Tuesday, March 21, 2017

SCHOOL SYLLABUS Academic Year 2016-2017






TEMATICHE  DISCIPLINARI



Theme: Travel in Time and Place

ARGOMENTI
TEMPI
  • Revision work-study skills
Settembre - Ottobre

Early Romantic Age
  • The Age of Revolutions
  • Thomas Gray: the elegy
  • William Blake: text analysis from “The Lamb” and “The Tiger”
  • The Sublime

Romantic Age
  • Manifesto of Romanticism
  • Historical & social context
  • First Generation poets: W. Wordsworth & S.T. Coleridge
  • The Romantic Novel: Jane Austen “Pride & Prejudice”


The Victorian Age
  • Historical & social context: Imperialism & Colonization
  • Social Reforms: Reform Bills, Poor Law and Education Acts
  • The Victorian Compromise
  • Aestheticism
  • Charles Dickens: life and works,  “Oliver Twist”
  • Emily Brontë: life and works, “Wuthering Heights”
  • Oscar Wilde: life and works, “The Importance of Being Earnest”
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne: life and works, “The Scarlet Letter”
  • Emily Dickinson: life and works, “Hope is the thing”

The Modern Age
  • Historical & social context: The Edwardian age
  • The First and Second World Wars
  • The Great Depression
  • Stream of Consciousness vs. Interior Monologue
  • William Butler Years: life and works,,“The Lake Isle of Innisfree” & “Easter 1916”
  • James Joyce: life and works, “Dubliners
  • Virginia Woolf: life and works, “To the Lighthouse”
  • George Orwell: life and works, “1984”

The Present Age
  • Historical & social context: the Welfare State
  • Samuel Beckett: life and works, “Waiting for Godot”





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Gennaio -  Febbraio












Marzo – Aprile








Maggio






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