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Undervisningsbeskrivelse

Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin(er) 2022/23 - 2024/25
Institution Sorø Akademis Skole
Fag og niveau Engelsk A
Lærer(e) Louise Højlund Kisum
Hold 2022a EN (1a EN, 2a EN, 3a EN)
Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 1. Sport and Politics (FF1 med Idræt)
Titel 2 2. Media
Titel 3 3. Normal People (værklæsning)
Titel 4 4. Vienna - Global English and Vienna during WW2
Titel 5 5. Horror Stories
Titel 6 6. The American Dream (SRO med Samf.)
Titel 7 7. War - The Things They Carried (værklæsning)
Titel 8 8. Australia and its Indigenous Peoples
Titel 9 9. Language, Identity and Global English
Titel 10 10. Presidential Election - USA Today
Titel 11 11. Love and Gender Roles - and Shakespeare
Titel 12 12. War - Experiences of War (2g + 3g)
Titel 13 13. Revision

Beskrivelse af de enkelte undervisningsforløb (1 skema for hvert forløb)
Titel 1 1. Sport and Politics (FF1 med Idræt)

This course explores how sports stars increasingly choose to speak their minds about political issues - and how some sports brands, such as Nike, include political  statements/messages in their advertising.
We analyse commercials, speeches and opinion pieces - and as a 'case study', we analyse texts which present different attitudes to transgender women's participation in elite sports.
We focus on using the rhetorical pentagram for analysis.

(En del af forløbet er et tværfagligt forløb med idræt - FF1)


Texts/materials (kernetekster)
- This Girl Can (campaign video) - 1s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsP0W7-tEOc&t=1s
- Dream Crazy, Nike (commercial) - 1s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW2yKSt2C_A
- Rapinoe, Megan: I've been disrespected and dismissed because I am a woman, 2020 (speech) - 1,5s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIfoF0Hrc8Y
- Aldred, Tanya: By conflating gender and sex we undermine sporting competition, The Guardian, 2021 (opinion piece) - 2s.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2021/jun/22/by-conflating-gender-and-sex-we-undermine-sporting-competition
- Mosier, Chris: As elite sports think again about trans participation, our only demand is for fairness, The Guardian, 2022  (opinion piece) - 2s.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/29/sports-trans-participation-transgender-women-swimming

Extra (supplerende materiale):
- Day, Lauren: Transgender athletes weigh in on debate over participation in sports following FINA decision; ABC, 2022 (video) - 2,5s.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-14/transgender-athletes-speak-up-debate-fina-decision/101238142

I alt ca. 10 sider
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 14 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 2 2. Media

This course explores how media influence our modern lives. We start out by watching and analysing the Black Mirror episode 'Nosedive' and continue to study how American politicians advertise their messages in presidential campaigns.
Finally we look at how media can create hypes about certain events or places, such as the fake gourmet restaurant The Shed in London. The students create their own advertisements for fake restaurants + write false reviews.
We focus on fiction analysis, particularly characterisation of characters + settings, themes and messages.
For the political campaign videos, we use the rhetorical pentagram cinematic features.  

Texts/Materials: (Kernetekster)
- Wright, Joe: Nosedive, Black Mirror, S3, E1, 2016. (Tv-episode) - 10s.

Campaign Ads, Presidential Election, 2020: - 5s.
- Biden ad: They Will Get It Wrong Again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTPIrB2EPRk
- Biden ad: Go From There
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2Xufahbaq4
- Trump ad: Past vs. Present
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5y8QA1wCcc
- Donald Trump: America First
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glWS3vAVhJU

Extra (Supplerende materialer)
- Vice: How to Become TripAdvisor’s #1 Fake Restaurant (documentary/reality-tv)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqPARIKHbN8&t=1097s - 3s.

I alt ca. 18 sider
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 8 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 3 3. Normal People (værklæsning)

We read the novel Normal People and the analysis focuses on aspects such as
- Characterisation + character development
- Settings
- Themes (identity, love, gender roles, friendships, frontstage/backstage performance).
As an introduction to the novel, we watch two episodes of the Tv-adaptation of the novel.


Texts/Materials: (Kernetekster)
- Rooney, Sally: Normal People, Faber, 2018 (novel) - 284s.

Extra: (Supplerende materiale)
- Normal People, Mini series, 2020, BBC - 10s.

I alt ca. 294s.
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 10 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 4 4. Vienna - Global English and Vienna during WW2

The course is a mini-course leading up to the study trip to Vienna.
We dive into English as a global language - and English as a lingua franca. During our stay in Vienna, we travel to Bratislava in Slovakia by train, where the students interview people in the streets about their experiences with English as a lingua franca.
The students use their interviews for an article, which they write as an interdisciplinary task in collaboration with social science (samfundsfag).
Furthermore, we watch the film 'Woman in Gold', which tells the story of the Austrian-Jewish woman Maria Altmann, who fled from Vienna to the US during World War II. As an old woman, she decides to reclaim her family's painting 'The Woman in Gold'. The famous painting was created by the Austrian painter Gustav Klimt and was taken by the Nazis during WW2. During our stay in Vienna, we visit the art museum Belvedere and see some of the famous Klimt paintings which are on display there.


Texts/Materials: (Kernetekster):
- Jenkins, Jennifer: The Two Dispersals of English (article) - 4s.
- The English Handbook: English as a Lingua Franca (article) - 4s.
- Curtis, Simon: Woman in Gold (2015) - 10s.
- Slovaks have improved their English skills - 2,5
https://www.spectator.sme.sk/c/23071233/slovaks-have-improved-their-english-skills.html


Extra: (Supplerende materiale):
- David Crystal: Global English (video) - 1s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZI1EjxxXKw
- David Crystal: New Englishes (video) - 1s.
Worlds of English, Systime
- English pronounced by people around the world (English as a second language)
https://www.dialectsarchive.com/test-your-ear - 1s.

Articles about Slovakia, election in Slovakia, and the EU (for the interdisciplinary task):
- Janicek, Karel : In challenge for NATO, election front-runner in Slovakia wants to end aid to Ukraine, 2023 (article) - 4s.
https://www.sineisen.tribunal-electoral.gob.pa/portal/article?articleId=73440
- Slovakia PM quits and is replaced by caretaker as political crisis deepens - 1,5s
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/08/slovakia-pm-quits-replaced-caretaker-political-crisis-deepens
- As Slovakia's trust in democracy fades, its election frontrunner campaigns against aid to Ukraine - 2,5s.
https://www.apnews.com/article/slovakia-election-fico-ukraine-russia-democracy-smer-e9e04e59361d927918ff9e8e6e830694
- Eurobarometer: Less than half of Slovaks see EU membership as good - 1,5s.
https://spectator.sme.sk/c/23113227/eurobarometer-less-than-half-of-slovaks-see-eu-membership-as-good.html
- The Slovak Election and Its Ramifications for European Foreign Policy - 2,5s
https://www.carnegieendowment.org/europe/strategic-europe/2023/09/the-slovak-election-and-its-ramifications-for-european-foreign-policy?lang=en

I alt ca. 35 sider
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 12 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 5 5. Horror Stories

The course is a mini-course about horror stories. We read the poem Porphyria's Lover and watch the film Get Out.
We use the film to practice analysis of films, focusing on
- Characterisation and character development
- The Actantial Model
- Settings
- Plot, plot models, forewarnings
- Freud's Three Levels of Mind
- Symbolism


Texts/Materials: (Kernestekster):
- Peele, Jordan: Get Out, 2017 (film) - 15s
- Browning, Robert: Porphyria's Lover, 1836 (poem) - 2s.

Extra: (Supplerende materialer):
- Houlind, Martin + Oxholm, Jan: Film skal ses i engelsk: Film narration: Three acts and plot points, pp.10-11 - 2s.
- Freud's Three Levels of Mind (article) - 2,5 s.
https://www.verywellmind.com/the-conscious-and-unconscious-mind-2795946
- the English Handbook: The Actantial Model - 1,5s

I alt ca. 22 sider
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 7 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 6 6. The American Dream (SRO med Samf.)

We explore The American Dream and its roots as an interdisciplinary study in collaboration with Social Science (SRO med samfundsfag).
We read texts about the American Dream and American values, and we watch the Hollywood film Far and Away, which depicts two Irish immigrants' journey across the ocean to America in the 1890's. For the interdisciplinary study, the students can choose to analyse either JD Vance's TED Talk or the documentary Class Divide.


Texts/Materials (Kernetekster):
> Roland Emmerich: Far and Away, 1992 (film) - 15s.
> Marc Levin: Class Divide, documentary, 2015 - 10 s.
> JD Vance: America’s Forgotten Working Class, 2016 (TED Talk) - 3 s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEy-xTbcr2A

Extra (Supplerende materialer):
> Edward N. Kearny: The Frontier Heritage, 2010 - 2,5s
> Mette Holm: Being an Immigrant, (from Being American, Systime, 2023) - 6s.
> The American Revolution (YouTube) - 2s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diOTAe-sNa4
> Budweiser commercial: Born the Hard Way, 2017 - 1s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KFmpTt_I1k
> Nike commercial, 2019 - 1s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBnseji3tBk

I alt ca. 50 sider
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 13 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 7 7. War - The Things They Carried (værklæsning)

We read the short story collection 'The Things They Carried' by Tim O'Brien. The students focus on different stories in groups and make oral presentations in which they analyse the given story/stories.
As 'pre-reading' the students make collages about the Vietnam War, and we watch Stanley Kubrick's film Full Metal Jacket.


Texts/materials (Kernetekster):
- O'Brien, Tim: The Things They Carried, Harper Collins Publishers, 1991 (short story collection) - 254s

Extra (Supplerende tekster):
- Kubrick, Stanley: Full Metal Jacket, 1987 - 10s.


I alt ca. 264 sider
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 15 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 8 8. Australia and its Indigenous Peoples

In this course we focus on the indigenous people of Australia - the Aboriginals - or 'First Nation People'.
We watch the video A Brief History of Australia as pre-reading and move on to watching the film Rabbit Proof Fence about three young Aboriginal girls' escape from a British mission house. They have been abducted from their families and placed in the mission school as part of a programme which is to make Australia's native people European/white. The girls are part of what the Australians call 'the stolen generations'. As part of our analysis of the film, the students research the Stolen Generations on the internet.
Furthermore we analyse the PM Anthony Albanese's speech, which he held at the launch of 'the Yes Campaign'. The campaign advocated a 'yes' in the referendum (held in 2023). The question Australians had to decide on was whether the country's indigenous people were to have a more prominent voice in Australian politics, through an advisory committee in parliament. The committee was to give counsel to the parliament on questions related to the country's indigenous people. The referendum resulted in a 'no', so the 'Voice Committee' was not established.
As part of the course, the students explore the challenges Australia's indigenous people face today, the Voice Referendum, and Kevin Rudd's Apology Speech from 2008 through group projects (see below).


Texts/Materials (Kernetekster):

- Noyce, Phillip: Rabbit Proof Fence, 2002  (film) - 15s.
- Albanese, Anthony: Launch of ‘Yes’-campaign speech, Aug. 2023 (speech) - 5s.
https://www.pm.gov.au/media/launch-yes-campaign
> Tiffanie Turnbull: Voice referendum: What is Australia's Voice to Parliament proposal?, BBC News, Sydney, Oct. 2023 (article) - 2s.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-62374703
- Alice Eather: Yuya Karaburra, 2020 (poem) - 1s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yla0FMEAmg

Extra (Supplerende materialer):
- A Brief History of Australia (video) - 4 s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bNyn5exVQg
- Aboriginal People Respond to Australia Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8czHlPYXew 1s.

Group projects on Australia's Indigenous Peoples - resources: -  - ca.10s

> The Apology Speech:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apology_to_Australia%27s_Indigenous_peoples
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RThkO3XBThs

> Closing the Gap:
https://www.niaa.gov.au/our-work/closing-gap
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/aug/01/closing-the-gap-report-key-indigenous-measures-voice-referendum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1p0jJg8fRM

> The Voice Referendum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Australian_Indigenous_Voice_referendum
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-62374703
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-67110193


I alt ca. 33 sider
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 15 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 9 9. Language, Identity and Global English

We pick up from the 2nd year theme about global English and explore the connection between language and identity. We study how English has pushed out small languages especially during the time of the Empire - and how local languages, particularly in former British colonies such as Nigeria, are influencing English today.


Texts/Materials (Kernetekster):
- English is picking up brilliant new words from around the world, The Guardian, Dec. 2022 - 3s.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/12/english-words-world-global-speakers-language
- War of words as Nigerian English recognised by Oxford English Dictionary, BBC, March 2020 - 4s.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IHgyTl0Aq4BI4bdbC42_K_nqhsiKl5Uq/edit
- Jay Walker: The world’s English mania TED Talk, 2009 - 2s.
https://www.ted.com/talks/jay_walker_the_world_s_english_mania/transcript
- Glennis Galbat-Newry: Miriwoong waniwoogeng! Language is the only way to understand…, (opinion piece, The Guardian, Sept. 2016) - 2,5s
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/sep/04/miriwoong-waniwoogeng-language-is-the-only-way-to-understand-our-ancient-culture


Extra (Supplerende materialer):
- Sassy Funke: 7 Common Nigerian Pidgin English Phrases You Need to Survive in Lagos, Nigeria (YouTube-video) - 1s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ugu-3DtSXX0
- BBC-Pidgin (website) - 1s
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin
- Perspektivering til DK: Fylder engelske låneord for meget i det danske sprog? (artikel fra Akademikerbladet) - 1s
https://dm.dk/akademikerbladet/magasinet/2024/dm-akademikerbladet-nr-1-2024/fylder-engelske-laaneord-for-meget-i-det-danske-sprog/


I alt ca. 14 sider
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 5 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 10 10. Presidential Election - USA Today

In this course we explore some of the issues that are prominent in the Presidential Election 2024.  Which political topics are important to the American voters? What are some of the topics that divide the country? In the course we study how Trump and Harris communicate through campaign ads - which values do they highlight? Which voters do they speak to? Furthermore we look into the Capitol Hill Attack by watching the documentary Stopping the Steal. We analyse a number of speeches and opinion pieces and focus on non-fiction analysis - using the rhetorical pentagram and studying the rhetorical features and use of language in the texts.

Texts/Materials: (Kernetekster):
> Campaign videos: - 5s.
- Trump Ads: Four More + I Don't Want
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwbBxC8lIw8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8hAFHB54gE
- Harris Ads: You Will Be Protected | Harris-Walz 2024 + Fit To Lead | Harris-Walz 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zNmmiYjDgQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZobWPTtxziQ

> The Attack on Capitol Hill:
- Dan Reed: Stopping the Steal, 2024 (documentary) 10s.
https://www.dr.dk/drtv/program/trump-og-tyveriet_476969
- Donald Trump: Speech at the January 6 Ellipse Rally, 2021, excerpts (speech) - 4s.
https://www.npr.org/2021/02/10/966396848/read-trumps-jan-6-speech-a-key-part-of-impeachment-trial

> Speeches on immigration:
- Barack Obama: Speech on Immigration, 2016 - 3s.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/11/20/remarks-President-address-nation-immigration
- Donald Trump: Speech in Congress, March 2025 (excerpt on immigrants) - 3s.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1t_a_CFi7bV7yc6IDkKscSRhxhqeQ8z8Y/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=105670031610417316834&rtpof=true&sd=true

> Opinion pieces on abortion:
- Fox News: I have had previous abortions, but Georgia's heartbeat law saved my son's life, 2024 - 2s.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/previous-abortions-georgias-heartbeat-law-saved-sons-life
- NYT: Both My Abortions Were Necessary. Only One Gets Sympathy, 2024 - 3s.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/25/opinion/abortions-necessary-sympathy.html?searchResultPosition=22


Extra (Supplerende materialer):
> Pew Research: Issues American Voters find important in the 2024 Election - 1s.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/09/09/issues-and-the-2024-election/
> Lorraine Ali: ‘Stopping the Steal’ examines Trump’s attempt to subvert 2020 election, and what it means for 2024 (abbr.), LA Times, Sept. 2024 - 2s.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2024-09-17/stopping-the-steal-documentary-hbo-trump


I alt ca. 33 sider
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 9 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 11 11. Love and Gender Roles - and Shakespeare

In this course we explore how love, relationships, gender roles and gender stereotypes are portrayed in literature and film today and in earlier times. We ask questions such as:
- How do Romeo and Juliet challenge gender roles of their time?
- How does Kate Chopin challenge the expectations of women in the late 1800s?
- How does Grease depict - and challenge - gender stereotypes?
- What are the expectations of men and women today - how does Kevin Love question modern masculine ideals?
- How does Shakespeare portray love in Romeo and Juliet?
- How does modern fiction portray love and relationships?

Texts/Materials (Kernetekster):

- Shakespeare, William: Romeo and Juliet, excerpts (play)
Originally written in 1590's - read in Oxford School Shakespeare, 2008
1. The prologue - 1s
2. Act 1, Scene 5 - the first meeting - Love at first sight ♥️ (excerpts) - 5s.
3. Act 3, Scene 5 + Act 4, Scene 1 - Juliet defies her father (excerpts) - 5s.
Besides:
- Shakespeare, William: Sonnet 18 - 1s.
- Luhrmann, Baz: Romeo and Juliet, 1996 (film) - 10s.

Love and gender roles/gender steereotypes in various texts/films:  
- Kate Chopin: The Storm, short story, 1898 - 3s.
https://americanliterature.com/author/kate-chopin/short-story/the-storm/
- Summer Nights, lyrics from the film Grease, 1978 - 1s.
- Grease, film, 1978, film - 5s.
- Kevin Love: Everyone is Going Through Something, opinion piece, 2018 - 3s.
(fra eksamenssæt)

Modern short stories on Love and relationships:  
- John A. McCaffrey: Words 1s
- Pamela Painter: Toasters 1s
(Both from: Thomas, James + Shapard, Robert: Flash Fiction Forward, Norton, 2006)
- Catherine Smith: Jellyfish - 4s.
(fra eksamenssæt)


Extra (Supplerende materiale):
- Vox.com: Waves of Feminism - 10s.
https://www.vox.com/2018/3/20/16955588/feminism-waves-explained-first-second-third-fourth
- SparkNotes: Gender Roles in Shakespeare’s England - 1,5s.
https://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/life-and-times/social-context/women-in-shakespeares-england/
- Kate Chopin: The story of an Hour, short story, 1898 - 2s
https://www.katechopin.org/story-hour/
> Nicholas Kristoff: The Case for Saying ‘I Do’, opinion piece, 2024, abbr. - 1,5s.
https://www.nytimes.com/by/nicholas-kristof


I alt ca. 55 sider
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 20 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer
Titel 12 12. War - Experiences of War (2g + 3g)

Texts/Materials (Kernetekster):

WW1
- Mendes, Sam: 1917 (film) - 5s.

WW1 Poetry:
-  Brooke, Rupert: The Soldier, 1914 - 0,5s.
> Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson : The Messages, 1914 - 0,5s.
> Owen, Wilfred: Dulce Et Decorum Est, 1917 - 1s.
> Brittain, Vera: Perhaps, 1916 - 0,5s.
> Sassoon, Siegfried: Hero, 1918 - 0,5s.


PTSD - and War Veterans Today
- The Guardian: Fight or Flight - Veterans at war with PTSD, 2018 (documentary) - 3s.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/video/2018/nov/08/fight-or-flight-the-veterans-at-war-with-ptsd-video
- Major Carlos Huerta: Leaving the Battlefield,  2012, abbr. (comment/opinion piece) - 2,5s.
https://www.army.mil/article/78562/leaving_the_battlefield_soldier_shares_story_of_ptsd


Extra (Supplerende materiale):
- Imperial War Museum: How did WW1 start? (video) - 1s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=c7nUDLKKEBY
- Mary Catherine McDonald, Marisa Brandt, Robyn Bluhm: From shellshock to PTSD - 6s.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/from-shell-shock-to-ptsd-a-century-of-invisible-war-trauma
- The ReLit Foundation: The  Poetry of Shellshock (video) - 2s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiwuj8XxJ0E
- Clip from Testament of Youth (about Vera Brittain and Roland Leighton) - 1s.

Army Ads
> This is Belonging - Expressing my emotions (Army Jobs, UK) - 1s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTqqS5OrLGU
> Be All You Can Be (U.S. Army) - 1s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwx-2R9swDg


I alt ca. 25 sider
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 12 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer