PROGRAMMA di INGLESE classe 4 B AS 2015

PROGRAMMA di
INGLESE
classe 4 B
A.S. 2015/2016
Libri di testo:
Performer Culture & Literature vol. 2
M. Spiazzi, M. Tavella, M. Layton Ed. Zanichelli
Cambridge International AS and A Level
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
M. Gould M. Rankin
Ed. Cambridge University Press
Performer Culture & Literature Vol. 2
Specification 7 An Age of Revolutions
Industrial Society, William Blake and the victims of industrialisation . Poems:
“London”, The Chimney Sweeper “ ( 2 Versions)
The American War of Indipendence, The Boston Freedom Trail.
The Sublime: a new sensibility
The Gothic Novel.
Mary Shelley and a new interest in science. Novel : “Frankenstein” :The Creation of
the Monster”; “Frankenstein and the monster”
The Epistolary novel: Shelley and Foscolo.
Specification 8 The Romantic Spirit
Emotion v Reason, A new sensibility, The emphasis on the individual.
William Wordsworth and nature
The Lake District
Poem: “Daffodils”
Nature in Wordsworth and Leopardi: Canto notturno di un pastore errante dell’Asia
vs My Heart Leaps Up.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Sublime nature
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, “ Farewell”
The Killing of the Albatross.
Romanticism in English painting: J. Constable and J. M.W. Turner.
The Napoleonic Wars
John Keats and unchanging nature. Poem: “ Bright Star”
Specification 9 The New Frontier
The beginning of an American identity
The pioneers and the American frontier
Manifest Destiny, the American Indians,The question of slavery, Abraham Lincoln,
The American Civil War.
Taking challenges
Ernest Hemingway, Novel : “ The Old Man and the Sea” ( The Marlin)
Specification 10 Coming of Age
The life of young Victoria, The first half of Queen Victoria’s reign,
Life in Victorian town,
Victorian Christmas,
“A Christmas Carol “ by C. Dickens ( Scrooge’s Christmas).
The Victorian compromise.
The Victorian novel.
Charles Dickens and children.
Cambridge International AS and A level ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Part 1 AS Level
Unit 1 : Reading non-fiction
Reading and writing skills, types of question, language and style.
Key reading skills for responding to passages.
Evaluating commentary skills : from “ Shooting an Elephant “ by G. Orwell.
Planning and structuring a commentary.
Using evidence and quotations.
Types of non-fiction text: descriptive writing: from “ Touching the Void” by J.
Simpson.
Key technique: connotations: from “ The Road from Coorain” by J. K. Conway.
Personal writing: Letters from “ A Letter to my Mother” by C. Hove.
Memoirs and autobiographies: from “ The Attack” by R.H. Tawney.
Characters in memoirs : from” Stella in Bombay” by K. Naravan.
Third person memoirs: from “ Lost in London” by J.M. Coetzee.
Dialogue and action: from “ My Sister ‘s Perfect Life” by T. Levy.
Humour and Hyperbole: from”Loud Dad” by T. Cox.
A Film Review: from a review by Stella Papamichael, Radio Times.
A restaurant review: from a review by J. Rayner, The Observer.
Practice and self-evaluation,, from Andres Schipani, www.ft.com
Unit 2 : Writing non-fiction
Approaching “direct writing” questions.
Approaching “writing for specified audience” questions.
Planning written responses.
Text types and purposes. Letters from “Antartica, a Voyage into Unknown Climes”
by N. Gemmell.
Autobiography and memoirs: from “A Fragile Gaijin in Japan” by P. Blazdell.
Unit 3 : Imaginative writing
Exploring imaginative writing tasks.
Narrative voice, from “The Flowers” A. Walker.
More on first person narration, from “ The Handmaid's Tale” by M. Atwood
Key reading and writing skills: Third person narration from “Royalty” by A. Desai.
Studenti
Docente
Prof.ssa Emma Mandò