Holdet 2022 EN/m - Undervisningsbeskrivelse

Undervisningsbeskrivelse

Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin(er) 2022/23 - 2024/25
Institution Egedal Gymnasium & HF
Fag og niveau Engelsk A
Lærer(e) David Groth Vingaard
Hold 2022 EN/m (1m EN, 2m EN, 3m EN)

Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 TRUE CRIME
Titel 2 LOVE
Titel 3 INEQUALITY
Titel 4 SEX & GENDER
Titel 5 BOOK CIRCLES
Titel 6 US Guns
Titel 7 Horror
Titel 8 Book Circles
Titel 9 London - Migrant City
Titel 10 HEROES
Titel 11 Sci-Fi or Addiction...?
Titel 12 NATURE
Titel 13 US Elections & politics
Titel 14 Postmodernism
Titel 15 EMPIRE
Titel 16 Forløb#1
Titel 17 Forløb#2

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

This course focuses on the media literacy aspect of true crime: the storytelling, sensationalism and manipulation of emotions that is at the heart of this genre. We will continually ask ourselves whether the information we are presented to in these non-fiction materials belong in the realm of education, edutainment or entertainment.

Materials: (in excerpts unless otherwise indicated)

Podcasts:
Your Own Backyard: Ep. 1: A Face on a Billboard (/Chris Lambert)
My Favorite Murder: Ep. 1: My Firstest Murder (Kilgariff & Hardstark)

TV Mini-series (Netflix):
Night Stalker: Ep. 1: "Devil in the City of Angels" (00.00-22.20)
Night Stalker:4: "Manhunt" (00.00-28.50)

Articles (extant):
The Sun: "WORST NIGHTMARE Family's heartbreaking..." (13/12 2022)
Huffpost: "This is Your Brain on True Crime Stories" (5/4 2018)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 10,00 moduler
Dækker over: 10 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 2 LOVE

During this course we'll focus on various kinds of love: the media mythologized kinds (our somewhat one-sided and certainly romantic ideals), to Marlowe's pre-romantic notions of love tied to nature's beauty and a series of song lyrics depicting aspects of different stages of modern love. Also included is the modernist and sentimentalist Auden's loving farewell to his love.

The course focuses primarily on how genres differ and how they tend to tell different kinds of stories and it is supposed to tie in with a subsequent course on sex, sexuality and gender.  

Margaret Atwood: "Happy Endings" (novel)
Ed Sheeran: "Shape of You" (lyrics)
Taylor Swift: "Lover" (lyrics)
Gotye: Somebody that I used to know" (lyrics)
Beyoncé: "Halo" (lyrics)
Taylor Swift: "Love Story" (lyrics)
Christopher Marlowe: "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"
W. H Auden: "Stop All the Clocks" / "Funeral Blues"
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 8,00 moduler
Dækker over: 8 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 3 INEQUALITY

Forløbet er et fællesfagligt forløb (FF1) der skal bevidstgøre eleverne om hvordan man arbejder tværfagligt med fokus på fagenes forskellige tilgange til et emne og forskellige metoder. I forløbet arbejdede eleverne med matematik i kombination med engelsk og der var især fokus på GINI-koefficienten i matematik og på forskellige mediers vinkling og politiske ståsteder og hvordan disse passede sammen, men også med et blik for forskellige typer ulighed og forskelle mellem USA og UK.

Wall Street Journal: "Wage Inequality May Be Starting to Reverse" (2022)
Mailonline: "Richest 1 percent in UK including Sir James Dyson..." (2023)
The Guardian: "Look at how the 1 percent are doing right now" (2023)
CNN: "Inequality is an undeniable fact in America" (2019)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 8,00 moduler
Dækker over: 3 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 4 SEX & GENDER

The course spans a wide range of areas: love, sex and sexuality, gender (as identity and expression), sexual orientation and variations and also the underlying issue of biological sex (comprising the sex binary and intersex).

Firstly, the course deals with myths regarding sex and the culture and taboos surrounding especially teenage experiences of sex. Secondly, the course deals with the biology of sex and the identities, roles and expressions of gender and lastly some insights into various sexual orientations.

Texts:
Susannah Temko: "What it means to be intersex" (TED Talk)
Cosmopolitan: "Your Every-thing-to-know Guide on Sex, Gender and Sexuality"
Huffington Post: "Training to be Batman's Wife"
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 15,00 moduler
Dækker over: 14 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 5 BOOK CIRCLES

Forløbet er et forløb egentlig med overskriften "literary circles" hvor eleverne læser et værk i grupper og skiftes til at indtage forskellige obligatoriske og valgfrie roller. Udover disse har de hver gang et aftalt tekststykke der skal læses og skal desuden agere "passage pickers".
Der lægges løbende produkter op i Teams-mapper som indgår i en dialog med læreren og andre grupper.
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 11,00 moduler
Dækker over: 10 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 6 US Guns

This course examines American gun politics with an emphasis on the role of the Constitution and the 2nd amendment (and the main ideas of the Bill of Rights). It also attempts to bring some attention to the structure of the Federal Government and current and past organizations that influence and have influenced American gun politics: the Brady Campaign and the NRA, mainly and in the process point to left and right-wing politics and media.

At the centre of the course, however, stands Michael Moore's now classic documentary: Bowling for Columbine.

Texts:
"A Call to Arms: Renewing America" ("Columbine and Beyond", pp. 107-110)
"Professor Harry Glassner..." ("Columbine and Beyond")
Documentary: Michael Moore: "Bowling for Columbine" (2002)
"The Brady Campaign" (pp. 88-92 in "Columbine and Beyond")
Webpage: "What is the 2nd Amendment and How is it Defined" (NRA-ILA)
"The Second Amendment Explained" (PBS, 2018)

Additional materials:
Video: The Daily Show: Gun Control Whoop-de-doo (ft. John Oliver) (I-III)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 12,00 moduler
Dækker over: 12 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 7 Horror

This course examines horror mainly through 5 theories about the genre's functions and origins: the psychological theory, the cultural theory, the biological theory, the postmodern (or apocalyptical) theory and finally, the cosmic horror theory. The course's core terminology focuses on the uncanny, the slasher movie and its final girl, body horror and Stephen King's anti-civilisation emotions. There is also mention of Kristeva's "the abject" and King's three kinds of horror: the gross-out (akin to body horror), the horror (the unnatural) and terror (home invasion or replacement). And of course the horror monster as a reflection of cultural fears.

Texts:
Short story: Stephen King: "The Boogeyman" (1973)
Article: Stephen King: "Why We Crave Horror Movies" (Playboy, 1982)
Film: Diablo Cody & Karyn Kusama: "Jennifer's Body" (2009)
Podcast: The Faculty of Horror: "Episode 3: Jennifer's Body" (2014)
Short story: Neil Gaiman: "Click Clack the Rattle Bag" (2012)
TED Talk/Louise Zhang: "What horror monsters can tell us about ourselves"
Excerpt from novel: Max Brooks: "World War Z" / "Patient Zero" (2006)
Short short story: R.C. Matheson: "Making Cabinets" (2006)


Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 15,00 moduler
Dækker over: 16 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 8 Book Circles

This course is special in the sense that the students will read books of their own choosing in groups of four (and one of five). The structure for each lesson is the same, however: they take turns completing task: summarizer, discussion leader, word wizard and analyzer (grammarian or stylist). Each role has specific instructions:

The Summarizer
Product: a 150-250 word summary of the read passage. In the book circle, he or she reads the summary out to the rest of the group, then asks them if there's something missing. To keep the rest of the group on their toes, one relatively important event must be left out for the group to find!

The Discussion Leader
Product: 4-6 questions for the group to discuss. The questions should have to do with the section of our book you just read and should be interesting and open-ended. In the book circle, after you've read out loud: take down notes on the answers you get from your group.

The Word Wizard
Product: a list of ten difficult words from the section you read, including page and line references. Remember: you have to find the right definition according to the context, so you have to include the context (the whole sentences) to each word. When you meet with your group: First, share the challenging word you found. Show them where it is in the story. Then,
have each person try to predict the definition. After everyone has shared their definitions, you can tell them the real meaning of the word.

The Analyst (themes, grammar or style)
Product: 3 suggestions for specific themes, grammar examples and literary style (in total): in other words: for each of the three categories (themes, grammar and style), find a noteworthy example and describe it in at least 30-50 words.

At the end of the work, each group must produce a podcast episode in which at least two members of the group discuss the book they read.


Also, each member of each group must pick a passage from the part they read for that specific book circle (including a page and line number reference and 3-5 lines describing why they picked that passage).
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 11,00 moduler
Dækker over: 15 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 9 London - Migrant City

Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 10,00 moduler
Dækker over: 11 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 10 HEROES

Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 7,00 moduler
Dækker over: 13 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 11 Sci-Fi or Addiction...?

Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 7,00 moduler
Dækker over: 7 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 12 NATURE

This course deals with a number of texts from various genres and literary periods, beginning with British Romanticism (Blake, Wordsworth and Shelley) and continuing through literary history with a few stops along the way.

The course will focus on man's relation(s) to nature: from idealization and glorification to exploitation and indifference or ignorance. The main genre focus will be on poetry analysis and literary devices.

Core texts/texts read:
William Blake: "The Ecchoing Green" (1789)
William Blake: "London" (1794)
William Wordsworth: "The Tables Turned" (1798)
Percy Bysshe Shelley: "To A Skylark" (1820) (Poem)
Emily Dickinson: "Nature rarer uses yellow", "'Nature' is what we see", "The murmur of a bee", "A bird, came down the walk", "A narrow fellow in the grass" and "To make a prairie". (ca. 1890)
Ray Bradbury: "A Sound of Thunder" (1953) (Short story)
Eric Hoffer: "Nature and the City" (1968) (Essay)
Jon Krakauer: "Into the Wild" (1992) (excerpt)
William Wordsworth: “Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802)
Charles Dickens: Hard Times/”Coketown” (excerpt) (1854)
Ian McEwan: “The Hot Breath of Our Civilisation” (2005)

Movie excerpts from Sean Penn's 2005 movie adaption of "Into the Wild"
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 16,00 moduler
Dækker over: 14 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 13 US Elections & politics

Forløbet undersøger en række emner indenfor overemnet "US Elections & Politics" i anledning af valget i 2024 mellem Kamala Harris og Donald Trump. Først beskæftigede vi os med en række emner og øvelser (stande) der ledte frem til og blev afviklet på skolens fælles valgaften (herunder "Abortion", "Photo ops", "Election celebrities", "Trump quotes", "Foreign Policy" og meget andet).  

Forløbet inddrog også mere generelle ting om den Amerikanske politiske struktur (tredelingen af magten og valgsystemet især) udover de specifikke emner der var del af valgkampen (abort, økonomi og immigration hovedsagligt). Efter valget arbejdede vi også med Trumps udvælgelser til centrale stillinger i den kommende administration (appointments).

Fokuspunkter (analyse):
Den retoriske pentagon (afsender-modtager, kontekst, sprog, emne og intention) og "news style analysis" (headline, byline, standfirst/kicker, etc.), bias (left-right/Conservative-Progressive)

Grammatik:
Adjektivernes bøjning, pronominer

Materialer:
"At Dueling Rallies, Harris Stresses Unity as Trump Attacks Biden’s ‘Garbage’ Remark" (af Nehamas, Epstein, Swan og Medina, The New York Times, 30. okt. 2024)
"Harris formally concedes one day after Trump's sweeping victory" (Paul Steinhauser, Fox News, 6. Nov. 2024)
"America Did This to Itself" (af George T. Conway III, The Atlantic, 6. Nov. 2024)
Uddrag fra artikler om Trumps udnævnelser (bl.a. New York Magazine, ABC, Fox og AP).
"Nine Months Later" (This American Life, ep. 795, 7. april, 2023)
"Donald Trump pulled off the ultimate comeback. See how we got here" (af Michael Williams, CNN, 7. nov., 2024)
"What A U.S. Economy Under Trump Will Look Like" (af Carlos Waters, CNBC, 9. Nov. 2024) (Youtube/Video)

Links:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/30/us/politics/harris-biden-garbage-trump-supporters.html
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/harris-gives-concession-speech-one-day-after-trumps-sweeping-victory?msockid=2b788d1fed7a61900c1e9960ec1160a4
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/11/trump-election-presidential-term/680562/
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/795/nine-months-later
https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2024/11/politics/trump-election-comeback-cnnphotos/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G-vTV9SVW4&t=352s
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 17,00 moduler
Dækker over: 19 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 14 Postmodernism

Forløbet dækker kort en række centrale postmoderne tanker: om forbrugersamfundet (consumerism), ironi, intertekstualitet (allusions & references), metafiktion og arbejdskultur. Vægten i forløbet er på den Nordamerikanske reaktion på den kapitalistiske livsstil.

Kernetekster:
Daniel Orozco: "Orientation" (short story, 1994)
Bret Easton Ellis: "Tuesday" (excerpt from the novel American Psycho, 1991)
Douglas Coupland: "Quit your job" (excerpt from the novel Generation X, 1991)
Dave Eggers: "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" (excerpt) (2000)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 14,00 moduler
Dækker over: 13 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 15 EMPIRE

Dette korte forløb optegner kort især det Britiske imperiums tidligere stadier og storhedstid, men berører også kort vejen mod et mere ambivalent forhold til imperiet og dets efter-koloniale effekter (i Indien). Forholdet mellem kolonisterne og de kolonialiserede er centralt, og skæve magtforhold samt forskellige former for racisme og magtmisbrug undersøges.

Kernetekster:
William Shakespeare: The Tempest, Act 1, Scene 2, ll. 320-376 (1611)
Rudyard Kipling: The White Man’s Burden (1899)
Thomas Stevens: Babes of the Empire (1902)
George Orwell: uddrag fra “Burmese Days” (1934)

Analysetermer i fokus:
symbolism, irony, exemplification, personification, contrast, paradox, anaphora, and the rhetorical reveal (of a secret)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 5,00 moduler
Dækker over: 5 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 16 Forløb#1

Indhold
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 0 moduler
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Titel 17 Forløb#2

Indhold
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 0 moduler
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