Programma 3 B liceo Scientifico

Programma di Lingua e Letteratura Inglese
A.S. 2015/2016
Classe 3B Liceo Scientifico
Docente: Giuseppina Tassone
Testi utilizzati
C. Medaglia& B. A. Young Visions and Perspectives (from the Origins to
the Romantic Age), Loescher Editore
History and literature
The Celts in Britain
The origins of Halloween
The Romans in Britain
Hadrian’s Wall
Christianity in Britain
The Anglo-Saxon invasion
The Anglo-Saxon society
The Viking invasions
Alfred the Great and the defense of the English civilization
The formation of the national monarchy
Edward the Confessor and the end of Anglo-Saxon England
The Evolution of the English language (from synthetic to analytic)
Anglo-Saxon poetry:general features and figures of speech
The Epic Poem
Beowulf: story, language, setting, dates, themes, general features.
From Beowulf:”Beowulf and Grendel: the fight”(lines
710-717;738-753; 793-804; 814-827)
The Norman Invasion
William I
The Domesday Book
The Bayeux Tapestry
The Forest Laws
The feudal system
The Medieval Ballads: general features
Lord Randall :analysis, structure and content
William II and Henry I
Henry II and the Angevin Empire
The Constitution of Clarendon and Thomas Becket
Henry II and the introduction of the Common Law
Richard the Lion-Heart
John Lackland and the break-up of the Angevin Empire
Magna Charta: genesis and political significance
Henry III and the formation of Parliament
Edward I: Wales, Scotland and The Model Parliament
Edward III
The Hundred Years’ War
The Black Plague and the disintegration of the feudal system
The Lollards and John Wycliffe
The rise of the theatre
Medieval Drama: Miracle plays, Morality plays and Interludes
The War of the Roses
The Tudor dynasty
Henry VII
Henry VIII and the breach with Rome
The Act of Supremacy
The English Reformation
Edward VI
Mary I
The Sonnet
The Elizabethan Sonnet
William Shakespeare: The Marriage of True Minds
The Elizabethan Theatre : general features
Grammar
The Conditionals (First, Second and Third)
The Passive form
Future in the past
Singing Club
Le seguenti canzoni, analizzate, tradotte e cantate durante il corso dell’anno,
hanno prodotto interessanti spunti di riflessione su varie tematiche (pena di
morte, omosessualità, percezione della diversità, conflitto anglo-irlandese,
droga eccetera) e sviluppato la competenza comunicativa degli allievi:
Jeff Buckley, Hallelujah
U2, Sunday Bloody Sunday
The Smiths, There is a Light that never goes out
Ed Sheeran, A-Team
The Doors, People are Strange
Kate Bush, Wuthering Heights
The Married Monk, Tell her Tell her
The Queen, Bohemian Rhapsody
The Pink Floyd, Another Brick in the Wall
Adele, Someone like you
Sean Mendes, Stitches
Frank Sinatra, New York New York
Christopher Cross, Run Like the Wind
Tracy Chapman, Fast Car
Gloria Gaynor, I will Survive
John Lennon, Jealous Guy
Nel corso dell’anno, gli studenti hanno letto autonomamente le
seguenti opere di Shakespeare:
Hamlet
Macbeth
King Lear
Roma, 6 Giugno 2016
L’insegnante
Gli allievi