FIRST TERM CURRICULUM

• Guidelines about textual analysis;

• Textual analysis practice:

1. Walt Whitman, When I heard the learned astronomer;

2. William Wordsworth, She dwelt among the untrodden ways;

3. Emily Dickinson, A word is dead;

4. William Wordsworth, The rainbow.

• General characteristics of the Renaissance (on the 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 sonnet from Petrarch to Shakespeare: the evolution of the sonnet;

• Conventions of the sonnet;

• Courtly love poetry;

• Shakespeare and the theater of the time;

• Audiences of the Renaissance;

• Theater: drama, tragedy, comedy, play;

• Romeo and Juliet: all extracts;

• Sonnets:

1. W. Shakespeare, Sonnet 73;

2. W. Shakespeare, Sonnet 18;

3. Thomas Wyatt; I find no peace;

4. W. Shakespeare, My Mistresses' Eyes;

5. Carol Ann Duffy, Anne Hathaway.

• Hamlet;

• The religious code in courtly love poetry;

• Woman, Lady, Mistress;

• From the textbook: from page 52 to page 92; and pages 92,93,97,98,105,110,111.

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 trans-codification;

6. A mini-movie or video;

7. Textual analysis: writing a sonnet.