CLASSE III E Brocca ANNO SC. 2012/2013

PROGRAMMA DI INGLESE

Prof. Colombo Maria Giovanna

Per quanto riguarda la letteratura sono stati affrontati i seguenti argomenti da “Only Performer Culture & Literature 1” Spiazzi – Tavella- Layton, ed. Zanichelli vol. 1:

·  Introduzione alla letteratura
The Anglo-Saxon Period
·  Historical Background: / Pre-Celtic - The Celts - Julius Caesar - the Roman Conquest - the Anglo-Saxon invasion - The Seven Kingdoms - The Danes - the Saxons: Alfred the Great
·  Social background / The worshipper of nature – sacrifice an ritual – seamen, warriors and bards – freedom and loyalty
·  Literary production / ·  Pagan Poetry: The Epic poem and the elegy
Beowulf: characteristics
Beowulf and Grendel: the fight
“ Wiglaf’s speech” “ The boiling lake” (Fotoc.)
“Beowulf’ death”
The Middle Ages
·  Historical Background: / The Norman conquest: William I (the feudal system - Doomsday book - Court of Justice) William II - Henry I - Stephen.
The Plantagenets: Henry II (Constitution of Clarendon - Thomas a’ Becket - The Common Law) Richard I - John Lackland (Magna Charta) - Henry III (Simon de Monfort - Parliament) Edward I (Model Parliament) Edward II - Edward III (Hundred years’ war - Black death - Wycliffe - Lollardy) - Richard II.
Lancaster and Yorks: War of the Roses
·  Social background / Feudal ties, barons and knights, Consequences of the Norman conquest - Middle English - The Black death - decline of feudalism - guilds
·  Literary production / ·  Poetry: Ballads
“ Lord Randal”
“ Edward, Edward” (Fotoc.)
Geoffrey Chaucer - life, works and themes
Canterbury Tales: “The Prologue”
“The Prioress”
“The Knight”
“The Merchant”
“The Wife of Bath”
·  Drama: origins - Miracle and Mistery plays and Moralities
“ Everyman’s last journey”
“ Everyman’s death” (Fotoc.) / .
The Renaissance
·  Historical Background: / The Tudors - Henry VII - Henry VIII (The English Reformation - The Royal Fleet) Edward VI - Mary Tudor - Elisabeth I
·  Social background
/ Social and political changes - Elizabethan England - contradictions - new discoveries
·  Literary production / The Age of Shakespeare
·  Drama: developments - society - language - theatre - stage - audience - actors - characteristics of tragedies and comedies
Christopher Marlowe - life, works and themes
Doctor Faustus “Faustus’ last hour”
William Shakespeare - life, works and themes
Romeo and Juliet:
“The prologue”
“The masque”
·  Poetry: Love poetry - sonnets: characteristics Elizabethan sonnets and Elizabethan sonnets
Wyatt: sonnets - characteristics
Spencer: sonnets - characteristics
William Shakespeare: sonnets - characteristics
“My Mistress’eyes”

Inoltre è stato effettuato un lavoro di rinforzo sulle più importanti strutture grammaticali, funzionali e lessicali, in particolare sono stati affrontati l’uso delle forme verbali, dei pronomi il passivo, le “if clauses”, relativi, il reported speech e le strutture particolari. Per quanto riguarda il lessico sono stati fatti i prefissi ed i suffissi

Parabiago 7 Giugno, 2013

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