A SUNRISE ON THE VELD – TEXTUAL ANALYSIS
Textual Analysis
Reading, comprehending and analysing literary currents, grammar structures. Contents and understanding to develop competences.
Category: ENGLISH LITERATURE AND HISTORY FOR STUDENTS
OUTLINE OF THE MIDDLE AGES – part 1 –
A useful outline to learn English history in Medieval Times; this one is dedicated to the Normans’ Conquest and the end of the Anglo-Saxon’s rule.
STUDY METHODS
Tips and advices to help students find the study methods that best fits their needs according to the different types of tasks and that best meet their aptitudes.
PRESENT SIMPLE
Part of Speech: The Verb – The Present Simple.
Homework on “Jane Eyre” and “Wuthering Heights” – Open Questions
Writing activity to develop insightful reasoning and learning.
Video Lesson on First Generation Romantic Poets – W. Wordsworth and S. T. Coleridge
This video lesson is dedicated to the First Generation Romantic Poets, William Wordsworth and Samuel T. Coleridge, providing an outline of their literary inspirations and themes, examining their similarities and … Continue reading Video Lesson on First Generation Romantic Poets – W. Wordsworth and S. T. Coleridge
Video Lesson on THE ROMANTIC AGE
This Video Lesson illustrates the themes and characteristics of the Romantic Age, a time of transition introducing new ideas and perspectives, in contrast with the main ideas that characterised instead the Augustan Age, therefore more concerned with feelings and sensations, rather than the blind faith in scientific progress and reason brought to its extremes.
Video Lesson on LITERATURE IN THE MIDDLE AGES
In this video lesson I discuss the different poetic genres and the theatre that developed during Medieval Times thanks to their relative economic and political stability.
It illustrates the characteristics of the Medieval Ballad, the Narrative Poem and, as far as the theatre is concerned, the Miracle Plays, the Pageant, the Morality Plays and, finally, the Interlude.
Excerpts from “Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus”, M. Shelley (1818)
Excerpts from “Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus”, M. Shelley (1818)
Ch. 13 and 24.
“The Little Black Boy”, by William Blake
Textual Analysis From Songs of Innocence (1789) My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but oh my soul is white! White as … Continue reading “The Little Black Boy”, by William Blake
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Video Lesson
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) is the second of the three writers of the Augustan Age discussed in the English Course addressed to 4th year Secondary School Italian Students. The video lesson discusses Swift’s writing techniques and the strong criticism towards political, social and religious controversies of his time through a mastery of satire largely used in his works. The two main works discussed are his masterpiece, “Gulliver’s Travels”, published in 1726 and “A Modest Proposal” a pamphlet of political satire, published in 1729.
Excerpt from “A Modest Proposal” by J. Swift
A satirical pamphlet in which Jonathan Swift denounces the incompetence and inadequacy of the English government regarding the Irish issue and its people’s despairing situation during his time.