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Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser
Termin(er) 2025/26
Institution Gammel Hellerup Gymnasium
Fag og niveau Engelsk A
Lærer(e) Annemarie Sandoval
Hold 2025 EN/3m (3m EN)

Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb
Titel 1 Modernism & Postmodernism EKSAMENSEMNE
Titel 2 Horror
Titel 3 Shakespeare EKSAMENSEMNE
Titel 4 Existentialism EKSAMENSEMNE
Titel 5 Speeches and stylistic devices EKSAMENSEMNE

Beskrivelse af de enkelte undervisningsforløb (1 skema for hvert forløb)
Titel 1 Modernism & Postmodernism EKSAMENSEMNE

Focus:
- Why Modernism? The turn of the century , a new world order & The Great War
- Stream of Consciousness
- Fragmentation, irony, comedy & gender roles in Post-Modernism
- Differences & similarities between Modernism & Post-Modernism


MODERNISM:
Non-Fiction:
- Modernism handout (extract from "A Short History of Literature in English")
Art:
- Pablo Picasso - "Guernica"
Poetry:
- Dylan Thomas - "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night"
Fiction:
- extracts from Virginia Woolf´s "Mrs. Dalloway"
- Ernest Hemmingway - "The Snows of Kilimanjaro"
- extract from F. Scott Fitzgerald "The Great Gatsby"
- extract from H.G. Wells´ "The War of the Worlds"

POST-MODERNISM:
Non-Fiction:
- Post-Modernism handout (extract from "A Short History of Literature in English")
- "The Death of Post-modernism and Beyond" by Alan Kirby (from "Philosophy Now")
Art:
- Marco Evaristti - "Helena" (fish blender)
Poetry:
- "Kid" by Simon Armitage
- "Your Dog Dies" by Raymond Carver
Fiction:
- extract from "The British Museum is Falling Down" by David Lodge
- "The Rejection" by Woody Allen
- extract from "Bridget Jones´s Diary" by Helen Fielding

Movie:
- "Midnight in Paris"

Songs:
- "Starman" by David Bowie
- "I Want to Break Free" by Queen
- "Born this Way" by Lady Ganga & Beyoncé

Grammar:
- Exercises from BBC Learning website: Upper Intermediate Level
- The Indefinite Article (review from your 2g- material)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 12 moduler
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Titel 2 Horror

EKSAMENS EMNE

Focus:
- The purpose of this unit is to introduce the Horror genre through examples from several literary periods. The following characteristics  of the genre will be explored:
* the Gothic Machinery
* Freud´s theory of "The Uncanny"
* Burke & Kant´s "The Sublime"
* Ann Radcliffe & Stephen King´s definitions of "terror, horror & gross-out"

Non-fiction:
"King on King" - interview with Stephen King (Playboy magazine 1983).

Fictional texts:
- From the Enlightment/The Age of Reason: Chapter 1 of "The Castle of Otranto" by Horace Walpole.
- From the Romantic Age: Extracts from Chapters 5, 17 & 20 of "Frankestein" by Mary Shelley, "The Raven" and "The - Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe.
- From the Victorian Age: Extracts from "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson.
- From Modernism: Extracts from "The Turn of the Screw" by Henry James.
- From Post-Modernism: Extracts from "American Psycho" by Bret Easton Ellis: "The Bum" and "Girl"

Films:
- "The Conjuring 4: Last Rites" (2025)
- "Frankenstein" (2025)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 15 moduler
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Titel 3 Shakespeare EKSAMENSEMNE

EKSAMENS EMNE

Focus:
- Iambic Pentameter
- The Elizabethan World Picture
- The Tragic Hero in Shakespearean plays

Non-fiction:
- Text: The Elizabethan World Picture (compendium)
- Iambic Pentamenter (Definition)
- Chapter 9 of Ole Juul Lund´s book "Shakespeare - Lives and Works". Gyldendal.
- Shakesperean Phrases - from The New York Times Learning Network

Fiction: The following Works by William Shakespeare

Drama & poetry:
- The Seven Ages of Man (from Act II, Scene VII of "As You Like It")
- Sonnets 18, 116 & 130

- "Romeo & Juliet":
  Act I
  Act II, Scene 2
  Act V, Scene 3

- "Macbeth":
   Act I
   Act V, Scene 1

- "Hamlet":
   Act I, Scenes 1 & 5
   Act III, Scene 1

- Movie: "Macbeth" by Justin Kurzel

- poem - "How I didn´t Get Myself to a Nunnery" by Suzanne Lummis, published in The New Yorker

Grammar:
- Using prepositions (repetition): avoiding the use of preposition plus "that" & preposition & "infinitive"
- Exercises from the BBC Learning site (intermediate & upper intermediate level)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 21 moduler
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Titel 4 Existentialism EKSAMENSEMNE

Fiction & poetry:
- "Mirror" by Sylvia Plath
- "On this day I complete my thirty-sixth year" by George Gordon Lord Byron
- "Ode to a Nightingale" by John Keats
- "Fear" by Raymond Carver
- "Samsa in Love" by Haruki Murakami

Non-fiction:
- Essay: "The Myth of Sisyphus" by Albert Camus (translated from French)
- "Did Franz Kafka invent letters from a missing doll to comfort a little girl" article by Dan McGuill in Snopes

Songs:
- "Hurt" by Nine Inch Nails
- "Creep" by Radiohead
- "Breathe Me" by Sia Furler

Illustration:
- "Pinochio's Second Realization" from The New Yorker

Movie:
- "Dead Poets Society" (1989)
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: Ikke angivet
Dækker over: 13 moduler
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Titel 5 Speeches and stylistic devices EKSAMENSEMNE

The focus has been on how to analyse speeches, on analtical aspects like sender, receivers, medium, corcumstance/occasion, topic, structure, style and language, message and intention. The students have delved into the use of rhetorical appeal forms - logos ethos, pathos and various figures of speech.

- Jacinda Ardern. “Harvard Commencement Speech – Democracy, disinformation and kindness”, a speech from The official website of the New Zealand Government, 2022. KERNESTOF

- Hasan Kwame Jeffries Why we Must Confront our Painful Past, TEDtalk, 2020
(https://www.ted.com/talks/hasan_kwame_jeffries_why_we_must_confront_the_painful_parts_of_us_history) KERNESTOF

- King Charles' speech to the US Congress, April 2026 (https://www.lectio.dk/lectio/9/lc/80208949903/res/80249180513/King%20Charles%20addresses%20Congress%2C%20April%2028th%202026.docx ) KERNESTOF

-  Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address, 1863 KERNESTOF

-  Martin Luther King Jr., I have a Dream, 1963 KERNESTOF

-  Amanda Gorman, inaugural poem, The Hill We Climb, 2021

- The Rhetorical Triangle: Understanding and Using Logos, Ethos, and Pathos, prepared November 2009 by Jaclyn Lutzke and Mary F. Henggeler. SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS
INDIANA UNIVERSITY, University Writing Center (background material) KERNESTOF
- A LIST OF RHETORICAL TERMS background material
Indhold
Kernestof:
Omfang Estimeret: 14,00 moduler
Dækker over: 14 moduler
Særlige fokuspunkter
Væsentligste arbejdsformer