Holdet 2022 ENA/a - Undervisningsbeskrivelse

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Undervisningsbeskrivelse

Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin(er) 2022/23 - 2024/25
Institution Rungsted Gymnasium
Fag og niveau Engelsk A
Lærer(e) Maya Haarup Gregersen
Hold 2022 ENA/a (1a ENA, 2a ENA, 3a ENA)
Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 Self-presentation
Titel 2 Black Lives in the USA and 'The Hate U Give'
Titel 3 Changing people's minds: Non-fiction analysis
Titel 4 Democracy in India
Titel 5 Broken Britain
Titel 6 Narrative non-fiction
Titel 7 Værklæsning: Normal People
Titel 8 American values and politics
Titel 9 Postcolonial perspectives
Titel 10 Gender
Titel 11 Man and Nature

Beskrivelse af de enkelte undervisningsforløb (1 skema for hvert forløb)
Titel 1 Self-presentation

FORLØBET

Teksterne i forløbet fokuserer på selviscenesættelse, og hvordan der kan være en uoverensstemmelse mellem den, man virkelig er, og den man opfører sig som i visse sammenhænge. Eleverne udstyres med termer til at beskrive selviscenesættelse fra Goffmans teori om front stage og back stage, og det står centralt, at eleverne kan anvende disse termer i arbejdet med teksterne. Eleverne vil derudover arbejde med analyse af "short stories" med fokus på de virkemidler, der kan bruges til at iscenesætte sig selv som fx "setting" eller "narrative technique". De centrale termer til emnet er: Front stage, back stage, face, props, costumes, character, setting, first person narrator, unreliable narrator.

Et andet fokus i emnet er at introducere eleverne til skrivning af "analytical essays", som består af tre dele: "Introduction, analysis paragraphs og conclusion". Eleverne skal vide, hvordan en "analysis paragraph" opbygges ved hjælp af "the PEE-model", og hvordan man skriver en "introduction" med en "thesis statement", som der senere samles op på i essayets "conclusion".

TEXTS

Fulcher og Scot (om Goffman), 'Front Stage and Back Stage' fra Open Wide (2015), s.113-5.
Chris Hayes, 'On the internet, we're always famous' (2021)
Uddrag fra Dave Eggers, 'We Like You So Much And Want To Know You Better' (2013) http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/magazine/dave-eggers-fiction.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&
Emma Cleary, 'Lightbox' in Best British Short Stories (2015), s.73 -78
Black Mirror, 'Nosedive'

Omfang: 30 ns
Indhold
Kernestof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Written assignment 1 05-12-2022
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 13 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 2 Black Lives in the USA and 'The Hate U Give'

Forløbet præsenterer eleverne for den historiske kontekst for sorte amerikaneres selvforståelse og plads i samfundet i dag.

Som opstart skal eleverne i mindre grupper lave en mundtlig præsentation for resten af klassen om et nedslag i de sortes historie fra slaveriet til #BlackLivesMatter-bevægelsen. Eleverne arbejder også med dokumentaren '13' om retssystemet og race i USA. Derefter arbejdes der med med rap tekster, der læses som eksempler på digtgenren med fokus på race og identitet.

Herefter begynder arbejdet med romanen The Hate U Give. Læsningen af romanen fokuserer indledningsvis på characters, setting and language, og senere især måden hovedpersonen navigerer mellem to forskellige verdener på: hendes hjem i Garden Heights og privatskolen Williamson Prep. Undervejs i forløbet foldes forskellige aspekter af de sorte amerikaneres selvforståelse og virkelighed i dagens USA ud, og eleverne skal bl.a. arbejde med code-switching, #BlackLivesMatter, police brutality og the Ferguson Riots.

Arbejdet med romanen har til formål dels at træne elevernes læsehastighed dels deres close-reading skills.

Antal sider: ca. 470
Indhold
Kernestof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Written assignment 2 23-01-2023
Written assignment 3 13-03-2023
Genaflevering 14-04-2023
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 32 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 3 Changing people's minds: Non-fiction analysis

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

This course has aimed to introduce students to analysis of non-fiction texts. We have worked with which terms to use in an analysis of non-fiction texts and examined the use of rhetorical devices in several speeches. The intention has been to equip students with the necessary tools to write essays on non-fiction in the written exam.

Our focus has been how language and rhetorical devices can be used to persuade someone to change their mind. It is essential that students are able to not just identify which rhetorical devices are used, but also analyse their effect and how they are related to the different corners of the rhetorical pentagon. How does e.g. the use of an antithesis help express the speaker's intention?

CENTRAL TERMS:

The rhetorical pentagon + the modes of persuasion: https://quizlet.com/418592648/non-fiction-analysis-flash-cards/
Rhetorical devices:
https://quizlet.com/164704414/rhetorical-devices-flash-cards/?i=4z5zf&x=1jqt


TEXTS:

Oprah Winfrey, speech at the Golden Globe's (2018)

Matthew McConaughey, speech on mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas (2022)

Joe Wright, Darkest Hour (2017)

Winston Churchill, excerpt from "We Shall Fight on the Beaches" (1940)

Martin Luther King, excerpt from "I Have a Dream" (1963)


Omfang: Ca. 25 ns
Indhold
Kernestof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Written assignment 1 12-09-2023
Written test 1 25-09-2023
Genaflevering af written test 1 13-10-2023
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 16 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 4 Democracy in India

Forløbet har til formål at dække læreplanens krav om, at du introduceres til "historiske og aktuelle forhold i andre engelsksprogede regioner [end Storbritannien og USA]". Fokus er det nutidige Indien.

Du skal have en basal baggrundsviden om Indien som moderne demokrati og de problematikker, der følger med i relation til religion, kaste og kønsroller. Er Indien et demokratisk samfund? Pointen med denne baggrundsviden er, at du skal kunne anvende den til at opnå dybere forståelse af de konflikter, der berøres i de læste tekster og dermed "perspektivere tekster kulturelt, samfundsmæssigt og historisk".

Undervejs i forløbet arbejder vi med indere som minoritet i USA i novellen 'A Temporary Matter'.


TEXTS:

The Economist, "Low-caste Indians are better off than ever—but that’s not saying much" (2018)

The Economist, "India’s gender gap is closing in some respects, but remains vast" (2018)

Audrey Truschke, "How India’s Hindu Nationalists Are Weaponizing History Against Muslims" (2023)

VOX, 'How this border transformed a subcontinent' (2019) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5Ps1TZXAN8

Jason Burke, 'Inside the Indian village where a mob killed a man for eating beef', The Guardian (2015) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/03/inside-bishari-indian-village-where-mob-killed-man-for-eating-beef#img-1

Katrine Brøndsted, 'Demarcations - An introduction' (2016) in "Narrating India", pp.228 - 231

Arundhati Roy, excerpt from "The God of Small Things" (1997) in "Indien - Den nye stormagt", pp.196 - 200

Kalki Koechlin, 'Kalki presents: My Indian Life - 'A Body of Protest' (2018) (podcast)

Sashi Deshpande, 'The Dark Holds No Terrors' (1980) in "Narrating India", pp.256 - 261

Jhumpa Lahiri, 'A Temporary Matter' (1998), pp.1 - 22

Antal sider: ca. 65
Indhold
Kernestof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Written assignment 2 (in pairs) 06-12-2023
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 17 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 5 Broken Britain

Forløbet handler om britisk identitet og de splittelser, der udfordrer ideen om en fælles britisk identitet i kølvandet på Brexit. Forløbet har derfor til formål at undersøge, hvordan britiske tekster skildrer britisk selvforståelse; er "United Kingdom" virkelig en samlet nation eller opdelt på tværs af klasse, uddannelse og kulturel baggrund?

Formålet er at give eleverne en baggrundsviden om det britiske samfund og hvordan den britiske velfærdsstat adskiller sig fra den danske, samt hvilken betydning det har for dem, der er på samfundets bund. Eleverne introduceres til en række termer, som kan bruges til at karakterisere det britiske velfærdssamfund, og det står central at eleverne kan anvende disse termer i forbindelse med tekstanalyse og dermed sætte teksterne i et samfundsmæssigt perspektiv.

FRA LÆRERPLANEN:

Eleverne skal kunne...

- analysere og fortolke litterære tekster, ikke-litterære tekster og mediestof, herunder film, med anvendelse af faglig terminologi
- perspektivere det givne materiale samfundsmæssigt
- anvende en grundviden om historiske og samfundsmæssige forhold i Storbritannien til analyse og perspektivering af aktuelle forhold

KEY TERMS:

Social class, poor/rich, the residual model, class-consciousness, social heritage, social mobility, the social ladder, periphery/center, inclusion/exclusion, marginalisation


Texts:

Jørgen Sevaldsen m.fl. 'Stripping away the welfare state' in Being British (2014), pp.43 - 48

Ken Loach, 'I, Daniel Blake' (2016)

Ben Okri, 'Grenfell Tower, June 2017' (The Financial Times, 2017)

George the Poet, 'Have you heard George's podcast?' https://www.georgethepoet.com/podcast-library episode 3.5 [29:30 - 44:47] (2019)

Alexander Betts, 'Why Brexit happened and what to do next' (TED-talk, 2016)https://www.ted.com/talks/alexander_betts_why_brexit_happened_and_what_to_do_next

Lorenza Antonucci, Laszlo Horvath, and André Krouwel, 'Brexit was not the voice of the working class nor of the uneducated – it was of the squeezed middle' (LSE blog, 2017)

Zadie Smith, 'The Lazy River' (The New Yorker, 2017)
Indhold
Kernestof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Written test 2 08-01-2024
SRO-problemformulering 31-01-2024
2a ENA skr. ÅRSPRØVE 08-02-2024
Genaflevering af årsprøve 29-02-2024
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 17 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 6 Narrative non-fiction

This course focuses on non-fiction and introduces students to key developments in journalistic writing such as literary journalism and narrative non-fiction. Non-fiction texts are per definition based on facts, but as opposed to traditional journalism, the texts in this topic explore subjective points of view and the writers' personal takes on reality.
We are going to be working with genres such as personal essays, articles and a podcast. Students are expected to be able to identify the characteristics of narrative non-fiction when analysing a text as well as utilizing terms relevant to non-fiction analysis in general.

Key characteristics of narrative non-fiction:

- Structure, narrative "hook", use of personal anecdotes/scenes
- Focus on WHY or HOW rather than WHAT
- Subjectivity and bias
- The presence of the writer, the use of personal experience
- A participatory experience for the receiver
- Social critique and political agenda
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Useful terms:

Non-fiction analysis https://quizlet.com/418592648/non-fiction-analysis-flash-cards/?funnelUUID=f152bef5-c51f-4d5e-9c18-e9230e5c3c1c
Rhetorical devices https://quizlet.com/164704414/rhetorical-devices-flash-cards/?funnelUUID=5a832704-a132-4657-9acf-f3adc23490f1

TEXTS:

Katrine Brøndsted og Mathias Larsen, "Truthfully - On Literary Journalism and Narrative Non-fiction" i Narrating Truth (2021)
Trevor Noah, excerpt from "Born a crime" (2017), pp.77 - 84.

Hunter S. Thompson, 'The Kentucky Derby is decadent and depraved' (1970)

Spencer A. Klavan, 'Games Boys Play - How Gears of War Helped Me Come Out' (2019)

Riz Ahmed, 'Airports and Auditions' (2016)

Monica Potts, 'How rural America steals girls' lives', The Atlantic (2023)

Brian Reed, S-Town, episode 1, 'If you keep your mouth shut, you'll be surprised what you can learn' (2017) https://stownpodcast.org/chapter/1

Antal ns: Ca. 30
Indhold
Kernestof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Written assignment 5 (in pairs) 16-04-2024
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 15 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 7 Værklæsning: Normal People

In this course, we are going to read the novel "Normal People", focusing on themes such as mental health, social class, back stage vs. front stage and what it means to be normal.  

Central analytical terms: Point of view, narrative technique, characters, themes, structure and the use of flashbacks, title, message, internal/external conflicts, social setting.

Our primary focus in to practice close reading and train students' ability to select relevant quotes from the text and analyse what is said between the lines.

Texts:
Normal People (Sally Rooney, 2018)

Omfang: Ca. 290 ns
Indhold
Kernestof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Written assignment 1 28-08-2024
Written test 1 06-09-2024
Podcast: Meet the author 11-09-2024
Genaflevering af test 18-09-2024
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 13 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 8 American values and politics

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This topic is an introduction to the values that shape American society. The topic begins by describing the values that have shaped America historically since the Declaration of Indenpendence, and it then moves to the Trascendendalist movement (1830 - 1860) and studies how texts from this literary movement explore what it means to be American. Finally, the topic moves to the present day and focuses on the presidential election. This part of the topic covers the major political parties, and how politicians appeal to core American values in their campaigns. Analyzing speeches is an integral part of studying American elections, and this means that rhetorical analysis will be a partiuclar focus in this topic.

Fra læreplanen: Du skal kunne…

– gøre rede for indhold, synspunkter og stilforskelle i forskellige typer engelsksprogede tekster
– analysere og fortolke forskellige nyere og ældre teksttyper med anvendelse af faglig terminologi
– perspektivere det givne materiale litteraturhistorisk [og] kulturelt [samt kende til] væsentlige strømninger i amerikansk litteraturhistorie

TEXTS:

From Mette Holm, "Being American":

- 'Having values', pp.20 - 23
- The Democratic Party https://beingamerican.systime.dk/?id=192
- The Republican Party https://beingamerican.systime.dk/?id=193

Thomas Jefferson, 'The Declaration of Independence' (1776)

Henry David Thoreau, excerpt from "Walden" (1854)

Walt Whitman, excerpt from 'Song of Myself' (1892)

Donald Trump's speech in Butler, PA (2024)

Kamala Harris' speech at the DNC (2024)

Omfang: Ca. 30 ns
Indhold
Kernestof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Written assignment 2 11-10-2024
Written test 2 30-10-2024
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 14 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 9 Postcolonial perspectives

COURSE DESCRIPTION

The topic deals with postcolonial literature and how identity is shaped through the stories we tell. One text is written from a British colonial perspective ('The White Man's Burden') and forms a contrast to the modern texts which are written by writers from former British colonies in Africa ('Naija Brit', 'How to write about Africa', 'The Danger of a Single Story').

The focus of the course is aimed at how postcolonial nations and postcolonial literature in general seek ”to describe the interactions between European nations and the peoples they colonized” and how postcolonial literature in various ways deals with how ”colonialism has influenced the lives and mindsets of the colonizers as well as the colonized ” (quotes from "Africa Unfold"). The course includes an introduction to English as a lingua franca.

Keywords for the course:

The Other, superior >< inferior, hegemony, dichotomy, colonizer, savages, civilized >< uncivilized, writing back, multiple identities, hybridity, discourse, stereotypes, the single story

TEXTS:

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 'The Danger of a Single Story' (TED-talk, 2009) https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story#t-31418)

"Postcolonial Perspectives" in Hess Thaysen, A., Debel Christensen, L., "Africa Unfold", København: Lindhardt og Ringhof 2015

Binyavanga Wainaina, 'How to write about Africa' in Granta (2005), pp.391 - 395

Idza Luhumyo, 'Five Years Next Sunday' (2021)

Rudyard Kipling, 'The White Man's Burden' (1899)

Lingua Franca fra 'The English Handbook'

Joshua Idehen, 'Naija Brit' (2016) (Gyldendals Engelskportal)


Antal ns: Ca. 25
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 16 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 10 Gender

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course introduces the terms "sex" and "gender" and focuses on the link between gender and identity. The texts in this course examine male and female stereotypes and discuss how these stereotypes can be challenged.


Big Think, Berkeley professor explains gender theory | Judith Butler (2023)

William Shakespeare, 'Sonnet 130' (1609)

William Shakespeare, excerpts from Macbeth (1606), act 1, scene 5

Joel Coen, The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)

Emma Watson, 'Gender equality is your issue too' (2014)
Indhold
Kernestof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
3a ENA skr. prøve 04-02-2025
Genaflevering af terminsprøve 28-02-2025
Written assignment 4 12-03-2025
Written test 4 26-03-2025
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 15 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 11 Man and Nature

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This topic focuses on man's relationship with nature in both a modern and historical context. In the beginning of the topic, we are going to focus on climate change and the individual's emotional responses to the changes happening in nature and how climate change can cause e.g. anxiety and pessimism.

The modern texts on climate change will form contrasts to texts from the Romantic Age century where nature is seen as a place to comfort. We are going to look at Romanticism as a literary movement and the role of nature in Wordsworth's poetry.

Fra læreplanen: Du skal kunne…

– gøre rede for indhold, synspunkter og stilforskelle i forskellige typer engelsksprogede tekster
– analysere og fortolke forskellige nyere og ældre teksttyper med anvendelse af faglig terminologi
– perspektivere det givne materiale litteraturhistorisk [og] kulturelt [samt kende til] væsentlige strømninger i britisk litteraturhistorie

TEXTS

Jonathan Franzen, excerpt from "What if Stopped Pretending" (2019)
Helen Philips, "The Disaster Store" (2019)
Pia Rørkær Sigh and Niels Randbo Back, 'The Romantic Age' i Through Literary Landscapes (2023)
William Wordsworth, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (1804)
William Blake, 'The Chimney Sweeper' (1789)

Supplerende stof:

Podcast om romantikken
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0kwu1FghS2nEfulnaQDJT9
Quizlet https://quizlet.com/dk/446337570/poetry-flash-cards/

Antal ns: Ca. 20
Indhold
Kernestof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Written test 5 25-04-2025
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 11 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer