Holdet 3e EN (2025/26) - Undervisningsbeskrivelse

Undervisningsbeskrivelse

Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin(er) 2023/24 - 2025/26
Institution Marie Kruses Skole
Fag og niveau Engelsk A
Lærer(e)
Hold 2023 EN/e (1e EN, 2e EN, 3e EN)

Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 Poetry
Titel 2 Of Mice and Men & The American Dream [EXAM TOPIC]
Titel 3 True Crime/Evil
Titel 4 Culture in Britain (USA and India)
Titel 5 The American Presidential Election
Titel 6 South Africa [EXAM TOPIC]
Titel 7 Race in America [EXAM TOPIC]
Titel 8 War [EXAM TOPIC]
Titel 9 Love and Shakespeare [EXAM TOPIC]
Titel 10 The English and the World [EXAM TOPIC]
Titel 11 Shakespeare and Love [EXAM TOPIC]
Titel 12 The English Language and Linguistic Varieties
Titel 13 Dystopia [EXAM TOPIC]
Titel 14 Skriftlig eksamen

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

Silvia Plath: Metaphors - poem
Emily Dickinson: Apparently with no Surprise - poem
Vernon Scannell: Nettles - poem
Peter Meinke: Advice to my Son - poem
Ogden Nash: The Hunter - poem
Thomas Hardy: Last Week in October - poem
Seamus Heany: The Cool that Came off Sheets - poem
Robert Louis Stevenson: From a Railway Carriage - poem
William Wordsworth: My Heart Leaps Up - poem
William Wordsworth: Skating - poem
Anonymous: Barbara Allen - ballad
William Shakespeare: Sonnet 18 - poem
Roger McGough: 40–Love - poem
Nick Cave: Where the Wild Roses Grow - song
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 10,00 moduler
Dækker over: 10 moduler
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Titel 3 True Crime/Evil

True Crime/Evil

Sean Spence: “Bad or Mad” (2004) - article (excerpt)
“Elizabeth Jennings: Warning to Parents” (1964) - poem
"WHY ARE WE SO OBSESSED WITH TRUE CRIME?"  - article. University of Derby Magazine, Issue 11 - https://www.derby.ac.uk/magazine/issue-11/why-are-we-so-obsessed-with-true-crime/
Serial, episode 1 - podcast
Errol Morris: The Thin Blue Line - film
Marc Bowden “The Case of the Vanishing Blonde” Vanity Fair 2020
The Coen Brothers: No Country for Old Men - film
Ted Hughes: Hawk Roosting - poem
Vsauce: The Stanford Prison Experiment (2018) - YouTube video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KND_bBDE8RQ
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 13,00 moduler
Dækker over: 13 moduler
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Titel 4 Culture in Britain (USA and India)

Texts:

Music in Britain
Get Back - documentary (intro sequence)
Group presentations about subcultures
Film in Britain
The Selfish Giant - film
Sport in Britain

Group presentations: Various aspects of sport in Britain
    1. The paradox of amateurism versus professionalism (and equality in sport?): Marie-Louise, Clara, Peter #amazing
    2. The FA and the Premier League - Daniel, Oliver, Tobias #glorious
    3. Hooliganism - Mathias D,  Nicolai, Gustav #extraordinary
    4. Sport, money and the media - Oscar, Storm, Matilde #fabulous
    5. Sport, race and racism: Olivia, Madeleine, Jacob #fantastic
    6. Sport and national identity: Mathias V, Bertram, Natalie #excellent
    7. Sport and the British Empire (cricket, rugby, polo): Julie, Rebecca, Klara #sensational

More group presentations (USA and India)
    1. Baseball
    2. American football
    3. Basketball
    4. Ice hockey
    5. Football
    6. Cricket
    7. Rugby
    8. Hollywood
    9. Bollywood
    10. Hip Hop
    11. Taylor Swift
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 10,00 moduler
Dækker over: 11 moduler
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Titel 6 South Africa [EXAM TOPIC]

South Africa: History and Apartheid (facts) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-14094918
Mandela: Statement from the dock at the opening of the defence case in the Rivonia Trail, 1964  (short excerpt from the speech)
Evans: “Dead Man’s Shoes” (short story)
Matthews: “The Park” (short story)
Fugard: Valley Song (short play)
Gabriel: ”Biko” (song)
Hawthorne: ”Truth and Forgiveness” (article)
Henley: “Invictus” (poem)
Eastwood: Invictus (film)

Rachel Jones: "Apartheid ended 29 years ago. How has South Africa changed?" National Geographic 2019
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/how-south-africa-changed-since-apartheid-born-free-generation

World Atlas: "10 Ways South Africa Changed After The End Of Apartheid"
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/10-ways-south-africa-changed-after-the-end-of-apartheid.html








Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 15,00 moduler
Dækker over: 15 moduler
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Titel 7 Race in America [EXAM TOPIC]

Race in America

Slavery - introduction (in Black Voices)
Steve McQueen: 12 Years a Slave (2013) - film
The Civil War - introduction (in Black Voices)
Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Address (1863)
Langston Hughes: "Merry-Go-Round" (1942) - poem
Post-Racist America? - introduction (in Black Voices)
Angie Thomas: The Hate U Give (2017)  - novel
George Tillman Jr.: The Hate U Give (2018) - film
Elizabeth Broadbent: “A Mother’s White Privilege” (2014) - blog post

Group presentations:
G1: Daniel, Nicolai, Gustav, Mathias D - Police Brutality
G2: Matilde, Rebecca, Jacob - Black Lives Matter
G3: Peter, Storm, Oscar - Martin Luther King
G4: Mathias V, Julie, Tobias, Clara - Malcolm X
G5: Natalie, Marie-Louise, Oliver - Rosa Parks
G6: Olivia, Madeleine, Bertram - Ku Klux Klan
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 20,00 moduler
Dækker over: 27 moduler
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Titel 8 War [EXAM TOPIC]

Bruce Springsteen:  “War” - song
Mordecai Richler: “Benny, the War in Europe, and Myerson’s Daughter Bella” (1956) - short story
Stanley Kubrick: Full Metal Jacket - film
The Vietnam War - documentary (Apple)
Alexander Amoroso: “Why Do We Fight?” (2017) - essay
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.: Slaughterhouse 5 (optional reading)

War poems: individual analyses
Podcasts about war (in groups)

Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 10,00 moduler
Dækker over: 11 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
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Titel 9 Love and Shakespeare [EXAM TOPIC]

Margaret Atwood: "Happy Endings" (1983) - short story
Kate Chopin: “The Story of an Hour” (1894) - short story
Gil Junger (Dir.): '10 Things I Hate About You' (1999) - film
Victoria Warmerdam (Dir.): “I’m Not a Robot” (2023) - short film
Ian McEwan: “Only Love and Then Oblivion” (2001) - non-fiction
John Keats: “Letter to Fanny Brawne” (1819)
Roger McGough: “At Lunchtime: A Story of Love” (1967) - poem
Andrew Marvell: "To His Coy Mistress" (1588) - poem
W. H. Auden: “Stop All the Clocks” (1936) - poem
Raymond Carver: “What We Talk about When We Talk about Love” (1981) - short story
Alejandro González Iñárritu: 'Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)' (2014) - film

Individual presentations: Love poems
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 12,00 moduler
Dækker over: 12 moduler
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Titel 10 The English and the World [EXAM TOPIC]

Background:
Steen Moetzlund: "How Britain Has Been Shaped by Migration”

James Thomson: Rule Britannia (song, 1740)
Rudyard Kipling: The White Man's Burden (poem, 1899)
Jomo Kenyatta: The Gentlemen of the Jungle (fable, 1938)
Jamaica Kincaid: A Small Place (essay, 1988)
Niall Ferguson: Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World (non-fiction, 2003)
Enoch Powell: Rivers of Blood (speech, 1968)
Andrea Levy: This Is My England (essay, 2000)
Shashi Tharoor: Britain should pay reparations (debate, 2015)
Shane Meadows: This Is England, 2006 (film)

Winston Churchill: Speech delivered at the University of Zurich, 19 September 1946 - speech
Nigel Farage: Why we must vote LEAVE (2016) - comment
Boris Johnson: Brexit Address to the Nation | This is not an end, but a beginning (2020) - speech
James Acaster: The tea bag analogy (2016) - comment on BBC show
Alexander Betts: Why Brexit happened - and what to do next (2016) - TED talk

British culture (music, film, sports), including small presentations
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 20,00 moduler
Dækker over: 19 moduler
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Titel 11 Shakespeare and Love [EXAM TOPIC]

Christopher Marlowe: Doctor Faustus (Act 5, scene 2)
William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet (Prologue + Act 2, scene 1 + Act 5, scene 3)
William Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew - Act 1, scene 1 
William Shakespeare: Hamlet (Act 3, scene 1 + 4)
William Shakespeare: Macbeth (Act 1, scene 5 + Act 5, scene 5)
William Shakespeare: Sonnets: 18 + 130 (and a sonnet of your own choice)

What is Drama? (in Fields of Vision, pp. A23-A34)
Introduction to Romeo and Juliet (in New Swan Shakespeare, pp. 5-23)

Shakespeare – Dramatikkens mester (Original title: Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius). BBC 2023 (documentary) - episode 1 & 2
Looking for Richard. Dir. Al Pacino, 1996 (documentary)
Romeo + Juliet. Dir. Baz Luhrman, 1996 (film, excerpt)
Hamnet. Dir. Chloé Zhao, 2025 (film)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 15,00 moduler
Dækker over: 19 moduler
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Titel 12 The English Language and Linguistic Varieties

The English Language and Linguistic Varieties

Texts:
Flensted & Petersen: Box on Communicating, Malling Beck 2006, s. 73-90

Finderup & Fog: Worlds of English, Systime 2010, s. 19-23
Blume: If You Can’t Master English, Try Globish, International Herald Tribune, Jan 10, 2006 (article)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 3,00 moduler
Dækker over: 4 moduler
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Titel 13 Dystopia [EXAM TOPIC]

‘Dystopias: Definition and Characteristics’ (overview)
Vonnegut: "Harrison Bergeron" (short story)
McFadden: “Dystopian stories used to reflect our anxieties. Now they reflect our reality” (article)
Collins: 'The Hunger Games', chapter one (excerpt from novel)
King: "Let's Talk about Fear" (excerpt from essay)
Atwood: 'The Handmaid’s Tale', chapter 1 + 2 (excerpt from novel)
(And a dystopian text of your own choice)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 5,00 moduler
Dækker over: 6 moduler
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Titel 14 Skriftlig eksamen

Eleverne skal have adgang til disse online-hjælpemidler:

https://www.ordbogen.com/da/
https://abc.ordbogen.com
https://www.merriam-webster.com/
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/
https://www.minlaering.dk/
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 1,00 modul
Dækker over: 1 moduler
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