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Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin(er) 2024/25 - 2025/26
Institution NEXT
Fag og niveau Engelsk B
Lærer(e)
Hold S2024 En/q (S1q En, S2q En)

Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 The American Election 2024
Titel 2 Let's talk about Sex
Titel 3 Civil Rights in America
Titel 4 Horror
Titel 5 Hooliganism
Titel 6 The American Dream
Titel 7 Humour

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

I forløbet arbejder vi med det amerikanske valg anno 2024 og tager indledningsvist udgangspunkt i betydningen af immigration for amerikanernes identitet, hvilke værdier der er grundlæggende for amerikanerne, og hvordan forskellige historiske begivenheder har påvirket identiteten. Dette er grundlæggende for at forstå strukturen i det amerikanske politiske system og hvorfor amerikanerne agerer, som de gør.

Derefter undersøger vi fordelingen af politisk magt, hvilke ansvarsområder henholdsvis den lovgivende, udøvende og dømmende magt har, og hvilke andre instanser der kan have indflydelse på politik. Her undersøgte vi specifikt mediet podcasts betydning for valget 2024. Vi undersøgte de politiske partier og valgsystemet via elevoplæg.

Der er også blevet lagt vægt på det at føre kampagne samt betydning af penge i valgkampagnen.
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Kernetekster:

- Mette Holm, “Being American,” 2016. 2. Udgave. Systime, tilgået som i-bog:
Kapitel 1 American Identity: Being an Immigrant + Having Rights + Having Values.
Kapitel 2 American Government
Kapitel 3 Presidential Election
Kapitel 5 Spnish America: Modern Immigration + Demographics + Illegal Immigration + Hispanic Integration + Cultural Identity

- Brøndum & Hansen, “OPEN UP SOCIETY!” 2024. Systime, tilgået som i-bog:
Kapitel 7.4: Are the media necessary for democracy?

Supplerende tekster:  
-Houlind & Olsen, ”Listen!” 2024. Systime, tilgået som i-bog.
Kapitel How to analyse a podcast + What is a podcast.

- BBC, “A really simple guide to the presidential vote,” 7 November 2024.

- FOX 4 Dallas-Fort Worth, “Donald Trump at MSG rally: FULL SPEECH,” youtube, tilgået 6/12-2024.

- Anna Moneymaker/Shutterstock, Gregory Payan/Associated Press, “US election shows how podcasts are shaping politics – and what the risks are,” Published by The Conversation: November 19, 2024.

Grammatik:  
ENGRAM bruges:
Genitiv




Afslutningsvist lagde vi vægt på indflydelsen af den syd- og mellemamerikanske indvandring i USA, og hvordan spansk er en del af det amerikanske samfund. Vi så på konsekvenserne, dette har haft på den amerikanske identitet og kulturforståelse.
Indhold
Kernestof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Presentation visuals 18-11-2024
Worksheet 19-11-2024
Class monday 25-11-2024
Modul 5 - Electoral college 27-11-2024
Notes, Monday 09-12-2024
Immigration assignments 11-12-2024
Omfang Estimeret: 22,00 moduler
Dækker over: 22 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 2 Let's talk about Sex

I dette forløb arbejder eleverne med emner, der knytter sig til sex og seksualitet.
Forløbet er lavet i samarbejde med biologi og samfundsfag, og her gennemgås mange af de samme emner men ud fra de specifikke fagfaglige perspektiver.
Eleverne introduceres først til de tre fag og fakulteterne, hvorefter der arbejdes fagspecifikt.  

I engelsk arbejder vi hovedsageligt med USA som case, når vi blandt andet undersøger “sexual education”, “gender identity” og “abortion”.
Vi veksler mellem at arbejde med faktuelle tekster og fiktion, og vi analyserer teksterne ud fra de relevante analysemetoder.
Herudover arbejder vi med billedsprog som fx idiomer, når vi på første gang taler om det sprog, som bredt bliver brugt i forbindelse med sex og seksualitet, og her er elevernes egne sproglige erfaringer centrale i forhold til at forstå sprogs betydning.  

Forløbet slutter med et besøg fra eksterne oplægsholdere fra Sex og Samfund.  
Indhold
Kernestof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Terms and definitions - Sex and gender identity - 09-01-2025
John Oliver - Group notes 09-01-2025
Worksheet for: “Gender identity lessons, banned in 15-01-2025
Period Poverty - Group Presentations - 21-01-2025
Worksheet Analysis of Cat Person 26-01-2025
The Handmaid's Tale - Worksheet analysis 05-02-2025
Opinion piece - rhetorical analysis notes 05-02-2025
Elev evaluering 14-02-2025
Omfang Estimeret: 26,00 moduler
Dækker over: 18 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 3 Civil Rights in America

Civil Rights in America explores the largest social movement of the 20th century and its lasting impact on the United States today.

This course examines the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s through the lens of modern events and issues, helping students connect the past to the present.

Students will study how African American men and women, alongside white allies, organized at local and national levels to fight for equal rights and opportunities guaranteed by U.S. citizenship.

Through legal action, negotiations, petitions, and powerful nonviolent protests, activists challenged segregation and discrimination and transformed American society.

The course also highlights how the movement inspired later struggles for equality, including the women’s rights movement and student activism of the 1960s.
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Material:
-Film:

"Mississippi Burning" (1988) dir, Alan Parker 

Texts:

"A Mother’s White Privilege", article by Elisabeth Broadbent, Manic Pixie Dream Mama. August 17, 2014, Link: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/a-mothers-white-privilege_b_5698263

-"Americanah" by Ngozi Adichie (2013) - excerpt, link:  https://blackvoices.systime.dk/?id=176

-"Post-racist America?" excerpt from "Black voices : the African-American experience from slavery to current racial issues" 2016, Systime

Anne Moody: "Coming of Age in Mississippi" (excerpt), 1968. Link: https://blackvoices.systime.dk/?id=278

“I Have A Dream” – speech by Martin Luther King, 1963 https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm

“The Ballot or the Bullet” (speech) Malcolm X ,April 3, 1964 in Cleveland, Ohio https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf

Class discussion and oral presentations on:

Important events ,Brown v. Board of Education ,Little Rock, Arkansas Central High School ,Rosa Parks ,The Montgomery Bus Boycott

-“We shall overcome” Charles Albert Tindley (1901)

Oral Presentations on following subjects:

-The Birmingham Campaign 1963 ,March on Washington for jobs and freedom 1963

-Selma to Montgomery marches 1965 

"The Civil Rights Act 1964", https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/civil-rights-act

"The Voting Rights Act 1965" , https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/voting-rights-act

-David Nye: American History, From Great Society to Watergate 1960-75, Chapter 9.2 "Cultural Unrest in the Great Society"  link: https://ushistory.systime.dk/?id=166

Martin Luther King & the NAACP ,Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s influence on black culture in the USA? ,The philosophy of non-violence ,The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC),

The "NAACP": https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/naacp/the-civil-rights-era.html

Malcolm X, influence on black culture in the US, link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8woU9Rq0cPI

Negative Reactions by “Whites” ,Relate to Plessy v. Ferguson “separate but equal” doctrine. ,Emmett Till •Mississippi civil rights workers' murders ,The murder of Medgar Evans –role in the Civil Rights Movement, link: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47477354
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 24,00 moduler
Dækker over: 14 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
  • Faglige
  • Lytte
  • Læse
  • Søge information
  • Skrive
  • Diskutere
  • Formidling - Mundtlige Oplæg i klassen
  • Almene (tværfaglige)
  • Analytiske evner - Fokus på elevens evne til, at kunne arbejde meto- disk, systematisk og vinklet med analyse og fortolkning af en tekst på tekstens præmisser.
  • Kommunikative færdigheder
  • Personlige
  • Selvstændighed
  • Initiativ
  • Ansvarlighed
  • Sociale
  • Samarbejdsevne
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
  • Gruppearbejde
  • Individuelt arbejde
  • Lærerstyret undervisning

Titel 4 Horror

Formålet med horrorforløbet er at bruge horrorgenren til at undersøge og understrege hvordan film, kunst og litteratur kan fungere. Genren adskiller sig fra mange andre i den ofte meget explicitte kommunikationsform.

Desuden fokuseres der i forløbet på at træne elevernes tekstforståelse og give dem begyndende analytiske redskaber og begreber til arbejde med særligt skønlitterært materiale samt at perspektivere tekster.

Der arbejdes bl.a. med begreber som “narrator”, “point of
view”, “characterization”, “setting”, “themes and message”, “symbolism”, “atmosphere”, “foreshadowing”.

I anden del af forløbet præsenteres eleverne kort for “horror” og forskellige vinkler
på genren med bl.a.  inddragelse af Stephen Kings tre typer af horror: the Gross-Out, the Horror og the Terror.
Formålet er fortsat at træne elevernes tekstforståelse og analysekundskaber samt
evnen til at genkende og diskutere genretræk og læse tekster i kontekst.
Hertil fokus på ordforråd og mundtlighed.
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Material:
-”Why We Crave Horror” + “3 Types of Horror” by Stephen King

-”Suffer the Little Children” Stephen King, Cavalier (1972)

-"I am the Doorway", Stephen King , Cavalier (1971)

-“The Tell-tale Heart”, Edgar Allen Poe 1843

-“Frankenstein” Mary Shelley,1819, -excerpt chapter 5-6

-"I am Legend". Richard Matheson (1957)

-"Halloween". Directed by John Carpenter, Compass International Pictures, 1978. (intro only) for the “analyzing films segment”

-“Horror” Rasmus Drisdal og Johanne Riktrup Hansen, Chapters:

«A Mirror of Society" https://horror.systime.dk/?id=121 

“Analyzing films” https://horror.systime.dk/?id=158

-“Frankenstein” 2025, dir. Guillermo del Toro, 89 min.
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 18,00 moduler
Dækker over: 26 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 5 Hooliganism

This course on Hooliganism examines the cultural and societal aspects surrounding one of the most controversial parts of British football history.

Students will explore what hooliganism is, why it emerged, and how it became connected to football culture in the United Kingdom.
The course traces the origins of football violence from the late 19th century through its peak during the 1970s and 1980s, when intense club rivalries, drinking culture, class tensions, and political conflict shaped the experiences of many supporters.

Particular attention is given to the social climate of 1980s Britain under Margaret Thatcher, including the decline of industrial working-class communities, the Miners’ Strike, and the portrayal of football fans in the media.

Through the study of major incidents, government responses, policing strategies, and changing stadium culture, students will investigate how hooliganism affected the reputation of British football both at home and abroad.

The course also considers the long-term impact of hooliganism on British society and asks whether football violence still exists in the modern game today.
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Material:
Material:



-Nick Hornby:”Faith” (1998) – Short Story from textbook "From where you are" by Tony Andersen & Morten Petersen, Systime, 2011



-Football Culture Past & Present: “No One Likes Us” – Short Story
-Tim Hearn: Football Hooliganism – Is I still a problem? 2014, article, Huffington Post



-Kevin Whitcher and Football in general: https://fromwhereyouare.systime.dk/?id=169, chapters 2.10.1-7.


-Franklin Foer: "How football explains the sentimental Hooligan", extract from "How Football Explains The World" Cornerstone Publishing, 2006


-Will Storr,: The Undercover Football Hooligan, the Telegraph (2013) https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/active/10453005/The-undercover-football-hooligan.html


Film: Football Factory, dir: Nick Love, 131 min,  (2004)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 24,00 moduler
Dækker over: 13 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 6 The American Dream

The American Dream is one of the most important ideas in American culture and history. It refers to the belief that everyone, regardless of background or social class, has the opportunity to achieve success and build a better life through hard work, determination, and freedom.
The concept became especially popular after historian James Truslow Adams used the term in 1931, describing America as a place where life should be “better and richer and fuller for everyone.”

Over time, the American Dream has come to symbolize goals such as financial success, home ownership, education, and personal freedom, but it has also been debated and criticized because not all people have had the same opportunities to achieve it.

In this course, we will explore how the American Dream has shaped American society, literature, and identity, and discuss whether it is still achievable today.
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Material:

-The Declaration of Independence. July 1776.

https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript

-The New York Times: "Defining the American Dream" 2009, 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C48aGtPIuZo

-James Truslow Adams: "The American Dream", https://naf.systime.dk/?id=140

-CBS Sunday Morning: "Is the American Dream still alive?" 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxS31Sa8y-Q

-Kimberly Amadeo: "What is the American Dream Today?" article in The Balance (2018)

 https://newdream.org/blog/the-balance-what-is-the-american-dream-today?

-Kelly Richman-Abdou: "Jacob Riis: The Photographer Who Showed "How the Other Half Lives" in 1890s NYC"

https://mymodernmet.com/jacob-riis-how-the-other-half-lives/

-Film: "Scarface", 170 min ,dir Brian DePalma, (1983)

-Oral presentations have been carried out by students on the following subjects: 

1.The American Dream: Definition(s), origin and historical background. Among other points, Manifest Destiny, "City upon a Hill", the "chosen" Land.

2.All men are created equal: Explain and elaborate on the introduction to the Declaration of Independence from 1776. Considering also cases of Blacks, Hispanics, and other minorities.

3.Equality of opportunity and social mobility. Among other points, include the hopeful description of 18th-century Henry St. John de Crévecoeur in his third "Letter from an American Farmer".

4.The American Dream in art then and now: Albert Bierstadt, Norman Rockwell, Andy Warhol and Lauren Greenfield.

5.The American Dream in literature then and now: F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, Toni Morrison and Amy Tan.

6.The American Dream and consumerism: Ads and commercials for cars and other American products, major brands like Nike or Coca Cola, or events like the Super Bowl.

7.The American Dream in popular culture: Music and films that reflect the American Dream.

8.From rags to riches: Compare America and Denmark regarding "social mobility". 
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 24,00 moduler
Dækker over: 18 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 7 Humour

This course looks at humour and why it matters. We work with many different types of texts: satire, stand-up comedy, sitcoms, opinion pieces, film clips, sketches, and TED Talks to explore, how humour is used in real life.

The students look at how humour can make us laugh, but also how it can persuade, criticise society, challenge norms, or even create controversy.

A big part of the course is learning to recognise different humorous devices, such as irony, parody, exaggeration, self-deprecating humour, and dark humour.
Studenst explore how these techniques work in different situations and why the same joke can feel funny in one context and offensive in another.

Class discussions focus on how things like the audience, the speaker’s intention, cultural background, and power relationships influence how humour is understood.
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Material:
Course Material:

Jennifer Aaker & Naomi Bagdonas: "Why great leaders take humour seriously"   (Ted Talk)                                                        (2023) https://www.ted.com/talks/jennifer_aaker_and_naomi_bagdonas_why_great_leaders_take_humor_seriously

Thomas Hills: Humor Psychology: The Funniest Words in the English Language (2017)https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/statistical-life/201712/humor-psychology-the-funniest-words-in-the-english-language

"Exploring and Understanding British Humour: A Guide for language learners."

https://englishonline.britishcouncil.org/blog/articles/exploring-and-understanding-british-humour-a-guide-for-english-learners/

Cassidy Rush: "What makes British Humour unique?" (2025)

https://www.remitly.com/blog/en-gb/culture/british-humour/
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Oral Presentation Work:

"Understanding British Humour", (2021), https://studyinternational.com/news/understanding-british-humour/ 

-Smut and Innuendo

Sketch: Monty Python “Nudge nudge”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT3_UCm1A5I

-Disrespect to Members of the Establishment

Sketch: Yes Minister “Sir Humphrey explains foreign policy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hsNfNM0SvE

-The Absurd

The Green Wing “Accents”, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Lp_5ySgNyY

-The dark (black humour),

sketch: The League of Gentlemen “Tubbs and Edward, police” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOtpgz4L5d8&feature=channel

-The British class system

sketch: "Keeping up Appearances" (the first 1,50 minutes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2t3X-nTSkk

-Making fun of Foreigners:

"Fawlty Towers: I know nothing” , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6EaoPMANQM

-Bullying and Harsh Sarcasm

The Young Ones: “TV licence Anarchy"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYJv0pIy2UQ&feature=channel

-Parodies of Stereotypes

Little Britain: “The only gay in the village ”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfpsnT5BBgs
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 22,00 moduler
Dækker over: 16 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer