Maturity 2022, with the first Italian test, the state exam for over 500 thousand students has started. Giovanni Pascoli, with the song “La via ferrata”, is one of the two traces of analysis of the literary text, the one in poetry. For the other track of analysis of the text, the prose one, the graduates experimented with Giovanni Verga with the song “Nedda. Sicilian sketch ". Among the traces of argumentative text, type B, the candidates were able to choose a part from the song "The only fault of being born", by Gherardo Colombo and Liliana Segre, with a reflection on racial laws at the center.
Maturity
Another of the traces of argumentative text, type B, has as its protagonist George Parisi, award Nobel Prize in Physics. To the attention of the students, the passage of his speech on climate change held in the Chamber of Deputies in October 2021, in view of Cop26, the Conference UN on the climate. And, again, another track deals with the theme of music and its importance for the human being, using a passage by the English doctor and writer. Oliver sacks, taken from his work 'Musicofilia'.
Current affairs
As regards the two tracks of type C, or the current topic, the students were proposed Luigi Ferrajoli, "Why a Constitution of the Earth?". The pandemic and its consequences for the planet are at the center. Another topic is a text taken from Vera Gheno, Bruno Mastroianni, “Keep it on. Post, comment, share without turning off your brain ". A track in which the world of social networks is at the center.
“At least on the choice of tracks, the students were listened to! Never as this year have the anticipations on the eve, based on the expectations of high school students, been respected ”. So Daniele Grassucci, director of the Skuola.net student portal who adds: "Verga and Pascoli were the most popular authors on the eve. Moreover, since they are authors of the 800th century, it is quite probable that all the graduates have crossed paths with them in the course of their studies. While the environment and the pandemic were among the most anticipated issues in terms of current affairs ".
