From the Renaissance to the Puritan Age

Prof.ssa ALESSANDRA GALLETTA
CLASSE IV SEZ.C
ANNO SCOLASTICO 2015 -2016
PROGRAMMA DI LINGUA E LETTERATURA INGLESE
LETTERATURA
TESTO IN ADOZIONE “LIT AND LAB” VOL.1,
M.SPIAZZI M.TAVELLA ED.ZANICHELLI
MODULO 1
From the Renaissance to the Puritan Age
W:Shakespeare: from Macbeth
"The letter to Lady Macbeth" (photocopy)
“The Three Witches”
“Duncan’s Murder”
“Punishment”
“Macbeth’s Last Monologue”
from Hamlet
" To be or not to be"
from Othello
"Iago's jealousy"
"Othello decides to kill Desdemona"
"Eros and Thanatos"
The Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I
The symbolism of power
Microcosm and Macrocosm
The Tudors and the Stuarts
Theatre as the Mirror of Life
The Puritans
Paradise Lost by J.Milton
Text: “Satan’s Speech” by J.Milton
Adam and Eve
The Restoration
The Historical and social contextThe Glorious Revolution
MODULO 2
The Augustan Age
Reason and Common Sense
The First Hanoverians
Artifice and real life: a survey of Augustan literature
The Rise of the Novel
DANIEL DEFOE
Life and works
from “Robinson Crusoe”:
The Island
Man Friday
Good vs Evil
From “Moll Flanders”:
Moll becomes a Thief
JONATHAN SWIFT
Plot, sources and the character of Gulliver
Hints : "A modest Proposal"
SAMUEL RICHARDSON
from" Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded"
The Rich despise the Poor.
epistulary novel
Modulo 3
ARGOMENTI EXTRATESTUALI
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The tragic hero/heroine
The Puritan Mind
Analogies and differences between Puritan and Victorian Age
Tan addiction
Denotation and Connotation
Esercitazioni pratiche di traduzione e di doppiaggio cinematografico (prof. A.Rocca)
The terroristic attack in Paris
ARGOMENTI GRAMMATICALI
verbal tenses (consecutio temporum in an essay)
word formation ( prefixes and suffixes)
use of connectives
verbs and adjectives + prepositions
reported speech
passive voice
if-clauses
infinitive
Modulo 4
ATTIVITA’ SVOLTE CON IL LETTORE MADRELINGUA Ben Shilling
 How to paraphrase a sentence, how to make a speech: introduction, ideas, conclusion.
 How to write an opinion essay
 Narrative tenses
 Culture: language, literature, religion, history, fashion,art, weather, food, traditions, etc.
 Presentation of a celebrity: introduction, early life, works, later life, conclusion (quotation)
 W.Owen, B.Moore, D. Lean, S. Hawking,N. Foster, P.Sellers, V.Westwood, etc.
 Advantages and disadvantages of living in town - how to express pros and cons
 "Life today is better than 100 years ago": how to express agreement or disagreement
 All types of films (detective, crime, horror, action, thriller, etc.)
 communicative functions (agree, disagree, accept, refuse, complain, apologize, etc.)
 Phrasal verbs
Roma, 02.06.2016
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