Holdet 2023 EN/i - Undervisningsbeskrivelse

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Undervisningsbeskrivelse

Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin(er) 2023/24 - 2025/26
Institution Køge Gymnasium
Fag og niveau Engelsk A
Lærer(e) Nana Baungaard Harden
Hold 2023 EN/i (1i EN, 2i EN, 3i EN)

Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 'Growing Up'
Titel 2 Fantasy as a genre
Titel 3 Multiculturalism in the UK
Titel 4 Poetry and Lyrics
Titel 5 American Beliefs and Values
Titel 6 Childhood in Ireland
Titel 7 Black America
Titel 8 Love in Literary History (Shakespeare)
Titel 9 Love in Literary History (Modernism)
Titel 10 War
Titel 11 'The Empire Writes Back'
Titel 12 Links til brug ved eksamen

Beskrivelse af de enkelte undervisningsforløb (1 skema for hvert forløb)
Titel 1 'Growing Up'


The course explores the theme 'Growing Up' with special focus on analysis of fiction.

Texts (can all be found in the Meebook):
Fell: The Shining Mountain
Hemingway: Indian Camp
Lively: The Happiest Days of Your Life
Auster et.al.: True tales of American Life (The Cake, Being There, Rainout)

Film/tv-series:
Howard: 'Parenthood'
'Euphoria' ep.1, s. 1 (HBO)

Anslået omfang: 30 sider
Indhold
Kernestof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Translation - 'The Shining Mountain' 07-11-2023
Summary 'Indian Camp' - genaflevering 21-11-2023
'The Happiest Days of Your LIfe' 05-12-2023
Audio recording 'Parenthood' 11-12-2023
FF1 - Euphoria 15-12-2023
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 17 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 2 Fantasy as a genre

This course examines the genre Fantasy: its origins and its characteristics and its boundaries. .

Kernestof:
Caroll: 'Alice in Wonderland', chapter 1
Barrie: 'Peter Pan' , excerpt from chapter 1 + all of chapter 3
Lewis: 'The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe', chapter 1
George R. Martin: 'Game of Thrones' chapter 1 ('Bran')
J.K. Rowling: 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' (the entire novel)

'Finding Neverland' (film), Foster, 2005
'Game of Thrones' (tv-series), pilot-episode

'Entering Worlds of Fantasy' from' Worlds of Fantasy', Systime

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Der er anvendt Meebook i forløbet:

Anslået omfang: 80 sider
Indhold
Kernestof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Characterisation + grammatik 09-02-2024
'Harry Potter' chapters 1-7 22-03-2024
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 18 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 3 Multiculturalism in the UK

This course explores the multicultural experience in the UK. A little background for the great diversity is provided but we focus mainly on recent experiences of living in the UK with an immigrant background. The course introduces rhetorical analysis.

Kernestof:
Texts:
Caryl Phillips: 'The Pioneers' (1998)
Tariq Ramadan: 'You Can't Go Home Again' (2001)
Selena Godden: 'Shade' (2016) (excerpt)
Hanif Kureishi: 'My Son the Fanatic' (1997)
Nanna Flindt Quist: 'On Purpose' (three first chapters)

Film:
'Rocks' (Sarah Gavron, 2020)

Supplerende stof: '
'Rule Britannia'
'God save the King/Queen'
'Land of Hope and Glory'
3 korte tekster om imperiet (findes i Meebook)

Anslået omfang: 30 sider
Indhold
Kernestof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Lille skriveprøve 2 22-04-2024
Lille skriveprøve 3 16-05-2024
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 11 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 4 Poetry and Lyrics

DETTE FORLØB ER EKSAMENSEMNE

In this course we will be working with a broad selection of poetry and song-lyrics. Focus will be on the poetic form in general, figurative language and sound features, but we will also analyze and interpret each text and put it into relation to the historical and literary period in which it was written. A special focus is put on Romantic poetry.

ALL the following texts can be found in the Meebook.

Primary texts:
Plath: 'Metaphors'
Dickinson: 'Apparently With No Surprise'
Scannell: 'Nettles'
Meinke: 'Advice to My Son'
Owen: 'Dulce et Decorum Est'
Nash: 'The Hunter'
Hardy: 'Last Week in October'
Heaney: 'The Cool That Came Off Sheets'
Stevenson: 'From a Railway Carriage'
Wordsworth: 'My Heart Leaps Up',  'Skating' (excerpt from 'The Prelude'), 'The Tables Turned' and 'I wandered Lonely as a Cloud'

23 different song lyrics chosen by the class and NB respectively. We have worked extensively with 'So Cruel' (U2), 'Take a Bow' (Rihannah), 'Love the Way You Lie' (Eminem + Rihannah), 'Karma Police (Radiohead), 'Under the Bridge' (Red hot Chili Peppers), 'Stole the Show' (Kygo) , 'The Lakes' (Swift) and 'Beautiful Ones' (Suede).

Background texts:
'Fields of Vision', volume 1, pages 4A-21A, E114-E120
'Along Literary Lines', pages 53, 78, 97-98, 145-146
'Literary Terms and Criticism' (Peck and Coyle, 2002), p. 12-14


Forløbets omfang i sider (ca.): 45
Indhold
Kernestof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Analysis of song/poem 02-09-2024
Own Romantic poem 01-10-2024
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 20 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 5 American Beliefs and Values

DETTE FORLØB ER EKSAMENSEMNE

This course identifies, defines and explores central American beliefs and values. It consists of two parts.

In part one we look into the origins of the beliefs and values and how they are seen in different cultural products (texts, songs, films etc)

Part two focuses on the American political system and re-introduces analysis of non-fiction. This will enable us to better understand and follow the American Presidential election 2024. Students write their SROs based on this course. Focus here will be on an analysis of one of or both convention speeches by Harris/Trump.


Kernestof:
- 'The Declaration of Independence'
- Fieder et. al.: 'American Beliefs and Values' (from 'America in Close-Up', 1990)

- 'American Progress' (painting by John Gast, 1872)
- The Pledge of Alligiance
- 'The Star Spangled Banner'
- Emma Lazarus: 'The New Colossus'

- Flindt Quist: 'On Purpose' chapters 1 + 2 + 3
- Obama: Annoncement for President
- Roosevelt: Speech on Dec. 8th 1941
- Bush: 'Speech after attack on WTC, Sept. 2001'
- Harris: 'Convention Speech' 2024
- Trump: 'Convention Speech' 2024
- Vance: 'Hillbilly Elegy' (excerpt)

- 'The Story of Us' (episode 1 of a documentary series)

Supplerende stof:
- Mette Holm: 'Being American', chapter 1
- Harden: 'Family Life from Plum Creek to Pleasantville' (excerpt)
- Winthrop: 'A Model of Christian Charity'

- 'America' (from 'West Side Story)
- 'Americanos' (HollyJohnson, 1989)
- U2: -'The Hands That Bulit America', 2002
- Black Eyed Peas: 'Where is the Love'. 2003
- Marina and the Diamonds: 'Hollywood', 2010
- Panic at the Disco!: 'High Hopes'
- Rihanna: 'American Oxygen'

Alle tekster kan findes i Meebook


Anslået omfang: 80
Indhold
Kernestof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Poetry analysis - teacher's choice 22-10-2024
Pairwork on 'Declaration of Independence´ 29-10-2024
Selvrefleksion 11-11-2024
Work on Pledge, Progress etc. 21-11-2024
Bud på problemformulering 09-12-2024
Two American presidential speeches 09-12-2024
Bud på indledning SRO 14-12-2024
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 17 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 6 Childhood in Ireland

This course touches upon different aspects of Irish culture and history. A special focus is on childhood as a theme and on characterization and narrator + POV

Kernestof:
Frank McCourt: 'Angelas's Ashes' (exceprts)
'Angela's Ashes' (Alan Parker, 1999) (film)
Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal'
James Joyce:  'Araby'
Claire Keegan: 'Foster' (the entire novel)
'The Quiet Girl' (film)

Background text: 'Ireland Before 1921' (a chapter from 'Life and Literature - The English Handbook' p. 130-143)

Supplerende stof:
William Butler Yeats: 'Easter 1916'
'The Foggy Dew'

Anslået omfang: 100 sider
Indhold
Kernestof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Audio recording 'Angela's Ashes' 07-02-2025
Keegan etc. 11-03-2025
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 14 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 7 Black America

The first part of the course called 'Black America' deals with the black population of The United States - the so-called African-Americans - and their history from slavery to emancipation to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. In this part of the course we will use historical sources, poetry, fiction, speeches and lyrics and thus deal with the analysis of various types of texts.The aim of the course is to provide you with knowledge of both African-American history and culture. The course thus serves as background knowledge for our reading of 'The Hate U Give'.

The main focus in the second part of the course is on the novel 'The Hate U Give' and on in depth analysis of this. The concept of Black Representation is explored.

Kernestof:
Haley: Roots (excerpt)
Wheatley: 'On Being Brought from Africa'
Photographs and drawings of slaves
Douglass: Slave narrative (excerpt)
The Gettysburg Address
Amendments 13, 14 and 15
Langston Hughes: 5 poems
'Strange Fruit'
King: I have a Dream
Parker: 'Mississippi Burning' (film)

Angie Thomas: 'The Hate U Give' (the entire novel)
Barack Obama: 'Remarks on the Trayvon Martin case'
Grandmaster Flash: 'The Message'

Background material:
Hopenwasser + Teglbjærg: The Empowerment of the American Voice', pages 51-55
'Oh Freedom' afsnit 2  (podcast fra DR lyd)
Tekst i Meebook om 'slave narratives'
Background material on hip hop culture

Supplerende materiale:
The Emancipation Declaration
Malcolm X: 'The Ballot or the Bullet'

NWA: 'Straight Outta Compton'
Jay-Z: 'The Story of OJ'
The Carters: 'Apeshit'
Childish Gambino: 'This Is America'
'Precious' (film clip)
'The Wire' (film clip)


All texts (except 'THUG') can be found in the Meebook

Anslået omfang: 150
Indhold
Kernestof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Black America 14-04-2025
Exam paper 06-05-2025
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 20 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 8 Love in Literary History (Shakespeare)

DETTE EMNE ER EKSAMENSEMNE

This course explores the theme of love in the writings of Shakespeare with a special focus on 'Romeo and Juliet'

Kernestof:
William Shakespeare: 'Romeo and Juliet':
Prologue +
Act 1, scene 4, lines 217-274 +
Act 2, scene 1, lines 47-245 +
Act 5, scene 1, lines 1-58

Sonnet 18 'Shall I Compare Thee'

'Romeo + Juliet' (Baz Luhrman, 1996) (film)
'Shakespeare in Love' (John Madden, 1998) (film)

Background material:
'Writer's Gallery: Shakespeare' + 'The Renaissance' from 'Fields of Vision' p. 44C-60C



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Anslået omfang: 50 sider
Indhold
Kernestof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
Handwritten task: Shakespeare 15-09-2025
Audio recording 'Shakespeare' 23-09-2025
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 14 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 9 Love in Literary History (Modernism)

This course starts by briefly tracing love as a theme in literary history from Shakespeare to Modernism. Hereafter we examine the literary experiments of Modernism. We discuss different kinds of love and use 'The Great Gatsby' as our main text. Here we also return to 'The American Dream'.

Kernestof:
F. Scott Fitzgerald: 'The Great Gatsby' (the entire novel)
Andrew Marwell: 'To His Coy Mistress'
James Joyce: 'The Boarding House'
Wallace Stevens: 'Disillusionment of Ten o’Clock'
Hemingway: 'Indian Camp'
Woolf: 'To the Lighthouse' (excerpt)



Supplerende stof:
James Joyce: 'Ulysses' (short excerpt)
Burns: 'The Parting Kiss'
Lord Byron: 'She Walks in Beauty'
3 poems by Dorothy Parker
2 poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay



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Anslået omfang: 150 sider
Indhold
Kernestof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
'The Jam Maker' OR 'A Feminist's Guide...' 03-10-2025
Group essays 'Jam Maker' OR 'A Feminist's..' 09-10-2025
Handwritten task: Modernism 17-11-2025
Grammatikopgave version 1 (individuel) 18-11-2025
Grammatikopgave version 2 (i par) 28-11-2025
Pair essay fiction Modernism 14-12-2025
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 22 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 10 War

DETTE FORLØB ER EKSAMENSEMNE

This course explores how war affects and influences the individual as seen in both poetry, fiction, song lyrics and political speeches. Our main focus has been on the World Wars.

KERNESTOF:
Texts:
Lord Kitchener: Advice
Pope: 'Who's for The Game'
Brooke: 'The Soldier'
Sassoon: 'The Hero'
Owen: 'Dulce et Decorum Est'

Hemingway: 'Soldier's Home'
Churchill: Four famous speeches

Film:
'London Can Take It' (1941)

Supplerende materiale:
Greatest events of WWII episode 1 and 2 (Netflix documentary)
'Numbers' podcast fra 'The Memory Palace'
Bruce Springsteen:  monologue from live version of 'The River' + 'Born in the USA'

All texts can be found in the Meebook

Anslået omfang: 35
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 11 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 11 'The Empire Writes Back'

DETTE FORLØB ER EKSAMENSEMNE

I dette forløb læser vi en række tekster som hjælper os til at forstå hvilken situation udvalgte tidligere britiske kolonier (India, Australia, South Africa)  befinder sig i efter kolonitiden. Et særligt fokus har været på identitetsdannelse.

Kernestof:
Orwell: 'Shooting an Elephant'

Petaia: 'Kidnapped' (1980)
Thompson: 'Pink' (1986)
Mandela: Speech on release from prison
Singh: 'Karma' (1950)
Prichard: 'N'goola' (1959)'

Supplerende stof:
Kipling: 'The White Man's Burden'
Balagopal: 'He'll Take Good Care of You'


De fleste tekster kan findes i 'Worlds of English' af Finderup og Fog. Resten findes på modulerne som pdf.

Anslået omfang: 30 sider
Indhold
Kernestof:

Skriftligt arbejde:
Titel Afleveringsdato
'Handwritten' task on Hope/Saunders 20-04-2026
Last exam paper 27-04-2026
Grammatikopgave i grupper 01-05-2026
Handwritten task - eksamensemne 08-05-2026
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 13 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer