AS 2013-14 Classe: III C Materia : Inglese Insegnante: Hedwig Lanzerath I. Dal libro di corso completo di workbook : S. Foody / R. Raynes: MOVING UP, B1/B2 , Black Cat Unit 6 Migration and Change Grammar The future First conditionals with if, when, until, unless, as soon as, in case Vocabulary Migration Confusing words Functions Predicting trends ( rise, increase, go up; fall, decrease, go down; remain steady stay the same Unit 7 product design Grammar The passive: present simple, past simple, present perfect, future passive Order of adjectives Vocabulary Nouns and adjectives for describing products Prefixes and suffixes il-/ ir-/ im-/ un-; -able, -ible, , -ful, -al, -ive Functions Describing a product Unit 8 Towns and cities Grammar Defining and non-defining relative clauses Making comparisons, - qualifiers: a bit, slightly, much, a lot, far more, Articles Vocabulary Living spaces Functions Expressing advantages and disadvantages Unit 9 Tales of the unexplained Grammar Modal verbs of deduction Past modal verbs of deduction: must; may/ might/could; can’t Look, sound seem Vocabulary Phrasal verbs Crime Unit 10 Well-being Grammar Verb patterns ( … to do; ….doing) Ability in the past ( could, was able, managed to) Used to + infinitive Be/ get used to + ing Vocabulary Nouns and adjectives connected with healthy mind and body Body idioms Contrast linkers ( despite, in spite of; although, even though; however, but ) Functions Making suggestions ( have you thought, you could try, what about, why don’t you )

Unit 11 Secrets and lies Grammar Reported speech: statements, commands and questions Reporting verbs ( claim, deny, admit, apologise, accuse of refuse, remind) Causative form ( have something done) Vocabulary Entertainment adjectives Functions Taking and leaving messages EXAM SKILLS Speaking: comparing pictures, negotiating ( FCE part 3) Listening : exercises for FCE Writing: formal and informal letter of enquiry, letter of application Reading: exercises for FCE II Dal corso di letteratura: S. Maglioni / G.Thomson :”Literary Hyperlinks, from Early Britain to the Early Romantics”, Black Cat Time Zone 1 : From Early Britain to the Middle Ages 1. Early Britain: a history of invasions Roman Britain The Anglo-Saxons Anglo –Saxon Art The Vikings Anglo-Saxon Literature: characteristics of Anglo-Saxon literature Epic poetry: Beowulf Elegy: The Seafarer 2.The Norman conquest and after The Normans The feudal System A time of reforms Church and State The Black Death The Peasant’s Revolt The emergence of the middle classes – mercantilism and the Church Literature in the late Middle Ages Jongleurs, troubadours and minstrels Medieval poetry: the ballad ‘Lord Randal Rewriting : Bob Dylan ‘A Hard Rain ‘s A-Gonna Fall’ Geoffrey Chaucer: Life and works The Canterbury Tales: ‘April’s sweet showers The Merchant The Wife of Bath The Wife of Bath’s prologue + testi dato in fotocopia : The Doctor, The Prioress Medieval Drama: mystery plays, miracle plays, morality plays, ‘Everyman’ Time Zone 2 : From the Renaissance to the Puritan Age 1.The English Renaissance Roots of the Renaissance The spirit of Renaissance curiosity-The centrality of man The rise of modern science

2. From Tudors to Stuarts The Tudors The Reformation School rules The age of religious persecutions The reign of Elizabeth I The myth of Elizabeth and the dream of a reformed empire The battle for naval supremacy The years after Elizabeth The Pilgrim fathers 3. Literature during the Renaissance The influence of Plato Renaissance prose Th. More: Utopia:‘The labours of life’ Renaissance poetry The sonnet : Italian sonnet and Elizabethan sonnet Philip Sidney: Astrophel and Stella :’Sonnet 5’ Edmund Spenser: ’One Day I Wrote Her Name’ William Shakespeare: ‘Sonnet 18’ ( Shall I compare thee…) William Shakespeare: ‘Sonnet 130’ ( My mistress’ eyes…) Lettura individuale con verifica in classe del testo ‘Romeo and Juliet’ ( Spotlight on Shakespeare, Black Cat) Milano, li ……………………………… l’insegnante: …………………………………………….. gli studenti: …………………………………………….. ………………………………………………

INGLESE CLASSE III C A.S. 2013-14 INDICAZIONI PER IL LAVORO ESTIVO Lavoro per gli studenti con debito in Inglese: I. Dal libro di corso completo di Workbook S. Foody / R. Raynes: MOVING UP, B1/B2, Black Cat Units 6-11 e ripasso Units 1-5 Ripasso sistematico dei tempi verbali e dei punti grammaticali elencati nel programma . Si consiglia di rifare gli esercizi del Workbook (dopo aver cancellato la produzione precedente) dalla unità 1 alla unità 11 e di consultare le relative schede grammaticali. GRAMMATICA The future First conditionals with if, when, until, unless, as soon as, in case Second conditional The passive: present simple, past simple, present perfect, future passive Order of adjectives Defining and non-defining relative clauses Making comparisons, - qualifiers: a bit, slightly, much, a lot, far more, Modal verbs of deduction Past modal verbs of deduction: must; may/ might/could; can’t Look, sound seem Verb patterns ( … to do; ….doing) Ability in the past ( could, was able, managed to) Used to + infinitive Be/ get used to + ing Reported speech: statements, commands and questions Reporting verbs ( claim, deny, admit, apologise, accuse of refuse, remind) Causative form ( have something done) LESSICO Vocabulary and functions Migration Confusing words Predicting trends ( rise, increase, go up; fall, decrease, go down; remain steady stay the same Nouns and adjectives for describing products Prefixes and suffixes il-/ ir-/ im-/ un-; -able, -ible, , -ful, -al, -ive Describing a product Living spaces Expressing advantages and disadvantages Phrasal verbs Crime Nouns and adjectives connected with healthy mind and body Body idioms Contrast linkers ( despite, in spite of; although, even though; however, but ) Making suggestions ( have you thought, you could try, what about, why don’t you ) Entertainment adjectives Taking and leaving messages Letture per TUTTI gli studenti Due dei seguenti testi:

• Tom Jones (Henry Fielding) B2.1 Black Cat ISBN 978-88-7754-929-7 • Gulliver’s Travels ( Swift) B1.2 Black Cat ISBN 978-88-530-0088-0 • Robinson Crusoe (Defoe) B2.2 Black Cat ISBN 978-88-530-0841-1 • Pamela (Richardson) B2.2 Black cat ISBN 978-88-530-0333-1

Oltre la lettura e gli esercizi da svolgere si consiglia di ascoltare i relativi CD (anche più volte) È opportuno sfruttare ogni possibilità di usare la lingua Inglese ( internet, film in lingua con sottotitoli in lingua etc. )

AS 2013-14 Classe: IV B Materia : Inglese Insegnante: Hedwig Lanzerath LINGUA Units 11-12 dal libro di corso completo di workbook : Mann/ Taylore/ Knowles:”Laser B2” Macmillan Aree Lessicali: Learning + phrasal verbs: cross out, get down, go over, look up, sail through, set out, work out The Law + phrasal verbs: make off, let off, go off, get away , break in, set up, beat up Strutture: Conditionals second, third conditional, mixed, inverted; direct and indirect objects; infinitives of purpose Unreal past, past wishes; participles Inversion LETTERATURA Testo: S. Maglioni/g. Thomson Literary Hyperlinks , From Early Britain to the Early Romantics, Black Cat The art of fiction

1. What is fiction? 2. The story and the novel 3. Popular fiction 4. The narrator 5. Character 6. Setting

The art of poetry 1. What is poetry 2. The materials and techniques of poetry 3. Rhythm and movement

The art of drama

1. What is theatre 2. Tragedy 3. Comedy 4. Modern drama

Time Zone 2: From the Renaissance to the Puritan Age Renaissance Drama The human condition- Elizabethan theatre- The Globe The production of plays Christopher Marlowe :Life and works Doctor Faustus : What wouldst thou have me do William Shakespeare: Life and works – Shakespeare’s plays -Shakespearean English Romeo and Juliet: Together apart Macbeth: Sleep no more Hamlet: To be or not to be King Lear: Nothing will come of nothing The Tempest; The profit of language The Rise of Puritanism Charles I: an absolute king,- The English Civil War and the Commonwealth The Puritans, Puritan beliefs Literature during the Puritan Age John Milton: life and works Paradise Lost: A heaven of hell

Time Zone 3 The Restoration and the Augustan Age The Restoration of the Monarchy The Libertines A new kind of monarchy Literature during the Restoration Restoration Prose and the rise of rationalism Restoration comedy The Augustan Age: characteristics of the Augustan Age, the rise of the middle classes, Augustan Aesthetics Poetry: A. Pope ‘First follow Nature’ ( fotocopia) The Rise of the Novel, journalism and the expansion of the reading public Formal variety of the novel : realism, psychological analysis, individual or type, episodic and central plot, epistolary novel, different types of narrator, the experimental novel Daniel Defoe: Life and works Robinson Crusoe: The means of survival Friday Jonathan Swift: Life and works Gulliver’s Travels : A small disagreement

The building of language The Yahoos ( dato in fotocopia) Samuel Richardson: estratti in fotocopia da Pamela Henry Fielding: Life and works Tom Jones :The other woman Laurence Sterne: Life and works Tristram Shandy : My opinions will be the death of me

The straight story Milano, li ……………………………. L’insegnante:…………………………………. Gli studenti: ……………………………….. ………………………………… INGLESE CLASSE IVB A.S. 2013/ 2014 INDICAZIONI PER IL LAVORO ESTIVO Ripasso del materiale lessicale e strutturale indicato nel programma svolto facendo riferimento al libro di corso ed alla grammatica di appoggio: Lettura dei seguenti test: Per tutti : E.M. Forster : A Passage to India Un titolo a scelta tra i seguenti: O. Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest O. Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray R.L. Stevenson: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde J. Conrad: Heart of Darkness

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Insegnante: Hedwig Lanzerath G. Thomson/ S. Maglioni: NEW LITERARY LINKS, From the Origins to the Romantic Age, Black Cat Si indicano i concetti trattati, non i titoli dei capitoli del testo, per i romanzi ci si riferisce all’estratto antologico Precursors of Romanticism • William Blake -Life, main works and poetic theory: a new use of language, ambiguity of symbols -Main themes: Childhood, Innocence vs experience, Criticism of industrialisation, personal freedom Text Analysis -Infant Joy -Infant Sorrow -London ( fotocopia) -The Lamb -The Tyger pp 341-349 The Romantic Age -The historical context – economic, social, political . pp 315-323 -The literary context: new concept of Nature, the sublime, the importance of the imagination -The meaning of the term Romanticism -The transformation of landscape and the construction of ‘natural’ beauty pp 324-331 • William Wordsworth -Life, main works and poetic theory -Main themes: Pantheism, Man and nature, Childhood and memory, Recollection in tranquillity. Text Analysis -Sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge -I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud pp 358-364 • Samuel Taylor Coleridge -Life, main works and poetic theory -Main themes: the Theory of the Imagination, Exoticism, Suspension of disbelief, The mystery of the act Text Analysis -The Rime of an Ancient Mariner: Extract 1 There was a ship Extract 2 The ice was all around pp 371 - 381 • George Gordon Byron -Life, main works, poetic theory -Main themes: the Byronic Hero, Journey and exile, Sublime nature, Irony and satire Text Analysis -From ‘Don Juan’ XC, XCI, XCII,XCIII : Donna Julia’s eyes pp 388 - 393 -Sunset in Venetia (fotocopia) - da ‘Lara’ II, 289-360 the Byronic hero (fotocopia)

• Percy Bysshe Shelly -Life, main works, poetic theory -Main themes: Refusal of social conventions, Idealism, Revolutionary creativity of poetry, Text Analysis -Ozymandias -England in 1819 -Ode to the West Wind pp 394 -406

• John Keats -Life, main works, poetic theory -Main themes: Ideal and real, Beauty and truth, Art as consolation, Art and eternity, Classical sources Text Analysis -Ode on a Grecian Urn pp 407 -41

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• Mary Shelley

Text Analysis -Frankenstein pp 430 - 435

• Jane Austen Text Analysis

-Sense and Sensibility pp 422 – 426 G. Thomson/ S. Maglioni: NEW LITERARY LINKS, From the Victorian Age to Contemporary Times, Black Cat The Victorian Age Economy and society, the pressure for reform, technological innovation, the cost of living pp 13 -16 Poverty and the poor laws, managing the Empire pp 18 -19 The Victorian compromise, the Victorian Ideal, the late Victorian period pp 23 -26 The Victorian Novel pp 30 -32

• Charles Dickens -Life, main works, themes, narrative technique -The Humanitarian novel: Realism, Exploitation of children, Respectability Text analysis - A man of Realities ( from “Hard Times”) - Coketown( from “Hard Times”) - ‘I’ve made a gentleman on you!’ (from ‘Great Expectations’) pp 45 -60 -‘Scrooge’ ( from ‘A Christmas Carol’ fotocopia)

• Charlotte Brontë -Life and main works -Jane Eyre: Narrative technique, Gothic elements, Main themes: Passionate love, The new heroine, female self-awareness Text analysis -‘Thornfield Hall’ -‘The madwoman in the attic’ (from “ Jane Eyre “) pp 66 – 73 -‘Jane and Blanche’ ( fotocopia)

• Emily Brontë - Narrative technique , the romantic novel, Nature and Civilisation, Heathcliff : a Byronic hero

Text analysis - I am Heathcliff ( ‘Wuthering Heights’) pp 74-80

• George Eliot -Life and main works Narrative technique, organic plot, round characters, psychological realism, moral choice, importance of the

profession the role of women Text analysis - ‘The light of years to come’(from :”Middlemarch” ) pp 87 - 92

• Robert Louis Stevenson

- the double, Victorian respectability , repression of instincts Text analysis - ‘The search for Hyde’ from Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde pp 118 -122

• Oscar Wilde

-Life and main works -The Decadent Artist: Art for Art’s Sake, the Dandy -The Picture of Dorian Gray: Narrative technique, Allegorical meaning, The Double, Aesthetic descriptions -The Comedy of Manners: Criticism of the Victorian values, Stereotyped upper-classes characters, Witty Dialogues

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Text analysis -I would give my Soul for that’ (from: ‘Dorian Gray’ ) - ‘ ‘Basil’s murder’’ ( from: ‘Dorian Gray’ fotocopia) -The shallow mask of manners’( from:’The Importance of Being Earnest’) pp 157 -170 The Age of Modernism -The historical context: The First World War, The Twenties and the Thirties -The social context: The consequences of the war, The age of anxiety pp 183 -191 -The literary context: modernism in Europe pp 196 -197 Modernism and the novel New concepts of time and of consciousness, ways of rendering the new vision of the individual pp 200 - 206

• Joseph Conrad -Life and works, narrative technique, civilisation and situations of limit, attitude to imperialism Texts Analysis -’A passion for maps’ -‘River of no return’ (from:‘Heart of Darkness’ ) pp 210 – 217 • James Joyce -Life: Irish origin, Jesuit education, Voluntary exile to Italy -Main Themes: Rebellion against the Church, Moral Paralysis, Failure to escape alienation, the Epiphany, Subjective perception of Time, Ireland as an idealised setting of his works -Style: The mythical method, Impersonality, Interior monologue ( direct and indirect), rendering of the Stream of Consciousness, Importance given to language as such Text Analysis -‘The Sisters’ ( lettura integrale a casa e commento parziale in classe) -The Dead’ ( lettura integrale a casa e commento parziale in classe) -‘I was thinking of so many things’ ( from:’Ulysses) pp 230 - 245 -‘Inside Bloom’s mouth’ ( from :’Ulysses’ fotocopia)

• Virginia Woolf -Life and main works -Influences from Freud’s psychoanalysis, Bergson’s concept of time, W. James’s theory of associations, -Main Themes: The world of feelings and memory, female emancipation, life seen by moments of vision -Style: Interior monologue, Poetic language, Moments of being, Cinematic techniques Text Analysis - A very sad case’ (da “Mrs Dalloway “) pp 248 - 252 - ‘It was precisely twelve o’clock….’ ( fotocopia da “Mrs Dalloway “) -‘The window’ (da “To The Lighthouse”) pp 257 -260

E. Hemingway Economy of technique, iceberg theory Text Analysis -‘The Killers’ -‘Cat in the rain’ ( fotocopia ) pp 290 - 294

• Aldous Huxley The dystopian novel , genetic manipulation and conditioning Text Analysis ‘An unforgettable lesson’ da ‘Brave New World’ pp 275 –281

• George Orwell The dystopian novel, totalitarian control, newspeak, rewriting of the past Text Analysis ‘Big Brother is watching you’ pp 295 – 301

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Poetry in the Modern Age Modernism in poetry ( new stylistic and metric techniques, allusive language, obscurity, elitist character, fragmentary character, variety of sources) • Thomas Stearns Eliot -Life, main works, poetic theory -Main themes: Crisis of values in modern society, Pessimistic vision of the world, Fragmentation of reality, Purification, Simultaneous vision of history, -Style: Free Verse, Impersonality, Mythical method, Objective correlative, Juxtaposition of register and imagery, Text Analysis -The Cruellest Month ( dettato) -The Fire Sermon ( from ‘The Waste Land’ fotocopia) -The burial of the dead’ - What the thunder said’ pp 320 - 326 The Present Age -The historical context: The dissolution of the British Empire -The social context -The literary context: Absurd and Anger • Samuel Beckett -Life and main works -The “Theatre of the Absurd”: Clowning and mimic language, Lack of traditional structure, Symbolic setting -Main themes: Absence of meaning and purpose in human life, Incommunicability, Lack of understanding Text Analysis - All the dead voices ( from ‘Waiting for Godot’) pp 461 - 466 • Harold Pinter -Life and main works -The one-act play: Importance of silence, Menacing atmosphere, Lack of emotion -Main themes: Mystery and Fear, Madness and Death, Incommunicability Style: “Pinterish”, Economy of technique Text Analysis - I should have been dead’ - Request Stop (fotocopia) pp 483 - 488

• John Osborne -Life and main works -Main themes: Anger, Britain’s decline and nostalgia for her glorious past, Lack of communication -Style: Spontaneous and aggressive language, Conventional pattern of the play Text Analysis - ‘I’m trying to better myself’ ( from ‘Look back in Anger’) pp 478 - 482

• Jean Rhys ( solo lettura e comprensione) - ‘Alien eyes’ - The cardboard world’ ( from ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’) pp 371 – 376 J.Salinger (solo lettura e comprensione) -Holden and Sally ( ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ , fotocopia) Nota: lo svolgimento del programma si è concentrato sulla comprensione dei testi e l’individuazione delle tematiche. Le nozioni biografiche sull’autore sono state limitate a quelle essenziali per la comprensione dell’opera esaminata. Milano , li …………………………………….. l’insegnante…………………………………………. Gli studenti ………………………………………… …………………………………………

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Insegnante: Hedwig Lanzerath G. Thomson/ S. Maglioni: NEW LITERARY LINKS, From the Origins to the Romantic Age, Black Cat Si indicano i concetti trattati, non i titoli dei capitoli del testo, per i romanzi ci si riferisce all’estratto antologico Precursors of Romanticism • William Blake -Life, main works and poetic theory: a new use of language, ambiguity of symbols -Main themes: Childhood, Innocence vs experience, Criticism of industrialisation, personal freedom Text Analysis -Infant Joy -Infant Sorrow -London ( fotocopia) -The Lamb -The Tyger pp 341-349 The Romantic Age -The historical context – economic, social, political . pp 315-323 -The literary context: new concept of Nature, the sublime, the importance of the imagination -The meaning of the term Romanticism -The transformation of landscape and the construction of ‘natural’ beauty pp 324-331 • William Wordsworth -Life, main works and poetic theory -Main themes: Pantheism, Man and nature, Childhood and memory, Recollection in tranquillity. Text Analysis - Sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge - I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud pp 358-364 • Samuel Taylor Coleridge -Life, main works and poetic theory -Main themes: the Theory of the Imagination, Exoticism, Suspension of disbelief, The mystery of the act Text Analysis -The Rime of an Ancient Mariner: Extract 1 There was a ship Extract 2 The ice was all around - Kubla Khan pp 371 - 380 • George Gordon Byron -Life, main works, poetic theory -Main themes: the Byronic Hero, Journey and exile, Sublime nature, Irony and satire Text Analysis -From ‘Don Juan’ XC, XCI, XCII,XCIII : Donna Julia’s eyes pp 388 - 393 -Sunset in Venetia (fotocopia) - da ‘Lara’ II, 289-360 the Byronic hero (fotocopia)

• Percy Bysshe Shelly -Life, main works, poetic theory -Main themes: Refusal of social conventions, Idealism, Revolutionary creativity of poetry, Text Analysis -Ozymandias -England in 1819 -Ode to the West Wind pp 394 -406

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• John Keats -Life, main works, poetic theory -Main themes: Ideal and real, Beauty and truth, Art as consolation, Art and eternity, Classical sources Text Analysis -Ode on a Grecian Urn pp 407 -41

• Jane Austen Text Analysis -Sense and Sensibility pp 422 – 426 ‘Mr Collin’s Proposal’ ( fotocopia da ‘Pride and Prejudice’ )

• Mary Shelley Text Analysis -Frankenstein pp 430 - 435 G. Thomson/ S. Maglioni: NEW LITERARY LINKS, From the Victorian Age to Contemporary Times, Black Cat The Victorian Age Economy and society, the pressure for reform, technological innovation, the cost of living pp 13 - 16 Poverty and the poor laws, managing the Empire pp 18 – 19 The Victorian compromise, the Victorian Ideal, the late Victorian period pp 23 – 26 The Victorian Novel pp 30 -32

• Charles Dickens -Life, main works, themes, narrative technique -The Humanitarian novel: Realism, Exploitation of children, Respectability Text analysis -A man of Realities ( “Hard Times”) - Coketown( “Hard Times”) - ‘I’ve made a gentleman on you!’ ‘Great Expectations’) pp 45 –60 -‘Lunchtime’ ( ‘Oliver Twist’) (fotocopia)

• Charlotte Brontë -Life and main works -Jane Eyre: Narrative technique, Gothic elements, Main themes: Passionate love, The new heroine, female self-awareness Text analysis -‘Thornfield Hall’ -‘The madwoman in the attic’ (“ Jane Eyre “) pp 66 – 73 -‘Jane and Blanche’ ( fotocopia)

• Emily Brontë - Narrative technique , the romantic novel, Nature and Civilisation, Heathcliff : a Byronic hero

Text analysis - I am Heathcliff pp 74 - 80

• George Eliot -Life and main works Narrative technique, organic plot, round characters, psychological realism, moral choice, importance of the

profession the role of women Text analysis - ‘The light of years to come’(”Middlemarch” ) pp 87 - 92

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• Robert Louis Stevenson - the double, Victorian respectability , repression of instincts Text analysis - ‘The search for Hyde’ from Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde pp 118 - 122

• Oscar Wilde

-Life and main works -The Decadent Artist: Art for Art’s Sake, the Dandy -The Picture of Dorian Gray: Narrative technique, Allegorical meaning, The Double, Aesthetic descriptions -The Comedy of Manners: Criticism of the Victorian values, Stereotyped upper-classes characters, Witty Dialogues Text analysis -I would give my Soul for that ( Dorian Gray) - In the huge gilt Venetian lantern…’ (fotocopia ‘Dorian Gray’) -The shallow mask of manners’ (‘The Importance of Being Earnest’) pp 157 -170

• G.B.Shaw Fabian Society, theatre of ideas. Text analysis - ‘What’s to become of me?’ ( Pygmalion) pp 171-176 The Age of Modernism -The historical context: The First World War, The Twenties and the Thirties -The social context: The consequences of the war, The age of anxiety pp 183 - 191 -The literary context: modernism pp 196 -197 Modernism and the novel New concepts of time and of consciousness, ways of rendering the new vision of the individual pp 200-206

• Joseph Conrad -Life and works, narrative technique, civilisation and situations of limit, attitude to imperialism Texts Analysis -’A passion for maps’ - ‘River of no return’ ( ‘Heart of Darkness’ ) pp 210- 217 • James Joyce -Life: Irish origin, Jesuit education, Voluntary exile to Italy -Main Themes: Rebellion against the Church, Moral Paralysis, Failure to escape alienation, the Epiphany, Subjective perception of Time, Ireland as an idealised setting of his works -Style: The mythical method, Impersonality, Interior monologue, rendering of the Stream of Consciousness, Importance given to language as such Text Analysis Il testo : “A selection from Dubliners” era stato assegnato come lavoro estivo. In classe sono stati ripresi in modo più dettagliato le seguenti storie: -‘The Sisters’ -Eveline - Araby’ -The Dead’ -‘I was thinking of so many things’( ‘Ulysses’) pp 230 - 245 -‘Inside Bloom’s mouth’ ( fotocopia da ‘Ulysses’)

• Virginia Woolf -Life and main works -Influences from Freud’s psychoanalysis, Bergson’s concept of time, W. James’s theory of associations, -Main Themes: The world of feelings and memory, female emancipation, life seen by moments of vision -Style: Interior monologue, Poetic language, Moments of being, Cinematic techniques

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Text Analysis - A very sad case’ (‘Mrs Dalloway’) pp 248 - 252 - ‘It was precisely twelve o’clock….’ ( fotocopia da ‘Mrs Dalloway ‘) -‘The window’ (‘To the Lighthouse’) pp 257 -260 Cunningham’s rewriting of Mrs Dalloway in ‘The Hours’ pp 253 - 256

• Earnest Hemingway Economy of language, iceberg theory, withholding of information Text Analysis -The Killers - Cat in the rain ( fotocopia) pp 290 -294

• Aldous Huxley The dystopian novel , genetic manipulation and conditioning Text Analysis ‘An unforgettable lesson’ (Brave New World’ ) pp 275 –28

• George Orwell The dystopian novel, totalitarian control, newspeak, doublethink, rewriting of the past Text Analysis ‘Big Brother is watching you’ (‘1984’) pp 295 – 301 Modernism in poetry new stylistic and metric techniques, allusive language, obscurity, elitist character, fragmentary character, juxtaposition of different registers and imagery

• Thomas Stearns Eliot Life, main works, poetic theory -Main themes: Crisis of values in modern society, Pessimistic vision of the world, Fragmentation of reality, Purification, Simultaneous vision of history, -Style: Free Verse, Impersonality, Mythical method, Objective correlative, Juxtaposition Text Analysis -The Cruellest Month ( dettato) -The burial of the dead’ (‘The Wasteland’) -What the thunder said’ (‘The Wasteland’) -The Fire Sermon ( ‘The Waste Land’ – fotocopia) -The Hollow men pp 320 -330 Contemporary Times ( 1945 and after) -The historical context: The dissolution of the British Empire -The social context -The literary context: Absurd and Anger • Samuel Beckett -Life and main works -The “Theatre of the Absurd”: Clowning and mimic language, Lack of traditional structure, Symbolic setting -Main themes: Absence of meaning and purpose in human life, Incommunicability, Lack of understanding Text Analysis -All the dead voices’ ( ‘Waiting for Godot’) pp 461-468

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• Harold Pinter -Life and main works -The one-act play: Importance of silence, Menacing atmosphere, Lack of emotion -Main themes: Mystery and Fear, Madness and Death, Incommunicability Style: “Pinterish”, Economy of technique Text Analysis - I should have been dead ( ‘The Caretaker’) pp 483 - 488 - Request Stop ( fotocopia)

• John Osborne -Life and main works -Main themes: Anger, Britain’s decline and nostalgia for her glorious past, Lack of communication -Style: Spontaneous and aggressive language, Conventional pattern of the play Text Analysis -‘Im trying to better myself’ ( ‘Look back in Anger’) pp 478 - 482

• Arthur Miller -Life and main works Text Analysis -‘Business is business’ ( ‘Death of a Salesman’ pp 471-475 The postmodern novel Literary techniques in postmodernism

• Jean Rhys Text Analysis -Alien eyes -The cardboard world ( Wide Sargasso Sea) pp 371-376

• John Fowles

Text Analysis -Walk on the wild side ( The French Lieutenant’s woman) pp 378 -382 Milano, li ………………………….. L’insegnante: ……………………………………….

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PROGRAMMA SVOLTO DI INGLESE AS 2013-2014 CLASSE 5C Insegnante: Hedwig Lanzerath testo Marinoni Mingazzini/ Salmoiraghi: Witness To The Times compact, Principato vol. 2 e3 Si elencano i concetti trattati in classe piuttosto che singole pagine della antologia. I testi citati sono – ove non diversamente specificato- le poesie o gli estratti da opere narrative contenuti nell’antologia. The Romantic Age the Sublime, the meaning of the term Romanticism, the concept of imagination, the idea of Nature, the figure of the poet, the child, democratic ideas William Blake Life, main works and poetic theory: a new use of language, ambiguity of symbols Main themes: Childhood, Innocence / experience, Criticism of industrialisation, personal freedom

• London (fotocopia) • The Lamb • The Tyger • Nurse’s Song ( Songs of Innocence) • Nurse’s Song ( Songs of Experience) • The Clod and the Pebble (fotocopia)

William Wordsworth Main themes: Pantheism, Man and nature, Childhood and memory, Recollection in tranquillity.

• Estratto dal ‘Preface’ • Daffodils • Composed upon Westminster Bridge ( fotocopia)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Main themes: the Theory of the Imagination, Exoticism, Suspension of disbelief

• The Rime of an Ancient Mariner: Part I Part II Part VII ( extract)

George Gordon Byron Life, main works, poetic theory Main themes: the Byronic Hero, Journey and exile, Sublime nature, Irony and satire

• Oh, Love! (Don Juan Canto III, St II,III,IV,V) • Sunset in Venetia • The Byronic Hero ( from Lara, St. XVII )

Percy Bysshe Shelly Life, main works, poetic theory Main themes: Refusal of social conventions, Idealism, Revolutionary creativity of poetry, Pantheistic nature

• Ode to the West Wind • Ozymandias (fotocopia) • England in 1819 (fotocopia)

John Keats Life, main works, poetic theory Main themes: Ideal and real, Beauty and truth, Art as consolation, Art and eternity, Classical sources

• Ode on a Grecian Urn The Gothic Novel Mary Shelley:

• This was then the reward….( from: “Frankenstein” )

The Victorian Age Historical and socio-economic background The Empire, The second industrial revolution, Technological innovation, The pressure for reform, poverty and the poor laws, the Victorian compromise, the Victorian ideal, Darwin The Victorian Novel : realism, social concern, didactic aim Charles Dickens Life, main works, themes: Exploitation of children, Respectability. Criticism of Victorian institutions narrative technique: episodic structure, intrusive narrator, sentimentalism

• Coketown ( from: “Hard Times” - fotocopia) • A man of realities ( from: “Hard Times” - fotocopia) • ‘The meeting’ ( from ‘Great Expectations) • ‘Lunchtime’ ( from :”Oliver Twist” ) • Scrooge (from “A Christmas Carol” – fotocopia)

William Makepeace Thackeray ‘Becky’s downfall’ ( from ‘Vanity Fair’) Charlotte Brontë Life and main works Jane Eyre: Narrative technique, Gothic elements, Main themes: Passionate love, Bildungsroman, A new heroine, female self-awareness

• Rochester ( from: “Jane Eyre”) • Estratti supplementari “Jane Eyre”- fotocopia

Emily Brontë the romantic novel, Nature and Civilisation, Heathcliff : a Byronic hero , modern aspects in narrative technique

• Catherine • Heathcliff (from “Wuthering Heights”)

George Eliot Life and main works Narrative technique, organic plot, psychological realism, Main themes: Religion of humanity, importance of duty, limitation of women’s possibilities of development

• Disillusionment ( from : “Middlemarch”) Robert Louis Stevenson The double, instinctive drives and repression, Victorian respectability

• Jekyll and Hyde Hyde ( from: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde)

Oscar Wilde The literary context: Aestheticism and Decadence Life and main works The Decadent Artist: Art for Art’s Sake, the Dandy The Picture of Dorian Gray: Allegorical meaning, The Double, Aesthetic descriptions The Comedy of Manners: Criticism of the Victorian values, Stereotyped upper-classes characters, witty dialogues

• Dorian’s death ( from : “The Picture of Dorian Gray” ) • “In the huge gilt Venetian lantern….” ( estratto supplementare in fotocopia) • My parents lost me( from: “ The Importance of Being Earnest” )

The modern Age The age of anxiety The Modernist short story and the modernist novel : a break with the past, the influence of Freud, Bergson and W. James, stream of consciousness fiction

Joseph Conrad The transitional novel, the unreliable narrator, break in chronology, awareness of the language Themes: criticism of imperialism, ambiguity of ‘savagery’ and ‘civilisation’

• Mistah Kurtz-he dead ( from : Heart of Darkness)

James Joyce Life: Irish origin, Jesuit education, Voluntary exile to Italy Main Themes: Rebellion against the Church and the family, Moral Paralysis, Failure to escape, alienation, the Human Moral Quest, the Epiphany, Subjective perception of Time, Ireland as an idealised setting of his works Style: The mythical method, Impersonality, Interior monologue, rendering of the Stream of Consciousness, Importance given to language as such La lettura di alcune storie da “Dubliners” è stata assegnata come compito per le vacanze natalizie. In classe si riprendono le tematiche principali

• I think he died for me ( from: “Dubliners : The Dead”) • Molly’s Monologue : (from: “Ulysses”) • Bloom’s train of thought ( from : “Ulysses”)

Virginia Woolf Life and main works Main Themes: The world of feelings and memory, female emancipation, life seen by moments of vision Style: Interior monologue, Poetic language, Moments of being,

• Out for flowers • Mr Dalloway (from: “Mrs Dalloway”)

Earnest Hemingway The modernist short story , narrative technique, the ’iceberg theory’

• The imminence of death ( from’The Snows of Kilimanjaro’) • Cat in the rain ( fotocopia)

Francis Scott Fitzgerald The narrator as witness- impressionistic account of events, the corruption of the American dream and nostalgia for American innocence

• The Great Gatsby (Lettura individuale del romanzo) • At the party • Gatsby’s funeral ( estratti antologici)

Modernism in poetry new stylistic and metrical techniques, allusive language, obscurity, elitist character, fragmentary character

Thomas Stearns Eliot Life, main works, poetic theory Main themes: Crisis of values in modern society, Pessimistic vision of the world, Fragmentation of reality, Purification, Simultaneous vision of history, the poet’s mission Style: Free Verse, Impersonality, Mythical method, Objective correlative, Juxtaposition of register and imagery, citation,

• Prufrock and Other Observations (ll 1-45) • ‘April is the cruellest month …’ ( dettato da “The Wasteland” • Unreal city (from: “The Wasteland” :The Fire Sermon ) • The burial of the dead ( ll 1-17 – fotocopia ) • What the thunder said ( ll 1 – 38 fotocopia)

George Orwell Disillusionment with Soviet communism, the totalitarian state: propaganda, police control, ‘newspeak’, ‘doublethink’

• The final party ( from : “Animal Farm”)

Aldous Huxley Themes: A dystopia under the apparently perfectly functioning world, social stability based on genetic manipulation and Pavlovian conditioning, absence of free will or critical thought

• Bokanovky’s process (from: ’Brave New World’) Contemporary Drama

John Osborne The angry young men Main themes: Anger, Britain’s decline and nostalgia for her glorious past, Lack of communication Style: Spontaneous and aggressive language, Conventional pattern of the play

• Jimmy ( from :“Look back in Anger” ) Samuel Beckett Life and main works The “Theatre of the Absurd”: Clowning and mimic language, Lack of traditional structure, Symbolic setting Main themes: Absence of meaning and purpose in human life, Incommunicability, Lack of understanding

• He won’t come this evening ( from: “Waiting for Godot” ) Harold Pinter Life and main works Importance of silence, Menacing atmosphere, Lack of emotion Main themes: Mystery and Fear, Madness and Death, Incommunicability Style: “Pinterish”, Economy of technique

• The Victim( from : “The Dumb Waiter” ) • Request stop (fotocopia)

Arthur Miller Social criticism , tragic aspects of contemporary life, failure of the American Dream and of the myth of success, inability to distinguish between reality and illusion

• Biff and Willy ( from “Death of a salesman”) Lettura e comprensione dei seguenti testi Jerome D. Salinger Skaz ( single narrative tone maintained ) constructed ’spontaneity’ of narrative tone

• Name something you’d like to be • Holden and Sally ( fotocopia)

Jack Kerouac

• First impressions ( from ‘On the Road’) Ian Mc Ewan

• Co-operation • Mute helplessness • I’ve exploded into your life ( from ‘Enduring Love’)

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