Session 7: The Catcher in the Rye

https://www.youtube.com/embed/iXtJBRbP4Cg?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en&autohide=2&wmode=transparent Characters: Holden Caulfield: Protagonist and narrator / 16 years old / expelled from Pency Prep school / intelligent / pessimistic / critical / emotionally unstable. Stradlater: Holden’s roommate / handsome / popular / sexually active. Jane Gallagher: Holden’s friend / respected, liked and loved by Holden. Phoebe Caulfield: Holden’s sister / 10 years old …

Session 6: Victorian Literature

Today, we will learn about Victorian Literature and English novelist Charles Dickens. Read the information below and answer the exercises at the end of the page: Queen Victoria (1819-1901) An overview of Victorian Literature Watch the video and take notes on relevant information: https://www.youtube.com/embed/nllDcnfoH5A?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en&autohide=2&wmode=transparent Read the following text about the emergence of the novel: The …

Session 5 (24/5): Dracula

Dracula: Who was him? Watch the video to familiarise with this character https://www.youtube.com/embed/XebzLcG1BoM?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en&autohide=2&wmode=transparent Read the article below: Count Dracula, the archetypal vampire of horror literature, was created by Irish author Bram Stoker for his 1897 novel, “Dracula.” Scholars agree that the real-life 15th-century Romanian ruler Vlad Tepes, known as Vlad the Impaler, was the model …

Session 4 (19/5): Gothic Literature and Frankenstein

https://assets.ltkcontent.com/images/144277/Whitby-Abbey-near-sunset_0066f46bde.jpg Watch the following video and take notes to help you answer this question: “What are the characteristics of gothic literature?” https://www.youtube.com/embed/gNohDegnaOQ?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en&autohide=2&wmode=transparent Read the information in this presentation: Gothic Literature Familiarise with the concepts of Frankenstein’s presentation: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/29011944 PORTFOLIO ACTIVITY 4: Read Chapter 5 from Frankenstein and write down a reflective text (1 page minimum) addressing …

Session 3 (10/5) Romanticism

What is “Romanticism”? Watch the following video and answer the questions below: How could you define Romanticism using 5 concepts?When was Romanticism born?What did Romantic artists aim at? https://www.youtube.com/embed/agK-qvtb6Mc?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en&autohide=2&wmode=transparent “The Romantic movement” and poets explained. Read the text and share your findings: The Romantics . Poem analysis: What can you say about the following poem in …

Session 2 (5/5): Shakespeare’s sonnets

What is a sonnet? https://www.youtube.com/embed/QmrKmL06J9g . Let's see this in Shakespeare's most famous sonnet (18): Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? . Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short …

Session 1 (26/4): Elizabethan Drama

By Professor W. A. Neilson WHEN the great European movement known as the Renaissance reached England, it found its fullest and most lasting expression in the drama. By a fortunate group of coincidences this intellectual and artistic impulse affected the people of England at a moment when the country was undergoing a rapid and, on …

Literatura en Lengua Inglesa Vespertino (Presentation)

This course will cover some of the most relevant literary/artistic movements of western history, from the Renaissance (1500) to Postmodernism (2000). Assessment Portfolio (x2) (TBA)Quiz (x2) (TBA)Essay (x2) (5/7) Digital bibliography (choose one of these works) Frankenstein (Mary Shelley, 1818) The catcher in the rye (J. D. Sallinger 1951) On the road (Jack Kerouac, 1957) The bluest …