First Term Curriculum

• Textual analysis practice
• When I heard the learned astronomer
• "She dwelt among the untrodden ways"
• "A Word is Dead"
• "The Rainbow"
• General characteristics of the Renaissance on textbook and on the net
• The Great Chain of Being
• Church and Kingdom: their fight
• A map about the Renaissance
• The war of the Roses
• The feudal system
• The Tudor dynasty
• Henry VIII
• Martin Luther and the Reformation
• Science in the Renaissance
• Copernicus and Ptolemy
• The Renaissance: the central role of the human being
• The Language of Love in the Renaissance
• The sonnet form: Petrarch and Shakespeare
• The evolution of the sonnet
• Conventions of the sonnet
• Courtly love poetry
• Shakespeare and the theatre of the time
• Audiences of the Renaissance
• Theatre: drama, tragedy, comedy, play.
• Romeo and Juliet: all extracts
• Hamlet
• The religious code in courtly love poetry
• Sonnets: 18, 73, "I find no peace", "My mistress' eyes", "Anne Hathaway"
• Woman, lady, mistress
• pp. 52 - 92, p. 93, pp. 97 - 98, p. 105, pp. 110 - 111

Competences:

1. Power point presentation of problem / topic
2. Podcast about theme / text / topic
3. Round table debate: the script
4. Newspaper article (production and analysis)
5. From poetry to play: a transcodification
6. A mini - movie or video
7. Textual analysis
8. Writing a sonnet