices and concepts.

Texts:

From "Worlds of English" (2011)  Ch 1.:

America: from British Colony to Superpower 5 ns
Emma Lazarus (1883): "The New Colossus" 5 ns (poetry)
Frederick J. Turner "The Frontier in American History" (Excerpt) 5 ns
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1847) : "A Nation's Strength" 5 ns (poetry)
Walt Whitman (1860) : "I Hear America Singing"5 ns (poetry)
Langston Hughes (1935) Let America Be America Again" 5 ns (poetry)
Vittwia St. Clair Chapman Mickelson: (1924)"The Oregon Journals"
(Excerpts) (8 ns)


Laura Ingalls Wilder (1935) : "The Little House on the Praerie" Excerpts (100 ns)


Slides from ppt (produced by teacher) on "colonial views/images of "The Savage" (applied in discussions about Wilder and the colonisation of Indian Territory and their encounters with Native Americans)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 28 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer