Holdet 2022 1v EN - Undervisningsbeskrivelse

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Undervisningsbeskrivelse

Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin(er) 2022/23 - 2024/25
Institution Vestjysk Gymnasium Tarm
Fag og niveau Engelsk A
Lærer(e) Christina Færge-Broberg
Hold 2022 1v EN (1v EN, 2v EN, 3v EN)
Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 1. Mind Your Body
Titel 2 2. Color Lines
Titel 3 3. Ugly Shit
Titel 4 4. The Americans (EKSAMENSEMNE)
Titel 5 6. Animal Farm - Værklæsning
Titel 6 7. Being British (EKSAMENSEMNE)
Titel 7 8. Powerful poetry (EKSAMENSEMNE)
Titel 8 9. Speeches (EKSAMENSEMNE)
Titel 9 10. The American Presidential Election
Titel 10 11. The Handmaid's Tale (værklæsning) (EKSAMEN)
Titel 11 12. Shakespeare's Macbeth (EKSAMEN)
Titel 12 4. The American short story

Beskrivelse af de enkelte undervisningsforløb (1 skema for hvert forløb)
Titel 1 1. Mind Your Body

This unit explores the theme of body image  from various perspectives through both fiction and non-fiction texts.

Kernestof:
When Your Mother Says She's Fat -- Kasey Edwards, 2003
Taylor Swift: Anti-Hero (song)
Excerpts from "On Chesil Beach" by Ian McEwan
Every Time Lizzo Used Her Platform to Preach Body Positivity -- US Weekly, 2022
Netflix movie: "Dumplin"

Supplerendestof:
Taylor Swift, Fatphobia, and Me, Olivia Truffaut-Wong, 2022
Was Taylor Swift wrong to use the word ‘fat’ in a video? That’s how I used to feel whenever I weighed myself, Arwa Mahdawi, 2022

Grammatical focus on:
Verb tenses
Kongruens

Analytical focus:
Rhetorical pentagon
modes of persuasion
Fiction analysis

Estimated to be 50 pages
Indhold
Omfang Estimeret: 15,00 moduler
Dækker over: 22,5 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 2 2. Color Lines

The goal of this unit was to learn more about systemic racism in the United States. Texts focused on racism in various systems in the US including housing, education, the justice system, etc. Students also trained their analytical skills with both fiction and non-fiction texts and a heavy focus was placed on evaluating internet sources and determining whether or not they were reliable.

Kernestof:
Ben & Jerry's: 7 Ways We Know Systemic Racism Is Real
Nikole Hannah-Jones: School Segregation, the Continuing Tragedy of Ferguson (2014)
Excerpt from "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas (2019)
Excerpt from "Dear Martin" by Nic Stone (2017)
Excerpt from Ta-Nehisi Coates: Letter to My Son (2015)
Joe Biden: Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre (2021)
Joe Biden: Signing of the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act (2021)
Film: The Hate U Give



Supplerendestof:
Ben & Jerry's website
Research about what happened in Ferguson, Missouri (Michael Brown)
Podcast: The Problem We All Live With (2015) from This American Life
Research about the Black Panthers
Video: Ta-Nehisi Coates Launches National Book Tour in Baltimore
Research about the Tulsa Race Massacre
The Massacre of Tulsa's 'Black Wall Street' by VOX
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-MvzoTaV3A (video about Juneteenth)

Key terms:
racial injustice
hate crimes
prejudice
Redlining
Postracial
white supremacist
emboldened
Disenfranchised
sentenced
convicted
racial injustice
condemn
Systemic Racism
individual racism
Segregation
Achievement Gap
Integration
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Brown vs. Board of Education (1954)

Grammar/Language focus:
Adjectives
Kongruens
Style of writing

Estimate of pages read: 50
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 15,00 moduler
Dækker over: 42 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 3 3. Ugly Shit

This theme will investigate art as a visual form of expression with particular focus on things that at first sight is ugly. We will dig into what art is, what it can express, examples of artworks across museums of modern art across the English seaking world, and how it can help people explore and learn about the human condiction. Buckle up!

Primary texts:
1. Article: "Ethics Explainer: Aesthetics", Dr. Laura D'Olimpio, University of Birmingham, 2019
2. YouYube - "Aesthetics Defined (What is Aesthetics, Aesthetics Explained, Definition of Aesthetics)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef7eKVs8cOk
3. Article: "10 Reasons for the Importance of Art (With Benefits to You)", Paul Jenkins, 2022
4. Article: "The Beauty of Ugly Painting", Charlie Fox, September 4, 2017, The New York Times
5. Film: The Wrestler (2008, Darren Aronofsky)
6. Article: "Ten Things You Need to Know About ‘The Wrestler’", Will Leitch,  The Vulture, 2008

Secondary texts:
1. Th Most Beautiful Abandoned Places in the World (https://www.cntraveler.com/galleries/2015-11-18/the-most-stunning-abandoned-places-on-earth)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 21 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 4 4. The Americans (EKSAMENSEMNE)

This theme focuses both on the genre of the American short story, American identity and functions as a warm of for the topic of the SROs, which is in collaboration with Samfundsfag A. The topic here is 'inequality'.

Primary texts:

1. The Declaration of Independence (1776)
2. Mette Holm, "Being American" (2020) pp. 8-32 (matrix exercise)
3. Ernest Hemingway - "Indian Camp" (1921)
4. Phil Klay - "Redeployment' (2014)
5. Succession, HBO season 1, episode 1 (2018)
6. Ray Bradbury - "The Veldt" (1950)
7. Shirley Jackson: "The Lottery" (1948)
8. Girls Season 2, episode 5 - "One Man's Trash" (2013)


App. 45 pages
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 25,5 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 5 6. Animal Farm - Værklæsning

The focus of this theme is to read an entire work of fiction as well as understading how fiction can comment on and predict world events. The main approach has been the new critical/formalist approach dashed with historical (Russian Revolution) and contemporary interpretations (War in Ukraine (Putin) and the war on truth (Trump). The aim is to highlight that fiction has an important and critical role in a modern democracy of 2023.

Primary texts:
1. "Animal Farm", George Orwell, 1945

Secondary texts:
1. Song - "Trouble in Town", Coldplay, 2019
2. Netflix - "Control the Truth", episode 4 of "How to Become a Tyrant", 2021
3. 'Nineteen-Eighty Four' theatre performance by the TNT Theatre Company (2024) at VGT

App. 110 pages
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 30 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 6 7. Being British (EKSAMENSEMNE)

In this theme we further (cont. from 'grundforløbet') investigate what it is to be British, what Britishness is, the British empire, politics and English as lingua franca.

Primary texts:
1. 'The Gentlemen and the Jungle', Jomo Kenyatta, Angles extract pp. 173-176

2. 'A Small Place', Jamaica Kincaid, Angles extract, pp. 179 - 185

3. Season 1, episode 1 of 'Derry Girls', Channel 4, 2018

4. How Parliament works in nearly 60 seconds (YouTube video) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbLTwQwXqWc)

5. Video, David Crystal - "World Englishes", YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_q9b9YqGRY

6. Video, David Crystal - "Will English always be the Global Language?", YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kvs8SxN8mc

7. Extract of a novel: 'Everyhting will be illuminated' by Jonathan Safran Foer, 2002

App. 35 pages
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 16,5 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 7 8. Powerful poetry (EKSAMENSEMNE)

This theme investigates the genre of poetry and the specific genre characteristics of poetry. Additionally, the focus is how poetry can convey moods and feelings that is different from prose by looking at significant poems in the English/American literary history. Furthermore we have discussed how poetry can be helpful in life, especially in moments of crisis.

Primary texts:
1. Emily Dickinson - "I'm Nobody'
2. Siegfried Sassoon - "The Gloy of Women"
3. William Blake - "The Tyger"
4. William Butler Yeats  - "The Second Coming"

Matrix exercise and group presentations:
5. Dylan Thomas - "Do not Go Gentle into that Good Night"
6. Emily Dickinson - "'Hope' is the Thing with Feathers"
7. Mary Angelou - "Still I Rise"
8. Wilfred Owen - "Dulce et Decorum Est"
9. Oodgeroo Noonnuccal Kath Walker - "Dreamtime"
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 10,00 moduler
Dækker over: 15 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 8 9. Speeches (EKSAMENSEMNE)

This theme briefly investigates the speech as a general genre with special focus on rhetorics - both analytically but also creatively.

Primary texts:
1. 'Freedom or Death' by Emmeline Pankhurst (1913)
2.'A New Frontier' by JFK (1960)
3. 'Yes We Can' by Barack Obama (2008) + Acceptance speech' by Donald Trump (2016)- group work
4. 'The King's Speech', Tom Hooper, 2010


Secondary texts:
Each student has worked with one individually chosen speech + written and presented their own speech including flipping arguments upside down

Furthermore we have worked extensively with wordclasses, acitve vs. passive and the continuous tenses to understand how language works.

App. 30 pages
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 19,5 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 10 11. The Handmaid's Tale (værklæsning) (EKSAMEN)

This theme focuses on 'The Handmaid's Tale' as an entire work of fiction from a Canadian author. The focus has been on a literary analytical level combined with lines drawn to both historical and current events of the US.

Primary texts:
1. Margaret Atwood - 'The Handmaid's Tale' (1985)
2. The Handmaid's Tale, season 1, episode 1 (2017)

Secondary text:
1. Alice Walker, "The Color Purple", 1982 (excerpt)

App. 350 pages
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 37,5 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 11 12. Shakespeare's Macbeth (EKSAMEN)

The focus of the theme relating to Shakespeare's Macbeth is both relating to the close reading of the specific language used in the play but also how Shakespeare deals with important aspects of the human condition primarily in his tragedies - including why Shakespeare is highly relevant in 2025.:

Primary sources:
1. Macbeth - film (2015) directed by Justin Kurzel

The play:

2. Act I, scene ii
3. Act I, scene vii
4. Act II, scene ii
5. Act 5, scene v
6. House of Cards (S1, E1) 2013, Netflix
7. Article: "Michael Billington on Macbeth: profile of greatest theatrical poem ever written", by Michael Billington, The Guardian, 2017

Secondary sources:
1. Ian McKellen on Macbeth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGbZCgHQ9m8

App. 35 pages
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 16,5 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 12 4. The American short story

Indhold
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 0 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer