First term curriculum

• Textual analysis practise
• 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 the 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: from Petrarch to Shakespeare
• The evolution of the sonnet
• Convention of the sonnet
• Courtly love poetry
• Shakespeare and the theatre of time
• Audiences of the Renaissance
• Theatre: drama: tragedy, comedy and play
• Romeo and Juliet (all extracts)
• Hamlet
• The religious code in courtly love poetry
• Sonnets:
  • Sonnet 18
  • Sonnet 73
  • I find no peace
  • My mistress eyes
  • Anne Hathaway
• Human, lady, mistress
• From page 52 to page 93 + page 97 – 98 – 105 – 110 – 111

Competences

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