Holdet 3t EN (2025/26) - Undervisningsbeskrivelse

Undervisningsbeskrivelse

Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin(er) 2023/24 - 2025/26
Institution Vestjysk Gymnasium Tarm
Fag og niveau Engelsk A
Lærer(e) Christina Færge-Broberg, Rasmus Kværndrup Andersen
Hold 2023 1t EN (1t EN, 2t EN, 3t EN)

Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 Grey Areas in The American Dream
Titel 2 The Windrush
Titel 3 Clash of Cultures, Great Britain and India
Titel 4 Dystopian Sci-Fi (EKSAMEN)
Titel 5 5. Daredevils (EKSAMEN)
Titel 6 6. The US, the Americans and election
Titel 7 7. Animal Farm (Værklæsning)
Titel 8 8. Being British (EKSAMEN)
Titel 9 9. The Shining (Værklæsning)
Titel 10 10. Powerful poetry (EKSAMEN)
Titel 11 11. Shakespeare's Macbeth (EKSAMEN)
Titel 12 12. Assignments and grammar
Titel 13 13. Ugly Shit

Beskrivelse af de enkelte undervisningsforløb (1 skema for hvert forløb)
Titel 1 Grey Areas in The American Dream

Emnefokuspunkter:
Den amerikanske drøm
Raceadskillelse, social ulighed, borgerrettighedskampen, skillelinjer i amerikansk politik  

Faglige fokuspunkter:
mundtlig færdighed
Summary
Stilistik
Poems, stanza/verse
Theme/message
Sætningsanalyse, ordklasser, ordstilling


Tekster:

Kernestof

The Declaration of Independence
Walt Whitman, I Hear America Singing
Langston Hughes, Let America Be America Again
Martin Luther King I Have a Dream
Malcolm X, The Ballot or The Bullet

Supplerende stof

Film:
DR2: Freedom Riders (afsnit I)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 15 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 2 The Windrush

Louise Bennett-Coverley: Colonization In Reverse (poem, 1966)
Andrea Levy: "That Polite Way That English People Have" (2014)
John Agard: “Listen Mr Oxford don” (poem, 1985)*
John Agard: “Half-Caste” (poem, 2004)
John Agard: "Therapeutic Exercise with the Union Jack
Natalie Morris: "Mixed-race Britons – we are of multiple heritages. Claim them all" (The Guardian, 2022)
Andrea Levy: "This Is My England" (essay, 2014)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 30,00 moduler
Dækker over: 18 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 3 Clash of Cultures, Great Britain and India

Great Britain and India, colonization, independence, immigration

J. Nehru, A Tryst With Destiny
Kushwant Singh, Karma
Lucy Pasha-Robinson, British culture wouldn't exist without multiculturalism, it's time to take this tired debate off the table

Susmita Bhattacharya, Dusk over Atlantic Wharf
Daljit Nagra, Singh Song
Rahila Khan, Pictures

Supplerende stof

Klip fra komikeren Vir Das' "For India"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/18/indian-comedian-vir-das-accused-of-vilifying-nation
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 15 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 4 Dystopian Sci-Fi (EKSAMEN)

Kernestof

Defining the Science Fiction Genre” (Christian Horup Pedersen, 2013)

Ray Bradbury, The Fox and The Forest, 1951

George Orwell, 1984, ( 1948 - uddrag)

Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 491,(1951 - uddrag)

Brian Aldiss, Super-Toys Last All Summer Long, 1969

Shirley Jackson, The Lottery, 1948 (Ikke-sci-fi, til sammenligning)


Fællesdok, opsamling

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TYcc_jJRfZ4ApCaeYOp_kLSy6COptbdSXX9evxBEqqs/edit

Fokus på genrekendskab, setting, historisk læsning

Film Hunger Games: Mockingjay






Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 19,5 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 5 5. Daredevils (EKSAMEN)

This theme investigates the Western modern society's urge to break boundaries and push experience to the limits. The focus what psycological reasons there are for reaching the impossible, how it ties in with gender, race and nationality. Both the British and American cultures have aspects of this embedded and therefore it is an important aspect to understand when looking at the world of 2024.

Primary texts:
1. 'Travellers', anthology by G.K. Poulsen and B.H.Nielsen (2007): "Last Entries", Robert Falcon Scott.
2. 'Travellers', anthology by G.K. Poulsen and B.H.Nielsen (2007):"Message to the Public (1912)", Robert Falcon Scott
3. 'Travellers', anthology by G.K. Poulsen and B.H.Nielsen (2007):"Into Thin Air"(1999), Jon Krakauer
4. Amelia Earhart timeline https://www.ameliaearhart.com/
5. Christa McAuliffe and the Challenger Disaster"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUqPMMgfJ4Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zJ84mqaRDA
6. Film: "Interstellar", Christopher Nolan, 2014


App. 50 pages
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 27 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 6 6. The US, the Americans and election

In this theme the American identity is investigated through detailed focus on the American Presidential election, inequality in the US (SRO) and the American short story as genre in combination with Samfundsfag A.

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. "How the system works', chapter 1 (2024)
8. Girls Season 2, episode 5 - "One Man's Trash" (2013)


App. 45 pages
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 22,5 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 7 7. 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 2025.

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

Secondary texts:
1. Netflix - "Control the Truth", episode 4 of "How to Become a Tyrant", 2021 (se modul d. 8.maj 2025)

App. 110 pages
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 34,5 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 8 8. Being British (EKSAMEN)

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


App. 35 pages
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 16,5 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 9 9. The Shining (Værklæsning)

This theme investigates the genre fiction. The text 'The Shining' by Stephen King is read in its entirety with 6 set milestones. Some chapters are investigated in detail focusing on fiction focus areas such as character analysis, setting, narrative perspective, language, plot, themes and message.

Furthermore, the focus of the topic is to investigate the American culture by looking into different overall themes like:
- Racial injustice
- The American dream
- Horror as a literary genre

Primary texts:
1. 'The Shining' by Stephen King (1977)
2. Film: "What Lies Beneath", Robert Zemeckis, 2000
3. Lovecraft Country, season 1, episode 1 'Sundown', HBO 2020
4. Chernobyl, season 1, episode 1 "01:23:45", 2019
5. Article, Mathias Clasen, "Horror in the classroom"
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 36 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 10 10. Powerful poetry (EKSAMEN)

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 Glory 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: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 25,5 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 11 11. 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. Additionally, we investigate how Shakespeare and Macbeth is relevant in the world of 2026:

Primary sources:
1. Macbeth - film (2015) directed by Justin Kurzel
The play:
2. Act I, scene i
3. Act I, scene ii
4. Act I, scene vii
5. Act II, scene i
6. Act II, scene ii
7. Act 5, scene v
8. House of Cards (S1, E1) 2013, Netflix
9. 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. 45 pages
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 25,5 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 12 12. Assignments and grammar

Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 6 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 13 13. Ugly Shit

Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 22,5 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer