Holdet 2s En (2025/26) - Undervisningsbeskrivelse

Undervisningsbeskrivelse

Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin(er) 2024/25 - 2025/26
Institution Vestjysk Gymnasium Tarm
Fag og niveau Engelsk B
Lærer(e) Elizabeth Ann Patti
Hold 2024 1s En (1s En, 2s En)

Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 Mind Your Body
Titel 2 Choices
Titel 3 True Crime
Titel 4 Racism in the USA (Exam topic)
Titel 5 The British Empire (Exam topic)
Titel 6 Controversial Topics (exam topic)

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

This unit explored body image in various contexts. The unit ended in a class project with an awareness campaign.

Kernestof:
When Your Mother Says She's Fat -- Kasey Edwards, 2003
Taylor Swift: Anti-Hero (lyric analysis)
Excerpts from "On Chesil Beach"
Every Time Lizzo Used Her Platform to Preach Body Positivity
Film: Dumplin' (Netflix)


Supplerende stof:
Taylor Swift, Fatphobia, and Me
Was Taylor Swift wrong to use the word ‘fat’ in a video? That’s how I used to feel whenever I weighed myself

Page estimate: 20
Indhold
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 16,5 moduler
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Titel 2 Choices

This unit focuses on choices in various contexts -- making choices, consequences, etc.

Kernestof:
Poem: Hard Choices by Jojoba Mansell (2012)
Phil Daoust: Choice, chioice everywhere. How do I opt out?" (2021)
Rachel Seamands "Why I left College, twice"
Sonya C. Dodd: New Beginnings (2013)
Film: "The Way, Way Back (2013)
Excerpt from Jon Krakauer: Into the Wild (1996)
Film: Into the Wild (2007)

Page estimate: 30
Indhold
Omfang Estimeret: 15,00 moduler
Dækker over: 37,5 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 3 True Crime

Studnets were the leaders in this unit, each selecting a case and topic for a lesson and teaching the class.

Students read various texts and saw various videos chosen by other students and designed lesson plans for their classmates.

This will not be an exam unit.
Indhold
Omfang Estimeret: 10,00 moduler
Dækker over: 13,5 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
  • Faglige
  • Lytte
  • Læse
  • Søge information
  • Skrive
  • Diskutere
  • Projektarbejde
  • Formidling
  • Selvrefleksion
  • Almene (tværfaglige)
  • Analytiske evner
  • Kommunikative færdigheder
  • Overskue og strukturere
  • Personlige
  • Selvstændighed
  • Sociale
  • Samarbejdsevne
  • Åbenhed og omgængelighed
  • IT
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 4 Racism in the USA (Exam topic)


This unit focuses on racial inequality in the United States. We read a novel during this unit.

Key terms:
        • Racism
        • Systemic racism
        • Prejudice
        • Stereotypes
        • Police Brutality
        • Code Switching

Kernestof:

• Documentary: "13th" by Ava DuVernay
• Ben & Jerry's: 7 Ways We Know Systemic Racism Is Real (2020)
• Nic Stone: Dear Martin (2017)
• Novel: "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas (værklæsning)
• Film: "The Hate U Give"

Antal sider: 250

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Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 20,00 moduler
Dækker over: 28,5 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
  • Faglige
  • Læse
  • Almene (tværfaglige)
  • Analytiske evner
  • Personlige
  • Initiativ
  • Ansvarlighed
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
  • Gruppearbejde
  • Individuelt arbejde
  • Pararbejde

Titel 5 The British Empire (Exam topic)

In this unit, we exlpored the British Empire during its rein -- we looked at reasons for why colonizers felt inclined to colonize areas of the world, their moral duty to do so (according to them), the way the natives felt as well as the consequences of colonization. We looked at English as a Lingua Franca, and we looked in detail into India as a colonized nation.


Kernestof:
1. Excerpt from "The White Man's Burden" by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
2. "The Gentlemen of the Jungle" by Jomo Kenyatta (1938)
3. "Lispeth" by Rudyard Kipling
4. "A Small Place" by Jamaica Kincaid (1988)
5. Khushwant Singh: Karma (1950) (India)
6. English as a Lingua Franca (Worlds of English)
7. Documentary: My Family, Partition, and Me (India)
8. "Anita and Me" chapter 1 (India)
9. Film: "Bend it Like Beckham" (Indian/UK)


Supplerende stof:
1. Britain: From island to empire and back
2. Attitudes to culture
3. "How Britain has been shaped by migration"  from Everyone Is Here – New Shapes of Diversity and Belonging in Britain

Key terms:
Cultural Relativism
Ethnocentrism
Parochialism

Page estimate: 30
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 20,00 moduler
Dækker over: 37,5 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 6 Controversial Topics (exam topic)

Controversial Topics -- unit review

This unit focuses on variosu controversial topics, moral panic and how people aim to persuade others.

Key terms:
        • Moral panic

Kernestof:

• “THE BICYCLE FACE.” Evening Journal, Adelaide 28 August 1897
• "Why the US drinking age is 21" by Vox (2019)
• "America’s unsensible legal drinking age has done more harm than good" Kyler Wang, March 22, 2023
• "Why we will always need to own guns" John Donovan, 2016
• "More Guns are Simply Not the Answer", Susan Miller 2016
• "I had two very different abortions. There's no one-size policy for reproductive health", Torrey DeVitto
• The Health Hazards of Legalizing Marijuana, Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman, May 3, 2024




Supplerendestof:

• Victorian women's 'bicycle face' scare
• Bicycle face: the terrifying medical condition that threatened 1890s cyclists
• A List of Don’ts for Women on Bicycles Circa 1895 By Maria Popova
• Olden Life: What was bicycle face? By Sonia Zhuravlyova
• How the NRA hijacks gun control debates, VOX
• "The 2nd Amendment Explained", PBS

Page estimate: 20
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 12,00 moduler
Dækker over: 22,5 moduler
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