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Undervisningsbeskrivelse

Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin(er) 2022/23 - 2024/25
Institution Odense Katedralskole
Fag og niveau Engelsk A
Lærer(e) Torben Christiansen
Hold 2022 EN/a (1a EN, 2a EN, 3a EN)
Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 Who am I?
Titel 2 Dystopian fiction
Titel 3 Sports and social issues
Titel 4 True Crime
Titel 5 Short stories and essay writing
Titel 6 Australia (EXAM)
Titel 7 SRO
Titel 8 Rebels and dreamers: The Romantic Age (EXAM)
Titel 9 The death penalty
Titel 10 Divided Kingdom
Titel 11 US Presidential Election (EXAM)
Titel 12 Gender (EXAM)
Titel 13 Shakespeare and love (EXAM)
Titel 14 Of Mice and Men
Titel 15 Repetition og eksamen

Beskrivelse af de enkelte undervisningsforløb (1 skema for hvert forløb)
Titel 1 Who am I?

The texts for this theme deal with becoming who we are. What factors influence personality? The people you are going to read about tell us about events, beliefs, challenges and choices that formed their personalities. They're not famous, they're not geniuses, they're not unique - they are, in many ways, just like you and me. But their stories of how they became THEM might make you think about what makes you YOU.

Theme overview:
- speaking English with your classmates
- expressing your thoughts and opinions about your own life choices and dreams
- analyzing non-fiction texts
- using your knowledge about English grammar to analyza the language and stile of texts
- reflecting on life and career choices

Primary readings:
- "As a black, deaf student"
- "How I found my vocation"
- "Now I'm an Oxford student"

Samlet omfang: ca. 35 sider
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 7,00 moduler
Dækker over: 7 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 2 Dystopian fiction

For this theme we will explore the genre of dystopian fiction, a genre that has become immensely popular in recent years.

After taking a closer look at main characteristics of the genre, we will study a number of texts that explore various dystopian themes and look at the appeal of the genre for modern readers.

Objectives
- to become familiar with the concepts of utopia and dystopia
- to analyze and interpret a selection of texts that explore various dystopian themes
- to understand the popularity of the genre
- to study traditional American values and beliefs
- to learn key vocabulary such as utopia, dystopia, Big Brother, surveillance, totalitarian, dehumanization, ideology, free will, propaganda, etc.

Readings – non-fiction:
- An introduction to dystopian fiction (PowerPoint)
- A video summary of George Orwell’s novel '1984'
- "George Orwell expert on Donald Trump"
- The appeal of dystopian fiction to modern readers

Readings – fiction:
- Josh Gibbens: “Dystopia” https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/dystopia-2/
- “The Handmaid's tale” (season 1, episode 1)
- Henry Slezar: “Examination day”
- George Orwell: an extract from his novel '1984'
- Blackout (podcast series, season 1)

Samlet omfang: ca. 55 sider
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 12,00 moduler
Dækker over: 16 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 3 Sports and social issues

Goals:
- Studying the interplay between sports and society in three case studies: 1) The taking a knee movement, 2) Equal pay in sports, and 3) The 2022 World Cup in Qatar
- Describing the grammar and style of fiction and nonfiction texts using relevant analytical terms
- Analyzing and interpreting fiction and nonfiction texts that explore contemporary social issues such as discrimination due to race and gender
- Discussing and reflecting upon these issues

Course materials:

“Colin Kaepernick kneeling timeline: How protests during the national anthem started a movement in the NFL” on sportingnews.com (Sep 13, 2020)

"Race in America today" (extract from 'Black Voices', Systime 2022)

Colin in Black & White (TV mini Series 2021, episodes 1-3)

"Historic Win for Women's Equality in Sports" (commerce. senate.gov, Dec. 22, 2022)

“Soccer Star Megan Rapinoe On Equal Pay, And What The U.S. Flag Means To Her” on npr.org (Nov 9, 2020)

"U.S. Soccer Says Women Don't Deserve Equal Pay Because They Have Less Skill" (Forbes.com, March 11, 2020)

"Tennis has the smallest gender pay gap in sports, but campaign to close it continues" (Dailymail.co.uk, July 10, 2022)

“England should BOYCOTT World Cup and FIFA, says football legend Matt Le Tissier” on gbnews.uk (Nov 22, 2022)

“Sportswashing Is Everywhere, but It’s Not New” on si.com (Dec 29, 2022)

Samlet omfang: ca. 40 sider
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 8,00 moduler
Dækker over: 7 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 4 True Crime

Objectives
- Gaining an insight into to the true crime genre and its distinctive features
- Gaining an insight into narrative journalism and its distinctive features
- Studying the use of “fictional techniques” in “factual works”
- Discussing the ethics of true crime

Part I: Introduction and recent true crime shows

“True Crime” (introductory text from Narrating Truth, 2021)

Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story S01E01 (Netflix, 2022)

Serial S01E+1 (podcast from 2014)

“Why Americans are so fascinated with serial killers” https://www.history.com/news/why-americans-are-so-fascinated-by-serial-killers

Part II: The ethics of true crime

“Mother of Dahmer victim condemns Netflix series: ‘I don’t see how they can do that.’” (theguardian.com, October 2022)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/10/dahmer-victim-tony-hughes-mother-condemns-netflix-series

“Adnan Syed walks free: how 'Serial' changed the game for true crime podcasts” (euronews.com, September 2022 )
https://www.euronews.com/culture/2022/09/20/adnan-syed-walks-free-how-serial-changed-the-game-for-true-crime-podcasts

“Where are the victims? The ethics of true crime” (The Ethics Centre, 2023)
https://ethics.org.au/where-are-the-victims-the-ethics-of-true-crime
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Samlet omfang: ca. 35 sider


HJÆLPEMIDLER:
Vi har i undervisningen benyttet følgende online hjælpemidler:
www.ordbogen.com
www.minlæring.dk
www.oxforddictionaries.com
www.thesaurus.com
https://www.macmillandictionary.com/
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/

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Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 14,00 moduler
Dækker over: 16 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 5 Short stories and essay writing

Short stories:
- A.N. Forde: "The Silk-Cotton Tree" (1965)
- Tyler Keevil: "Night start" (2014)
- Sony C. Dodd: "In an instant" (2013)

Essay writing:
- how to write an introduction and a thesis statement
- the structure of an analytical essay
- using analytical terms

Samlet omfang: ca. 25 sider
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 12,00 moduler
Dækker over: 18 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 6 Australia (EXAM)

Introduction:
“A very brief introduction to a very large country” (pp. 8-18, 20-22)

Part 1: Nature’s gift:
• Peter Dodds McCormick, Advance Australia Fair (national anthem, 1878)
• Ian Mudie: “This Land” (1935)
• “Surviving 24 hours in the Most Dangerous Place in AUSTRALIA! (Outback)” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uzg-9eXo8Dc
• Bill Bryson: “In a Sunburned Country” (2000) (travel literature, excerpt)
• Jodie Rummer: “Are we really prepared to lose this natural wonder?” (2022) (opinion piece)

Part 2: In history’s page:
• Kevin Rudd’s “Sorry speech” (2008)
• “John Howard has criticised Kevin Rudd's 2008 apology to the Stolen Generations” (article)
• YouTube video introduction to Ned Kelly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYiHuNqlhkg
• Phil Mercer: “Ned Kelly: The outlaw who divides a nation” (2013) (article)
• Sidney Nolan Ned Kelly (1946, painting)

Part 3: One and free?
• Phylisa Wisdom: "Cultural Appropriation in Food" (2016)
• “Australians decide against creating an Indigenous Voice to advise Parliament on minority issues” (AP News, 2023)

Samlet omfang: ca. 55 sider
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 11,00 moduler
Dækker over: 14 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 7 SRO

SRO om eventyr:

Baggrundsmateriale:
- Diverse tekster om eventyrgenren og dens fascination samt strukturalismen.

Primærtekster:
- Rosemary Lake: "The prince in the ivy tower"
- 'Joker' (film)

Samlet omfang: ca. 35 sider
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 8,00 moduler
Dækker over: 4 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 8 Rebels and dreamers: The Romantic Age (EXAM)

Objectives:
- Working with canonical first-generation and second-generation romantic poets
- Drawing parallels to American transcendentalism
- Exploring how representations of people and culture in literary texts are drawn from historical, social, and cultural contexts
- Discussing and reflecting on the relevance of romantic poets to a modern audience
- Reading and analyzing poetry and becoming familiar with terms such as rhyme, meter, free verse, sonnet, etc.

The Romantic Age in England - background:
- "The Romantic Age in England - characteristics"
- BBC documentary: The Romantics (the first 19 minutes of the episode “Nature”, focusing primarily on William Blake)
- A brief introduction to William Wordsworth and extracts from the preface to 'Lyrical Ballads' (1800)

The Romantic Age in England - poems:
- William Blake: “Nurse’s song” (1789) (from Songs of Innocence)
- William Blake: “Nurse’s song” (1794) (from Songs of Experience)
- William Blake: “London” (1794) (from Songs of Experience)
- William Wordsworth: "My heart leaps up" ()
- William Wordsworth: “I wandered lonely as a cloud” ()
- Lord Byron: “She walks in Beauty” (1814)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley: “England in 1819” (1819)

Drawing parallels to American Transcendentalism and the movie 'Dead Poets Society''
- A short introduction to American Transcendentalism
- Henry David Thoreau: Walden (excerpt) (1854)
- 'Dead Poets Society' (movie, 1989)

Samlet omfang: ca. 60 sider
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 12,00 moduler
Dækker over: 15 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 9 The death penalty

Et kort forløb med fokus på dødstraf.

Samlet omfang: ca. 25 sider
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 7,00 moduler
Dækker over: 11 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 10 Divided Kingdom

Divided Kingdom

Having studied this theme, you should be able to:
• describe the general development in immigration to Britain since the Second World War
• describe British views on immigration since the Second World War
• analyze the consequences of legislation and government policies regarding immigration to the UK using examples
• describe how issues of immigration, multiculturalism, and integration have figured in political debates before and after Brexit
• describe the reasons for Brexit and its consequences
• explain the causes and consequences of the so-called "Windrush scandal"
• discuss institutional racism and racial inequalities in the UK.
• outline the economic and social situation in contemporary Britain
• explain why the United Kingdom (UK) is a relatively unequal country
• relate the theme to Charles Dickens

Texts

“Explainer: Why are there riots in the UK and who is behind them?” (News article by Reuters,
August 7, 2024)

Short introduction to the British empire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm9NlYfjqXw&ab_channel=WatchMojo.com

“Immigration and integration: a multicultural Britain?” in UK NOW: (pp. 119-153)
- Chapter 10: “The empire comes home: Immigration to Britain after the second world war”
- Chapter 11: “Brexit, immigration and integration”

John Agard: “Remember the ship”, 1998

Enoch Powell’s “Rivers of blood” speech, 1968 (excerpt)

Steve McQueen: Education, 2020 (film)

How is superdiversity changing how we belong?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYXrwcW-1Vc&ab_channel=MigrationMatters

“Economy and welfare – a broken society?” in UK NOW: (pp. 101-118)
- Chapter 9: “Economy and Welfare in Post-Brexit Britain”

An introduction to Charles Dickens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9dB9BZWDBU&ab_channel=TheSchoolofLife

Short Youtube clips from film adaptations of 'Hard Times' and 'Oliver Twist'

Charles Dickens: A tale of two cities, 1859 (short excerpt)

“Anti-British Broadcasting Corporation! BBC Claims Dickensian Poverty Has ‘Parallels’ With Today” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh1-68J8ww0&ab_channel=TalkTV

Labour Party 2024 Manifesto (excerpts):
https://labour.org.uk/updates/stories/labour-manifesto-2024-sign-up/

Zadie Smith: Fences: A Brexit Diary, 2016 (excerpt)

Samlet omfang: ca. 70 sider
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 18,00 moduler
Dækker over: 20 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 11 US Presidential Election (EXAM)

Forløb om valget med fokus på a) det politiske system, b) abortion og c) the war on woke

Part 1: introduction / background:

“How the system works” (Ch.1 in Election Year, 2024) (a short introduction to political institutions, checks and balances, elections in the US, the electoral college, the two-party system, swing states, Gerrymandering, parties, and voters)

“Democracy under pressure” (pp. 23-27 in Election Year, 2024)

Fire supplerende YouTube-videoer til cp.1:

“The Electoral College – explained”: (CBS News)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbrt0Sfjo5I&ab_channel=CBSNews

“The three Branches of Government and checks and balances”: (Lincoln Learning Solutions)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=HSconP2Hpp0&ab_channel=LincolnLearningSolutions

“Why can’t third parties take off?” (The Atlantic)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=gJTPPxF3xRI&ab_channel=TheAtlantic

"Gerrymandering: How drawing jagged lines can impact an election" (Ted-Ed)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=YcUDBgYodIE&ab_channel=TED-Ed


Part 2: Abortion

“Abortion” (pp. 105-109 in Election Year, 2024)

“Trump is consistently inconsistent on abortion and reproductive rights” (article, Oct. 17, 2024)

“High School Valedictorian Swaps Speech to Speak Out Against Texas' New Abortion Law” (article, June 3, 2019)

“Valedictorian Paxton Smith Abortion Rights Speech” (June 2, 2021)

"Nikki Haley's policy speech on abortion rights" (April 25, 2023)

Part 3: The War on Woke

“The War on Woke / wokeness in the US” (pp. 140-143 in Election Year, 2024)

“Ron DeSantis speaks at Iowa ‘Roast and ride’ event” (June 3, 2023)

“Remarks by Vice President Harris on the Florida State Board of Education Curriculum Updates” (July 21, 2023)

Marriage of Inconvenience (a short film by Frankling Jin Rho)

Samlet omfang: ca. 40 sider
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 12,00 moduler
Dækker over: 16 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 12 Gender (EXAM)

Objectives:
• reading and analyzing texts that address the common notion that some characteristics (e.g. personality and sexual orientation) are specifically feminine and some characteristics are specifically masculine
• working with texts that invite reflection and discussion
• learning key terms and definitions, such as discourse, queer theory, feminism, deviant behavior, gender performativity, toxic masculinity, gender binary (adjective), framework, etc.

Materials:
o “Gender is a set of repeated acts. Gender is performative” (theory, Judith Butler)
o "Bourdieu: A sense of one's place"
o Olivia Douglass: “Ink” (short story 2022)
o Justin Torres: We the animals (novel from 2011)

Samlet omfang: ca. 70 sider
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 16,00 moduler
Dækker over: 15 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 13 Shakespeare and love (EXAM)

Shakespeare and Love - theme description

For this theme, we will study the portrayal of love in works by Shakespeare. Our main focus will be 'Romeo and Juliet', with detours to 'Macbeth' and sonnets 18 and 130.

Secondary readings:
An introduction to the life and times of Shakespeare
An introduction to Shakespearean tragedy
The language of Shakespeare
Sound features and the characteristics of the Shakespearean sonnet
The Elizabethan worldview
Shakespearean idioms in use

Romeo and Juliet:
Video summary (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRrvQ1vZxcg&t=328s)
Love at first sonnet: https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/shak15.ela.lit.meeting/love-at-first-sonnet-romeo-and-juliet-meet  
The prologue
Act 1, scene 5 (extract with the shared sonnet)
Act 2, scene 2 (extract with the balcony scene)
Act 5, scene 3 (extract from the churchyard scene)

Shakespearean sonnets:
Sonnet 18 - Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day
Sonnet 130 – My mistress’ eyes are Nothing Like The Sun

Macbeth:
Act 1, scene 5: Unsex me scene
David Tennant & Cush Jumbos adaptation of Macbeth

Forløbet afsluttes med en skriftlig evaluering.

Samlet omfang: ca. 50 sider
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 12,00 moduler
Dækker over: 13 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer