LICEO SCIENTIFICO STATALE “ A. MESSEDAGLIA”
VERONA
PROGRAMMA SVOLTO
4B
INGLESE
classe
prof. Cristina Giustinelli
a.s. 2015-2016
Libri di testo:
• Spiazzi - Tavella, Only Connect…New Directions 1 e 2, Zanichelli
• Bonomi-Pesenti-Barili-Schwimmenthal, Grammar Matters, Principato
• Brandt, Laser B2, Macmillan
Letteratura
The Renaissance
The Tudor dynasty, The Reformation, the reign of Elizabeth I, the beginning of the Stuart dynasty, Tudor and early Stuart society, new
learning, Renaissance prose, the sonnet, Rhythm and scale of consonant sounds, the development of drama, the world of theatre,
drama as a litetary genre, the features of a dramatic text, the Elizabethan sonnetiers.
William Shakespeare life, sonnets “Shall I compare thee”, “My Mistress’ Eyes”. Shakespeare the dramatist: Romeo and Juliet:
introduction, “The Prologue” + text analysis, “The Masque”, “The Balcony Scene”+ text analysis. Hamlet: introduction, “Hamlet meets
the ghost” + text analysis, “To be or not to be” + commentary. Othello: introduction, “Iago’s jealousy” + text analysis, “Eros and
Thanatos” + text analysis. Macbeth: introduction, “Duncan’s murder” + text analysis.
The Puritan Age
Charles I and the clash with Parliament, the Civil War and the Commonwealth, the puritan mind, predestination, from celebration to
introspection, metaphysical poetry.
John Donne “A Valediction: forbidding Mourning”, life and works. John Milton: about Paradise Lost, “On his Blindness” + text
analysis, life and works.
The Restoration
The restoration of the monarchy, the Glorious Revolution, scientific rigour and intellectual clarity, wit and science, the enjoyment of the
senses.
The Augustan Age
The first Hannoverians, reason and common sense, Enlighment, artifice and real life, journalism, the rise of the novel, introduction to
fiction as a literary genre,
Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe: introduction, “The island” + text analysis, “Evil vs Good” + text analysis, “Man Friday” + text analysis,
life and works. Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal “It is a melancholy object”. Gulliver’s Travels: introduction, “The Inventory” +
text analysis + text analysis, life and works.
Poetry: rhythm and scale of consonants sounds; the layout and some figures of speech
Drama as a literary genre; the features of a dramatic text; the features of a comedy
Fiction: introduction to fiction as a genre; types of novels; the features of a narrative text; satire, irony and homour
Non-fiction as a literary genre
The Early Romantic Age
Britain and America, industrial and agricultural revolution, industrial society, emotion vs reason, the sublime, new trends in poetry, the
Gothic novel.
Thomas Gray su ”Elegy written in a Country Churchyard”, life and works. William Blake “The Lamb” + text analysis, “The Tyger” +
text analisys, life and works
The Romantic Age
William Wordsworth ”A certain colouring of Imagination” + text analysis, “Daffodils” + text analisys, “The solitary Reaper” + text
analysis, life and works
Lingua
Revisione dei tempi verbali e delle principali strutture e funzioni linguistiche (tra cui: future in the past, fare+infinito, verbi di percezione).
Su Laser B2 : unità 5, 6, 7.
Approfondimenti
“Human Rights” con documenti cartacei e multimediali su Magna Charta, Bill of Rights, American Revolution and Declaration of
Independence, French Revolution and Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
“Shakespeare lives”
Il programma è stato comunicato in classe.
La docente
Cristina
Verona, lì 3 giugno 2016
Giustinelli
