ISTITUTO DI ISTRUZIONE SUPERIORE PIETRO ALDI GROSSETO LICEO CLASSICO CARDUCCI RICASOLI PROGRAMMA DI LINGUA E CIVILTA INGLESE a.s. 2017-2018 Prof Fernanda Gagliardi classe 5 A Dal testo Spiazzi-Tavella The Prose and the Passion - Zanichelli sono stati svolti i seguenti argomenti: Romanticism: the main features George Gordon Byron : life and works, the Byronic hero, Byron s individualism, the style Childe Harold s pilgrimage : the structure of the poem Self exiled Harold John Keats : life and works, Keats reputation, the substance of his poetry, the role of imagination Beauty: the central theme of his poetry, physical beauty and spiritual beauty, negative capability La Belle Dame sans Merci The Victorian Age : The early Victorian Age, Victorian values, The Victorian compromise The Victorian Novel Charles Dickens: life and works, the plot of Dickens s novels, a didactic aim, characters, style Hard times : plot, structure, a critique of materialism Nothing but facts Coketown
Aestheticism and Decadence Oscar Wilde: life and works, the author, the rebel and the dandy, Art for Art s sake The picture of Dorian Gray :plot, narrative technique, allegorical meaning Basil Hallward Dorian s death De Profundis (pdf) The double in Victorian literature and in Pirandello (fotocopia) The modern Age: anxiety and rebellion Britain after World War II, Elizabeth II, the Welfare State The age of anxiety, the cultural revolution MODERN POETRY Symbolism and free verse: features The cruellest month ( T.S. Eliot ) Stream of consciousness and interior monologue I said yes I will ( J.Joyce) Committed poetry: main features W.H. Auden The unknown citizen Funeral Blues THE WAR POETS Wilfred Owen : Dulce et decorum est : analysis Roopert Brooke : The soldier: analysis T.S. Eliot : life and works, the conversion, the impersonality of the artist The Hollow Men :the theme This is the dead land : analysis The Waste land (fotoc) W.H. Auden: life and works, the English period, Auden in America, Another time Funeral Blues ( analysis) The Unknown citizen (analysis)
THEATRE Post drama and The theatre of the Absurd : features Samuel Beckett :the suffering of being Waiting for Godot : the plot, absence of a traditional plot, the symmetric structure, the meaninglessness of time; the language; Vladimir and Estragon We ll come back tomorrow The theatre of Anger : features Look back in anger (J Osborne) :the plot John Osborne: the spokesman of the Angry Young Men Jimmy Porter: an anti-hero, the other characters, the innovative language Boring Sundays FICTION James Joyce: the most radical innovator of 20 th -century writing : life and works The impersonality of the artist, ordinary Dublin, a subjective perception of time Dubliners : the origin of the collection, narrative technique, the use of epiphany; the theme of paralysis Dubliners: Eveline The Dead : She was fast asleep Ulysses Molly s Monologue (fotocopia) Virginia Woolf: life and works ; the Bloomsbury group; the literary career; a modernist novelist Woolf vs Joyce Mrs Dalloway : the plot, characters; setting in time and place; the connection between Clarissa and Septimus Clarissa and Septimus ; ; Virginia s suicide letter to Leonard Woolf ( fotocopia) Shakespeare s sister (fotocopia) George Orwell : an influential voice of the 20 th century, life and works, social themes, the artist s development Animal Farm and the beast fable : the historical background to the book; the plot; the animals, social themes Animal Farm (fotocopia) Why I write (fotocopia) I984: structure and plot; an anti-utopian novel; Winston Smith, themes Newspeak Language and Politics (fotococopia)
Francis Scott Fitzgerald : the writer of the Jazz Age: life and works The Great Gatsby :the plot, characters analysis, symbols The decay of the American dream, Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway, retrospective narration, symbolic images Nick meets Gatsby Gatby s party (fotocopia) Dal testo FCE Gold e Maximizer sono state svolte le ultime unità didattiche mirate al potenziamento delle quattro abilità di base e per completare la preparazione necessaria al superamento dell esame Cambridge First Certificate. Unit 11 Living on the edge, about adventure Unit 12 Crime scene, about crime Who are you again, about memory Say what you mean, about communication Soprattutto nella prima parte dell anno scolastico sono stati svolti esercizi di reading, writing ( essay, review, report, article, letters), listening su prove d esame del First certificate. Alcuni alunni di questa classe hanno conseguito la certificazione First Certificate Cambridge lo scorso anno e due alunne nel mese di aprile con risultati eccellenti. Una alunna, oltre al FCE ha anche la certificazione IELTS. Gli alunni hanno assistito allo spettacolo teatrale in lingua originale The picture of D. Gray tratto dall opera omonima di O.Wilde. Inoltre sono stati visionati e analizzati diversi filmati e presentazioni in lingua originale. L insegnante Gli alunni