FIRST TERM CURRICULUM
Textual analysis pratice:
・ When I heard the Learn’d Astronomer
・ She dwelt among the untrodden ways
・ A word is dead
・ The rainbow

Contents:
・ General characeristic of the Renaissance on the text and on the Internet
・ The chain of being
・ Church and kingdom: their fight
・ Maip of Renaissance
・ The war of the roses
・ The Tudor system
・ The Tudor dinasty
・ Henry VIII
・ Martin Luther and the riformation
・ Science in the Renaissance
・ Copernicus and astronomy
・ The Renaissance: the central role of the human being
・ The language of love in the Renaissance
・ From Petrach to Shakespeare
・ The volution of the sonnet
・ Convention of the sonnet
・ Courtly love poetry
・ Shakespeare and the theatre of the time
・ Audiences of the Renaissance
・ Theatre: drama, tragedy, commedy, play
・ Romeo and Juliet: all extracts
・ Amlet
・ The religous code in courtly love poetry
・ Human, lady and mistress
・ From page 52 to page 92
・ Pages 93-97-98-105-110

Sonnets:
・ Sonnet 73
・ Sonnet 18
・ I find no peace
・ My mistress eyes
・ Anne Hathaway

Competences:
・ Power point presentation of problem topic
・ Poadcast about theme, text and topic
・ Roundtable debate: the script
・ Newspaper article (production and analysis)
・ From poetry to play: transcodification
・ Mini movie or video
・ Textual analysis, writing sonnet