First Term Curriculum

-          Guide lines about textual analysis;

-          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 (CFR) – on text book 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;

-          Science in the Renaissance;

-          Copernicus and Tolomy;

-          The Renaissance: the central role of the human being;

-          The Language of Love in the Renaissance;

-          The Sonnet: from Petrarch to Shakespeare (“Sonnet 73”, “Sonnet 18”, “I find no peace”, “My Mistress’ Eyes”, “Anne Hathaway”);

-          The evolution of the sonnet;

-          Conventions of the sonnet;

-          Courtly love poetry;

-          Shakespeare and the theatre of the time;

-          Audience of the Renaissance;

-          Theatre: drama: tragedy and comedy plays;

-          Romeo and Juliet (+ all extracts);

-          The religious code in courtly love poetry;

-          Woman, lady, mistress;

-          Hamlet

-          Studied pages from the text book: from 52 till 92, 93, 97, 98, 105, 110, 111.

Skills

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