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Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin(er) 2023/24 - 2024/25
Institution Svendborg Gymnasium
Fag og niveau Engelsk B
Lærer(e) Anya Wihlborg Petersen
Hold 2023 En-z (1z En, 2z En)
Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 Fantastic Tales
Titel 2 The USA: Values, Norms and Beliefs
Titel 3 Evil Deeds of Man
Titel 4 Australia: Boomerang
Titel 5 Britain: Empire, Class and Education
Titel 6 Scotland is Alba, Not England (NOT EXAM. TOPIC)
Titel 7 Being There

Beskrivelse af de enkelte undervisningsforløb (1 skema for hvert forløb)
Titel 1 Fantastic Tales

Indhold (kernestof)
- "Harry Potter & the Philosopher's Stone" (1987)  by J.K. Rowling. Bloomsbury.

- "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Witch, the Lion and the Wardrobe"(1950) by C.S. Lewis, (excerpt) +  the first 34 min. watched on film = chapter 1 and 2 in the novel)


Supplerende stof:
- Halloween (materiale af Anya Wihlborg Petersen) og Halloween (digt af ukendt Britisk forfatter.)
- " The Night before Christmas" (1822) by Clement C. Moore (excerpt).
- Nicolas Flamel, Science Museum Group Collection: https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/people/ap24980/flamel-nicolas.
- What is a faun? Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Film:
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (chapter 5-7 and chapter 14-16 on film). Warner Brothers (2001)

Foki:
- Værkslæsning; At læse, skrive, analysere, tale om og formidle fagligt litterært materiale på engelsk.
- Fantasy genrens typiske karakteristika: Pastiche, contrast, portals and fantastic elements and creature (e.g. the faun).

- Analyse af fiktion: personkarakteristik, setting (miljø), semantiske skemaer og analysemodeller (introduktion af rammefortælling, aktantmodellen og Freitag's pyramide).

-Billedsprog: metaforer, symboler, simili, personificeringer (besjæling)i litteratur.

- Lingvistisk og linkvistsisk analyse.

- Almendannelse, og vi bygger oven på fagbegreber og viden om fx. eventyr fra grundskolen, AP og GF-enegelsk.
- Hukommelsestræning
Indhold
Kernestof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Potter, chapter 5: Uden hjælpemidler 22-11-2023
Harry Potter: Skrivninger i grønt hæftet 15-12-2023
Harry Potter: Lingvistisk analyse af p. 306 08-01-2024
Potter: Mundtlig opgave i OneNote 12-01-2024
Omfang Estimeret: 12,00 moduler
Dækker over: 13 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 2 The USA: Values, Norms and Beliefs

Contents (kernestof)
Values & Beliefs:
- "Understanding Americans", Targets (2001) by Jeanne Eirheim et.al,, Gyldendal, p. 170-181, and p. 153.

- "American Values and Assumptions" written by PSU International Student Handbook, and published by the University of Portland on https://www.up.edu/iss/advising-services/american-values.html (visited 20. February 2024).

- Film: "Captain Fantastic" (2016), director Matt Ross. https://www.dr.dk/drtv/program/captain-fantastic_501445
(focus: Two kinds of  America - cultural gaps and differences)


Power and Rights:
- TED Talk (3:36min): How power is divided in the USA.
- The U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights ( + assignments by Anya Wihlborg).
- U.S. Supreme Court Cases ( 4 cases for discussion + What They Deserve by AWP /HSS).

Presidential election 2024:
- https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/09/09/issues-and-the-2024-election/
- "How to become president of the United States", kids.gov.,  https://pueblo.gpo.gov/Publications/pdfs/6099.pdf , og
-  You Tube (2: 28min): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eXCG-hlaqI
- "Remarks" by President Biden on the Continued Battle for the Soul of the Nation" (speech held on September 1, 2022).

Immigration:
-  "4321" by Paul Auster (2016), chapter 1, page 1 (excerpt from the novel): https://granta.com/4-3-2-1-overture-auster/
- "The Land of the Promised" (1884) painted by Charles Frederic Ulrich.
- "Immigrants at Ellis Island" by History. You Tube (4:27min): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDNKHWzQiz8
- "Immigrants" by Pat Mora (poem)
- The New Immigrants: https://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/young_immigrants/index.html
- "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan.

Supplerende materiale:
- Ellis Island a Tour: http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/tour/

- Lady Gaga: The Star- Spangled Banner (Live at Super Bowl 50): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbXSZBnBOQ4

- "RBG". Ruth Bader Ginsberg, the Supreme Court Judge (documentary , 2018,  94min).
- Foredrag af den amerikanske ambassadør, Alan Leventhal, den 6./10-2023.

- "It Reminds You of a Facists State: Smithsonian Institution braces for Trump rewrite of US history". Article by David Smith, The Guardian, section: This Week in Trumpland, Sunday 30 March 2025.

- "America is a Gun" (poem) by Brian Bilston

Individual presentations on
- one of the U.S. States (each student present four times + recording).
- one of the four young immigrants: https://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/young_immigrants/index.html

Foki:
USA from past to present (historie og samfund). Immigrants and immigration.
Præsentationsteknik og mundtlig fremlæggelse på engelsk.
Basisgrammatik: verbaltider, hjælpeverberne (to be, to have, to do)
Analyse af sagprosa vha. ciceros pentagon + lingvistisk analyse.
Semantiske felter (AP bygges der videre på)
Indhold
Kernestof:

Supplerende stof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Aflevering: gerundium vs.alm.tid? 21-02-2024
50 states (presentations + lydoptag) 07-03-2024
Land of The Promised (painting) 12-04-2024
The New Immigrant (presentation X3) 08-05-2024
Biden Speech (analytical essay) 04-11-2024
Omfang Estimeret: 14,00 moduler
Dækker over: 13 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 3 Evil Deeds of Man

Contents (kernestof)
Crime fiction
- "Lamb to the Slaughter" by Roald Dahl (7.1ns), Every Face Tells a Story- an anthology by Lisbeth Johansen. Systime 1983.

- "Tell Me" by Zoë Sharp (6np). Published in Crime in Fiction" published by Systime, 2006.

- "Don't You Hate Having Two Heads" (10 np). Published in Crime in Fiction" published by Systime, 2006.

- "The Usual Suspects" (1995), a crime thriller directed by Bryan Singer and written by Christopher Mc Quarrie.

- "I Don't Make the Rules" by Law Chen (a short film, 12min): https://vimeo.com/21644830

Drama
Hamlet (5 moduler á 95min)
-"Hamlet" by  W. Shakespeare (drama, excerpts):
- Act 1, scene 5 " The Ghost beckons Hamlet",
- Act 3, scene 1: "To be or Not to Be",
- Act 3, scene 1: The Nunnery Scene
- Act 3, scene 3: " Claudius' Confession".

- "Hamlet" af William Shakespeare. Dramatiseret af TNTCompany og opført på engelsk på SG den 31. januar 2024 (90min).

Supplerende:
- Sir John Everett Millais, " Ophelia" (1851-2). Tate: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/millais-ophelia-n01506

- 3. Short videoes about playing Hamlet, and why Shakespeare still matters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv4fWhObaTM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIZ_eq0vLfc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw_zDsAeqrI


Foki:
- At læse, lytte og forstå, selv om man ikke kan forstå alle ord, samt at kunne kommunikere om et værk/emne på trods.
- Introduction til Shakespeares univers, og drama som genre.
- At kende enkelte af Shakespeares fraser og ord, som stadig findes i moderne engelsk.

- Introduktion til krimigenren.
- Fortællervinkler, fortællerteknik og troværdighed.
Indhold
Kernestof:

Supplerende stof:
Omfang Estimeret: 12,00 moduler
Dækker over: 6 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 4 Australia: Boomerang

Contents  (kernestof):
"Boomerang - Australia: Race, identity, nature and horse thieves" (2023) by J. Kaalund & Bo Clausen. Columbus. (47ns)
- Intro. Rediscovering Australia,  p. 8-22.

Nature's Gifts:
- Peter Doods McCormick: " Advance Australia Fair" (national anthem)
- Robin Davidson: " Tracks" (excerpt from travel book)
- Jodie Rummer: " Are We really prepared to lose this natural wonder?" (opinion article)
- Les Murray: " On Bushfire Warning Day" (poem)

In History's Page:
- Tara June Winch: "The Yield" (excerpt from novel)
- Archie Roach: "Took the Children Away (song/poem)

Film: Rabbit Proof Fence (2001), 90min.

One and Free?
Gregory Melleuish: "No longer tied to Britain, Australia is still searching  for its place in the world" (article)
Phylisa Wisdom. " Cultural appropriation in food" (opinion article)

Oplæg om Australia Day af Freddie (Rosas Australske udveksling), tors. den 11. september 2024.

Links and film clips:
-"Capturing Aboriginal Australia and its diversity on camera", BBC News". 19.sept. 2022. (3:38min): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Szjemb24QA

- "Australia: Reclaiming the rock", BBC News, 26.july 2018. (21min) - vi ser kun et par uddrag: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T4w7jv3lhA

-- "Climate change: 400-year record heat threat to Great Barrier Reef", BBC News. 9 August 2024. (5:10min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM83jV3hips

Foci:
- Man and nature.
- Australia's nature, culture and history : 1st nations Australians  vs.British imperialism and European settlers
- Cultural imperialistic theory, Eurocentrism and Ethnocentrism (AWPs power point + brief lecture on Edward Burnett Tylor)
- Traveller or  tourist
- Genres and finding the right the analytical tool(s) when analysing a text.
-  the English Language and its varieties.
- Essay writing
Indhold
Kernestof:

Supplerende stof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Rediscovering Australia (optag i OneNote) 20-08-2024
Assignment 1-2 Tracks 02-09-2024
Australia: Nature and man (presentation) 10-09-2024
Fejlstøvsugeren: Modalverber p. 27-28 10-09-2024
Tracks by Robyn Davidson (gruppeaflevering) 12-09-2024
Omfang Estimeret: 15,00 moduler
Dækker over: 17 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 5 Britain: Empire, Class and Education

Contents
Part 1: The British Empire
- Rule Britannia (poem/song) + The Last Night at the Proms 2009: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sgd9nYqVz2s-
- Britain as the anthropomorphisied woman (paintings)
- Cecil Rhodes: "The Cofession of Faith" (1877), excerpt, pp.- 248-250.
- British Empire - Explained, World History (5:21 min): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjQpR0lLm-g
- "An ABC for Baby Patriots" (1899) by Mrs Ernest Ames. (stereotypes and racism).

Part 2: The Victorian Era (1837-1901)
Charles Dickens.
-  Charles Dickens: "Hard Times" (1857), chapter 1 and 2, excerpt.
- "The British School System". British Life and education (1999) published by Longman.
-  Charles Dickens: "Oliver Twist", Chapter Ten, excerpt from the Gutenberg Project.
- "Oliver Twist" by Roman Polanski (2005),  film based on Charles Dickens' classic (104min)

Supplerende materiale til The Victorian Age (1837-1901).
- Victorian Era - Explained, World History (4min): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vh0GKer9Sm8
- The Victorian Age, chapter 5, page 1-6, p. 10-13, p. 17-18 and p. 20-21.
- The Victorian Era: https://www.britannica.com/event/Victorian-era

- "The Children Who Built Victorian Britain, Part 1" (15min), Jane Humphries, Professor of Economic History at Oxford University : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87eVOpbcoVo

Victorian scientists and inventions: Individuelle elevpræsentationer 6-8min om en Britisk, Viktoriansk videnskabsmand/kvinde, samt hvordan han/hun kan ses som et spejl på sin tid.

Child poverty in Britain Today:
- Documentary:  BBC documentary "Breadline Kids" (58min).

Part 3: Class
- "The British Parliament", British Life and education (1999) published by Longman.
-  "Ministers introduce plans to remove all hereditary peers from Lords", The Guardian, 5 September 2024. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/sep/05/ministers-introduce-plans-to-remove-all-hereditary-peers-from-lords

Teaterforestilling på skolen:
William Shakespeare: "A Midsummer Nights Dream" (drama played by TNT Theater, 3 March 2025 at Svendborg Gymnasium)


Foci: The Victorian Era, empire, childhood and classes.
The connection between the past and the present.
Charles Dickens + The rise of the novel

BBC documentary "Breadline Kids" (58min).+ arktikler og statistik.
Indhold
Kernestof:

Supplerende stof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
The Victorian Era: Presentations 15-11-2024
British scientist in the Victorian Era 24-11-2024
Eng B. Eksamensopgave 1-4 i modulet 28-11-2024
They by S. Manzoor (analytical essay) 16-12-2024
Omfang Estimeret: 17,00 moduler
Dækker over: 19 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 6 Scotland is Alba, Not England (NOT EXAM. TOPIC)

Contents
- Destination Scotland" af Anya Wihlborg Petersen (kompendium 2020)

Poetry and tradition
- Robert Burns: "A Red, Red Rose" (poem)
- Robert Burns: "Haggis" (poem)
-  Michael Portillo: "The Story behind Burns Night" (:33min). GBNews, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUMPxNUMt3I

Edinburgh
- Edinburgh Plague, http://www.edinburgh-history.co.uk/edinburgh-plague.html. (EXTRA - not a must to read)
- Burke and Hare: the Resurrectionists (14:30min) + asssignment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH65zyrzmfI

Languages, dialects and Identity
- What does Gaelic sound like (1:20min)? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPokZgAdXSo
- The Origen of the Scots language (7:36min): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBb_jKKCcC8
- Glasgowian: "Kevin Bridges' Hilarious Jokes About Life In Scotland" ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYnbBOQj1H8

Film:

Foci:
Scottish culture, heritage, language(s)and identity in past and present. Variations of the English language.
Why Scotland is Alba and not England => a part of the Celtic Fringe.
.
Indhold
Kernestof:

Supplerende stof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Presentation on Scotland 21-01-2025
Engelsk B: Terminsprøve 07-02-2025
Burke & Hare the Body Snatchers (summary) 21-02-2025
Omfang Estimeret: 10,00 moduler
Dækker over: 12 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 7 Being There

Indhold
"Being There" by Jerzy Kosinski (novella)

Supplerende materiale:
Film: "The 1960s in Colour" (8min), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY555FbeYGs

55 fiction (+ explanation by Anya Wihlborg):
- Bedtime Story by Jeffrey Whitmore
- The Window by Jane Orvis
- The Biography of Spliff Bixby

Lingua Franco and "Being There":
- Catalan exchange students participated in class in March 2025 -> "You are the experts" (creative language usage - a game).
Purpose: How to explain and to convince others in English what you know or believe you know.
Communication and  explaining "around" words needed.

- Mexican exchange students participate in class 20 April 2025=> The USA
Purpose: Reading, speaking and creating 55 fiction (another genre of 'short' fiction/ the stort, shot story).

Focus:
-How fiction traditionally has had a tendency to predict the future, while mirroring its present.
- USA in the 1960s
-What is a novella? (genren)
-Power, language usage and (mis-)communication.
- Lingua Franca: Kosinsky was born in the USSR, Visitors from Catalonia and Mexico.

Grammar stations and repetition
Indhold
Kernestof:

Supplerende stof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Being There opgaver 10-04-2025
Omfang Estimeret: 14,00 moduler
Dækker over: 21 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer