Holdet 2023 EnB/k - Undervisningsbeskrivelse

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Undervisningsbeskrivelse

Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin(er) 2023/24 - 2024/25
Institution Rungsted Gymnasium
Fag og niveau Engelsk B
Lærer(e) Maria Ahmed, Peter Sithamparanathan
Hold 2023 EnB/k (1k EnB, 2k EnB)
Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 EXAM TOPIC Dystopia
Titel 2 EXAM TOPIC: South Africa
Titel 3 Evil - The Inherent Dualism in Man
Titel 4 Climate Action – Challenges of Change
Titel 5 American Identity and Election
Titel 6 EXAM TOPIC: Conspiracy Theories
Titel 7 English literature in Greece
Titel 8 EXAM TOPIC: Horror
Titel 9 EXAM TOPIC: Dystopia

Beskrivelse af de enkelte undervisningsforløb (1 skema for hvert forløb)
Titel 1 EXAM TOPIC Dystopia

In this course we will take a close look at the concept of dystopia or a dystopian society,  which describes an imaginary place, state, or society in which the condition of life is extremely bad, as from deprivation, oppression, or terror. It is the opposite of a utopia. During the course we will read excerpts from novels, which concern dystopian societies. The purpose of the course is to train the students in textual analysis, genre consciousness, and the analysis of movies.  


Course Material:

Collins, Suzanne, The Hunger Games, 2008 (Excerpts from chp. 1)
Roth, Veronica, Divergent, 2011 (Chp. 1)  
Orwell, George, Animal Farm, 1945
Movie: The Hunger Games (2012)



Keywords:
Dystopia, utopia, totalitarian regime...


App. 150 pp.



Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 12 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 2 EXAM TOPIC: South Africa

Course Objectives:
The students will be introduced to South Africa historically, culturally, and politically. We will read different genres, where the focus will mainly lie on Apartheid, Mandela’s role/importance for the country, and the reaction to his death in 2013. Throughout the course we will work with documentary, non-fiction, as well as fiction about historical and current topics regarding South Africa.


Content:  
South Africa’s history
Apartheid
Mandela's role/importance
Rethorical analysis, Toulmin’s model of argumentation, Poetry analysis, literary analysis.   


Material:  
- Excerpts from: Long Walk to Freedom   
- Maya Angelou: His Day is Done
- Article from The New Yorker: A Letter to Madiba (André Brink)  
- Article from The Guardian: Follow Mandela’s example, and roar with laughter at all this rightwing fawning (Marina Hyde)
- Nelson Mandela’s speech 1963
- Documentary/Film on Mandela  

App. 40 pp.
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 15 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 3 Evil - The Inherent Dualism in Man

I dette forløb stifter eleverne bekendtskab med begrebet ondskab og gennem forskellige tekster, både fiktion og sagprosa, diskuteres hvad ondskab er, hvor den kommer fra, og hvordan den kommer til udtryk. Forløbet centreres omkring en blog, som visuelt understøtter og skriftligt introducerer til de forskellige emner, tekster og film, som berører og omhandler ondskab. Blogformatet er valgt for at skabe gennemsigtighed og overblik – eleverne kan se, hvad de skal, og hvad forløbet indebærer fra start til slut.
I forløbet har vi fokus på sprogproduktion, sagprosa – og fiktionsanalyse samt integrering af grammatik i den daglige gennemgang af tekster. Der lægges desuden vægt på opbygning og anvendelse af ordforråd, herunder svære fagtermer og begreber, som forsøges anvendt i det daglige arbejde med tekster og i klassediskussioner.
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 7 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 4 Climate Action – Challenges of Change

The focus of this course is to enhance the students' understanding of the climate crisis and its influence on mankind and society and hereby give them the opportunity to reflect on the matter. During the course we will practice language proficiency and different analytical methods.


Core material:
- NASA: The Effects of Climate Change
- Naomi Klein: The Radicalizing Power of Climate Change (2019)
- Helen Simpson: In-Flight Entertainment (2010)
- Jonathan Franzen: What if we stopped pretending  (2019)
- Movie: Don't Look Up (2021)



App. 50 pp.
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 10 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 5 American Identity and Election

We are going to investigate what it means to be American and what values and rights they assign importance to. We will do this by looking into a  few contemporary issues (gun rights and abortion), and focus on the election, and analyse speeches, practise non-fiction analysis mostly, but also some fiction analysis.
we practives debating and writing and structure of analytical essays.

Grammatical focus:
Kongruens
Udvidet tid
Aktiv vs passiv stemme
De forskellige tider, før nutid, før datid, simpel nutid, udvidet nutid, fremtid

Central texts:
- Obama's DNS spech
- OP: My fellow Republicans, Stop the Trash Talk
- debate between Harris and Trump
- https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/biographies.aspx
- https://www.axios.com/2019/06/01/supreme-court-justices-ideology
- https://www.npr.org/2022/06/24/1102305878/supreme-court-abortion-roe-v-wade-decision-overturn
- etc.
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 22 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 6 EXAM TOPIC: Conspiracy Theories

COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course introduced the students to the topic of conspiracy theories, along some famous conspiracy theories they had to present themselves. We focused a lot on the mock conpiracy theory "Birds aren't real" and its purpose. This course mainly focused on non-fiction texts and analysis of these, including videos from comedy talk shows and movies.  

A 5-paragraph essay was written on an article about the Birds aren't Real movement.

CENTRAL TERMS:
Conspiracy theory/theorist
Disinformation vs. misinformation
Confirmation bias
Critical thinking
Media literacy
Echo chamber
Scepticism/sceptic
Propaganda
Fake news
Hoax
Paranoia
To debunk/to discredit
Hearsay
Occam's Razor

GRAMMATICAL FOCUS:
tællelige og utællelige substantiver, kollektiver

CENTRAL TEXTS:
Articles:
"Donald Trump and the Amazing Alex Jones"
"Conspiracy theories are dangerous, even if they don't affect behaviour"
"Birds Aren't Real, or are They?"
website: https://birdsarentreal.com/
Videos:
Obamagate (Daily Show)
Movie:
Don't Look up (2021)
The hunt (2020)
Indhold
Kernestof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Ass. 2 - MAGA (Fiction) 04-12-2024
Ass. 3 - Birds Aren't Real! (non-fiction) 22-01-2025
Assignment 4 - conspiracy video 24-02-2025
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 18 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 7 English literature in Greece

Forløbet er bundet op på vores studietur til Athen. Vi vil udforske digtere som Lord Byron og John Keats. Eleverne introduceres til den romantiske periode og genren i litteratur. Vi læser digtene:
To Autumn
On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
Ode on a Grecian Urn

Eleverne har også selv skrevet digte i den romantiske form.

Grammatik:
forskellige typer af pronominer
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 10 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 8 EXAM TOPIC: Horror

COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course introduced the students to the horror genre, and Sigmund Freud's theory about the id, ego, and superego. The horror genre usually mirrors one or more of the following: human psyche, human nature, and society. This topic focused mostly on fiction texts and fiction analysis, and also focused on the ability to interpret a text and relate it to the topic.
An oral mock exam was also conducted to practise for the oral exam.

CENTRAL TERMS
Freud's, personality theory
ego, is, superego
horror as a mirror of human psyche
horror as a mirror of human nature
horror as a mirror of society
(various horror elements)

GRAMMATICAL FOCUS:
indefinitte pronominer
relative pronominer

CENTRAL TEXTS:
"An introduction to Horror"
"Theory about Freud's Id, Ego, and Superego"
"Horror elements"
"Button, Button", (1970) Richard Matheson
The Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe

Black Mirror: white bear + several episodes from love, death and robots
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 7 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 9 EXAM TOPIC: Dystopia

COURSE DESCRIPTION
Students are introduced to the dystopian fiction genre and its characteristics. They are introduced to various texts and do close-readings and analyse/interpret. They have writing exercises and interpret various texts, and relate it to real-world dilemmas.

CENTRAL TERMS
utopia/dystopia
propaganda
surveillance
dehumanisation
illusion of utopia
Corporate/Bureaucratic/technological/philosophical/religious control
Totalitarianism
conformity etc.


GRAMMATICAL FOCUS
do-omskrivning
pronominer
adjektiver/adverbier

CENTRAL TEXTS
Dystopias: definition and characteristics
The Hunger Games, chapter 1
1984 (excerpt)
Once Upon a time, Nadine Gordimer
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

Black Mirror episode: white bear
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 9 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer