Anno Scolastico 2020/2021 Programma di Inglese Classe 5 A LES
Insegnante: Mariella SolinasSalaris
Libri di testo : C. Medaglia/ B. A. Young “Cornerstone”, ed. Loescher.
Revellino/Schinardi/Tellier, “Stepinto Social Studies” ed. Zanichelli Literature:
The Victorian Age
The historical background : Victorian society , Victorian compromise, Chartism, Economicdevelopment and social change.
The literarycontext: the novel, the early and mid-Victorians.
Charles Dickens : features of Dickens’snovels Oliver Twist : reading pag. 258
Hard Times : Coketown Aestheticism
Oscar Wilde : the Dandy,
The Picture of Dorian Gray: reading pag. 279 The Importance of BeingEarnest : the language The Decadents pag. 286/287, Wilde and D’annunzio.
The Twentieth Century
The First world war, the second world war, Prohibition and the “Roaringtwenties”, the Wall Street Crash, Decline of the Empire.
The LiteraryContext:TheModernistNovel James Joyce :
“Dubliners”: The Dead, reading pag. 347/348
“Ulysses”, Stream of Consciousness and InteriorMonologue Reading pag. 351, “Molly’ssoliloquy
Virginia Woolf
“MrsDalloway”, the plot and narrative technique.
George Orwell Animal Farm
NineteenEighty-Four . Civilization:
BritishPolitical System, Parliament, Government and the Royal Family, the role of the Queen, English Political Parties.
The American Political System, The President of the USA, The Congress, Political Parties.
Multicultural Britain : Immigration from the formerBritish Empire, BritishCitizens, Managed Migration, Pag. 300/301
The Irish Question.
From “Stepinto Social Studies”
The Europea Union:
From a national to a Europeancitizenship Brexit.
L’Insegnante
Gli Alunni
