TRIENNIO SPERIMENTALE Contenuti della disciplina: INGL

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TRIENNIO SPERIMENTALE
Contenuti della disciplina:
INGLESE
Terzo anno ______________________________________________________________
A) GRAMMAR:
if-clauses (1°/2°/3° tipo), modali (have to; must; should; could mustn't; don't have to; be
allowed to), discorso indiretto.
B) HISTORY
From “NEW LITERARY LANDSCAPES”,Thomson-Maglioni, ed. Cideb
1. the Celts and the Romans in Britain
2. the Anglo-Saxons
3. the Danish invasion and King Alfred's reign
4. the Normans
5. Britain after the Norman conquest.
C) LITERATURE
From” NEW LITERARY LANDSCAPES”, Thomson-Maglioni, ed. Cideb
1. Anglo -Saxon literature
2. Literature in the late Middle Ages: the rise of Middle English
Medieval prose
Medieval drama
Medieval poetry: Geoffrey Chaucer - “The wife of Bath” from the Canterbury Tales
D) ART
From “LOOKING INTO ART”, Spiazzi-Tavella, ed. Zanichelli
1. Anglo-Saxon art
2. Norman architecture and Perpendicular Gothic style
from “SCHOLASTIC ART”:
analysis of a painting:
- Figure and ground
- Time and place setting
- Lines and shapes
- Colours amd their symbolism
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TRIENNIO SPERIMENTALE
Contenuti della disciplina:
INGLESE
Quarto anno _____________________________________________________________
A) HISTORY
From “LITERARY LANDSCAPES”, Thomson-Maglioni, Ed. Cideb
From Renaissance to Restoration:
- the English Renaissance : origin and features
- the Tudors and the Reformation
- Elisabeth I
- The years after Elizabeth
- The end of the monarchy and the English Civil war
- The Restoration of the monarchy
- William of Orange and the Bill of Rights
B) LITERATURE
From “ LITERACY LANDSCAPES”, Thomson-Maglioni, ed. Cideb
From Renaissance to Restoration:
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Renaissance poetry:
- Edmund Spenser: “One day I wrote her name” (on photocopy)
- William Shakespeare: Sonnet 18 and Sonnet 130
- John Donne: “A lecture upon the shadow
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Renaissance drama:
- Features of the Elizabethan theatre
- William Shakespeare: “ Romeo and Juliet” and “Hamlet”: extracts
• Literature during the Puritan Age: John Milton - “ Paradise Lost”: extract I
C) ART
From “LITERACY LANDSCAPES”, Thomson-Maglioni, Ed. Cideb
“LOOKING INTO ART”, Spiazzi-Tavella, ed. Zanichelli
From Renaissance to Restoration:
PAINTING:
- Hans Holbein the Younger: The Ambassadors
- Nicholas Hilliard and the art of miniatures
- Massys / Segar / Gower / Gheeraerts: Representation of power
- Antoine Van Dyck: aroyalist painter
- William Dobson: A puritan painter
ARCHITECTURE:
- Mature classicism and Inigo Jones
- Sir Christopher Wren
SCHOLASTIC ART:
-spunti di conversazione, approfondimenti e/o relazioni personali.
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TRIENNIO SPERIMENTALE
Contenuti della disciplina:
INGLESE
Quinto anno _____________________________________________________________
A) THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
from “LITERARY LANDSCAPES”, Thomson-Maglioni, Ed. Cideb
“LOOKING INTO ART”, Spiazzi-Tavelli, Ed. Zanichelli
• Historical and social ground
• Literature→ the art of the novel: Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Swift, Sterne:
• characteristics, themes and style
• Art→ Hogarth, Reynolds, Gainsborough: analysis of a painting
B) THE ROMANTIC AGE
from “LITERARY LANDSCAPES”, Thomson-Maglioni, Ed. Cideb
“LOOKING INTO ART”, Spiazzi- Tavelli, Ed. Zanichelli
• Historical and social ground
• Literature → Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats: analysis of selected poems
• Art → Stubbs, Fǜssli, Blake, Constable, Turner: analysis of a painting
C) THE VICTORIAN AGE
from “LITERARY LANDSCAPES”, Thomson-Maglioni, Ed, Cideb
“LOOKING INTO ART”, Spiazzi-Tavelli, ED. Zanichelli
• Historical and social ground
• Literature → Dickens, The Brontë sisters, Wilde, Shaw: characteristics, themes and
style
• Art → the Pre-Raphaelites, the exponents of the Arstheticism: analysis of a painting
D) THE MODERN AGE
from “LITERARY LANDSCAPES”, Thomson-Maglioni, Ed. Cideb
• Short outlines