Liceo scientifico ‘G. Castelnuovo’ Firenze
Anno scolastico 2014/15
Materia: inglese
Classe: 4° F
PROGRAMMA
Libri di testo: :
Spiazzi-Tavella
Spiazzi Tavella
Only connect ..new directions1 From the origins to the 18th century
Only Connect… New Directions 2 The 19th Century
Zanichelli
Zanichelli
THE PURITAN AGE AND THE RESTORATION
Historical, social and literary context.
Charles I and the civil war. The commonwealth. The puritan mind and the puritan society. The
Restoration of the monarchy. The glorious revolution. Scientific rigour and intellectual clarity. The
enjoyment of the senses. The metaphysical poetry.
J.Donne. Life and works. The ‘metaphysical ‘conceit’. Songs and sonnets: main themes and
structure. ‘Song: go and catch a falling star’: reading and text analysis.
J.Milton. Life and works. The religious epic poem. Paradise lost:: structure, characters and theme
THE AUGUSTAN AGE
Historical, social and literary context
The first Hanoverians. Reason and sense. Artifice and real life. Journalism. The rise of the novel.
D.Defoe. Life and works. The realistic novel. The new ‘middleclass’ hero. Robinson Crusoe: Plot
and characters and main themes. The island .Evil vs. Good. Man Friday: reading and text analysis
J. Swift: Life and works. A controversial writer. The satirical novel. Gulliver’s travels: Plot,
characters and main themes. The Laputians ; Gulliver in the land of giants: reading and text
analysis. A modest proposal: structure and main themes. Reading and text analysis
S.Richardson: Life and works. The epistolary novel . Pamela or the Virtue rewarded . Plot,
characters and main themes.
L.Sterne. Life and works. A new sense of time. The metanovel. Tristram shandy. Plot, characters,
narrative technique and main themes. When they begot me: reading and text analysis.
THE EARLY ROMANTIC AGE
Historical, social and literary context
Industrial and Agricultural Revolution. Emotion vs reason. A new sensibility. New trends in poetry.
E. Burke.The Sublime and the Beautiful..
T. Gray: Life and works. A transitional poet .The Graveyard school. Elegy Written in a Country
Churchyard. Main themes.
W.Blake: Life and works. The role of the poet. The concept of imagination. Complementary
opposites. Symbolism and mythology. The prophetic books. Songs of Innocence. Songs of
Experience: structure, themes and style. The Chimney sweeper The Lamb. The Tyger: reading and
text analysis
THE ROMANTIC AGE
Historical, social and literary context
Reality and vision. The egotistical sublime.T wo generations of poets. New realms of experience.
W.Wordsworth. Life and works. Main themes and critical notes Lyrical ballads. A certain colouring
of imagination. The Rainbow: ’My heart leaps up....’Daffodils: ‘ I wandered lonely as a cloud’:
reading and text analysis:
S.Coleridge. Life and works. Main themes and critical notes The rime of the ancient mariner:
structure and themes. Kubla Khan.
G.Byron. Life and works. Main themes and critical notes The Byronic hero. Childe Harold’s
pilgrimage. Manfred .Don Juan: main themes.
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Approfondimenti, lavori di gruppo e attività varie
Visione e analisi critica dei film in lingua originale con sottotitoli in inglese: ‘ Psycho’ by A.
Hitchcock e ‘American beauty’ by S. Mendes.
Creazione di un racconto gotico (film, testo scritto…)
Schede di approfondimento e lavori di gruppo relativi agli autori, alle opere ed alle tematiche
letterarie trattate.
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Letture per l’estate
Per le vacanze estive, per il consolidamento ed ampliamento del lessico, viene assegnata alla
classe la lettura di un testo in lingua inglese ed in versione integrale da scegliere tra i classici della
letteratura angloamericana del XIX e XX secolo .
Firenze 5 giugno 2015
Gli alunni
L’insegnante
Marino Maria Teresa