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Beginning with works from the Middle Ages, British Literature is a five-unit course that teaches high school students about some of the greatest books of Western Civilization. Students will learn how to appreciate the English literature of the Middle Ages for its wisdom and beauty and will also gain a better understanding of the development of the English language and its literature. Course units cover one to two centuries, concluding with the writings of apologist C.S. Lewis in the 20th century.

 

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UNIT 1 – THE MIDDLE AGES

  1. Course Overview
  2. Introduction
  3. Old English Literature: Bede
  4. Beowulf
  5. Quiz 1: Introduction and Old English Literature
  6. Middle English Literature: Chaucer
  7. The Pardoner’s Tale
  8. Piers Plowman
  9. Project: Illuminated Manuscripts
  10. Quiz 2: Middle English Literature
  11. Morality Plays: Everyman
  12. Sir Thomas Malory: Le Morte d’ Arthur
  13. Le Morte d’ Arthur II
  14. Le Morte d’ Arthur III
  15. Essay: Comparing Literature to Scripture 
  16. Quiz 3: Morality Plays and Malory’s Le Morte d’ Arthur
  17. Test: The Middle Ages
  18. Alternate Test: The Middle Ages
  19. Reference

UNIT 2 – THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY

  1. The Renaissance and Reformation
  2. The Early Renaissance: Sir Thomas More
  3. Roger Ascham
  4. John Foxe
  5. Quiz 1:The Renaissance and Reformation
  6. Renaissance Poets: Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder
  7. Sir Philip Sidney
  8. Edmund Spenser
  9. Mary (Sidney) Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
  10. Essay: Comparing Literature to Scripture 
  11. Quiz 2: Renaissance Poets
  12. Renaissance Prose and Drama: Sir Walter Raleigh
  13. William Shakespeare
  14. The Taming of the Shrew 1
  15. The Taming of the Shrew 2
  16. The Taming of the Shrew 3
  17. The Taming of the Shrew 4
  18. The Taming of the Shrew 5
  19. The English Bible
  20. Quiz 3: Renaissance Prose and Drama
  21. Test: The Sixteenth Century
  22. Alternate Test: The Sixteenth Century
  23. Reference

UNIT 3 – THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES

  1. The Stuarts and the Puritan Revolution 1603-1660
  2. John Donne
  3. Ben Jonson
  4. George Herbert
  5. Quiz 1: The Stuarts and the Puritan Revolution
  6. More Seventeenth Century Writers: John Milton
  7. John Owen
  8. Essay: Comparing Literature to Scripture 
  9. Francis Bacon
  10. Quiz 2: More Seventeenth Century Writers
  11. The Restoration and Neoclassic Period 1660-1785
  12. John Dryden
  13. John Bunyan
  14. Jonathan Swift
  15. Alexander Pope
  16. Isaac Watts
  17. Project: Responding to Literature 
  18. Quiz 3: The Restoration and Neoclassic Period
  19. Test: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
  20. Alternate Test: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
  21. Reference

UNIT 4 – THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (1798-1900)

  1. The Romantic Era: Introduction
  2. William Blake
  3. William Wordsworth
  4. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  5. Sir Walter Scott
  6. Quiz 1: The Romantic Era
  7. The Late Romantic Era: Jane Austen
  8. Charles Lamb
  9. George Gordon, Lord Byron
  10. Percy Bysshe Shelley
  11. John Keats
  12. Quiz 2:The Late Romantic Era
  13. The Victorian Era: Introduction
  14. Thomas Carlyle
  15. John Henry Cardinal Newman
  16. Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  17. Charles Dickens
  18. Robert Browning
  19. George Eliot
  20. Oscar Wilde
  21. Lewis Carroll
  22. Project: Responding to Literature 
  23. Quiz 3: The Victorian Era
  24. Test: The Nineteenth Century
  25. Alternate Test: The Nineteenth Century
  26. Reference

UNIT 5 – THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

  1. Introduction
  2. Thomas Hardy
  3. Joseph Conrad
  4. G. K. Chesterton
  5. Quiz 1: Introduction
  6. Modern Poetry, Drama, and Prose: William Butler Yeats
  7. T. S. Eliot
  8. George Bernard Shaw
  9. Winston Churchill
  10. Quiz 2: Modern Poetry, Drama, and Prose
  11. Modern Fiction: Virginia Woolf
  12. James Joyce
  13. Aldous Leonard Huxley
  14. S. Lewis
  15. Project: Responding to Literature  (For this project, you will choose from several options designed to expand your understanding of twentieth century literature.)
  16. Quiz 3: Modern Fiction
  17. Test: The Twentieth Century
  18. Alternate Test: The Twentieth Century