Holdet 2y En (2025/26) - Undervisningsbeskrivelse

Undervisningsbeskrivelse

Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin(er) 2024/25 - 2025/26
Institution Høje-Taastrup Gymnasium
Fag og niveau Engelsk B
Lærer(e) Vibeke Tang
Hold 2024 En/y (1y En, 2y En)

Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 Rhetorics and the American Election 2024
Titel 2 World Englishes. ELF
Titel 3 Australia. Different Worlds
Titel 4 Stilleje, stilistik
Titel 5 Animal Farm - Værklæsning
Titel 6 Utopia and Dystopia
Titel 7 Intelligence
Titel 8 The Right to Bear Arms

Beskrivelse af de enkelte undervisningsforløb (1 skema for hvert forløb)
Titel 1 Rhetorics and the American Election 2024

In connection with the American Election on the 5th of November we have focused primarily on rhetorical analysis but also looked into how the US Election system works, and the main differences between the two candidates.

From Mette Holm, Being American  (Ibog, chapter 3, Systime 2024):
Core Values of the Republican Party and the Democratic Party

What is the electoral college? How does the electoral college work?
(https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53558176)

The Seven Swing States
(https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c511pyn3xw3o)

Candidate Key Issues
Trump: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2l1qd1nwnjo
Harris: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx924r4d5yno

Television Advertisement Analysis:
Trump:
https://x.com/MediumBuying/status/1824765625438228936 Bidenomics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_ttxFJ9hnU Here’s a Tip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enJwnRjkE9g Our Best Days Are Yet to Come
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l46PUAQu90 Day One
Harris:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6oQXN2WNtU The Best People
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf9jGS_zjhI All Americans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2UIo_iiIrI Fearless
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkuOOfpDyWg Contr

Rhetorical analysis:
Trump, Victory Speech in N.Y., 2016
Joe Biden, Victory Speech, Delaware 2020
Trump, Inaugural Speech, January 20, 2025
King Charles' Christmas Message 2024


antal sider: 40
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 15 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 2 World Englishes. ELF

What does English a a lingua franca mean and how did English become a dominant language in many countries around the world? Focus on Nigeria and India as former British colonies using ELF

Intro: English in the world: A very brief history of a global language
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTOsxh4OcFU

Trine Østergaard, The English Handbook, Systime 2020:
4.5 English as lingua franca, Kachru's model  (7 sider)

Fra Worlds of English, Systime, 2012
American English pp. 19-21 (3 sider)

Introduction to Nigerian English: https://www.oed.com/discover/introduction-to-nigerian-english?tl=true (uddrag)
How to speak the Nigerian English:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj_gJMrEsNk

Vineeta Chand, "Will Hinglish Replace English as India's Lingua franca?"
(article, Newsweek Feb 13, 2016) https://www.newsweek.com/will-hinglish-replace-english-india-lingua-franca-426174 (3 sider)

Komal Goenka: English or Hinglish???


I alt: 18 sider
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 9 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 3 Australia. Different Worlds

Forløb med fokus på forholdet mellem hvide og Aborigines i Australien og "the stolen generation"(filmen Rabbitproof Fence). Hvorfor klarer mange Aborigines sig så dårligt, og hvis skyld er det?  I forbindelse med Anthony Albaneses "National Aplology Day Breakfast"-tale fra 2024 har vi talt om Australiens strategi ("Closing the Gap") og forsøg på at mindske uligheden mellem hvide og aborigine australiere.

Læste tekster fra "Contexts" (Jonna Engberg-Pedersen m.fl., Gyldendal 2015):

Michael Richards, "Just Like That" (novelle,, 1987), 7 sider
Archie Weller, "Going Home" (novelle, 1986), 13 sider
Polly Borland, "Fred Andrews", 2 sider
Oodgeroo Noonuccal, "The Past" (digt, 1970), 2 sider

Prime minister Kevin Rudd's Apology Speech to Stolen Generations (February 2, 2008), 1 side
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, "National Apology Day Breakfast", speech, February 13, 2024) 4 sider

Film:
Rabbit Proof Fence (2002) + analytical work, 10 sider

I alt: 40 sider
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 16 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 4 Stilleje, stilistik

Kapitel 9 i Poul Tornøe og Ole Juul Lund, "Write Away", Gyldendal 2008, 19 sider

herunder: lixtal, talesprog, skriftsprog, fyldord, formelt/uformelt ordforråd, sammentrækninger og alternative stavemåder, kancellistil, passivsætninger
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 4 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 5 Animal Farm - Værklæsning

Værklæsning, der hænger sammen med efterfølgende forløb Utopia/ Dystopia

George Orwell, Animal Farm (Penguin Books, 1985)

Læste sider: 110
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 8 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 6 Utopia and Dystopia

Om typiske træk ved utopisk og dystopisk fiktion og diskussioner om det perfekte samfund som en illusion.


Fra Jonna Engberg-Pedersen m.fl., Wider Contexts (Gyldendal 2012):

Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" (novelle, 1973) herunder samtale om utalitarisme som etisk teori (10 sider)
Michael W. Austin, "What's Wrong With Utilitarianism?" (article edited by VT, 2015)


The Lottery (1969), YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZyhVg31iaQ
Shirley Jackson, The Lottery (novelle, 1948) - (10 sider)


Film: Nosedive (Black Mirror, 3:1, 2016)

Læste sider: ca. 25
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 12 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 7 Intelligence

Forløb med fokus på hvad intelligens egentlig er, herunder IQ, IQ-tests, The Bell Curve, Howard Gardners 7 (-9) intelligenser, "nature versus nurture" og AI.

Indhold:

Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon (novella, 1965),  (30 sider)

How does the Rorschach test work? https://www.rorschach.org/ - (5 sider)

“IQ- Heritage or environment?” (copied from Timeless Themes 2013), (4 sider)

The IQ Score Bell Curve - a "Normal Distribution" (1 side)

Howard Gardner and Multiple Intelligences (MI) (1 side)
Multiple Intelligence checklist

"Trump fixates on IQ as a measure of self-worth" (article, POLITICO, 2019), (5 sider)

Prof. Grant Blashki (Uni. of Melbourne), "As AI gets smarter, are we getting dumber?" (article, https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/as-ai-gets-smarter,-are-we-getting-dumber), (5 sider)

Film: Flowers for Algernon (2000)

Ialt ca. 60 sider
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 18 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 8 The Right to Bear Arms

Aspekter af den amerikanske våbenlovgivning,
fra Jensen, Liberty, Guns and Babies. Tales from a divided America, Ch.4: Issues that Divide:  Guns (Columbus 2024) (Adapted)

Warm-up: glossary: Constitution, amendment, Federalist, Anti-Federalist.

The Second Amendment

The Second Amendment: Firearms in the U.S." video by HISTORY (4:23 min)

The Heller Decision

Foto af protest-aktion: Seven thousand pairs of shoes, representing the children killed by gun violence since the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, are spread out on the lawn on the east side of the US Capitol in Washington, DC. on March 13, 2018.

Fem citater om våbenlovgivning (fra: Jensen: Liberty, Guns and Babies. Tales from a Divided America. Ch. 4:  Issues that Divide: Guns (Columbus, 2024)

comedy sketch "Going Back in Time to Stop the Second Amendment" af Key & Peele: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDZ6ujYN610 (2min20) (vi arbejdede ifb. med sketchen med definition af satire, parody og contrast i komik).

Repetition af retoriske virkemidler

Matthew McConaughey-tale i Det hvide Hus 7.6.2022 om skoleskyderiet i Uvalde.

Om NRA:"A Brief History of the NRA" (2012) by The Wall Street Journal: video (3:25 min): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SAWeR6l-cs

FRONTLINE documentary Gunned Down: The Power of the NRA (PBS, 2015) (54 min)

Wayne LaPierre-tale fra maj 2022 efter Uvalde-skoleskyderiet: An Important Message from Wayne LaPierre

Robert Klemko m.fl, "Gunman bought two rifles, hundreds of rounds in days before massacre" (article, May 25, 2022, https://www.washingtonpost.com /nation/2022/05/25/uvalde-texas-school-shooting-gunman/)


Ialt ca. 30 sider
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 16 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer