LICEO SCIENTIFICO “NOMENTANO” ROMA
PROGRAMMA DI LINGUA E LETTERATURA INGLESE
DOCENTE: Antonella Lascaleia
Classe IV sez. H
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a.s. 2013/2014
Libri di testo:
Cattaneo, De Flaviis - MILLENNIUM 1 From the Middle Ages to the Romantics
- Signorelli Scuola
Libri consultati
Spiazzi Tavella - ONLY CONNECT..... NEW DIRECTIONS 1 From the origins to
the eigtheenth century - Zanichelli
ONLY CONNECT….NEW DIRECTIONS 2 The Nineteenth Century
Fotocopie, appunti, mappe concettuali e presentazioni in power points redatti dall'insegnante
 Revisione delle principali strutture e funzioni grammaticali:
Present tenses Past Tenses - Future Tenses - Adjectives and pronouns - Modals Passive forms - If clauses – Phrasal verbs - prepositions
THE RENAISSANCE
 Drama as a literary genre
 Medieval drama : Origins
Miracle and Morality Plays
Interludes
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The Elizabethan Theatre
Playhouses
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Literature -
Map
William Shakespeare
Shakespeare as a dramatist
The Taming of The Shrew (plot and analysis)
Text analysis: Catharina’s Speech
Hamlet (plot and analysis)
Text analysis: To be or not to be (Act III)
The Tempest (Plot and analysis)
Text analysis: Prospero’s Epilogue
Christopher Marlowe
Themes and works
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
Text analysis: Faustus’ Monologue
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THE PURITAN AGE
Historical period – Charles I - The Civil War – The Commonwealth – The Puritans
Literature - Poetry
J. Milton : the religious epic poem
Paradise Lost (themes, characters, style)
Text analysis: Satan’s Speech
THE RESTORATION
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Historical period – Charles II – James II – The Glorious Revolution – London and the
Court
THE AUGUSTAN AGE
Historical period – The Hanoverians (George I, George II)
Literature - Journalism - The Novel
Daniel Defoe : the realistic novel
Robinson Crusoe
Text analysis : Robinson and Friday
Moll Flanders
Text analysis:Moll’s analysis of the Marriage Market
Jonathan Swift: the satirical novel (plot, themes and characters, style)
Gulliver’s Travels
Text analysis: Beloved Horses, Hateful Men
A Modest Proposal (fotocopia)
Samuel Richardson: the epistolary novel
Pamela (plot, themes and characters, style)
Henry Fielding: the comic epic novel (fotocopia)
Jonathan Wild, the Great (plot, themes and characters, style)
Laurence Sterne: the sentimental novel, the antinovel
Tristram Shandy (plot, themes and characters, style)
Text analysis: Putting Tristram Into Breeches
Text analysis : T. Shandy and R. Crusoe (fotocopie)
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THE EARLY ROMANTICISM
Historical period – The Hanoverians (George III) – American Revolution – French
and Industrial Revolutions – Industrial society
Literature – The Sublime and the Gothic Novel
Ann Redcliff: A Night in a Gothic Castle
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein ( scientific and literary influences, plot, themes and
characters, style)
Text analysis: The Creation of the Monster
An Outcast of Society
Reading comprehension and class discussion:
1. Women in today’s society (fotocopia)
2. Suicide (fotocopia)
Visione del film SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE regia di John Madden (2008)
Visione del film FRANKENSTEIN
regia Kenneth Branagh (1994)
Roma, 3 giugno 2014
Gli alunni
L'insegnante
Antonella Lascaleia