Literature

PROGRAMMA DI LINGUA INGLESE
CLASSE 4° BD
a.s. 2015/2016
Prof.ssa Carla Mattioni
Literature
Lorenzo-Pellati ''Bridges between Past&Present'' -Black Cat
Geoffrey Chauser : Canterbury tales
The Prioress
⁃ William Shakespear : Othello
The merchant of Venice
Twelfth night
King Lear
⁃ Newton
⁃ The death penalty
⁃ Nelson Mandela
⁃ The epistolary novel
⁃ Samuel Richardson with Pamela (comparaison to: Shamela)
⁃ The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
⁃ Atlantic tract of African slaves
⁃ The American’s revolution and the Costituction
⁃ Coffee Houses
⁃ Newspapers
⁃ The birth of political parties
⁃ The restauration and the Augustan age
⁃ The epistolary novel
⁃ The rise of novel
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⁃ William Hogarth with: ‘’Marriage à-la monde’’
‘’Grahamer children’s’’
⁃ Sir. Cristopher Wren with: ‘’St. Paul’s cathedral’’
⁃ ‘’Church of St. Mary-le-bow‘’
⁃ Jonathan Swift with ‘’Gulliver’s travel
⁃ Daniel Defoe: life and background
‘’Robinson Crusoe” with the texts :
‘’The Upper Station of Low Life’’(pag. 90)
‘’Friday’’ (pag. 92)
⁃ William Blake : ‘’ The Lamb’’(pag 112) and ‘’The Tyger’’(pag. 114)
Blake visioner, writer and painter.
⁃ Thomas Hobbes
⁃ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
⁃ Charles Montesquieu
⁃ Goethe with ‘’The sorrows of young Werther’’
⁃ Ugo Foscolo : ‘’The last letters of Jacopo Ortis’’
‘’Dei Sepolcri’’
Grammar
Nava-Downes ''Burlington english grammar third edition''- Mondadori
⁃ ‘’Duration form’’ vera e apparente
⁃ ‘’Passive form’’
Design
• The famous coffee House chair is an icon . Michael Thonet
• Le Corbusier, Zig Zag chair
• Marcel Breuer, Wassily chair
Docente
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Alunni
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