Francesca Pili

Docente di Inglese

orario dal 3 Aprile al  10 Giugno 2017

	lun	mar	mer	giov	ven	sab
1	II F		II C
2			III C	IV C
3	III H			V C	III C	IV C
4	II C	III H	II F		III H	III C
5		V C		II F	II C	V C
6		IV C

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19/09/2017
Classe Terza: the Ballad
A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads derive from the medieval French chanson balladée or ballade, which were originally "danced songs''. They were originally written to accompany dances, and so were composed in couplets with refrains in alternate lines. These refrains would have been sung by the dancers in time with the dance. »

19/09/2017
Classe Terza: The origins of British literature
Old English literature, or Anglo-Saxon literature, encompasses the surviving literature written in Old English in Anglo-Saxon England, in the period after the settlement of the Saxons and other Germanic tribes in England c. 450, after the withdrawal of the Romans, and ending soon after the Norman Conquest in 1066. »

11/06/2017
Anno Scolastico 2016- 17: Programmi di Inglese della prof.ssa F. Pili
Programmi di Inglese per le classi 2^3^4^5^C; 2^F; 3^H »

31/05/2017
Happy 50th anniversary Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band! (26/5/1967 UK;1/6/1967ITALY;2/6/1967 USA)
It was "FIFTY" years ago today/Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play/They've been going in and out of style/But they're guaranteed to raise a smile/So may I introduce to you/The act you've known for all these years/Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band... »

12/05/2017
Classe Quinta:J.Joyce Dubliners_ The Dead
A professor and part-time book reviewer named Gabriel Conroy attends a Christmastime party thrown by his aunts, grand dames in the world of Dublin music, at which he dances with a fellow teacher and delivers a brief speech. As the party is breaking up, Gabriel witnesses his wife, Gretta, listening to a song ... »

09/05/2017
Classe Quarta: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Although he died before he was 30, the English lyric poet Percy Bysshe Shelley created masterpieces of Romantic poetry. Among them are such lyrics as "The Cloud", "To a Skylark", and "Ode to the West Wind". Shelley thought of himself as a reformer. He wanted to free mankind, "to purify life of its misery and evil." Shelley's schemes for reform, however, were often impractical. »

06/05/2017
Classe Quarta: John Keats
John Keats, who died at the age of twenty-five, had perhaps the most remarkable career of any English poet. He published only fifty-four poems, in three slim volumes and a few magazines. But at each point in his development he took on the challenges of a wide range of poetic forms. In the case of the English ode he brought its form, in the five great odes of 1819, to its most perfect definition. »

05/05/2017
Classe Terza: John Milton - Paradise Lost
Farewell happy fields Where joy for ever dwells: hail horrors, hail Infernal world, and thou profoundest hell Receive thy new possessor: one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. »

04/05/2017
Classe Quarta: George Gordon, Lord Byron
The most notorious of the major Romantics, George Gordon, Lord Byron, created an immensely popular Romantic hero. His faceted personality found expression in all forms of poetry and drama. In his dynamism and demands for freedom for oppressed people everywhere, Byron captivated the Western mind and heart, stamping upon nineteenth-century culture, his image and name as the embodiment of Romanticism. »

20/04/2017
Classe Quinta: William Butler Yeats
The preeminent writer of the Irish Literary Renaissance was William Butler Yeats, whose remarkable career encompassed both this revival and the development of European literary Modernism in the 1920s and 30s. Born in Ireland in 1865,he died in France, in 1939. He was one of the greatest English-language poets of the 20th century. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. »

18/04/2017
Classe Quarta: William Blake
William Blake was born in London on November 28, 1757, to James, a hosier, and Catherine Blake. Two of his six siblings died in infancy. From early childhood, Blake spoke of "having visions" at four he saw God "put his head to the window"; around age nine, while walking through the countryside, he saw "a tree filled with angels"... »

04/04/2017
Classe Terza: The Stuarts, the Civil War and the Glorious Revolution.
With the death of Elizabeth I, who had no children, James VI of Scotland became the first Stuart king of England. His accession was greeted with relief; however, he based his rule on the theory of the "divine right of kings"... »

03/04/2017
Colloqui generali di Aprile _ Inglese_ Francesca Pili
Date e orari dei colloqui generali della prof.ssa Pili Francesca per il mese di Aprile 2017 »

16/03/2017
Classe Quinta _ James Joyce _ Ulysses
The Irish-born author James Joyce (1882-1941) was one of the greatest literary innovators of the 20th century. His best-known works contain extraordinary experiments both in language and in writing style. In these works Joyce developed a technique of writing called "stream of consciousness ", which reproduced in words the rambling processes of the human mind. »

14/03/2017
Classe Terza: Methaphysical Poetry
The Metaphysical poets were a group of 17th-century poets whose works were marked by philosophical exploration, colloquial diction, ingenious conceits, irony, and metrically flexible lines, unexpected similes and metaphors in displays of wit. Topics of interest often included love, religion, morality, contemporary scientific advancements. John Donne was the foremost figure. »

12/03/2017
Classe Quinta: "Frankenstein" by M. Shelley
At once a Gothic thriller, a passionate romance, and a cautionary tale about the dangers of science, Frankenstein tells the story of committed science student Victor Frankenstein,obsessed with discovering the cause of generation and life. »

12/03/2017
Classe Terza: The Elizabethan Sonnet
The sonnet was introduced to England, along with other Italian verse forms, by Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, earl of Surrey, in the 16th century. The new forms precipitated the great Elizabethan flowering of lyric poetry, and the period marks the peak of the sonnet's English popularity. »

12/03/2017
Classe Terza: Romeo and Juliet (W. Shakespeare)
O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name. Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love And I'll no longer be a Capulet. 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy: Thou art thyself, though not a Montague. »

12/03/2017
Classe quarta: The Romantic Age
The word "Romanticism" defines an attitude or intellectual orientation that characterized many works of literature, painting, music, architecture, criticism, and historiography in Western civilization over a period from the late 18th to the mid-19th century. »

09/03/2017
Classe Terza _ W. Shakespeare_ Macbeth
Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury Signifying nothing. »