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

A)               Power point presentation of problem/topic;

B)                Podcast about theme/text/topic;

C)                Round table/debate: the script;

D)               Newspaper article (production and analysis);

E)                From poetry to play: a trans-codification;

F)                 A mini-movie or video;

G)               Textual analysis: writing a sonnet.