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Undervisningsbeskrivelse

Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin(er) 2024/25 - 2025/26
Institution Birkerød Gymnasium og HF
Fag og niveau Engelsk -
Lærer(e) Katrine Wonge Lohmann
Hold 2024 en/enAlanH2* (2uenAlanH2*, 3uenAlanH2*)

Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 LW1: Frankenstein
Titel 2 BoW1: There Will Be Blood
Titel 3 BoW 2: Harris Speeches
Titel 4 LW2: HC Andersen Fairytales
Titel 5 BoW3: The Imitation Game
Titel 6 LW3: Margaret Atwood, Short Stories
Titel 7 BoW4: Ask Ugly
Titel 8 LW4: Poetry of Seamus Heaney
Titel 9 IOA prep
Titel 10 Paper 1 (1)
Titel 11 Macbeth
Titel 12 Human Acts + HLE
Titel 13 A Christmas Carol
Titel 14 Paper 1 (2)
Titel 15 Paper 1 (3)

Beskrivelse af de enkelte undervisningsforløb (1 skema for hvert forløb)
Titel 1 LW1: Frankenstein

This course on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818) introduces students to the Gothic fiction genre, Mary Shelley, and British Romanticism.
Throughout this course, students read the novel in segments and write assignments relating to these. The beginning of the course includes a written screening.

In the course students will work with:
- Gothic genre characteristics
- British Romantics' scepticism towards science
- Mary Shelley
- The origins of evil

- Global issues
- Close reading
- PEE paragraph-structure
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Kernestof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Screening 21-08-2024
Screening 21-08-2024
Screening 22-08-2024
Screening 22-08-2024
Characterisation of Adam 16-09-2024
Characterisation of Adam 16-09-2024
Characterisation of Adam 18-09-2024
Characterisation of Adam 18-09-2024
Revised characterisation 22-09-2024
Revised characterisation 22-09-2024
Revised characterisation 22-09-2024
Revised characterisation 22-09-2024
Omfang Estimeret: 15,00 moduler
Dækker over: 17 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
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Titel 2 BoW1: There Will Be Blood

This short course on the film 'There Will Be Blood' introduces students to American history, identity and the problems facing the modern American nation, which are deeply rooted there.

During this course,  we will watch Paul Thomas Anderson's 2007-film 'There Will Be Blood'.
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 3,00 moduler
Dækker over: 3 moduler
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Titel 3 BoW 2: Harris Speeches

This course covers the 2024 US elections and introduces students to American values, identity, history and politics. In this course, students will learn about American politics including the core values of the Republican and Democratic ideologies. They will be introduced to American history, identity and the problems facing the modern American nation, which are deeply rooted there.

During this course, students will work with a selection of 5 Kamala Harris speeches.

These are:
- 'DNC speech' (Chicago, 23rd August 2023)
- 'Remarks by VP Harris at a Campaign Event in Raleigh, North Carolina'' (16th August 2024)
- 'Remarks by VP Harris at Campaign Event, Houston Texas' (25th October 2024)
- 'VP Kamala Harris's Ellipse speech' (30th October 2024)
- Harris's 'Concession speech' (7th November 2024)

Students will learn to read and analyse speeches, using rhetorical analysis, the appeal forms, figures of speech and discuss the themes and American context presented in these. Students will also write and give their own speeches.

During this course, students will also attend a lecture on American politics by Mark Herron. The context include 'The Declaration of Independence', Emerson's poem 'The American Dream', a chapter on 'The New Frontier' and a chapter on 'America - From British Colony to Superpower'.
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Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Speech - US values 04-11-2024
Speech - US values 04-11-2024
Speech - US values 06-11-2024
Speech - US values 06-11-2024
Learner's Portfolio 08-11-2024
Learner's Portfolio 08-11-2024
Learner's Portfolio 08-11-2024
Learner's Portfolio 08-11-2024
Speech - your topic 16-11-2024
Speech - your topic 16-11-2024
Speech - your topic 16-11-2024
Speech - your topic 16-11-2024
Resubmit your speech on your own topic 20-11-2024
Resubmit your speech on your own topic 20-11-2024
Resubmit your speech on your own topic 21-11-2024
Resubmit your speech on your own topic 21-11-2024
Omfang Estimeret: 12,00 moduler
Dækker over: 12 moduler
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Titel 4 LW2: HC Andersen Fairytales

This module covers 6 HC Andersen fairytales in translation spanning from 1835-1863.

It teaches students to read, annotate, and analyse fairytales using the actantial model. We focus on close-reading and annotating.
The course particularly focuses on teaching students how to identity and discuss symbolism, literary technique and the structure of the fairytale.
We also discuss how HCA used the genre to convey social criticism.

The course also aims at teaching students to use correct literary terminology when discussing fairytales.

Fairytales we've read:

- The Little Match Girl
- Thumbelina
- The Ugly Duckling
- The Fir Tree
- The Last Dream of the Old Oak
- The Snowdrop.
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Titel Afleveringsdato
The Last Dream of the Old Oak 18-12-2024
The Last Dream of the Old Oak 18-12-2024
Omfang Estimeret: 7,00 moduler
Dækker over: 8 moduler
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Titel 5 BoW3: The Imitation Game

In this short course, students will watch and work with the Morten Tyldum's 2014 film 'The Imitation Game' about Alan Turing.

Prior to watching the film, students will do research on Alan Turing his personal life, his contribution to the war effort and his work with computer science.
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Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 3,00 moduler
Dækker over: 3 moduler
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Titel 6 LW3: Margaret Atwood, Short Stories

This course introduces students to the short story genre.

We will work with close-reading, analysis and key terminology as we analyse 9 select short stories by Margaret Atwood:

From The Tent (2006):
'It's Not Easy Being Half-Divine'
'Salome Was a Dancer'
Chicken Little Goes Too Far'
'Thylacine Ragout'
'The Tent'

From Good Bones and Simple Murders (1994):
'Men at Sea'
'Simmering'
'Happy Endings'
'Poppies'

This course also focuses on writing, and students will be introduced to the PEETR-model, which we will work with in steps. As such, students will learn to make a solid Point, find good Evidence, write a strong Explanation, analyse a writer's Technique, and discuss how this all Relates to the reader. Through practise-based teaching, students will work with the individual aspects of the model and ultimately write a full 5 paragraph essay, with 3 PEETR paragraphs an introduction and a conclusion. This will be an analysis of Atwood's short story, 'The Tent'.
Through this practise-based teaching format, students will also learn to focus and phrase their analyses into strong points and angles.

Ultimately, this will enable students to analyse these short stories and discuss them in a focused and concise manner for their IOA.
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Kernestof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
PEETR Paragraphs on Hollywood 15-01-2025
PEETR Paragraphs on Hollywood 15-01-2025
PEETR Paragraphs on Hollywood 15-01-2025
PEETR Paragraphs on Hollywood 15-01-2025
Men at Sea 22-01-2025
Men at Sea 22-01-2025
Thylacine Ragout 23-01-2025
Thylacine Ragout 23-01-2025
Short story analysis, The Tent 30-01-2025
Short story analysis, The Tent 02-02-2025
Omfang Estimeret: 10,00 moduler
Dækker over: 10 moduler
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Titel 7 BoW4: Ask Ugly

This course covers select samples from the advice column 'Ask Ugly' by Jessica Defino, published in The Guardian from 2024-2025.
We will discuss the rhetorical pentagram, rhetorical devices, modes of appeal and stylistics. The course will include written work, presentations and debate.

Included are the following 5 columns:

'My father had plastic surgery'
'I'm getting ad for beauty products for my baby'
'Signature scents are deeply appealing'
'I'm addicted to lip balm'
'Photos of myself make me shudder in horror'

We've also watched an interview with Jessica DeFino: 'The Politics of Beauty' by The Institute of Art and Ideas. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAJCKMZrZ_Q
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Titel Afleveringsdato
'Signature scents' 09-03-2025
'Signature scents' 10-03-2025
Omfang Estimeret: 10,00 moduler
Dækker over: 10 moduler
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Titel 8 LW4: Poetry of Seamus Heaney

This course introduces students to Irish nobel laureate Seamus Heaney's poetry, written between 1967 and 1984.

We will cover poetic forms, structure and poetic devices; and students will be introduced to scansions. We will work with rhythm and rhyme, and discuss Heaney's poems in the context of Irish history, culture and identity.
Students will also be introduced to the literary context of Heaney's poems and Heaney himself.

During the course, we will discuss the following 15 poems:
Digging
Toome Road
Station Island
Personal Helicon
Follower
The Haw Lantern
Oysters
Anahorish
Strange Fruit
Post-script
Early Purges
The Forge
North/Storm on an Island
Death By A Naturalist
Blackberry Picking
Requiem for Croppies


Context:
London Book Review:
'Political Poems 'Station Island' by Seamus Heaney', London Review of Books (28 November 2024), Paul Muldoon talking with Seamus Perry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVmV7B4WrWU

Ask About Ireland:
AskAboutIreland.ie and the Cultural Heritage Project is an initiative of public libraries together with local museums and archives in the digitisation and online publication of the original, the unusual and the unique material from their local studies' collections to create a national Internet resource for culture.
We've worked with Irish history, which is here charted by Dr. Margaret O'Callaghan from the earliest hunter-gatherers in 9000 BC right up to recent times. Margaret O’Callaghan teaches modern Irish history and politics in the School of Politics, Philosophy and International Studies at the Queen’s University of Belfast.

http://www.askaboutireland.ie/reading-room/history-heritage/history-of-ireland/a-history-of-ireland-feat/index.xml
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Titel Afleveringsdato
'North' 06-04-2025
'Storm on an Island' 06-04-2025
Omfang Estimeret: 10,00 moduler
Dækker over: 10 moduler
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Titel 9 IOA prep

These modules are set aside to revise the texts and global issues we have covered during the year and prep for the IOA.

Here we can discuss good texts, good global issues and approaches to both analyses and presentation in preparation for your oral examinations.
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Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Mock 1: Imitation Game 07-05-2025
Mock exam, Nixon v. Brooke 09-05-2025
IOA extracts, global issue and bullet points 19-05-2025
Omfang Estimeret: 7,00 moduler
Dækker over: 7 moduler
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Titel 10 Paper 1 (1)

This course introduces students to the paper 1 exam and some of the text types they might encounter there.

During these 6 modules, students will be introduced to visual texts, including:
Comics, Graphic novels, Political cartoons, streetart and infographics.

They will write scaffolded guided analyses and try a mock exam, where they analyse a visual text.
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Titel Afleveringsdato
Political cartoons 22-08-2025
Political cartoons 22-08-2025
Political cartoons 28-08-2025
Political cartoons 28-08-2025
Paper 1: Advertisement 23-10-2025
Omfang Estimeret: 6,00 moduler
Dækker over: 5 moduler
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Titel 11 Macbeth

We'll watch Justin Kurzel's film 'Macbeth' from 2015 and read Shakespeare's original play from 1623.

Students will be introduced to Shakespearean language, iambic pentameter, and blank verse.
We'll also consider the historical context, including the Elizabethan worldview (The Great Chain of Being), the historical inspiration for the play and the fact that it was written for King James I / VI.

We will discuss the development of the characters Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, look at motifs (animals and blood), consider how the human cosmos is reflected in nature, and discuss the play as a study of appearance vs. reality, evil, and ambition.

During this course, we will also work with acting, and students will act out selected scenes. This will include studying subtext and the importance of punctuation.
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Titel Afleveringsdato
Characterising Macbeth 22-09-2025
Characterising Macbeth 22-09-2025
Macbeth: HL mock 10-10-2025
Macbeth: HL mock 12-10-2025
Omfang Estimeret: 15,00 moduler
Dækker over: 11 moduler
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Titel 12 Human Acts + HLE

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Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Human Acts, chapter 1 28-10-2025
Human Acts, chapter 1 28-10-2025
Human Acts, Paper 2 30-11-2025
Human Acts, Paper 2 30-11-2025
Omfang Estimeret: 14,00 moduler
Dækker over: 12 moduler
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Titel 14 Paper 1 (2)

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Omfang Estimeret: 13,00 moduler
Dækker over: 13 moduler
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Titel 15 Paper 1 (3)

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Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 10,00 moduler
Dækker over: 5 moduler
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