LICEO CLASSICO “GIULIO CESARE” ROMA
CLASSE I H
ANNO SCOLASTICO 2009-2010
PROF. CARLA ROLANDI
PROGRAMMA DI INGLESE
TESTI
Soars : New Headway Upper-Intermediate Coursebook –workbook O.U.P. Ed.
G. Thomson S. Maglioni : New Literary Landscapes volume unico Black Cat Ed.
* = contenuti irrinunciabili e/o obiettivi minimi per ritenere lo studente idoneo alla
classe successive.
*LANGUAGE STUDY :
Present perfect, past tense, past perfect (simple and continuous forms),future tenses,
modal verbs, passive forms, hypothetical periods, gerund/infinitive, prefixes,
adverbs, prepositions, compound nouns, quantifiers, relative clauses, question
forms, , time expressions, phrasal verbs.
Reading comprehension ( fotocopie di attualità ) ,exploration, analysis, writing a
summary, answering questions.
Letture Estive
Beowulf - Great English Monarchs - the Canterbury Tales.
Rappresentazioni teatrali
Macbeth - Hamlet di W. Shakespeare
Proiezioni video in lingua originale ( Lab. Linguistico e Lab. di Informatica)
England in the Middle Ages - King Arthur - G. Chaucer - Elizabeth - Shakespeare
in love - Romeo and Juliet - Hamlet - The Scarlet Letter
ENGLISH LITERATURE:
THE DRAMATC TEXT
THE POETIC TEXT
* DRAMA
(Comedy, Tragedy)
* POETRY (Poems- The Epic Poem, The Ballad,
The Sonnet)
*FROM THE ORIGINS TO THE MIDDLE AGES
*Socio-Historical Context - Cultural Context
*The first settlers: The Iberians and the Celts; Stonehenge;*the Romans and the
Anglo-Saxons;*The coming of Christianity; the Vikings invasion,*Old English;
Poems and Chronicles;*Beowulf;*The Norman conquest,*The Plantagenets; The
Peasants’ Revolt;*the feudal society;*courtly literature and romances;*Geoffrey
Chaucer’s life and works; the Houses of Lancaster and York; *from Old English to
Middle English;*The Medieval Ballad.
Documents : The Mystery of Stonehenge – The Evolution of the Language
Epic Poem
*Anonymous : Beowulf
‘Beowulf and Grendel : the Fight’
‘Beowulf’s Death’
Medieval literature * Geoffrey Chaucer : Canterbury Tales
‘General Prologue’
‘ The Knight’
‘The Wife of Bath’
‘The Prioress’
‘The Merchant’
The Ballad
*Anonymous
‘Geordie’
‘Lord Randal’
‘L’Avvelenato’
*THE RENAISSANCE
*Socio Historical Context - Cultural Context
*Humanism under the Tudor dynasty; the Italian influence; *he Reformation;*Henry
VIII; T. More;*Queen Elizabeth;*poetry in the Elizabethan age;*Elizabethan theatre ;
*Shakespeare; the Blank verse, *the petrarchan and the elizabethan sonnet; Wyatt,
Surrey, Sidney, Spenser, *Shakespeare’s sonnets,* C.Marlowe.
Document : Creative writing (a sonnet)
Poetry (The Sonnet)
*T. Wyatt
‘I Find no Peace’ (traduzione del sonetto di
Petrarca ‘Pace non Trovo’)
* E. Spenser ‘One Day I Wrote Her Name’ (from Amoretti)
* W. Shakespeare
‘My Mistress’ Eyes’
‘ The Marriage of true Mind’
‘Like as the Waves’
‘Shall I Compare Thee’
Drama
*W. Shakespeare
from
‘Romeo and Juliet’:
‘ The Prologue’
‘The Balcony Scene’(Act II-Scene I)
* W. Shakespeare from
‘Hamlet’ :
‘To be or not to be’ (Act III-Scene I)
*W .Shakespeare from
‘Macbeth’:
‘The Three Witches’
‘Duncan’s Murder’
‘A Tale by An Idiot’
‘The Exchange of Roles’
*C. Marlowe
from
‘Doctor Faustus’ :
‘Faustus’s Last Monologue’
THE PURITAN AGE AND THE RESTORATION
*Socio - Historical Context, Cultural Context
*The Stuarts; the Civil War; *Cromwell and the Commonwealth;* the Puritan
mind;*Glorious Revolution; Poetry in the Jacobean Age: Cavalier and *Metaphysical
poetry; *The Conceit and the Paradox; *John Donne; *John Milton’s life and works;
*Culture in the Restoration period; the reopening of the theatres; the Comedy of
manners; *The colonization in America;*the Puritan emigration. *Puritans in
America: N. Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter.
Documents: Puritanism in America - The parable of Talents
*J. Donne
* J. Milton
Gli Alunni
from ‘Holy Sonnets’ :
‘Batter My Heart’
‘Death’
Sonnet ‘On his Blindness’
from
‘Paradise Lost’ :
‘Satan’s Speech’
Prof. Carla Rolandi
