LICEO SCIENTIFICO “STEFANO PATRIZI”
CAR I A T I
PROGRAMMAZIONE DI “LINGUA E LETTERATURA INGLESE”
CLASSI 3° A / B A.S. 2014 / 2015
Ripasso delle regole grammaticali e sintattiche svolte negli anni precedenti.
Module 1: From the origin to the Renaissance.
UNIT 1: The Anglo-Saxon period.
 The feeling of the age
 The age in prospective: History and society Culture.
 Anglo Saxon Poetry: Beowulf.
UNIT 2: The Middle Age.
 The feeling of the age.
 The Age in prospective: History and Society Culture.
 Medieval Literature: Medieval Poetry;
 Geoffrey Chaucer: “The Canterbury Tales”.
 Chaucer, Boccaccio and Dante
 Medieval Ballads: Geordie.
 Medieval Drama.
 Medieval Romance
Module 2: The Elizabethan Age:
UNIT 3: The renaissance.
 The feeling of the age.
 The age in perspective: History and Society Culture.
 The Elizabethan theatre.
 Renaissance Literature, Renaissance poetry:
 Spencer: The faerie Queen.
 Renaissance Drame.
 Christopher Marlowe: Doctor Faustus.
UNIT 4: William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
 Life.
 Themes and Features.
 Shakespeare’s Plays.
 Romeo and Juliet.
 Hamlet.
Module 3: The Puritan Age.
UNIT 5: Renaissance Poetry.
 The Petrarchan and the English Sonnet.

Shakespeare’s Sonnets.
UNIT 6: John Milton.
 Life, themes and features.
 Paradise lost
 Utopia and the new World.
Classico: G. Chaucer: “ The Canterbury Tales”
L’Insegnante
LICEO SCIENTIFICO
“ STEFANO PATRIZI” C A R I A T I
PROGRAMMAZIONE DI “ LINGUA E LETTERATURA INGLESE”
CLASSI 4° A / B / C
A. S. 2014/ 2015
Ripasso delle principali regole di grammatica e sintassi, svolte negli anni precedenti.
Module 1: The Restoration. The period of Novelists.
UNIT 1: The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century (1660–1776)
 The feeling of the age.
 History and society.
 The Restoration: Charles II ; the Glorious Revolution; The reign of Queen Anne; George I and Parliamentary
monarchy; the two-party system: Whigs and Tories.
 Restoration and Augustan Liyerature.
 Restoration Drama: the new theatres, Heroic plays and tregedies, Restoration commedies.
 Dryden: life and works, features and themes.
 Augustan poetry: Mock-heroic and satirical poetry.
 A. Pope: life, works, features and themes.
 Jonathan Swift: life and works, features and themes.
 Gulliver’s travels.
UNIT 2: The rise of the Novel.
 The need for Realism, the Realistic Novel, Utopian finction the Picaresque novel.
 Daniel Defoe: life, works, features and themes.
 Robinson Crusoe.
Module 2: The 3 Revolutions. The Romanticisme.
UNIT 3: The Romanti Age.
 The feeling of the age.
 History and society.
 The American Revolution, The new colonies: India, Australia and Canada.
 The French Revolution.
 The Industrial Revolution.
 The Romantic Literature: Pre-Romantic poetry, First and second generation Romantics.
 William Blake: Life and works, features and themes.
 Songs of Innocence and of Experience.
UNIT 4: William Wordworth: Life and works, features and themes.
 Lyrical Ballads.
Module 3: The second generation of Romantics.
UNIT 5: Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Life and works, features and themes.
 The Rime of the ancient mariner.
 Keats: life and works, features and themes.
UNIT6: The Romantic Novel.
 The Gothic Novel, The novel of manners, the historical novel.
 Jane Austen: life and works, features and themes.
 Pride and Prejudice.
 Walter Scott: Life and works, features and themes.
Classico: Magic traces.
L’Insegnante
LICEO SCIENTIFICO “ STEFANO PATRIZI” C A R I A T I
PROGAMMAZIONE DI “ LINGUA E LETTARATURA INGLESE”
CLASSI 5° A / B / C
A.S. 2014/2015
Ripasso delle principali regole di grammatica e di sintassi, svolte negli anni precedenti.
Module 1: The Victorian Age.
UNIT 1: Victorian Age.
* Historical background;
 Social background;
 Literary production: Late Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism;
 The Pre-Raphaelites, Impressionism, Aestheticism and Decadentism.
 Poetry and prose: ( Finction )
 Charles Dickens: Life and Works, Features and Themes.
 Social and Humanitarian Novels: “Black House” from Oliver Twist.
 Oscar Wilde: Life and Works, Features and Themes.
 The picture of Dorian Gray.
UNIT 2: The 20° Century in English Literature.
 Historical Background: The House of Windsor ( George V°; EdwardVIII°; George
VI°; Queen Elizabeth II°).
 Social background: The First World War and the postwar period; The second
World War and the postwar period.
 Literary production: Prose ( Finction ); The Transition Period: Exoticism.
 Joseph Conrad: Life and works; Themes and Features; “ Lord Jim “.
Module 2: The Modernists.
UNIT 3: Psychological Novel.
 D.H. Lawrence: Life and Works; Themes and Features.
 Lady Chatterley’s lover; Women in love.
 Modernism: Stream of Consciousness – Interior Monologue.
 J. Joyce: Life and Works; Themes and Features:
 Dubliners; Ulysses ( Molly’s monologue ).
UNIT 4: Virginia Woolf: Life and Works; Themes and Features:
 To the Lighthouse.
 The Dystopian Novel.
 George Orwell: Life and Works; Themes and Features.
 Animal farm; 1984.
Module 3: The Simbolism and the theatre of the absurd.
UNIT 5: The transition period.
 Poetry: The Simbolism.
 W. B. Yeats: Life and Works; Themes and Features.
 The Wild Swans at Coole.
 T.S.Eliot: life and works, features and themes.

The waste Land.
UNIT 6: Drama in Eurepe.
 The theatre of the absurd.
 Samuel Beckett: Life and Works; Themes and Features.
 Waiting for Godot.
Classico: Animal Farm by G. Orwell
L’Insegnante