ISTITUTO DI ISTRUZIONE SUPERIORE - i.i.s. bruno

ISTITUTO DI ISTRUZIONE SUPERIORE “BRUNO-FRANCHETTI”- VENEZIA-MESTRE
Programma Definitivo a.s.2013/2014
LINGUA E CIVILTA’ STRANIERA INGLESE
CLASSE: 4G
Docente: Anna Felicita ANGIONI
Revisione e consolidamento
Testo in adozione: Maglioni-Thomson- “Literary Hyperlink” vol A- Digital. Ed.Black Cat
Breve revisione del programma di argomento storico letterario preso in esame durante lo scorso anno
scolastico:
Literature:
Old English -The Epic Poem – Beowulf
Middle Ages: Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales
The English Renaissance:
Setting the scene: The Tudors and the Stuarts
Queen Elizabeth . The Elizabethan Age
The Origins of Modern Theatre
William Shakespeare: The Bard of Avon
Grammar: Testo in adozione- “All in one Grammar”- Ed. Cambridge Loescher
Revisione di tutti i tempi verbali con esercizi relativi e funzioni linguistiche.
Programma quarto anno:
Dal testo in adozione lo scorso anno scolastico: Spiazzi-Tavella - LIT & LAB 1 – from the Beginning to
the Augustan Age – ed. Zanichelli.
William Shakespeare Shakespeare the poet – The Sonnets –
The Elizabethan Sonnet (rhyme scheme and features)
From “Shakespeare Sonnets” : Sonnet 18(Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?);Sonnet 130 (My
Mistress’ Eyes” - Reading comprehension, Italian translation, analysis
Visione del film: Shakespeare in Love (in lingua originale)
The Origins of Modern Theatre - The Elizabethan Theatre –(structure and features);
Shakespeare the dramatist - Tragedies:
Romeo and Juliet – Plot, characters, themes
From Romeo and Juliet “The Balcony Scene” – Reading comprehension, Italian translation, analysis,
commentary
Hamlet – Plot characters – themes
From Hamlet “ Soliloquy on death” Reading comprehension, Italian translation, analysis, commentary
Comedies:
The Merchant of Venice - Plot, characters, themes
From “The Merchant of Venice”: Hath not a Jew eyes? Reading comprehension, Italian translation, analysis,
commentary.
The Rise of Puritanism –
Literature during the Puritan Age
The Restoration and The Augustan Age –
The Restoration of the Monarchy,The Libertines, Anew kind of Monarchy,Chain of History, The Scottish
and the Irish Question;
Literature during the Restoration
The Augustan Age
The beginning of the Hanoverian, The rise of the middle class
Augustan Literature – The English Novel
The Rise of The Novel – The Rise of Journalism –
LIM: Art Link- Hogarth; Gainsborough. (Viewing some painting by the two painters)
Daniel Defoe (writer’s portrait)
Robinson Crusoe (general features of the work- characters, structure)
The widespread of the British Empire, The British Colonizer
From “Robinson Crusoe” – Man Friday
(reading comprehension, Italian translation, analysis, commentary).
The Romantic Age
The Age of Revolutions, The Industrial Revolution, The New Urban Population, Main events of the time
Emotion versus reason
Literature in the Romantic Age - Poetry - Fiction
Early Romantic poetry – Features –
The Graveyard School: Thomas Gray – The poet
Foscolo and Gray
Thomas Gray: Elegy written in a country churchyard (first half of the poem) - reading comprehension, Italian
translation, analysis, commentary.
Romantic Poetry . The First Generation of Romantic Poets
The Lakers -Lyrical Ballads - The Manifesto of English Romanticism
William Wordsworth – the writer and his poetry – Wordsworth’s view of Nature; the importance of the
senses and of memory, Recollection of thoughts in tranquillity, The poet’s task and his style.
Sonnet Composed Upon Westminster Bridge(reading comprehension, Italian translation, analysis, structure
and style, commentary)
Daffodils ( I wondered as lonely as a cloud)(reading comprehension, Italian translation, analysis, structure
and style, commentary)
Comparative Literature:
Jamaica Kincaid: A Caribbean Spring (excerpt)
LIM: Art Lab - Landscape Painters (viewing some paintings by Constable and Turner)
S.T. Coleridge – The man and the poet – Primary and secondary Imagination, the ideal in the real,
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (content, atmosphere and characters, The Rime and the traditional ballads)
From the Rime of the Ancient Mariner
There Was a Ship(reading comprehension, Italian translation, analysis, structure and style, commentary);
The second generation of Romantic poets: Byron, Shelley, Keats (general features)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (gli studenti hanno assistito alla rappresentazione teatrale in lingua inglese)
Programma per le vacanze estive:
Lettura, comprensione, caratterizzazione dei personaggi ed esercizi contenuti in un testo scelto fra quelli
proposti:
a) Romanzi in versione didattica livello 6
Oxford Bookworms:
1) Charlotte Bronte -Jane Eyre – Level 6- Book+3CD – OUP -Cod.978-019-479347-6
2) Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice – Level 6 - Book+3CD – OUP Cod. 978-019-479349-0
3) Thomas Hardy – Tess of the D’Ubervilles – Level 6- Book+3CD – OUP - Cod 978 -019-479350-6
4) William Makepiece Thackeray-Vanity Fair-Level 6- Book+4CD – OUP - Cod 978 -019-479462-6
OR
b) Romanzi in versione integrale: (plot, characters, commentary, personal view)
1) E.M. Forster – A Passage to India
2) Francis Scott Fitzgerald – Tender is the Night
3) Ernest Hemingway – Across the River and into the trees
4) Ernest Hemingway – Farewell to Arms
5) Jonathan Coe – The Rotters’ Club
6) Jonathan Coe – The Closed Circle
7) Jonathan Safran Foer – Everything is illuminated
8) Jack Kerouac – On The Road
Promozione con debito
Gli studenti promossi con debito, oltre alle attività facenti parte del libro scelto, dovranno revisionare il
programma di letteratura svolto durante l’anno e svolgere tutte le attività inserite nel testo in adozione e nelle
fotocopie fornite dalla docente per ogni argomento e brano antologico facente parte del programma.
Venezia-Mestre 03/06/2014
La docente
Prof. Anna Felicita Angioni
Gli studenti