Programma di INGLESE 4 A LES A. S. 2020/2021
Libro di testo : Medaglia-Young, “CORNERSTONE”,ed.LOESCHER.
Insegnante: Mariella Solinas Salaris
Unit 2
The RENAISSANCE and The PURITAN AGE.
Henry VIII and the breach with Rome, Elizabeth I . Reading : “ The Globe”.
William Shakespeare : life and works.
Shakespeare’s genius, career. Source and structure of Shakespeare’s plays
“Hamlet”: the plot, the themes of the play, Hamlet the character, the soliloquy ”To be or not to be “pag. 90.
Unit 3
The Restoration and The Augustan Age: James II, the Glorious Revolution and political change.
George I, Sir Walpole and the slave trade.
The reading public, the coffee Houses, the rise of the novel.
Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe: the plot, an expression of European colonial aspirations, a Manifesto of economic Individualism, reading pag.144.
Jonathan Swift
Gulliver’s Travels : the plot, the satire.
Samuel Richardson
Pamela : the plot, the epistolary novel, the aim of the book Pamela and Mr.B
Unit 4
The Romantic Age: the years of revolutions, pag172/173.
The French Revolution, The Industrial Revolution, The American War of Independence and the birth of the United States, English colonies.
William Blake : life and works.
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Blake’s Style, Imagination and the poet, Social Involvement.
“The Lamb”, pag.186
“The Tyger”, pag.188, “London”, pag.190.
“London”, pag.190.
Mary Shelley : life and works.
“Frankenstein”, the origin of the book, the structure, the themes.
GLI alunni
L’insegnante.
