2 liceo scientifico A/B

here is the link for the lesson about Steve Jobs: http://www.newsenglishlessons.com/1110/111006-steve_jobs.html enjoy! s.

quarta liceo scientifico

Read the following article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/17/opinion/17friedman.html

altre domande

Joyce
• Why can The Dubliners be regarded as a highly innovative work?
• Discuss Joyce’s relationship with Dublin and how the feeling of “paralysis” he associates with his hometown is developed in The Dubliners.
• Referring to a passage you have read, explain and discuss Joyce’s idea of “epiphany”.
• Illustrate Gretta’s epiphany at the end of the party.
• Discuss the characteristics of interior monologue used by Joyce in Ulysses.
Woolf
• Explain Wollf’s use of parenthesis in Mrs Dalloway.
• Which original features of Mrs Dalloway and which aspefts of Virginia Woolf’s personality does Michael Cunningham preserve to complete his “rewriting” of Mrs Dalloway in The Hours?
Huxley
• Explain John’s role in Brave New World
• Why is Brave New World often described as a “prophetic book”?
Orwell
• What kind of society does Orwell describe in Nineteen Eighty-Four?
Modernist Poetry
• Who were the War Poets?

Eliot
• According to Eliot modern poetry has to be “difficult”. What makes Modernist poetry difficult?
• How does Eliot describe the crisis of modern man?

domande per terza prova

ecco una serie di domande possibili per la terza prova, divise per autore:

Dickens
• Hard Times: what type of man is Gradgrind.? Do you think his name has any special connotations?
• Hard Times: Sissy comes from the circus. Why is this information important?
• Hard Times: what are the main differences between Sissy and Bitzer?
• Hard Times: what is Coketown like?
Bronte
• Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights: the narrative technique is highly complex. How many different narrators are used in the novel? What do you think the effect of such a choice is?
• How do you think Jane Eyre was received by Victorian society when it was published in 1847?
Hardy
• Tess of the D’Urberville: explain the irony of the novel’s subtitle
• How was the novel received by critics and the public of the time?
• What kind of narrator does Hardy use? With what effect?
James
• Comment on James’ “international theme”.
Tennyson
• What sources did Tennyson use to write Ulysses?
• What is Tennyson’s view of heroism in Ulysses?
• “Yet all the experience is an arch where-through/gleams the untravelled world” (Ulysses, ll. 19-20) Explain the meaning of the metaphor.
Wilde
• In the Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde says that “all art is quite useless”. Explain the meaning of this statement with reference to Wilde’s aesthetic ideas.
• Which aspects of Victorian society does Wilde implicitly criticize in The Importance of Being Earnest?
• To which extent were Wilde’s views about art different from Shaw’s?
Shaw
• What was the purpose of drama according to Shaw?
• Pygmalion: where does the title of Shaw’s play come from?


More to come!

HENRY JAMES

Here is a link for a detailed summary and comment/analysis of thye novel "The Portrait of a Lady". Just in case you don't feel like reading the whole book...

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/portraitlady/
Have fun!
s.

TERZA LICEO CLASSICO

Hi Guys! Here I am again. Please go to the following link if you want to read "The Fall of the House of Usher". You will find the text in English but you can easily move to the Italian translation...
Have fun!
s.
http://web.tiscali.it/manuel_ger/linked/ush_lin.htm

CHRISTMAS

Hi! It's Christmas again! I'm not much in the right spirit, anyway I thought you might like to read the article that you find at the following link.
http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-central-magazine-christmas-1.htm
You can also try the other activities...
s.