ROMEO AND JULIET - 4^C LINGUISTICO

 

https://www.rsc.org.uk/shakespeare-learning-zone/romeo-and-juliet/story/scene-by-scene

https://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/romeojuliet/

https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/r/romeo-and-juliet/romeo-and-juliet-at-a-glance

https://www.gradesaver.com/romeo-and-juliet

THE SECRET GARDEN - 3^C LINGUISTICO

Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden has been described as “the most significant children’s book of the 20th century.”

First published in 1911, after being serialised in The American Magazine, it was dismissed by one critic at the time as simple and lacking “plenty of excitement”. The novel is, in fact, a sensitive and complex story, which explores how a relationship with nature can foster our emotional and physical well-being.  Read here.

You can read the book here.

https://www.gradesaver.com/the-secret-garden

https://api.macmillanenglish.com

https://fsharetv.cc/movie/the-secret-garden-episode-1-tt0108071

SHAKESPEARE LEARNING ZONE - 4^C LINGUISTICO

https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/teaching-resources/teaching-secondary

https://www.rsc.org.uk/shakespeare-learning-zone

https://myblog-inplainenglish.blogspot.com/2013/06/shakespeares-sonnets.html

https://lrcapuana.com/2016/03/18/980/

ROMANTICISM - 5^C LINGUISTICO

"The heart is the only true source of art, the language of a pure, child-like soul. Any creation not sprung from this origin can only be artifice. Every true work of art is conceived in a hallowed hour and born in a happy one, from an impulse in the artist's heart, often without his knowledge."

Caspar David Friedrich

Romanticism (also known as the Romantic period) was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and in most areas was at its peak in the period from 1800 to 1850. It was partly a reaction to the Industrial Revolution, the aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment, and the scientific rationalisation of nature.

Here you can find my previous posts about Romanticism.

THE RENAISSANCE - 4^C LINGUISTICO

The Renaissance was one of Europe’s most significant historical periods, and is often characterised by the magnificent outpouring of art, literature, and scientific developments witnessed between the 15th and 17th centuries.

During this time new ideas spread across the continent, focused on the possibilities of mankind, the achievements of the individual, and the teachings of the ancient world – pushing Europe out of the "Dark Ages" and towards a more enlightened and modern society.  Read here.

The  Renaissance  -  The historical background
General characteristics of the Renaissance

The chain of being

The English Renaissance

Queen Elizabeth I of England

Shakespearean London theatres

The  Elizabethan theatre

Renaissance drama

Here you can find some useful Powerpoint presentations.

FROM THE STUARTS TO THE HANOVERIANS

 

https://studylib.net/doc/26016821/from-the-stuarts-to-the-hanoverians

https://www.royal.uk/hanoverians

https://myblog-inplainenglish.blogspot.com/The17thcentury

https://myblog-inplainenglish.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-augustan-age.html

 

JAMES JOYCE'S DUBLINERS - 5^C LINGUISTICO

Dubliners by James Joyce was first published on 15 June 1914.

Though James Joyce began these stories of Dublin life in 1904 when he was twenty-two and completed them in 1907, their unconventional themes and language led to repeated rejections by publishers and delayed publication until 1914. His story The Dead has come to be seen as one of the most powerful evocations of human loss and longing that the English language possesses; all the other stories in Dubliners are as beautifully turned and as greatly admired. They remind us once again that James Joyce was not only Modernism’s chief innovator, but also one of its most intimate and poetic writers.

PAST HABITS - 2^C LINGUISTICO

 

UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITES

The idea of preserving sites that needed to be saved for the good of all humanity was born in the 1950s. At that time, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) took on the task of preserving Egypt’s Abu Simbel temples, which were in danger of being destroyed by the construction of a dam. UNESCO launched a worldwide campaign that saved the temples by relocating them to higher ground. The seed-notion of creating a list of similarly important planetary treasures was planted at this time.  Read here.

https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/

https://www.worldheritagesite.org/list

https://www.italybyevents.com/en/unesco-sites-in-italy

https://www.geoex.com/blog/importance-of-unesco-world-heritage-sites/

MACBETH - 4^C LINGUISTICO

https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/m/macbeth/macbeth-at-a-glance

https://www.rsc.org.uk/shakespeare-learning-zone/macbeth

https://interestingliterature.com/2019/08/a-short-analysis-of-william-shakespeares-macbeth/

https://myblog-inplainenglish.blogspot.com/2017/12/macbeth-4c-linguistico.html

STUDYING ENGLISH LITERATURE - 3^C LINGUISTICO

BRIAN BILSTON'S REFUGEES

With his identity clouded in mystery, Brian Bilston has amassed over 80,000 Twitter followers and has become known as the unofficial Poet Laureate of the social media platform. Read here.

https://brianbilston.com/2016/03/23/refugees/comment-page-3/

INSIGHT INTO THE VICTORIAN AGE - 5^C LINGUISTICO

The Victorian period in Great Britain (1837-1901)  was one of political stability, huge industrial and technological change, major economic development, prosperity, optimism and faith in progress as well as poverty and social unrest, shocking divisions between the rich and the poor, and grand attempts to combat squalor and disease.  

Click here to download a PDF presentation.

W.H. AUDEN - 5^C LINGUISTICO

English poet, playwright, critic, and librettist Wystan Hugh Auden exerted a major influence on the poetry of the 20th century. He grew up in Birmingham, England and was known for his extraordinary intellect and wit. His first book, Poems, was published in 1930 with the help of T.S. Eliot. Just before World War II broke out, he emigrated to the United States where he met the poet Chester Kallman, who became his lifelong lover. W.H. Auden won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 for The Age of Anxiety. Much of his poetry is concerned with moral issues and evidences a strong political, social, and psychological context. Read here.

THE 2030 AGENDA FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

 

The Global Goals and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development seek to end poverty and hunger, realise the human rights of all, achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls, and ensure the lasting protection of the planet and its natural resources.  The Global Goals are integrated and indivisible, and balance the three dimensions of sustainable development: the economic, social and environmental.  Read here.

https://sdpd.elionline.com/public/resources/agenda2030/Global-Goals-in-Action.pdf

https://www.iberdrola.com/sustainability/committed-sustainable-development-goals

https://www.globalgoals.org/goals/

https://slideplayer.com/slide/11361997/

https://www.eda.admin.ch/agenda2030/en/

https://www.agenda-2030.fr/en/agenda-2030/presentation

https://www.heroesneversleep.com/en/sustainable-development-goals/

STUDYING VIRGINIA WOOLF - 5^C LINGUISTICO

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an English novelist, essayist, biographer, and feminist. She was a prolific writer, whose modernist style changed with each new novel. Her letters and memoirs reveal glimpses of Virginia Woolf at the center of English literary culture during the Bloomsbury era. She represents a historical moment when art was integrated into society, as T.S. Eliot describes in his obituary for Virginia. “Without Virginia Woolf at the center of it, it would have remained formless or marginal … With the death of Virginia Woolf, a whole pattern of culture is broken.”  Read here.

JANE AUSTEN AND THE NOVEL OF MANNERS - 5^C LINGUISTICO

Jane Austen’s novels are unrivalled for their success in combining two sorts of excellence that all too seldom coexist. Meticulously conscious of her artistry, she is also constantly attentive to the realities of ordinary human existence. From the first, her works unite subtlety and common sense, good humour and acute moral judgment, charm and conciseness, deftly marshalled incidents and carefully rounded characters.

Jane Austen’s critics have spoken of her as a “limited” novelist, one who, writing in an age of great men and important events, portrays small towns and petty concerns, who knows (or reveals) nothing of masculine occupations and ideas, and who reduces the range of feminine thought and deed to matrimonial scheming and social pleasantry. Read here. 

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