First Term Curriculum

Guide Line 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 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 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: Petrarch and Shakespeare

The evolution of the sonnet

Conventions of the sonnet

Courtly love poetry

Shakespeare and the theatre

Audiences of the Renaissance

Theatre: drama, tragedy, comedy, play.

Romeo and Juliet: all extracts

Hamlet

Sonnets: 18, 73, "I find no peace", "My mistress' eyes", "Anne Hathaway"

The religious code in courtly love poetry

 Woman, lady, mistress

pp. 52 - 92, p. 93, pp. 97 - 98, p. 105, pp. 110 - 111

Competences:

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