PROGRAMMA SVOLTO DI LINGUA E

PROGRAMMA SVOLTO DI LINGUA E LETTERATURA INGLESE - CLASSE VL
ANNO SCOLASTICO 2015/16
TESTI IN ADOZIONE:
PERFORMER Culture and Literature, vol.2,3, ZANICHELLI
ACTIVATING GRAMMAR DIGITAL ED., LONGMAN.
MODULE 1 The Romantic Age
Historical and social background : The Agricultural and Industrial Revolution
English Romantic movement: a new sensibility (general features)
From The Lyrical Ballads : The Manifesto of English Romanticism
The first generation of the Romantic poets:
W.Wordsworth: Daffodils, My heart leaps up.. , Composed upon Westminster Bridge.
S.T.Coleridge : from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
 The Killing of the Albatross ( part 1-lines 1-82)
 Death and Life-in Death
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ART LINK: Man- nature relationship in Romantic painting
Turner: The shipwreck/The Great Fall
K.D.Friedrich: Wanderer above the sea of fog
MODULE 2 TheVictorian Age
The Victorian Age: historical and social context
The Victorian compromise
C.Dickens
From Hard Times: “Coketown”, “Nothing but facts”,” Definition of a horse. Analisi tematica e del personaggio Mr Gradgrind
Oliver Twist: “Oliver wants some more”. Video activity : visione film in L2.
Analisi tematica e personaggi principali.
R.L.Stevenson
The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: CIDEB reading (B1). Analisi tematica e protagonista
MODULE 3 A Two Faced Reality/ The Aesthetic Movement
Historical and social aspects: anti –victorian reactions
Charles Darwin and evolution
The aesthetic movement: general features
Oscar Wilde
Preface to The picture of Dorian Gray: reading and analysis
The Picture of Dorian Gray : from chapter 2 I would give my soul and analysis of the final scene Dorian’s death
From The Importance of Being Earnest : scene Mother’s worries ( Lady Bracknell vs. Jack) /analisi tematica e personaggi.
Some aphorisms
MODULE 4 Into the self/ Modernism
World War I : art link Paul Nash,We are making a new world (painting analysis)
The war poet: S.Sassoon “ THEY”
Historical and social aspects: the age of deep cultural crisis ( Freud, Bergson)
Experimentation in all fields of art: modernism
Virginia Woolf
Mrs Dalloway: Clarissa and Septimus, Clarissa’s party. Analisi personaggi e tecnica narrativa.Visione film
James Joyce
Dubliners: Araby, Eveline, From The Dead “ She was fast asleep….”
Analisi temi , personaggi e stile narrativo.
Art link The Scream by Munch
Ulysses:Lettura ed analisi di Molly’s thoughts.The anti –hero and the mythical method .The stream of consciousness technique.
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ART LINK: Picasso and his experimentation in “Les Damoiselles D’Avignon”
MODULE 5 The dystopian novel
George Orwell
From 1984: Big Brother is watching you part 1, chapter 1, Newspeak (fotocopia), Brainwashing technique ( fotocopia): lettura ed
analisi di temi e personaggi. Visione film
William Golding
Lord of The Flies / Visione film con approfondimenti : lettura di alcuni brani”Gift for the darkness”(fotocopia)”a view to a death”
e “The loss of innocence”(fotocopia). Analisi tematica e dei personaggi. Lettura documento “ The Fable” from Hot Gates and other
occasional pieces
MODULE 6 After the second world war
Samuel Beckett and The Theatre of the Absurd
Waiting For Godot: from act 2 scene “ Why don’t we hang ourselves?....” analisi strutturale ,dei personaggi, dell’uso sperimentale
del linguaggio. La tragicommedia dell’uomo moderno.
LANGUAGE MODULE
Approfondimenti lessicali e morfosintattici
ed attività di livello B2
Perugia, 8 Giugno 2016
Prof.ssa Tiziana Fermani