The Victorian Age Historical and social background

• Social critique and Charles Dickens’ life- The workhouse - Oliver Twist: plot, settings, themes - Hard Times: plot, settings, themes;
• Stevenson - Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde-  reading and analysis of "Dr Jekyll first experiment "
• Aestheticism and Oscar Wilde’s life The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde: plot, themes and characters;
• The Picture of Dorian Gray: plot, themes and characters, text analysis of " I would give my soul for that"

The Modern Age: Historical and social background

Modernism and the novel 

• James Joyce: life, works - Dubliners -  text analysis of the extract "A man had died for her sake" - from  The Dead 
• Virginia Woolf: life, works- Mrs Dalloway: plot, themes and characters, text analysis of the extract " She would not say ..."
• E.M. Forster life, works - A Passage to India - analysis of the extract "Echoing walls"
• The Dystopian Novel: main features - G. Orwell: life, works - 1984  plot, themes and characters, text analysis of the extract " Big Brother is watching you"

Modernism and American fiction

• F. Scott Fitzgerald : life and works - The Great Gatsby - analysis of the extract "Death of a dream"

Poetry in the Modern Age

• T.S Eliot: the Waste Land,  analysis of the main themes of the poem 
• The War poets : Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sasson - video and text analysis of the poem "Dulce et Decorum est" - W. Owen 

EDUCAZIONE CIVICA :

The Universal Declaration of Human  Rights 1948 : video , text analysis , reading comprehension and debate