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English 2323 British Literature: Romantics to Present
Please refer to this calendar for all reading assignments and due dates, especially if you will be absent one day.
It will be beneficial to our conversations if you read over the poems prior to class so you have an idea of the
content.
Week of: January 6-10
In Class Work
Reading Due
Monday
Romantic Period Background
Tuesday
Romantic Period Background
Wednesday
Ballads: “The Wife of
Usher’s Well” p. 34, “Sir
Patrick’s Spens” p. 36
Mary Robinson: “London’s
Summer Morning” p. 80
Thursday
The Slave Trade
Friday
William Blake: “The Lamb”
p. 120, “The Tyger” p. 129,
“Chimney Sweeper” p. 121,
“Chimney Sweeper” p. 128,
“Marriage of Heaven and
Hell” p. 148
Assignment Due
Olaudah Equiano: Narrative
of the Life p. 99-105
Week of: January 13-17
In Class Work
Reading Due
Monday
Revolution Controversy
Thomas Paine: From Rights
of Man p. 199-203
Tuesday
Mary Wollstonecraft and
Feminism
Vindication of the Rights of
Woman p. 211-217
Chapter 4 p. 232-239
Wednesday
Mary Wollstonecraft and
Feminism
Thursday
William Wordsworth: “I
wandered lonely as a cloud”
p. 334
Dorothy Wordsworth:
Grasmere Journals 1802 p.
408-411
Friday
Early Release
End of Semester 1
Assignment Due
2
DHS Semester II Begins
Week of: January 20-24
In Class Work
Reading Due
Monday
Professional Day
No School for Students
Tuesday
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Rime of the Ancient
Mariner” p. 443-459
Wednesday
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Thursday
Gothic Literature
Background
Friday
Horace Walpole
Assignment Due
Excerpt from Castle of
Otranto p. 586-589
Week of: January 27-31
In Class Work
Monday
Frankenstein Background:
Prometheus, Mary Shelley
Tuesday
Framework, Robert Walton
Assign Annotate
Bibliography and Essay
Wednesday
Lord Byron: “Darkness” p.
618
Thursday
Psychology Theories
Education Theories
Friday
Frankenstein Discussion
Reading Due
Frankenstein Letters
Frankenstein chapters 1-4
Assignment Due
3
Week of: February 3-7
In Class Work
Reading Due
Monday
Frankenstein Discussion
Frankenstein chapters 5-10
Tuesday
Frankenstein Discussion
Wednesday
Percy Shelley: “Ozymandias”
p. 776, “Hymn to Intellectual
Beauty” p. 773
Thursday
Frankenstein Discussion
Friday
Frankenstein Discussion
Assignment Due
Frankenstein chapters 11-16
Week of: February 10-14
In Class Work
Reading Due
Monday
Frankenstein Discussion
Frankenstein chapters 17continuation
Tuesday
Frankenstein Discussion
Wednesday
Keats: “Ode to a
Nightingale” p. 927, “Ode to
a Grecian Urn” p. 930
Thursday
Review
Friday
Romantics Test
Assignment Due
Week of: February 17-21
In Class Work
Reading Due
Monday
Professional Day
No School for Students
Tuesday
Library Research
Wednesday
Library Research
Thursday
Victoria Ear Background
Friday
Elizabeth Barrett Browning:
Sonnets from the Portuguese
p. 1129
Assignment Due
4
Week of: February 24-28
In Class Work
Reading Due
Monday
Tennyson: Light Brigade p.
1235
Tuesday
Robert Browning:
“Porphyria’s Lover” p. 1278,
“My Last Duchess” p. 1282
Wednesday
Evolution and Survival of the
Fittest
Charles Darwin: Origin of
Species p. 1561-1569
Thursday
Industrialism and Child
Labor/Employment
First Report of the
Commissioners, Mines p.
1588-1589
Charles Dickens Hard Times
p. 1599-1600
Friday
The Woman Question
Sarah Stickney Ellis p. 16101612
Harriet Martineau p. 16161619
Assignment Due
Week of: March 3-7
In Class Work
Reading Due
Monday
Empire and National Identity
William Howard Russell p.
1642-1646
Anonymous p. 1646-1647
Tuesday
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Background
Wednesday
Sherlock Holmes
Thursday
Sherlock Holmes
Friday
Sherlock Holmes: Film
viewing of a Sherlock
episode
Assignment Due
“The Speckled Band” p.
1831
Essay and Annotated
Bibliography
5
Week of: March 10-14
In Class Work
Reading Due
Assignment Due
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Week of: March 17-21
In Class Work
Reading Due
Monday
Robert Louis Stevenson
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde p.
1677
Tuesday
Robert Louis Stevenson
Wednesday
Thursday
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge p.
1849
Rudyard Kipling: “Widow at
Windsor” p. 1878,
“Recessional” p. 1879
Victorian Age Review
Friday
Victorian Age Test
Assignment Due
Senior Scrapbook Entries
Week of: March 24-28
In Class Work
Monday
The Twentieth Century
Tuesday
The Twentieth Century
Wednesday
Thomas Hardy: “Are you
digging on my grave” p.
1942
AE Housman – “Athlete
Dying Young” p. 2013
Joseph Conrad
Thursday
Friday
Joseph Conrad
Early Release Day
Reading Due
Heart of Darkness part 1 p.
1953-1975
End of 3rd Nine Weeks
Assignment Due
6
Week of: March 31-April 4
In Class Work
Reading Due
Monday
EOC English I – probably
won’t meet
Tuesday
EOC English II – probably
won’t meet
Wednesday
Heart of Darkness
Discussion
Thursday
Heart of Darkness
Discussion
Friday
Heart of Darkness
Discussion
Assignment Due
Heart of Darkness part 2 p.
1975-1993
Week of: April 7-11
In Class Work
Reading Due
Monday
Heart of Darkness
Discussion
Heart of Darkness part 3 p.
1993-2011
Tuesday
Heart of Darkness
Discussion
Wednesday
Heart of Darkness Test
Thursday
World War II Poetry
Sassoon: “They” p. 2023,
“Glory of Women” p. 2025,
“Memoirs” p. 2026
Rosenberg: “Trenches” p.
2030
Owen: “Dulce” p. 2037,
“Disabled” p. 2039, “Letter”
p. 2041
Graves: “Recalling War” p.
2048
Friday
Assignment Due
Week of: April 14-18
In Class Work
Monday
George Orwell and
Communism Background
Tuesday
Animal Farm Discussion
Wednesday
T. S. Eliot “Love Song” p.
2524
Thursday
T. S. Eliot “The Waste Land”
p. 2529
Friday
No School
Reading Due
Animal Farm chapters 1-4
Good Friday
Assignment Due
7
Week of: April 21-25
In Class Work
Reading Due
Monday
Animal Farm Discussion
Animal Farm chapters 5-10
Tuesday
Animal Farm Discussion
Wednesday
C. S. Lewis “The Planets”
Thursday
C. S. Lewis “The Planets”
Friday
C. S. Lewis “The Planets”
Assignment Due
Week of: April 28-May 2
In Class Work
Reading Due
Monday
William Golding and book
discussion
Lord of the Flies (entire
book)
Tuesday
William Golding and book
discussion
Wednesday
William Golding and book
discussion
Thursday
William Golding and book
discussion
Friday
Final Exam Review
Assignment Due
Week of: May 5-9
In Class Work
Monday
Final Exam Review
Tuesday
Final Exam
Wednesday
Chronicles of Narnia
Assignment
Thursday
Chronicles of Narnia
Assignment
Friday
Chronicles of Narnia
Assignment
Reading Due
Assignment Due
Lee College Grades Due
8
Week of: May 12-16
In Class Work
Reading Due
Monday
Narnia Group Projects
Chronicles of Narnia Book
Tuesday
Narnia Group Projects
Wednesday
Narnia Group Projects
Thursday
Narnia Group Projects
Friday
NO SCHOOL
Assignment Due
Week of: May 19-23
In Class Work
Monday
Present Narnia Projects
Tuesday
Present Narnia Projects
Wednesday
Present Narnia Projects
Thursday
Present Narnia Projects
Friday
Present Narnia Projects
Reading Due
Assignment Due
Senior Scrapbooks Due
Week of: May 26-30
In Class Work
Reading Due
Monday
NO SCHOOL
MEMORIAL DAY
Tuesday
The Lion, the Witch, and the
Wardrobe
Wednesday
The Lion, the Witch, and the
Wardrobe
Thursday
The Lion, the Witch, and the
Wardrobe
Friday
The Lion, the Witch, and the
Wardrobe
Assignment Due
The books I will check out to you: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Animal Farm by George Orwell, and Lord of
the Flies by William Golding