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.

PRESENTING SOME SHAKESPEAREAN PLAYS

 

https://prezi.com/view/ZetF6zbq6e7ZcrewcXx0/

https://prezi.com/view/ozuHQrOwmNsRk0eBPQgr/

https://prezi.com/view/iyQzm1aLtwMBEq0yOoRI/

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S HAMLET

https://www.gradesaver.com/hamlet/study-guide/summary

https://www.blackcat-cideb.com/uploads/2022/02/9788853015525-Hamlet-Reading-Acitivity.pdf

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

William Shakespeare was a renowned English poet, playwright, and actor born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. His birthday is most commonly celebrated on 23 April which is also believed to be the date he died in 1616.

https://www.oxfordscholastica.com/blog/why-is-shakespeare-still-important

https://lespresso.it/perche-shakespeare-resta-il-piu-grande

https://www.letemps.ch/culture/shakespeare-raisons-succes

THE BALLAD OF ELFIN KNIGHT - 3^C LINGUISTICO

https://graziatripodi.wordpress.com/the-ballad-of-elfin-knight/

WHAT IS A HAIKU? - 3^C LINGUISTICO

 

https://thewritepractice.com/write-haiku/

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/how-to-write-haiku/

FIGURES OF SPEECH - 3^C LINGUISTICO

https://www.englishgrammar.org/figures-of-speech-exercise/

https://www.englishgrammar.org/figures-speech-exercise/

https://www.liveworksheets.com/worksheets/en/English_language/Figures_of_Speech/Simile,metaphor,

https://englishgrammarhere.com/grammar/100-figures-of-speech-with-examples/

ACROSTICS - 3^C LINGUISTICO

 

The term acrostic is derived from  the French acrostiche from post-classical Latin acrostichis. Generally, an acrostic is a poem in which the first letter of each line is spelled vertically and the vertical word is the subject of the poem. Each line describes the subject word.

https://www.cbc.ca/kidscbc2/the-feed/do-you-know-what-an-acrostic-poem-is

https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poems/other/acrostic/

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. 

MEDIEVAL TIMES QUIZZES

https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/58c7eaa17e880ff566b5b5de/medieval-times

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

WRITING HAIKU POEMS

Here you can read some of the haiku poems my third-year students enjoyed writing.

SHAKESPEARE IS THE WORLD'S FAVOURITE WRITER ... NO DOUBT!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/story/20140422-shakespeare-the-worlds-writer?ocid=fbcul

UNCLE TOM’S CABIN IN THE CLASSROOM

August 23rd is the United Nations' International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition. Check out the Helbling lesson plan here to learn more about Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Today is the 202nd anniversary of Jane Austen's death. She died in Winchester on 18 July 1817. She was only 41.

"Jane Austen, of course, wise in her neatness, trim in her sedateness; she never fails, but there are few or none like her." Edith Wharton, 1925

HOW DID THE ROMANS CONQUER BRITAIN?

Let's find out all about the Romans and how they invaded Britain. 
Read here.