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PROGRAMMA SVOLTO anno scolastico 2014/2015
DOCENTE:Chiara Casarotti
MATERIA:Lingua e civiltà inglese
CLASSE: 5AL
INDIRIZZO:Liceo Scientifico ORE SETTIMANALI:3
LIBRO DI TESTO : CATTANEO, DE FLAVIIS, Millennium Concise, Signorelli
CONTENUTI
Primo periodo - TRIMESTRE:
The Eighteenth century
The first Hanoverian kings (pp.113-4)
Culture and literature in the first half of the Eighteenth Century. The rise of the
novel. The contributions of Defoe, Swift, Richardson, Fielding and Sterne (schede
riassuntive)
Daniel Defoe. Life and work (pp.128)
Robinson Crusoe. Background to the story, plot, the realistic element, the celebration
of the English mercantile spirit and colonialism (pp. 129-130)
Robinson and Friday .Guided analysis (pp.131-133)
Jonathan Swift. Life and work, relationship with Ireland (p.134)
Gulliver's Travels. Plot, levels of interpretation, satirical targets (pp.135-6)
A small disagreement (extract from Book One): overview, satirical targets, style
(fotocopia)
The Romantics
The American Revolution. The Declaration of American Independence. The French
Revolution and its consequences on British society. The Industrial Revolution and
its consequences (pp.154-161)
Pre-Romanticism in Britain. Romantic literature. The English Romantic Poets.
(schede riassuntive)
William Blake: The Tyger. guided analysis.(pp.180-1)
William Wordsworth. His friendship with Coleridge, attitude to the French
Revolution, the poetry of the child, the composition of Lyrical Ballads, the Preface to
Lyrical Ballads and the poetics of Romanticism, Wordworth's view of nature (pp.1836)
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud. Guided analysis (pp.187-88)
My Heart leaps up. Analysis (fotocopia)
Secondo periodo – PENTAMESTRE:
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Life and works, “demonic” poems, Biographia Literaria.
imagination, the genesis of Lyrical Ballads (pp.195-6)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. The story, poetic form, the supernatural and magic
element, interpretations, moral message (pp.197-8)
It is an Ancient mariner. Guided analysis (pp.199-202)
The Victorians
An age of industry and reforms. The British Empire. The American Frontier and the
Civil War. The Crystal Palace (pp.246-251)
The Victorian mentality. Victorian fiction (scheda riassuntiva)
Charles Dickens. Life and most significant works. Themes, settings, use of
language, plots and characterisation (pp.268-9)
Film: Oliver Twist (by Roman Polansky). Film summary. Main characters, aspects of
the plot, social criticism (scheda)
Coketown (from Hard Times) Guided analysis. (pp.274-5)
Coal and other fossil fuels. Nuclear power. Renewable energy resources.
(schede)
Robert Louis Stevenson. Life and main works (p.299)
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Plot, themes, symbolism, elements of the
crime story, gothic features, the science-fiction element, narrative point of view
(pp.300-301)
Jekyll turns into Hyde. Guided analysis (pp.302-3)
Oscar Wilde. Life and work, the Aesthetic Movement. (p.304)
The Picture of Dorian Gray. Plot, the novel as a manifesto of the Aesthetic doctrine,
aspects of the crime and horror story, interpretations of the ending (p.306)
Life as the greatest of the arts. Guided analysis (pp.307-9)
The Modern Age
Historical background 1901-1945, the Modernist Revolution in poetry and the novel
(schede riassuntive)
James Joyce. Ulysses. The epic method, story and characters, the “stream-ofconsciousness” technique (pp.366-367)
Yes I said yes I will Yes. Guided analysis (pp.371-373)
T.S. Eliot and Eugenio Montale (p.357)
Here is no water. Comprehension and observations on the use of imagery.
General revision
Montagnana, 8 giugno 2015
Firma del docente
Chiara Casarotti
I rappresentanti di classe
Carla Lago
Elia Martinelli