PROGRAMMA DI LINGUA E CIVILTA’ INGLESE
ANNO SCOLASTICO 2015-2016
CLASSE 3E, LICEO SCIENTIFICO OPZIONE SCIENZE APPLICATE
LIBRO DI TESTO: SPIAZZI, TAVELLA, LAYTON, PERFORMER CULTURE AND
LITERATURE VOL. 1, ZANICHELLI
DOCENTE: CRISTIAN CAROTENUTO
SPECIFICATION 1: The Birth of the Nation
Meet the Celts
Text “Of the Druids”
Roman Britain
Welcome to Roman Britain
The Anglo-saxons
Beowulf: A national epic
Text “Beowulf and Grendel: the Fight”
The Viking attacks
The Norman invasion
The Domesday Book
SPECIFICATION 2: Developing society
A war of succession
King John and the Magna Carta
The birth of Parliament
Feudal society
Geoffrey Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales
Text “When in April sweet showers fall”
Text “The Wife of Bath”
The Black Death: a human tragedy
The Wars of the Roses
SPECIFICATION 3: A Cultural Awakening
Meet the Tudors: Henry VII, Henry VIII, Mary, Elizabeth
The English Renaissance
The Sonnet
Text “I find no peace” (Thomas Wyatt)
Text “Pace non trovo” (Petrarch)
Text “Death be not proud” (John Donne)
Text “My Mistress' Eyes” (William Shakespeare)
King by divine right
The Gunpowder plot
SPECFICATION 4: William Shakespeare: England's genius
Why study Shakespeare?
William Shakespeare: Life and features
Shakespeare's London
The structure of the theatre
Romeo and Juliet: plot and features.
Texts: “Two households”
“The ball”
“With a kiss I die”.
Macbeth: plot and Features.
Texts: “The Three Witches”
“Duncan's Murder”
“Macbeth's last monologue”
The Tempest: plot and features.
Texts: “The Tempest”
“Prospero renounces his magic”
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Plot and features.
Texts: “The love potion”
“An ass-head”
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