ISTITUTO ISTRUZIONE SUPERIORE “E.S.PICCOLOMINI”
con sezioni associate: Liceo Ginnasio “E.S. Piccolomini” Siena – Prato S.Agostino n.2 – Tel.0577280787
Liceo Artistico - Istituto d’Arte “D. Buoninsegna” – Siena – Piazza Madre Teresa di Calcutta n.2 – Tel.0577/281223
Liceo Scienze Umane - Liceo della Formazione “S. Caterina da Siena” Siena – Via Pisacane n.7 – Tel.0577/44968
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PROGRAMMA SVOLTO
Docente LINDA CANTIELLO MATERIA Lingua e Cultura Inglese
Classe 4° Sez. B - Liceo delle Scienze Umane
Anno Scolastico 2015-2016
Module 1 –
Specification 1
Shaping the English Character
 The birth of political parties
 A golden Age
 The rise of the Novel
 Daniel Defoe and the realistic novel
 Jonathan Swift and the satirical novel
Module 2 –
Specification 2
An age of Revolutions – the Romantic Spirit
 An age of revolutions
 Heroes of invention
 Industrial society
 William Blake and the victims of industrialization: texts “London”, The Chimney Sweeper”
 The American war of Independence
 The gothic novel
 Mary Shelley: Frankestein - text: “The creation of the monster”
 Jane Austen and the theme of love – Pride and prejudices “Darcy proposes to Elizabeth”
Module 3 –
Specification 3
The Romantic Spirit
 Emotion versus Reason
 A new sensibility
 William Wordsworth and nature: text “Daffodils”, “My heart leaps up”
 Samuel Taylor Coleridge and sublime nature
 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: “The killing of the albatross”
 The Napoleonic Wars
Module 4
Specification 4
The new Frontier
 The beginning of an American identity
 The pioneers
 Manifest Destiny
 American Indians
 The question of slavery
 Abraham Lincoln’s life
 The American Civil War
Module 5
Specification 5
Coming of Age
 The life of young Victoria
 The first half of Queen Victoria’s reign
 The building of the railways
 Victoria London
 Life in the Vicotorian Town
 The Victorian compromise
 The Victorian Novel
 Charles Dickens – Oliver Twist “Oliver wants some more”
 Victorian education
 Charles Dickens and Charlotte Bronte – the theme of education; Hard Times “The definition
of a horse” – Jane Eyre “Punishment”
Module 5
Specification 5
A Two faced reality
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Robert Louis Stevenson: Victorian Hypocrisy and the double in literature “The story of the
door” from the Strange Case of Dr. Kekyll and Mr Hyde.
Oscar Wilde: the Brilliant artist and the dandy.
Dal libro di testo in adozione “Performer FCE Tutor” Marina Spiazzi , Marina Tavella e Margaret
Layton sono stati svolti seguenti moduli:
1 – Lifestyle
2 – Travelling
Siena, il 01 giugno 2016
Gli studenti
Prof.ssa Linda Cantiello