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 (CFR on the 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 further system;

-          The Tudor dynasty;

-          Henry VIII;

-          Martin Luther and the Reformation;

-          Science in the Renaissance;

-          Copernicus and Ptolemy;

-          The Renaissance : the central role of human being;

-          The language of love in the Renaissance;

-          The sonnet form: from Petrarch to Shakespeare;

-          The evolution of the sonnet;

-          The convention of the sonnets;

-          Shakespeare and the theatre of the time;

-          Audiences of the Renaissance;

-          Theatre: drama: tragedy and comedy play;

-          Romeo and Juliet (all extracts);

-          Hamlet;

-          Courtly love poetry;

-          The religious code in courtly love poetry;

-          Woman, lady, mistress;

-          SONNETS: 73 (Shakespeare), 18 (Shakespeare), “I find no peace” (Thomas Wyatt), “My mistress’ eyes” (Shakespeare), “Anne Hathaway” (Carol Anne Duffy).

-          Pages: 52-92, 93, 97, 98, 105, 110, 111

COMPETENCES:

1. Power Point Presentation of problem topic;
2. Podcast about theme text topic;
3. Around the Table debate: descript;
4. News paper article (production and analysis);
5. From poetry to play: Tran codification;
6. Mini movie, video;
7. Textual analysis;
8. Writing a sonnet.