Liceo scientifico ‘G. Castelnuovo’ Firenze
Anno scolastico 2013/14
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 RENAISSANCE
Historical, social and literary context: revision of the main themes
Shakespeare the dramatist. Comedies, tragedies and history plays. Main themes.
Macbeth. Plot ,characters and main themes. The three witches’: reading and text analysis.
Othello. Plot, characters and main themes.Othello decides to kill Desdemona:reading and text
analysis.
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 Lamb. The Tyger: reading and text analysis
THE ROMANTIC AGE
Historical, social and literary context
Reality and vision. The egotistical sublime.Two generations of poets. New realms of experience.
W.Wordsworth. Life and works. Main themes and critical notes Lyrical ballads. A certain colouring
of imagination. Reading and text analysis: The Rainbow: ’My heart leaps up....’ Daffodils: ‘ I
wandered lonely as a cloud’.
S.Coleridge. Life and works. Main themes and critical notes The rime of the ancient mariner:
structure and themes. Kubla Khan. Reading and text analysis: The Killing of the albatross from
‘The rime of the ancient mariner’. .
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 discussione del film in lingua originale con sottotitoli in inglese: ‘ Psycho’ by A.
Hitchcock e ‘American beauty’ by S. Mendes.
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 e della raccolta di racconti: Bardazzi ‘Coming of
Age’: Rebellion and Dreams in Anglo-American contemporary writers, ed. Loescher:
Firenze 5 giugno 2014
Gli alunni
L’insegnante
Marino Maria Teresa