Question 1

First Class

Accepted Answer

PROGRAMMING GRAMMAR KNOWLEDGE
 
DISCIPLINARY MODULES
1. Learning unit: phonology and spelling
    • The syllable
    • The accent
    • Elision and truncation
    • Punctuation
    • Capital letters
2. Learning unit: morphology
    • The article and the name
    • The adjective and the pronoun
    • The verb
    • The adverb
    • The preposition
    • The conjunction
 
PLANNING OF LITERATURE KNOWLEDGE
DISCIPLINARY MODULES
 
1. Learning unit: Myth and epic
    • Greek and Latin mythology
2. Learning unit: The classical epic
    • The Homeric poems (Iliad, Odyssey);
    • Virgil's Aeneid
3. Learning unit: The medieval epic
   1. General characteristics. Carolingian cycle, Breton cycle, Nibelung saga
 
WRITING, READING, COMPREHENSION AND TEXT ANALYSIS
DISCIPLINARY MODULES
 
1. Learning unit: the study methodReading strategies: mechanical reading, scrolling reading, active reading with search for information
2. Learning unit: writingMethods and techniques for designing a written text (in content, form and purpose); guided and gradual processing exercises:
    • summary
    • theme
    • description
3. Learning unit: understanding and analysis of texts of different typologies
    • Narrative Texts:
      1. The fairy tale
      2. The fairy tale
      3. The tale of fear
      4. The humorous story
    • Descriptive Texts (of objects, people, places)
    • Poetic texts (main figures of sound and meaning)
 
OBJECTIVES
1. Comprehension of oral language:
    • Pay functional attention while listening;
    • Recognize the global meaning of an oral text;
    • Understand the characterizing elements of a text.
2. Comprehension of written language:
    • Read in a technically correct manner;
    • Understand the global meaning of a written text.
3. Oral language production:
    • Express yourself orally in a clear and correct way;
    • Expose a text in its essential lines;
    • Use appropriate vocabulary for different communication situations.
4. Production in the written language:
    • Use spelling and morphosyntax correctly;
    • Use appropriate vocabulary;
    • Plan a text coherently.
5. Knowledge of the functions of the language structure:
    • Know the phonological and morphological elements and know how to analyze them;
    • Consciously use reference tools (dictionary, textbook).
6. Knowledge and organization of contents:
    • Know the contents of the texts and the topics covered
 
MINIMUM OBJECTIVES
 • Recognize the global meaning of a text heard;
 • Read without difficulty and, if guided, understand the overall meaning of a written text;
 • Express a message in an understandable way;
 • Write simple, clear and substantially correct texts;
 • Recognise, if guided, the essential elements of morphology;
 • Know the main contents covered in essential terms.
 
CHECKS
During the school year, students will be subjected to the following periodic checks:
 • Subjective checks (questions, themes, summaries, guided conversations
 • Objective tests (semi-structured tests: multiple choice tests, completion tests, true/false and open questions)
 
METHODS AND TOOLS
Methodologies:- Frontal lessons, work in helping pairs, guided listening, guided exercises, group work.
Tools:
- Blackboard, textbooks, photocopies, structured cards, concept maps, audiovisual tools, dictionary.

Question 2

Second Class

Accepted Answer

PROGRAMMING GRAMMAR KNOWLEDGE
DISCIPLINARY MODULES
 
1. Learning unit: Recovery and strengthening of grammatical analysis
2. Learning unit: simple sentence syntax
    • The verbal predicate and the subject;
    • The nominal predicate;
    • Predicative complements
    • The object complement and the partitive object complement
    • Indirect complements (of term, specification, denomination, partitive, agent and efficient cause)
    • Compl. of cause
    • Compl. of end or purpose
    • Place complements
    • The complement of origin or provenance
    • The complements of time
 
PLANNING OF LITERATURE KNOWLEDGE
DISCIPLINARY MODULES
 
1. Learning unit:
    • Introduction to literature and literary genres.
    • The origins of the Italian language and the first documents of the "vulgar" Italian.
2. Learning unit: Study of selected passages in prose and poetry from Italian literature from the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century.Authors: Saint Francis of Assisi, Dante Alighieri, Giovanni Boccaccio, Francesco Petrarca, Lorenzo de' Medici, Ludovico Ariosto, Galileo Galilei, Carlo Goldoni.
 
WRITING, READING, COMPREHENSION AND TEXT ANALYSIS
DISCIPLINARY MODULES
 
1. Learning unit: the study methodStrengthening strategies: development of schemes and conceptual maps.
2. Learning unit: writingMethods and techniques for designing a written text, in content, form and purpose; guided and gradual processing exercises:
    • summary,
    • theme,
    • diary,
    • letter,
    • news,
    • review.
3. Learning unit: understanding and analysis of texts of different types:
    • Narrative texts
      1. mystery story
      2. adventure story
      3. horror story
      4. fantasy story
      5. realistic story
    • Descriptive texts (of objects, people, landscapes)
    • Poetic texts (in-depth study of the figures of sound and meaning, paraphrase and commentary)
 
OBJECTIVES
1. Comprehension of oral language:
    • Pay functional attention while listening;
    • Identify the fundamental and secondary elements of an oral text;
2. Comprehension of written language:
    • Read in a technically correct and expressive way;
    • Understand the global meaning of a written text and know how to analyze it;
    • Identify the elements characterizing the typology and genre.
3. Oral language production:
    • Express yourself orally in a clear and correct way;
    • Rework a text orally, planning the speech;
    • Use appropriate vocabulary for different communication situations.
4. Production in the written language:
    • Use spelling and morphosyntax correctly;
    • Use appropriate vocabulary;
    • Plan a text in a coherent and articulated way.
5. Knowledge of the functions of the language structure:
    • Know the phonological, morphological and syntactic elements and know how to analyze them;
    • Consciously use reference tools (dictionary, textbook).
6. Knowledge and organization of contents:
    • Know the contents of the texts and rework them independently.
 
MINIMUM OBJECTIVES
 • Understand the main information of a text you listen to;
 • Read clearly and correctly, understanding the overall meaning of a written text;
 • Express yourself clearly and correctly;
 • Produce texts of various types, simple, clear and correct;
 • Analyse, if guided, elements of simple syntax;
 • Recognize, if guided, the essential elements of morphology; Know the contents covered in the essential lines and rework them in a simple and clear way.
CHECKS
During the school year, students will be subjected to the following periodic checks:
 • Subjective checks (questions, themes, summaries, guided conversations)
 • Objective tests (semi-structured tests: multiple choice tests, completion tests, true/false and open questions)
METHODS AND TOOLS
Methodologies:
 • Lessons, work in helping pairs, guided listening, guided exercises, group work.
Tools:
 • Blackboard, textbooks, photocopies, structured cards, concept maps, audiovisual tools, dictionary.

Question 3

Third Class

Accepted Answer

PROGRAMMING GRAMMAR KNOWLEDGE
 
DISCIPLINARY MODULES
 
1. Learning unit: recovery and strengthening
    • Simple sentence syntax summary exercises;
    • Introduction to the analysis of the period and repetition of coordinating and subordinating conjunctions.
2. Learning unit: Period analysisThe syntax of the sentence: the coordinated clause and the subordinate clause (subjective, objective, declarative, indirect interrogative, relative, temporal, final, causal, consecutive, etc.).
 
LITERATURE PROGRAMMING
 
DISCIPLINARY MODULES
1. Learning unit: Neoclassicism and Romanticism
    • The nineteenth century and Romanticism
    • U. Foscolo, G. Leopardi, A. Manzoni.
2. Learning unit: Realism
    • Verism, novels and short stories;
    • G. Verga.
3. Learning unit: between the 19th and 20th centuries
    • Opera: Decadentism, G. Pascoli, G. D'Annunzio,
    • The narrative: L. Pirandello.
4. Learning unit: The Twentieth CenturyThe main authors and the most significant movements of the twentieth century (I. Calvino, S. Ungaretti, E. Montale and S. Quasimodo).
 
WRITING, READING, COMPREHENSION AND TEXT ANALYSIS
 
DISCIPLINARY MODULES
 
1. Learning unit: RecoveryGuided spelling, morphosyntactic and lexical recovery exercises.
2. Learning unit: WritingWriting with a project: methods and techniques for planning a written text:
    • Theme (list of ideas, schedule, drafting of the text, self-correction and final draft);
    • Report.
3. Learning unit: Textual analysis
    • Analysis of texts belonging to different typologies and genres:
       • Narrative (mystery, science fiction, horror, realistic);
       • expository;
       • argumentative;
       • poetic (paraphrase, commentary, rhetorical figures).
    • anthological readings on interdisciplinary topics: current affairs, historical-geographical themes, social problems.
4. Learning unit: Study method
    • Consolidation and/or strengthening of reading strategies: read to get an idea; read to look for information; read thoroughly to study.
    • Consolidation and/or strengthening of reading functional to study: recognition and selection of essential information.
 
OBJECTIVES
1. Comprehension of oral language:
    • Pay functional attention in the listening situation;
    • identify the fundamental and secondary elements of an oral text;
    • understand the global meaning of an oral text;
    • recognize the different types of text and their communicative function.
2. Comprehension of written language:
    • Read in a technically correct and expressive way;
    • understand the overall meaning of a written text;
    • recognize the elements characterizing the typology and genre;
    • relate elements of different texts and compare them.
3. Oral language production:
    • Express yourself orally in a clear and correct way;
    • rework a text orally, in a clear and exhaustive way;
    • use appropriate vocabulary for different communication situations.
4. Production in the written language:
    • Use spelling and morphosyntax correctly;
    • use appropriate vocabulary;
    • plan a text in a coherent way, using acquired techniques.
5. Knowledge of the functions of the language structure:
    • Know the phonological, morphological and syntactic elements of the language and know how to analyze them;
    • consciously use consultation tools (dictionary, textbook, magazines...).
    • know the historical-evolutionary aspects of the Italian language.
6. Knowledge and organization of contents:
    • Know and organize the contents by structuring them independently.
 
MINIMUM OBJECTIVES
 • Pay attention when listening and understand the main information;
 • read clearly and correctly, grasping the main information of a written text;
 • express yourself clearly and correctly;
 • produce texts of various types, coherent, clear and correct;
 • know how to analyze, if guided, elements of morpho-syntax;
 • know the contents in their essential lines and rework them in a simple and clear way.
 
CHECKS
 
During the school year, students will be subjected to the following periodic checks:
 • subjective checks (questions, themes, summaries, guided conversations);
 • objective tests (semi-structured tests: multiple choice tests, completion, true/false and open response). 
 
METHODS AND TOOLS
Methodologies:
 • Lessons, work in helping pairs, guided listening, guided exercises, group work.
Tools:
 • Blackboard, textbooks, photocopies, structured cards, concept maps, audiovisuals, dictionary.

Contact us:

Federica Petracci
(202) 650 7169
info@casaitalianaente.org

Supplementary courses for

Lower Secondary School

Secondary school

Programs and textbooks

​Contact us: Federica Petracci (202) 650 7169 info@casaitalianaente.org

Supplementary courses for

Lower Secondary School

Secondary school

Programs and textbooks

Contact us:

Federica Petracci
(202) 650 7169
info@casaitalianaente.org