The Victorian Age
Queen Victoria's reign
Industrial revolution and reforms
Life in Victorian Britain
The Victorian Compromise
The Victorian novel
Charles Dickens: "Oliver Twist"(I want some more).(A classroom definition of a horse)
Dickens and the theme of Education
Child labour: Bleak House and Rosso Malpelo
Children in Literature (fotocopia)
Muhammad Yunus::"Poverty is not created by poor people" (fotocopia)
The poor laws
Oscar Wilde: life and works
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Dorian kills the Portrait and himself)
Robert Louis Stevenson: Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde
Rudyard Kipling: The white man's burden (fotocopia)
The Modern Age
From the Edwardian Age to the first World War
The Age of anxiety
The twenties and thirties
Modernism
The Modern Novel
The stream of consciousness on page and Interior monologue (fotocopia)
The War Poets:
Rupert Brooke: The Soldier
Thomas Sterne Eliot: The waste Land
James Joyce: life and works
"Dubliners"(The structure of the collection,the city of Dublin,Physical and spiritual paralysis, a way to escape:epiphany, the narrative technique
World war II:The early phases, how the war ended, the Holocaust,Churchill: The power of words.(fotocopia)
Britain after the second world war (The Welfare State, Nationalization of key industries, Collapse of British Empire, Consumerism, Youth Culture) (fotocopia)
Dystopian Novel
George Orwell:1984 Propaganda and Totalitarian Regime (The Object of Power is Power) (fotocopia)
Invalsi: Esercizi di Reading comprehension, Listening comprehension e Use of English
Uscita didattica : Fascism and Antifascism in Milan