Holdet 2024 En/d - Undervisningsbeskrivelse

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Undervisningsbeskrivelse

Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin(er) 2024/25 - 2025/26
Institution Falkonergårdens Gymnasium og HF
Fag og niveau Engelsk B
Lærer(e) Valdemar Birk Lykke
Hold 2024 En/d (1d En, 2d En)

Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 Social Media (exam)
Titel 2 British Issues and Exposing the Far Right (exam)
Titel 3 Gender (exam)
Titel 4 Skriftlighedsforløb
Titel 5 Normal People (exam)
Titel 6 Colonialism (exam)
Titel 7 Harlem Renaissance (exam)

Beskrivelse af de enkelte undervisningsforløb (1 skema for hvert forløb)
Titel 1 Social Media (exam)

In this course, students have explored the rise of social media platforms and how they affect our individual, social and political lives, with an emphasis on: radicalization, surveillance, addiction and fake news.  


Reading list:
Roose: “Rabbit Hole” (episodes 1-2, NY Times podcast, 2020)
Tristan Harris: “How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds every day” (TED-Talk, 2017)
Orlowski: “The Social Dilemma” (documentary, 2020)
David Eggers: “We like you so much and want to know you better” (novel excerpt, 2013)
Hannah Ritchie: “Australia approves social media ban on under-16s” (BBC, 2024)
Ray Bradbury: “The Veldt” (short story, 1950)


fokus på teknologi, internet og sociale mediers påvirkning. Analyse og fortolkning af litterære og ikke-litterære tekster, herunder podcast.

ca. 50 sider
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 22 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 2 British Issues and Exposing the Far Right (exam)

This course aims to put emphasis on the concept of Britishness, Brexit and far-right nationalism in contemporary Britain. The documentary "Exposing the Far Right" has been the focal point, but the course also addressed the rhetoric and argumentation surrounding the Brexit vote in 2016.

Reading list:
Undercover: Exposing the Far Right (documentary, 2025)
Mustad: Being British introduction (Gyldendal) p. 1-11
Stuart, Johnson, Gove :Vote Leave for a Fairer Britain (2016)
David Cameron’s Last-ditch plea for Britain to Remain (2016)
Alexander Betts: "Why Brexit happened - and what to do next" (TED-Talk, 2016)
Lara Blake: “Home is Not Here” (short story)

additional readings:
"How false online claims about Southport knife attack spread so rapidly" (The Guardian, 2024)

fokus: analyse af ikke-litterære tekster, retoriske virkemidler, argumentationsanalyse og dokumentaranalyse. Fokus på Storbritannien i nyere tid og tværfagligt samarbejde.

Dette forløb blev kombineret med et tværfagligt forløb med samfundsfag, hvor eleverne lavede et projekt inden for overemnet: "Radikalisering i Storbritannien". Eleverne afsluttede projektet med en fremlæggelse i grupper.

ca. 40 sider
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 12 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 3 Gender (exam)

This course revolves around how gender is represented in different literary periods. We have been analyzing the role of women and attitudes to gender in various texts, both fiction and non-fiction, in order to get a better understanding of how concepts femininity and masculinity have evolved and been perceived over time.

Fokus: litterær analyse, ikke-litterær analyse, kvindens rolle i samfundet og forståelse af køn i forskellige historiske og litterære perioder. Kort introduktion til feministisk læsning.

Dette forløb blev kombineret med et skriftlighedsforløb for klassen.

Reading list:
Emma Watson: “Gender Equality is Your Issue Too” (speech, 2014)
Jane Austen: “Pride and Prejudice” ch. 1 + 4 (novel excerpt, 1813)
Thomas Hardy: “The Son’s Veto” (short story, 1891)
Emmeline Pankhurst: “Freedom or Death” (speech, 1913)
Ernest Hemingway: “Cat in the Rain” (short story, 1925)
Amanda Miska: “Weightless and Hysterical” (short story, 2016)
Caitlin Moran: “What’s gone wrong for men - and how to fix them” (article, 2023)
Adolescence (TV-series, episode 2)
Judith Butler: Gender Theory (video)

ca. 50 sider
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 17 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 4 Skriftlighedsforløb

Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 1 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 5 Normal People (exam)

In this course, we've read Sally Rooney's novel "Normal People". We've analyzed the structure, characters, literary devices and themes in the novel in trying to grasp its popularity and status as a millennial classic. "New Sincerity" has been covered as a literary tendency in order to put the novel into context, and we've furthermore read reviews of the novel so that we could understand and discuss how the novel was received.  

Student presentations have been conducted with an emphasis on summarizing chapters, literary analysis and classroom discussion. We've worked with the themes of identity, social relations, power dynamics, family, gender and class.   

fokus: værklæsning, litterær analyse, fokus på den engelsktalende verden uden for Storbritannien og USA.

Reading list:
Sally Rooney: Normal People (novel, 2018)

additional readings:
Abrahamson: Normal People (TV series, ep. 1, 2020)



ca. 290 sider
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 17 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 6 Colonialism (exam)

In this course, students have analyzed and worked with texts that are related to British imperialism and colonialism. We've explored the implications and effects of British imperialism by analyzing the relationship between the colonizer and the colonized. Students have been introduced to key terms in post-colonial theory, and they have been working thematically with countries that are former colonies of the British Empire by giving presentations in class. We've furthermore discussed English role as a Lingua Franca.

Fokus: Viden om det britiske imperium og udbredelsen af det engelske sprog, samt engelsk som lingua franca.


Reading list:
Kipling: "The White Man's Burden" (poem)
Mustad et al.: Being British: Britain in the World (ch. 5)
Singh: "Karma" (short story)
Kenyatta: "Gentlemen of the Jungle" (short story)
British Anthems: "Rule Britannia", "God Save the Queen", "Land of Hope and Glory"
Thiong'o: "Decolonising the Mind" (non-fiction)
Orwell: "Shooting an Elephant" (short story)
Adichie: "The danger of the single story" (TED Talk)
Key terms in post-colonial theory
Peppiatt: Kneecap (movie, 2024)

Lingua Franca: Alaric Hall: How has English become a Lingua Franca (Lecture, Leeds University, 2015)

ca. 50 sider
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 22 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 7 Harlem Renaissance (exam)

This course serves as an introduction to the Harlem Renaissance in America with an emphasis on the history and cultural contributions of African Americans. Through literary works, films, and music, we will examine themes of race, identity, injustice and double consciousness.

Reading list:
Langston Hughes: “Thank You Ma’am” (short story, 1958)
Langston Hughes: “Mother to Son” (poem, 1922)
Dunbar: “We Wear the Mask” (poem, 1896)
W. E. B. Du Bois: “Souls of Black Folk (excerpt, 1903)
Coogler: “Sinners” (movie, 2025)

Additional reading:
Toni Morrison: "Sweetness" (short story, 2015)

Fokus: Analyse af fiktion, non-fiktion, lyrik og film, viden om historiske, kulturelle og samfundsmæssige forhold i USA.

30 sider
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 8 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer