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Undervisningsbeskrivelse

Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin(er) 2023/24 - 2025/26
Institution Z - NAB CB
Fag og niveau Engelsk A
Lærer(e) Tina Lund
Hold 2023 EN/k (1k EN, 2k EN, 3k EN)

Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 American values and America's far right
Titel 2 Euphoria
Titel 3 The Science of the Brain
Titel 4 US Election #1  SoMe, Media and AI
Titel 5 Utopia, Dystopia, and The Handmaid's Tale
Titel 6 Narrating India
Titel 7 UK - migration and identity (SRO)
Titel 8 WW1 in poetry and prose

Beskrivelse af de enkelte undervisningsforløb (1 skema for hvert forløb)
Titel 1 American values and America's far right

Taking our starting point in what Kearney et. al. describe as basic American values & beliefs and their origin in the colonial/migrant history of the US, we will be looking at different descriptions of the far right in the US as well as the different groups and their symbols/logos (as seen on flags and banners duting the attack on Capitol on Jan 6th, 2021). Our main focus will be on analysing different types of non-fiction texts: blog, speech, documentary. We will be referring back to the basic values to try to understand which values the far right are basing their attitudes on.

Key words: values, rights, tradition, migration, individual freedom - self-reliance, material wealth - hard work, equality of opportunity - competition, the American Dream

Kernestof:
Kearney et al: Traditional American Values and Beliefs
Myron: Far Right Minded Blog introduction https://farrightwing.blogspot.com/
Donald Trump: Inaugural Address (whole speech)
Louis Theraux: The Forbidden America (documentary)

Supplerende stof:
Steffen Kretz: En storm på vej (lecture)
Kyle Sallee: Decoding Hate: Understanding the Far-Right Symbology of January 6 (article - basis for group presentation on the different symbols and organisations) https://www.american.edu/sis/centers/security-technology/decoding-hate-understanding-far-right-symbology.cfm
Indhold
Kernestof:

Supplerende stof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 14 moduler
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Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 2 Euphoria

This topic will take its starting point in the first episode of the TV-series Euphoria. We will pratice our analytical skills with focus on character development and cinematic techniques. In groups, students will make presentations on different themes from the series. Each presentation will include a text to be read by the rest of the class as well as some sort of activity related to the text/presentation/Euphoria. We will finish off by looking at different attitudes to the Tv-series and to what extent the show gives a realistic portrayl of young Americans.

Kernestof:
Euphoria trailer
Euphoria (episode 1, season 1)
Tara Law: What Euphoria Gets Right—and Wrong—About Teen Drug Use and Addiction (article) https://time.com/6152502/euphoria-hbo-teenage-drug-use/

Supplerende stof (texts picked by students for work on themes)
Drugs/addiction:
Justin McCarthy: Drugs Have Been a Problem in Family for 32% of Americans https://news.gallup.com/poll/357134/drugs-problem-family-americans.aspx

Friendship:
NN: Essay on Friendship for Students and Children https://www.toppr.com/guides/essays/essay-on-friendship/

Neuro Divergency:
Jonathan Mooney: At Risk in the Culture of ‘Da Normal’
BAriane Resnick: What Does It Mean to Be Neurodivergent?

Partying: MyDari Baker: The Dangers of Party Culture
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 10 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 3 The Science of the Brain

In this theme we are going to focus on the human brain. We will try to get a better understanding of how the brain works and reacts in an environment full of stimuli from various electronic devices. In addition, we will explore what it is the brain/we as humans can do which is different from what AI can do. The theme can potentially lead up to a future theme about Science Fiction/Speculative Fiction.

Kernestof:
Emily Dickens: The Brain - is wider than the Sky, (1883) (poem)
Johann Hari: The 65-second attention span: Technology has stolen our ability to focus. Can we get it back? (2022) (article from The Irish Times)
Thomas Frank: This is what the internet does to your brain (2019) (youtube video/vlog)
Naomi S Baron: How ChatGPT robs students of motivation to write and think for themselves (2023) (article from The Conversation)
Peter Docter: Inside Out (2015) (animated film)

Supplerende stof:
Tanya Lewis, Ashley P. Taylor: Human brain: Facts, functions & anatomy (2021)(article from Live Science, an online scientific journal)

Hjernekassen: Hukommelse (from11/4 2023) (radio program in Danish used for an oral assignment - in English)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 7 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 4 US Election #1 SoMe, Media and AI

People all over the world follow the American presidential election carefully as the result will have a major impact on not just the States but the rest of the world. For this topic, we will look at the two candidates (Trump and Harris) (and a little bit at their 'running mates'. But our main focus will be on the role played by social media, AI and the media in general in informing and persuading the voters (including the impact celebrity endorsements may have).

Kernestof:
From 'Elections Year - chapter 3':
Taylor Swift: Instagram post on Midterm Election, Oct. 8, 2018
---Instagram post Support of Biden-Harris, Oct. 7, 2020
---Instagram post Voter registration, Sept. 19, 2023
Donald Trump and others: Truth Social posts

The debate between Harris and Trump (10/9-2024)



Supplerende stof:
Lotte Genefke m.fl. Chapter 3 introduction - 'SoMe, Media and AI - who controls the public debate?' i Election Year, Colombus, 2024
+ Various political memes and TV ads
Group work on various media's responses to the debate right after it took place (NPR, FoxNews, CNN, BBC, the Guardian, DR)
Julia Ingram: 'Analysis of the words Trump and Harris relied on in their first debate: "taxes," "criminals," "weak"'

In connection with the inauguration of th e47th POTUS, students have looked into the media coverage of different 'issues' in connection with this event: Trump not putting his hand on the bible; Trump's use of the phrase 'Drill, baby, drill'; Melania Trump's hat/outfit; Trump's executive order to change the name of The Gulf of Mexico to The Gulf of America; Elon Musk's saltute at an event celebrating the inauguration.
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 11 moduler
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Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 5 Utopia, Dystopia, and The Handmaid's Tale

This topic focuses on literary examples of dystopian societies and what characterizes these (their aspirations, norms, political systems, forms of control). Various tropes such as scapegoating, conformity, dehumanization, surveillance (and other forms of control) will be traced through the various works. Main focus is on Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s tale (1985) and the control of women and their bodies. The short story 'The Ones Who Walk Away...' will be analysed by various groups of students by viewing the text in different contexts (period, philosophy, other works and genre).

Kernestof:
Margaret Atwood: 'The Handmaid's Tale', 1985 (novel)
Ursula K Le Guin: 'The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas', 1973 (short story)
George Orwell: '1984', 1949 (excerpt from novel)

Supplerende:
Dystopias: Definition and Characteristics from http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson926/DefinitionCharacteristics.pdf
How to recognize a dystopia - Alex Gendler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a6kbU88wu0
Bruce Miller: 'The Handmaid’s Tale', 2017 (first episode from tv-series)
John Bowen/The British Library: 'George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four"'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtmcyIP3GLE

Afleveringer:
Mundtlig aflevering om først kapitler af 'THT'
One-pager on 'THT'
skriftlig opgave med udgangspunkt i 'THT' og Atwood's artikel 'Enforced childbirth is slavery'  https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/07/enforced-childbirth-is-slavery-margaret-atwood-on-the-right-to-abortion
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 20,00 moduler
Dækker over: 34 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 6 Narrating India


Kernestof:

Thryst With Destiny (speech)
Topak Tek Singh (short story)
The White Tiger (excerpt from a novel)




Supplerende stof:
Introductions to various chapters in Narrating India
(Documentary)
Kamala Thiagarajan, Marc Silver: 'What Indians Who've Known Poverty Think Of Netflix's 'The White Tiger' Movie' (article, January 28th, 2021, NPR) https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/01/29/961620648/what-formerly-poor-indians-think-of-netflixs-the-white-tiger-movie

Sandhya Ram Mahindra: Noise - The Rickshawala (short film in Hindi)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 13 moduler
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Titel 8 WW1 in poetry and prose

We are going to read poems from a variety of WW1 poets, and also some more recent works with a WW1 setting. Part of our focus will be on how the different styles of the poems reflect the content and theme. We will also discuss the role literature and art can play in relation to war and how the poems have different subject matter and describe different attitudes to being a soldier and to the war. The film 'Regeneration',  which shows how some soldiers reacted to the horrors of the war and were treated for shell shock, (including Sassoon and Owen) will be analysed as well as contemporary artworks that work with the visualisation of the loss of lives during the war..

Kernestof:
Lloyd George, 'That is what we are fighting...', 1914 (speech)
John McCrae, 'In Flanders Fields', 1915 (poem)
Rupert Brooke, 'The Soldier', 1914 (poem)
Siegfried Sassoon, 'Does It Matter?', 1917 (poem)
Wilfred Owen, 'Dulce et Decorum Est', 1917 (poem)
Sebastian Faulks, 'Weir's Leave', 1993 (excerpt from the novel 'Birdsong')
Gillies MacKinnon, 'Regeneration', 1997 (film)
PJ Harvey, ‘The Words That Maketh Murder’, 2011 (lyrics)

A selection of 'Poems by women' from 'Voices of the Great War' chosen by and anlysed in groups
A selection of WW1 propaganda posters analysed in groups

Supplerende stof:
'Introduction'  from 'Voices of the Great War'
'What was life like in a World War One trench?' https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/articles/z8sssbk
Peter Jackson: 'They Shall Not Grow Old' (Excerpts from documentary from 2018)
James Mann: 'Analysing WW1 propaganda posters' (youtube video from 2020)

Artworks created for the centenary of the WWI outbreak commemorations (Tower of London Poppies by Paul Cummins and Tom Piper + Shrouds of Somme by Rob Heard)

Key words: recruitment of soldiers; trench warfare; gas attack; shell shock/PTSD (Post traumatic stress disorder); aftermath; disillusionment; old virtues of honor, duty, heroism, and glory;skepticism; realism; irony; horror; depictions of battle;
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 18 moduler
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