JANE AUSTEN - 5^C LINGUISTICO

 

https://yourenglishliterature.wordpress.com/2018/09/01/jane-austens-pride-and-prejudice-summary/

https://literariness.org/2021/02/19/critical-analysis-of-pride-and-prejudice/

https://darlingaxe.com/blogs/news/story-skeleton-pride-prejudice

https://www.academypublication.com/issues.pdf

JACK KEROUAC - 5^C LINGUISTICO

On the Road, first published in the United States in 1957, is the most famous of Jack Kerouac’s many novels. It is semi-autobiographical, and is based on events that took place in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s. This is when Jack Kerouac (Sal Paradise in On the Road) and his friend Neal Cassady (Dean Moriarty in the novel) travelled throughout the United States, covering huge distances in a very short time. The story begins with Sal meeting Dean when he comes to New York for the first time. They discuss travelling to the west of the United States or “going West.” At first, Sal goes travelling on his own. He goes to San Francisco, staying with friends on the way there and falling in love on the way back. He and Dean do not travel together until some time later, going from the East to the West and back again by car. Their adventures on the road involve meetings with girls, wild parties, getting drunk, taking drugs and enjoying sex. They never have much money and have to rely on delivering cars for people who don’t want to drive long distances themselves, doing casual work when they can, and sometimes stealing food, drink and gas. 

The loosely structured writing style and the freedom of the behaviour and lives of the young people involved captured the attention of the public at the time. On the Road has remained a cult classic. 

PROGETTO "VIRGINIA WOOLF E MICHELA MURGIA A CONFRONTO"

Le due scrittrici a 100 anni di distanza, hanno messo in luce le origini del patriarcato che pone la donna in condizione di inferiorità. Il ProgettoWooRgia rivela analogie e differenze lungo questa genealogia femminista.

PROGETTO DI INCLUSIONE - 5^C LINGUISTICO

La Bellezza non ha causa:
Esiste.
Inseguila e sparisce.
Non inseguirla e rimane.
Emily Dickinson

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zJQYXateFmsn9gIBxSaWtFQH2-QQjWJ5/view

 

GIACOMO LEOPARDI

https://raccontidilibri.it/leopardi-ribelle/

https://ilpesodeisogni.wordpress.com/2018/10/31/leopardi-in-poche-parole/

https://left.it/2019/01/27/leopardi-poeta-in-lotta-contro-loppressione/

VISITING THE BORGHESE GALLERY

EMILE ZOLA ET LE NATURALISME

Émile Zola est un grand romancier français né le 2 avril 1840 à Paris, où il meurt le 29 septembre 1902. Figure emblématique du courant naturaliste du XIXe siècle, Zola dépeint dans ses romans la société française du Second Empire avec minutie et réalisme. Il est également connu pour ses prises de position politique contre les dérives autoritaires du Second Empire et dans l’affaire Dreyfus en 1897. Ses romans font partie des titres les plus publiés et traduits dans le monde. 

Tu peux lire l'article ici.

https://aufutur.fr/revisions/francais/emile-zola-1840-1902/

https://www.linternaute.fr/biographie/litterature/1775080-emile-zola-biographie-courte-dates-citations/

CLIL - ART HISTORY IN ENGLISH

 

https://liceo-linguistico.blogspot.com/2021/04/art-history-and-clil-teaching-5c.html

https://drawpaintacademy.com/analyze-art/

https://www.greatartexplained.com/art-history-videos

http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/famous-paintings/index.htm

http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/paintings-analysis/index.htm

IN MEMORIA

In memoria nelle prime edizioni della raccolta Il porto sepolto appare isolata, all'inizio, come se si trattasse di una dedica. Viene poi integrata ne L'allegria, il cui tema centrale è rappresentato dalla guerra. Ed è proprio nella poesia di Giuseppe Ungaretti che la Prima Guerra Mondiale trova la sua interpretazione più memorabile. Leggi qui.

GLI IMPRESSIONISTI

https://dueminutidiarte.com/2015/09/26/impressionismo-artisti-opere-riassunto-arte/

https://www.arteworld.it/impressionismo/

http://www.storiartestoria.altervista.org/media/11Impressionismo.pdf

L'ASSIUOLO

L’assiuolo è una poesia di Giovanni Pascoli, inserita  nella sezione In campagna della quarta edizione di Myricae (1897).

Il poeta descrive un paesaggio notturno nel quale si distingue il canto lamentoso di un assiuolo, un uccello rapace simile alla civetta. Il canto angoscioso dell’animale diventa l’occasione per una riflessione sulla vita e sulla morte dell’uomo.

https://library.weschool.com/lezione/assiuolo-giovanni-pascoli-myricae-parafrasi-3159.html

MATURITÀ 2021

SOCIAL MEDIA – A WORLD OF APPEARANCE

The Internet is definitely the most important social revolution of recent times and the appearance of social networks has changed our lives, the way we deal with others, our way of thinking and our behaviours.

An important issue, regarding social media, is the contrast between appearance and reality and the consequences that follow.

In social media like Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and TikTok  it is possible to show every moment of our daily life: what we usually eat, the book we are reading, what we are studying, if we are hanging out with our friends or dating with somebody.

SYRIA, 10 YEARS OF WAR

In 2021, the terrible war in Syria has turned 10 years old, and seems to have no end.

Main events of the war

Ten years have passed since peaceful protests broke out against the government of President Bashar Assad in March 2011 because of the so-called “Arab Spring”, it triggered a popular uprising which quickly turned into a real civil war. The hardest fighting of the war has taken place in Aleppo, the largest city in Syria. The United States had a leading role in the management of the war,  during the years of Obama’s presidency, but especially during Trump’s presidency. In fact, the United States did not intervene in the war until the first use of chemical weapons in the conflict happened in August 2013. The first American air attack occurred in September 2014; an attack on the Syrian territories controlled by the Islamic State, which had proclaimed its "caliphate" in Syrian and Iraqi territories. Subsequently, Assad’s Syrian army suffered its first defeats against the Islamic State, for this reason Russia and then Turkey intervened in support of Assad. The conflict continued and in 2017, for the first time, the United States launched a barrage of missiles as a direct attack on the Syrian government. In 2018, after Assad had recaptured all the suburbs of the city of Damascus, Great Britain, the United States and France launched military attacks on Syria to punish Assad who was accused of using chemical weapons again and killing many civilians. Then the United States decided to establish new sanctions against the countries which supported Syrian military operations. Despite a decade of fighting and a destroyed country, Assad remains firmly in power. 

Syria today is suffering a serious economic and humanitarian crisis, and is divided into three parts. An al-Qaeda group dominates the northwestern province of Idlib, while Turkish-backed rebels control some stretches along the Turkish border. The Syrian Kurdish forces supported by the United States control about a quarter of the country in the northeast. Assad controls the rest of the country.

WUTHERING HEIGHTS AND LITTLE WOMEN IN COMPARISON

The reign of Queen Victoria gave the name to the period of time between 1937 and 1901: the Victorian Age. During this complex era, characterized by great hypocrisy and social imbalances, there was a marked division between male and female skills. 

The concept of family was very similar to the Roman idea of  “pater familias” or  "father of the family"  who had absolute rule over his household; in fact  his wife and his children  had to submit to his will and  his wife’s tasks included only the domestic sphere. 

Women’s life was so difficult, since they were considered as objects and their role was limited to have children, do household chores and obey their husbands. They were requested to be pure, pious and chaste; for this reason, they were associated with the ideal of “the angel of the hearth”, thanks to Coventry Patmore’s literary work The Angel in the House (1854).

Women did not have any right: they could study only if it was useful for the maintenance of the house and any one of them who wished to study or attend university was mocked; they also could not vote and paternal rights were assigned to men, as well as every trace of money.

During a conference, even the scholar John Ruskin presented his idea of  men as “defenders and creators” and women as “those who clean the house”.

Yet the condition of women started being in the spotlight: as they were tired of it, they started overthrowing some of the rules imposed on them by criticizing contemporary society in their literary works in which they expressed their rebellion, hidden behind the feminine ideal.

As I have just affirmed, women who transgressed the Victorian “code of conduct” were not accepted; but despite the numerous vetoes imposed by society, some of them - like the Brontë sisters and Elizabeth Gaskell - decided to undertake the world of literature anyway, by hiding their identities using male pseudonyms or by remaining anonymous.

Among them, there was Emily Brönte and Louisa May Alcott. 

MY PASSION FOR TRAVEL

Since I was a child I have always been fascinated by the idea of discovering new places outside my own country. I was curious to know that there was such a vast world outside the door of my house, and I wanted to travel it as soon as possible. Studying English at school aroused  my passion for this language together with  my interest in all the countries where it is spoken, but in particular Great Britain. Lots of my relatives told me about their adventures all over the world, they showed me photos, videos and they brought me gadgets and I remember being really impressed with what they showed me about London. I don’t know why, probably because I saw that city very different from my village, it seemed another world to me and at that time I was just a 10-year-old girl.

So I started to ask my parents to go to visit London, I dreamed of getting on that strange giant wheel known as the London Eye which seemed to me just a wonderful carousel, I couldn’t wait to see the beautiful palace of the Queen and I even wanted to put on her crown, just to feel like a princess!

Years passed, but my desire of visiting the capital of Great Britain  remained essentially unchanged as I grew up. I was also learning the traditions and customs of the country, and then  those attractions, which as a child seemed so strange to me, began to take their real form, and they continued to captivate me very much … until Christmas 2017!

CLIL - ART HISTORY IN ENGLISH

https://mymodernmet.com/category/art-history/

http://www.worldsbestpaintings.net/home

ST PATRICK’S DAY

St Patrick’s Day is a famous religious festivity which is celebrated on the 17^th of March in Ireland and the States. Its name is connected to the Roman Patricius who is commonly known to be the missionary who converted the country to Christianity in the 5^th century. In fact, St Patrick’s  is the patron saint  of Ireland.  This is an occasion for people to gather, enjoy music and dance as well as to organize lots of parties.

LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI: A BALLAD BY JOHN KEATS

Julian Peters is a comic-book artist and illustrator living in Montreal. Recently he has focused mostly on classic poems. Here you can find his comic-book adaptation of La Belle Dame Sans Merci  by John Keats (1819).

Benedetta Renzetti,  5^C  Linguistico