Liceo Scientifico “A. Labriola - Programma di Lingua e Letteratura
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Liceo Scientifico “A. Labriola - Programma di Lingua e Letteratura
Liceo Scientifico “A. Labriola - Programma di Lingua e Letteratura Inglese Classe V sez. C – Indirizzo: Scienze Applicate - A.S.2015-2016 - Prof.ssa Angela Mileo Libri di testo: - Performer Culture and Literature 2 – Spiazzi, Tavella, Layton – Zanichelli - Performer Culture and Literature 3 – Spiazzi, Tavella, Layton – Zanichelli The Pre-Romantic Age - An age of revolutions – pag. 182-183 Industrial society – pag. 185 How child labour changed the world – pag. 185 - WILLIAM BLAKE and the victims of industrialization – pag. 186-187 (William Blake’s life – Blake the artist – Blake the poet – Blake the prophet – Complementary opposites – Imagination and the poet – Blake’s interests in social problems – Style) Poem “The Chimney Sweeper” (from Songs of Innocence): reading, paraphrases and analysis – pag. 189 Poem “The Chimney Sweeper” (from Songs of Experience): reading, paraphrases and analysis – pag. 190 - - The American war of Independence – pag. 194-195 Milestones: 1776, the American Declaration of Independence – pag. 195 Insights: America’s Birthday – pag. 195 - The Gothic novel – pag. 202 Literary language: The Gothic novel – pag. 202 MARY SHELLEY and a new interest in science – pag. 203-204 (Mary Shelley’s life – Frankenstein (1818) The influence of science [linked to CLIL] – The story – Literary influence – Narrative structure – Themes) Extract from Frankenstein “The creation of the monster”: contextualization, reading and analysis – pag. 205-206 The epistolary novel : M.Shelley and Foscolo (only introduction) – pag. 207 Extract from Frankenstein “Frankenstein and the monster”: contextualization, reading and analysis – pag. 208 - The Romantic Age - Is it Romantic? – pag. 212 Emotion vs reason – English Romanticism – pag. 213 A new sensibility – pag. 214 The emphasis on the individual – pag. 215 The first Generation of the Romantic Poets - - WILLIAM WORDSWORTH and nature – pag. 216-217 (How the Romantics understood nature – A guide to the Romantic Understanding of Nature – William Wordsworth’s life – Wordsworth and the relationship with nature – The importance of senses – Recollection in tranquillity – The poet’s task – Milestones: 1798, “Lyrical Ballads” the Manifesto of English Romanticism) Poem “Daffodils”: reading, paraphrases and analysis – pag. 218 1 - Poem “My Heart Leaps Up”: reading, paraphrases and analysis – pag. 219 - SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE and sublime nature – pag. 220 (Coleridge’s life – Imagination and fancy – Coleridge’s view of nature) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798) – pag. 221-222 (The story – The natural world – The characters – The Rime and traditional ballads) Extract from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner “The killing of the Albatross” – reading, paraphrases and analysis – pag. 222-223-224-225 Extract from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner “The Moral” – reading, paraphrases and analysis – photocopies provided (final 16 lines of the ballad) - The Second Generation of the Romantic Poets - - The Napoleonic Wars – pag. 229 Nature in the second generation of Romantic poets – pag. 230 JOHN KEATS and unchanging nature – pag. 234 (John keats’s life – The substance of his poetry – The role of imagination – Beauty and art – Negative capability – Milestones: 1818, Keats’s Great Year) Poem “Bright Star”: reading, paraphrases and analysis – pag. 235 The Victorian Age - The first half of Queen Victoria’s reign – pag. 284-285 Milestones: 1851, the Great Exhibition – pag. 285 Life in the Victorian Town – pag. 290 Victorian Christmas – pag. 295 The Victorian compromise – pag. 299 The Victorian novel – pag. 300 Literary language: the Victorian novel – pag. 300 - CHARLES DICKENS and children – pag. 301-302 (Charles Dickens’s life – Oliver Twist (1827-39) – London life – The world of the workhouse – The story) Extract from Oliver Twist “Oliver wants some more”: contextualization, reading and analysis – pag. 303-304 Extract from Oliver Twist “The confinement”: contextualization, reading and analysis – pag. 322 Dickens and a critique of education – pag. 308 Hard Times (1854): The story – pag. 308 Extract from Hard Times “Coketown”: contextualization, reading and analysis – pag. 291-292-293 Extract from Hard Times “The definition of a horse”: contextualization, reading and analysis – pag. 309-310-311 - - The British Empire – pag. 324-325 Milestones: 1877, Queen Victoria becomes Empress of India – pag. 325 The mission of the coloniser – pag. 326 Poem “The White Man’s Burden” (R. Kipling): reading, paraphrases and analysis – pag. 326 - CHARLES DARWIN and evolution [linked to CLIL] – pag. 330 Milestones: 1871, Darwin’s ‘The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex’ [linked to CLIL] – pag. 330 Darwin vs God? [linked to CLIL] – pag. 331 - 2 - Extract from The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex “Man’s Origin”: contextualization, reading and analysis [linked to CLIL] – pag. 332 The English Aesthetic Movement - New aesthetic theories – pag. 347 The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood – pag. 347 Walter Pater and the Aesthetic Movement – pag. 349 Literary Language: Aestheticism – pag. 349 - OSCAR WILDE: the brilliant artist and the dandy – pag. 351-352 (Oscar Wilde’s Life – The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) and the theme of Beauty – The narrative technique – Timeless beauty – The story) Extract from The Picture of Dorian Gray ”Preface”: contextualization, reading and analysis – photocopies provided Extract from The Picture of Dorian Gray ”I would give my soul”: contextualization, reading and analysis – pag. 354-355-356 - The Great War - The Edwardian age – pag. 404-405 Securing the vote for women – pag. 406-407 World War I – pag. 408 Milestones: 11th November 1918, the day the guns fell silent – pag. 409 - THE WAR POETS – pag. 416-417 (Different attitudes to war – Rupert Brooke – Wilfred Owen – Siegfried Sassoon – Isaac Rosenberg) Poem “The Soldier” (R. Brooke): reading, paraphrases and analysis – pag. 418 Poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” (Wilfred Owen): reading, paraphrases and analysis – pag. 419-420 - The Modern Age - The Modernist Spirit – pag. 447 The modern novel – pag.448 Milestones: 1922,Ulysses – pag. 448 The stream of consciousness and the interior monologue – pag. 449 Literary language: The interior monologue – pag. 449 Extract from Ulysses (James Joyce) “The funeral”: an example of interior monologue – pag. 449 - JAMES JOYCE: a modernist writer – pag. 463 (James Joyce’s life – Ordinary Dublin – Style and technique) Dubliners (1914) – pag. 464 (The origin of the collection – The use of epiphany – A pervasive theme: paralysis – Narrative techniques) Short story “Eveline” (from Dubliners): contextualization, reading and analysis – pag. 465-466-467468 - - - The Bloomsbury Group – pag. 473 WIRGINIA WOOLF and “moments of being” – pag. 474 (Virginia Woolf’s life – A modernist novelist – Woolf vs Joyce) 3 - Mrs Dalloway (1925) – pag. 475 (The story – The setting – A changing society – The connection between Clarissa and Septimus) Extract from Mrs Dalloway “Clarissa and Septimus”: contextualization, reading and analysis – pag. 476-477-478 Moments of being: one moment in time – pag. 479 - Britain between the wars – pag. 514-515 World War II and after – pag. 520-521 - The dystopian novel – pag. 531 GEORGE ORWELL and the political dystopia – pag. 532 (George Orwell’s life – The artist’s development – Social themes) Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) – pag. 533 (The story – A dystopian novel – Winston Smith – Themes) Extract from Nineteen Eighty-Four “Big Brother is watching you”: contextualization, reading and analysis – pag. 534-535 - - Roma, lì 13/05/2016 Gli Alunni L’Insegnante Angela Mileo 4