Quinta D - INGLESE | 2023-2024

The Victorian Age

Queen Victoria's reign

Industrial revolution and reforms

Life in Victorian Britain

The Victorian Compromise

The Victorian novel

Charles Dickens: "Oliver Twist"(I want some more).(A classroom definition of a horse)

Dickens and the theme of Education

Child labour: Bleak House and Rosso Malpelo

Children in  Literature (fotocopia)

Muhammad Yunus::"Poverty is not created by poor people" (fotocopia)

The poor laws

Oscar Wilde: life and works

The Picture of Dorian Gray (Dorian kills the Portrait and himself)

Robert Louis Stevenson: Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde

Rudyard Kipling: The white man's burden (fotocopia)

The Modern Age

From the Edwardian Age to the first World War

The Age of anxiety

The twenties and thirties

Modernism 

The Modern Novel

The stream of consciousness on page and  Interior monologue (fotocopia)

The War Poets: 

Rupert Brooke: The Soldier

Thomas Sterne Eliot: The waste Land

James Joyce: life and works

"Dubliners"(The structure of the collection,the city of Dublin,Physical and spiritual paralysis, a way to escape:epiphany, the narrative technique

World war II:The early phases, how the war ended, the Holocaust,Churchill: The power of words.(fotocopia)

Britain after the second world war (The Welfare State, Nationalization of key industries, Collapse of British Empire, Consumerism, Youth Culture) (fotocopia)

Dystopian Novel

George Orwell:1984 Propaganda and Totalitarian Regime (The Object of Power is Power) (fotocopia)

Invalsi: Esercizi di Reading comprehension, Listening comprehension  e Use  of English

Uscita didattica :  Fascism and Antifascism in Milan