Holdet 2025 3g EN/3 - Undervisningsbeskrivelse
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Undervisningsbeskrivelse

Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin(er) 2025/26
Institution Gladsaxe Gymnasium
Fag og niveau Engelsk A
Lærer(e) Jeppe Grønning Jensen
Hold 2025 3g EN/3 (3g EN/3)

Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 American Suburbia (OPGIVES)
Titel 2 British Attitudes to War I (OPGIVES)
Titel 3 Minimalism (OPGIVES)
Titel 4 My Vision for America
Titel 5 British Attitudes to War II (OPGIVES)
Titel 6 Love in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"
Titel 7 VÆRKLÆSNING: OF Mice and Men

Beskrivelse af de enkelte undervisningsforløb (1 skema for hvert forløb)
Titel 1 American Suburbia (OPGIVES)

This course introduces the students to American Suburbia through examples of different popular media. The course focuses on the prevalent issues portrayed as well as the difference in popular culture and real life.

Keywords for this course is
- Inner versus outher threats
- Alienation and oppression
- Utopia and Dystopia
- Conformity and independence
- Duality

Texts:
- Paradise Mislaid, Todd Leopold (https://edition.cnn.com/2011/12/22/showbiz/pop-culture-suburbia/index.html)

- "Little Things", Raymond Carver, 1988 from the collection; “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” (også udgivet som "Popular Mechanics" og "Mine")

- “Still of Some Use”, John Updike, 1987

- "The Victims of Sprawl", Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Jeff Speck, 2000

Visual material:
- Music Video; Green Day, "Jesus of Suburbia" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZFmaMbkUD4), 27. october, 2009
- TV-show, "Desperate Housewives", S01, E01, Charles McDougall, 3. Oktober, 2004
- Sam Mendes, "American Beauty”, 1999
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 12 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 2 British Attitudes to War I (OPGIVES)

This first part of the course introduces how Great Britain has reacted to war, starting with the romantic relationship of pre-WWI to WWI through poetry.
The focus of this course is on the relationship between the speaker, the perception of war and the differences therein. The course starts by examining and analyzing pro-war WWI posters and poetry.

Poetry:
Alfred Lord Tennyson, "The Charge of the Light Brigade", 1854
Rupert Brooke, "The Soldier" (1914)
John McCrae, "In Flanders Fields" (1915)
Siegfried Sassoon, "They", (1917)
Siegfried Sassoon, "The Hero" (1917)
Wilfred Owen, "Anthem for Doomed Youth", (1917)
Wilfred Owen,  "Dulce Et Decorum Est", (1918)

Films:
Peter Jackson, "They Shall not Grow Old", 2018
Sam Mendes, "1917", 2020
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 11 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 3 Minimalism (OPGIVES)

This course introduces the concept of Minimalism by introducing and working with the poems of Charles Bukowski, Raymond Carver short stories and Hemingway short stories.
The students will be offered a glance at Minimalism and its characteristics through various texts and their portrayal of life in America.



Texts:

Charles Bukowski

- Confession (poem)
 - 39 linjer
- a smile to remember (poem)
 - 23 linjer
- Nirvana (poem)

 - 30 linjer (i alt 92 linjer, ca. 3 ns)

Raymond Carver

- Neighbors (short story) - 4 ns
- Little Things (short story) - 1 ns
- The Idea (short story) - 3 ns (i alt 8 ns)



Ernest Hemingway
- Mr. and Mrs. Elliot (short story) - 3 ns
- Hills Like White Elephants (short story) - 3,2 ns (i alt 6,2 ns)

Samlet normalsider 18 ns
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 11 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 4 My Vision for America

The students have focused on the presentation and representation of America seen through political eyes. The focus has been on the art of rhetorics as well as structure and looking at how America is idealized.

The texts are:
John Winthrop: "A Model of *Christian Charity", 1630 (excerpt) - 2ns
Joe Biden: "Winning Speech", 7 November, 2020 - 4ns
Barack Obama: "Reclaiming the American Dream", 7 November, 2007 - 3,4 ns
Ronald Reagan: "A Vision for America", 3 November, 1980 - 4,4 ns

Film:
"Civil War", Alex Garland, 2024
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 14 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 5 British Attitudes to War II (OPGIVES)

This second part of the course continues to look at Great Britain's involvement in war, but this time through WWI speeches.

The focus of this course is on structuring a speech and to examine what has change in the relationship between particularly government and population, and to understand how Great Britain fared during WWII.
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 3 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 6 Love in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"

Representation of Love in Romeo and Juliet. This course introduces the sonnet form through reading several sonnets and examining form, content and themes. Furthermore, the students will delve into Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"  by reading extracts and focusing on comprehension, the representation of love as well as character analyses.

Extracts;
The Prologue
Act 1, Scene 1, lines 151-exeunt 1-2 moduler - love
Act 1, scene 5, lines 43-109 1-2 moduler - hate and love
Act 2, scene 2, prologue 1-2 moduler; de mødes
Artiklen 2 moduler


ca, 541 linjer = 18 normalsider

Film:
Luhrmann, Baz; "Romeo and Juliet", 1996
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 5,5 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer

Titel 7 VÆRKLÆSNING: OF Mice and Men

Reading Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" has been spread out over a vast period of time due to certain external factors.

The focus has been on classic analytical virtues such as
- characterisation
- setting
- analysis and interpretation
- language
- the time of writing
Indhold
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 0 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer