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1st Period British Literature Contents
Anglo-Saxon Period &The Middle Ages
Historical, political, and social details of the time periods
Characteristics of literature from the time periods
All literary elements & terms
o Imagery
o Medieval Romance
o Symbol
o Repetition
o Epic
o Ironic humor
o Epic Hero
o Irony
o Alliteration
o Frame narrative
o Kenning
o Character development
o Ceasura
o Allegory
o Elegy
o Direct Characterization
o Chivalry
o Indirect Characterization
o Romance Hero
o Character Conflicts
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Suggested Authors – their works, backgrounds, and writing styles
o unknown Anglo-Saxon poets
o Venerable Bede
o Chaucer
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Reading comprehension
o Beowulf
o The Seafarer
o The Wanderer
o The Wife’s Lament
o History of the English Church and People
o The Canterbury Tales
o The Pardoner’s Tale
o Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
o Morted’ Arthur
Grammar-know when and how to use the following
o Sentence Fragments
o Sentence combining
o Conjunctions
Writing Skills
o MLA formatting
o Organization & Ideas
o Main Idea &Details
o Autobiographical Narrative
o Essay
Speaking & Listening
o Oral Presentation for Multi-media presentation
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2nd Period British Literature Contents
Renaissance & Renaissance Theater
Historical, political, and social details of the time periods
Characteristics of literature from the time periods
All literary elements & terms
o Pastoral poem
o Tragich ero
o Shakespearean sonnet
o Tragic flaw
o Petrarchansonnet
o William Shakespeare
o Metaphysical conceit
o Literary elements of a tragedy
o Extended metaphor
o Dynamic character
o Humanism
o Foil
o “Carpe Diam” poems
o Soliloquy
o Cavalier poems
o Aside
o Paradox
o Dramatic irony
o Theme
o Comic relief
o Tragedy
o foreshadowing
Suggested Authors – their works, backgrounds, and writing styles
o Alfred Lord Tennyson
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o Robert Browning
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o Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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o Thomas Hardy
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o Ruyard Kipling
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o Charles Dickens
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o Trench Poets
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o War Poets
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Reading comprehension
o A Passionate Shepherd to His Love
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o The Nymph’s Reply
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o The Flea (metaphysical conceit)
o To His Coy Mistress (extended
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metaphor)
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o Mediatation 17 (humanism)
Grammar
o Subject/VerbAgreement
o Verbs
o Idioms
Writing Skills
o Voice
o Drama Presentation
o Shakespearean sonnets
o Word Choice
Auden Group
Angry Young Men
James Joyce
Dylan Thomas
W.B. Yeats
Joseph Conrad
Virginia Woolf
Aldous Huxley
The Tilbury Speech (women’s role)
The St. Crispin’s Day Speech (class
system)
Othello
The Merchant of Venice
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3rd Period British Literature Contents
Restoration & the 18th Century, The Romantic Period
Historical, political, and social details of the time periods
Characteristics of literature from the time periods
All literary elements and terms
o Satire
o Couplets
o Irony-verbal, situational, dramatic
o Antithesis
o Sarcasm
o Tone
o Exaggeration
o Symbolism
o Caricature
o Author’s purpose
o Innuendo
o Apostrophe
o Understatement
o Paradox
o Parody
o Personification
o Hyperbole
o Imagery
o Novel
o Symbolism
o Lyrical Poetry
o Author
o Satire
o Speaker
o Wit
Suggested Authors – their works, backgrounds, and writing styles
o Jonathan Swift
o John Keats
o Alexander Pope
o Jane Austen
o Daniel Defoe
o Mary Shelley
o Robert Burns
o Bronte Sisters
o William Blake
o William Wordsworth
o Samuel Taylor Coleridge
o Percy Bysshe Shelley
Reading comprehension
o Gulliver’sTravels
o A Journal of the Plague Year
o A ModestProposal
o Romantic Poetry
Grammar-know when and how to use the following
o Independent clauses & Subordinate clauses
o Parallel structure
o Adjective clauses
o The Phrase
o Conjunctions
o Correcting Common errors
Writing Skills
o Sentence Fluency
o Conventions
o Persuasive Essay
o Response to literature- theme
o Prewriting
Oral Presentation
o Components of the Media
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Drafting
Evaluating-Revising
Proofreading
Publishing
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4th Period British Literature Contents
Victorian Period & the 20th Century British Poets
Historical, political, and social details of the time periods
Characteristics of literature from the time periods
All literary terms
o Genres- poems & novel
o Point-of-view
o Allusion
o Petrarchan sonnet
o Theme
o Turn
o Characterization
o Dramatic monologue
o Conflict
o Stream of consciousness
Suggested Authors – their works, backgrounds, and writing styles
o Alfred Lord Tennyson
o AudenGroup
o Robert Browning
o Angry Young Men
o Elizabeth Barrett Browning
o James Joyce
o Thomas Hardy
o Dylan Thomas
o Ruyard Kipling
o W.B. Yeats
o Charles Dickens
o Joseph Conrad
o Trench Poets
o Virginia Woolf
o War Poets
o Aldous Huxley
Grammar-know when and how to use the following
o vocabulary
o revising sentences
o identifying common errors
Reading comprehension
o Tears, Idle Tears
o Mark of the Beast
o The Eagle
o Great Expectations
o Flower in the Crannied Wall
o Araby
o My Last Duchess
o Do Not Go Gentle into That Good
o Sonnet 43
Night
o If
o Siddhartha
Writing Skills
o Research report