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Undervisningsbeskrivelse

Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin(er) 2024/25 - 2025/26
Institution Marie Kruses Skole
Fag og niveau Engelsk B
Lærer(e)
Hold 2024 En/t (1t En, 2t En)

Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 Poetry
Titel 2 American values and American symbols [EXAM TOPIC]
Titel 3 Politics and tech companies in the USA
Titel 4 The English Language and Linguistic Varieties
Titel 5 Into the Wild [EXAM TOPIC]
Titel 6 The English and the World [EXAM TOPIC]
Titel 7 Hip-hop in America
Titel 8 South Africa [EXAM TOPIC]
Titel 9 Dystopia [EXAM TOPIC]
Titel 10 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
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Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 6,00 moduler
Dækker over: 6 moduler
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Titel 2 American values and American symbols [EXAM TOPIC]

Studs Terkel: "Arnold Schwarzenegger: The Dream of Being Best" (1980) - interview
Michael Lee Cohen "Adam" (1993) - narrative interview
LeAlan Jones "Our America" (1996) - transcript of radio documentary (excerpt)
John Steinbeck: 'Of Mice and Men'  (1937) - novel
Gary Sinise: 'Of Mice and Men'  (1992) - film
Francis Scott Key: "The Star-Spangled Banner" (1814) - song
Woody Guthrie: “This Land is your Land” (1940) - song
Elvis Presley: "An American Trilogy” (1972) - song
Emma Lazarus: "The New Colossus" (1883) - poem
Edward N. Kearny: "The Frontier Heritage" (1984) - article
Chappell Roan: "Pink Pony Club" (2023) - song
'The Declaration of Independence' (1776) - excerpt
'The US Constitution' (1787-1791) - excerpt
Barack Obama: "A More Perfect Union" (2008) - essay (excerpt)
Ralph Waldo Emerson: "A Nation’s Strength" - essay (excerpt)
Walt Whitman: "I Hear America Singing" - poem (excerpt)
Lin-Manuel Miranda: 'Hamilton' (2015) - musical
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 18,00 moduler
Dækker over: 19 moduler
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Titel 3 Politics and tech companies in the USA

Reading about: The Liberty Bell, The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution

Presentations about:
1. (The Constitution + Federalism; Bill of Rights + Amendments)
2. The system with three branches of government + Checks and Balances. Add historical background about the system.
3. The legislative branch: Congress – the House of Representatives and the Senate + Voting on a bill
4. The judicial branch + the executive branch
5. The Republican Party (a little history but focus on their politics)
6. The Democratic Party (a little history but focus on their politics)

Poem: "The Hill We Climb"
Trump's inaugural address
Film: 'The Great Hack'
Song: "Welcome to the Internet"
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 7,00 moduler
Dækker over: 8 moduler
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Titel 4 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: 3 moduler
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Titel 5 Into the Wild [EXAM TOPIC]

Roderick Nash: ’Wilderness Defined,’ 1967 (excerpt)
Chief Seattle: ’Selling Our Land,’ 1854 (excerpt)
Robert Pack: ’Dominion Over Nature,’ 1993 (excerpt)
Henry Thoreau: Walden (excerpt), 1854
Whitman: ’Song of Myself’ (excerpt), 1855
Eddie Vedder: ’Society’ (song)
Jon Krakauer: Into the Wild (two excerpts), 1992

Film: Into the Wild. Dir. Sean Penn 2007

Focus:
Society versus wilderness: How do you define wilderness and what is it that attracts people to it?
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 12,00 moduler
Dækker over: 13 moduler
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Titel 6 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: 22,00 moduler
Dækker over: 22 moduler
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Titel 7 Hip-hop in America

Background:
Characteristics of rap
Rap analysis guide
A short history of hiphop
(from a compendium based on Eva Pors, Jacob Bækgaard, Kristine Lund Knudsen og Stinna Pedersen: Open Wide, Lindhardt & Ringhof (2015)
Hip-Hop Evolution episode 1:1 + 1:4 + 3:1, Netflix documentary, (2016-2020)

Songs:
GRANDMASTER FLASH & THE FURIOUS FIVE: “THE MESSAGE”
RUN-D.M.C: ”PROUD TO BE BLACK”
TUPAC: ”BRENDA’S GOT A BABY”
EMINEM: ”STAN”
(And a song of your own choice)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 6,00 moduler
Dækker over: 6 moduler
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Titel 8 South Africa [EXAM TOPIC]

Matthews: “The Park” (short story)
Rive: ”The Man from the Board” (short story)
Gordimer: “The Moment Before the Gun Went Off” (short story)
Hawthorne: ”The Heart of the Matter” (article)
Jones: "Apartheid ended 29 years ago. How has South Africa changed?"(article)
Mandela: Statement from the dock at the opening of the defence case in the Rivonia Trail, 1964  (short excerpt from the speech)
Biko: I Write What I Like (excerpts from his biography)
Henley: “Invictus” (poem)
Fugard: Valley Song (short play)
Gabriel: ”Biko” (song)
Attenborough: Cry Freedom, 1987 (film)

Group presentations on aspects of South Africa
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 20,00 moduler
Dækker over: 14 moduler
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Titel 9 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: 5 moduler
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Titel 10 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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