LICEO LINGUISTICO EUROPEO PROGRAMMA A.S. 2011/2012 CLASSE III LETTERATURA E STORIA (testo: Thomson e Maglioni, Literary vol.i) Early Britain: a history of invasions The Celts,Celtic culture from Bronze Age to New Age, Roman Britain, Roman civilisation in Britain, The Anglo-Saxons, Anglo-Saxon Art, the Vikings. The Norman Conquest and after The Normans, The feudal system, a ime of reform, Church and State, The fortunes of war, The shaping of public opinion, The Black Death, The Peasants Revolt, Money changes everything: the emergence of the middle classes, Buying time: mercantilism and the Church. Anglo-Saxon Literature Oral literature, From scop to rap,early Anglo-Saxon verse, Old English, The earliest figurative language, Early poems, Beowulf, The rise of Middle English. G. Chaucer: Life and works, features and themes, The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer s pilgrims, reading of The General Prologue. Medieval drama Miracle and mystery plays, morality plays, Everyman. Medieval poetry The ballad Medieval prose Arthurian romance The English Renaissance The spirit of Renaissance curiosity, The centrality of man From Tudors to Stuarts The Tudors, The Reformation, Schools, The age of religious persecution, The reign of Elizabeth I, The myth of Elizabeth and the dream of the reformed empire, The Battle for naval supremacy,, the years after Elizabeth, The Pilgrim Fathers. Literature during the Renaissance A search for meaning, A literature of Questions.
Renaissance Prose Thomas More: Life and Works, plot and features of Utopia. Reading and understanding of the passage The labours of life Renaissance Poetry The Sonnet. Edmund Spenser: life and works, reading of One Day I Wrote Her Name. Module 1: Units 1-5 Module 1: Units 6-9
LICEO SCIENTIFICO PROGRAMMA A.S. 2011/2012 CLASSE III LETTERATURA E STORIA (testo: Thomson e Maglioni, Literary vol.i) Early Britain: a history of invasions The Celts,Celtic culture from Bronze Age to New Age, Roman Britain, Roman civilisation in Britain, The Anglo-Saxons, Anglo-Saxon Art, the Vikings. The Norman Conquest and after The Normans, The feudal system, a ime of reform, Church and State, The fortunes of war, The shaping of public opinion, The Black Death, The Peasants Revolt, Money changes everything: the emergence of the middle classes, Buying time: mercantilism and the Church. Anglo-Saxon Literature Oral literature, From scop to rap,early Anglo-Saxon verse, Old English, The earliest figurative language, Early poems, Beowulf, The rise of Middle English. G. Chaucer: Life and works, features and themes, The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer s pilgrims, reading of The General Prologue. Medieval drama Miracle and mystery plays, morality plays, Everyman. Medieval poetry The ballad Medieval prose Arthurian romance The English Renaissance The spirit of Renaissance curiosity, The centrality of man From Tudors to Stuarts The Tudors, The Reformation, Schools, The age of religious persecution, The reign of Elizabeth I, The myth of Elizabeth and the dream of the reformed empire, The Battle for naval supremacy,, the years after Elizabeth, The Pilgrim Fathers. Literature during the Renaissance A search for meaning, A literature of Questions. Renaissance Prose Thomas More: Life and Works, plot and features of Utopia. Reading and understanding of the passage The labours of life
Renaissance Poetry The Sonnet. Edmund Spenser: life and works, reading of One Day I Wrote Her Name. Module 1: Units 1-5 Module 1: Units 6-9
LICEO LINGUISTICO EUROPEO PROGRAMMAZIONE DIDATTICA A.S. 2011/2012 CLASSE IV LETTERATURA E STORIA (testo: Thomson e Maglioni, Literary Hyperlinks vol.i e vol 2) The rise of puritanism (1625-1660) Charles I: an absolute king, the English Civil War and the Commonwealth, the Puritans, Literature during the Puritan Age: prose writing and poetry John Milton: life and works, features and themes. Paradise Lost: plot, structure, political dimension and language. Reading and understanding of A heaven of hell The Restoration (1660-1714) The restoration of the monarchy, the libertines, a new kind of monarchy, the Scottish and the Irish question. Literature during the Restoration Restoration prose and the rise of rationalism, Restoration poets, Restoration comedy The Augustan Age (1714-1760) The beginning of the Hanoverian dynasty, the Augustan Age, the rise of the middle classes Augustan Literature Augustan prose, augustan poetry, augustan drama The rise of the novel, mother of the novel, Formal variety (the realist novel, the literature of the fantastic, the bourgeois sentimental novel, the comic novel and the experimental novel) Daniel Defoe: Life and Works, Features and Themes, Plot and interpretations of Robinson Crusoe. Reading and Understanding of the extracts: The means of survival, Friday. Jonathan Swift: Life and Works, features and themes, plot of Gulliver s Travels and interpretations The Romantic Age (1776-1837) Historical and Social Background (Britain 1776-1837,North America, From the beginnings to 1823) The Age of Revolutions: the Industrial Revolution, The French Revolution, The Napoleonic wars, Free trade and political repression, the road to reform The Literary Background: The Romantic Period, Introduction, Pre-Romanticism, Romanticism in Britain (Romantic Poetry: main features, Poets of the First: Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Lyrical Ballads and Second Generation: Shelley and Keats) Module 3: Units 9-14 Certificazione Europea: Preparazione per l esame Cambridge FCE
LICEO SCIENTIFICO PROGRAMMAZIONE DIDATTICA A.S. 2011/2012 CLASSE IV LETTERATURA E STORIA (testo: Thomson e Maglioni, Literary Hyperlinks vol.i e vol 2) The rise of puritanism (1625-1660) Charles I: an absolute king, the English Civil War and the Commonwealth, the Puritans, Literature during the Puritan Age: prose writing and poetry John Milton: life and works, features and themes. Paradise Lost: plot, structure, political dimension and language. Reading and understanding of A heaven of hell The Restoration (1660-1714) The restoration of the monarchy, the libertines, a new kind of monarchy, the Scottish and the Irish question. Literature during the Restoration Restoration prose and the rise of rationalism, Restoration poets, Restoration comedy The Augustan Age (1714-1760) The beginning of the Hanoverian dynasty, the Augustan Age, the rise of the middle classes Augustan Literature Augustan prose, augustan poetry, augustan drama The rise of the novel, mother of the novel, Formal variety (the realist novel, the literature of the fantastic, the bourgeois sentimental novel, the comic novel and the experimental novel) Daniel Defoe: Life and Works, Features and Themes, Plot and interpretations of Robinson Crusoe. Reading and Understanding of the extracts: The means of survival, Friday. Jonathan Swift: Life and Works, features and themes, plot of Gulliver s Travels and interpretations The Romantic Age (1776-1837) Historical and Social Background (Britain 1776-1837,North America, From the beginnings to 1823) The Age of Revolutions: the Industrial Revolution, The French Revolution, The Napoleonic wars, Free trade and political repression, the road to reform The Literary Background: The Romantic Period, Introduction, Pre-Romanticism, Romanticism in Britain (Romantic Poetry: main features, Poets of the First: Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Lyrical Ballads and Second Generation: Shelley and Keats) Module 3: Units 9-14 Certificazione Europea: Preparazione per l esame Cambridge FCE