British Literature 12th Grade Syllabus – Turner County High School
Course Title: British Literature
Course Description: This course is required of all students. Prerequisites are 9th Grade Literature and Composition, 10th Grade World
Literature and Composition, and American Literature 11th grade. Focusing on a study of British Literature, the student develops an
understanding of chronological context and the relevance of period structures in British literature. The student develops an
understanding or the ways the period of a work of literature affects its structure and how the chronology of a work of literature
affects its meaning Required course (1 credit / full year)
Teacher Introduction: Millie Puckett
Artium Baccalaureus AB Morehead State University
Major – Speech Communications-Mass. Com-Theatre
Minors –English
M.A. Miami (Ohio) University
Major- Rhetoric
Minor – Organizational Communications
M.A. Northern Kentucky University
Major- Secondary Education
Emphasis- English
College Board Certified in AP Language and AP Literature
Gifted Endorsement
Course Agenda and Direction: Content Standards to be covered – Common Core Georgia Performance Standards. Primary Test
Book is the British Tradition
9 Weeks Outline
1st Nine Weeks
READING FOCUS : Literary
THEME: A Royal Mess: An Examination of the Lives, Scandals,
and Impact of Britain’s Most Notorious and Noteworthy Kings
and Queens
EXTENDED TEXT FROM BRITISH LITERATURE: Macbeth by
William Shakespeare
SHORT TEXTS FROM BRITISH LITERATURE:
1. Grendel, (excerpt chapter 2) by John Gardner—be
advised of strong language; use your own discretion in
choosing excerpts from this text.
2. Beowulf, by anonymous (translation determined by
school)
3. The Seafarer by Burton Raffel
http://www.nexuslearning.net/booksenotes.com/beowulf.text
4. When I was Fair and Young by Queen Elizabeth I
2nd Nine Weeks
READING FOCUS : Informational
THEME: The World as a Stage How Art Imitates Life
EXTENDED TEXT FROM BRITISH LITERATURE: Shakespeare: The
World as Stage by Bill Bryson
SHORT TEXTS FROM BRITISH LITERATURE:
1. “All the World’s a Stage” by William Shakespeare
(monologue from As You Like It)
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/all-the-world-sa-stage/
2. from A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
(available in Prentice Hall’s British Literature
Textbook)
3. from Utopia by Sir Thomas Moore (available in
Prentice Hall’s British Literature Textbook) Select
portions of Utopia:
http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/utopiaexcerpts.ht
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174926
To His Love When He Had Obtained Her by Sir Walter
Raleigh
http://www.poemhunter.com/i/ebooks/pdf/sir_walter
_raleigh_2004_9.pdf
SHORT INFORMATIONAL TEXTS INCLUDING PRIMARY AND
SECONDARY SOURCE DOCUMENTS FROM BRITISH HISTORY:
1. Holinshed’s Chronicles, Volume V: Scotland
http://shakespearenavigators.com/macbeth/Holinshed/index.html
2. Robin Hood
http://www.robinhood.info/robinhood.index.html
3. The Magna Carta
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents
/magna_carta/
4. Elizabeth I’s Speech to the Troops at Tilbury
http://www.nationalcenter.org/ElizabethITilbury.html
5. The Martyrdom of Thomas a` Becket,1170
http://www.britannia.com/history/docs/becketgrim.ht
ml
6. History of the English Language http://www.merriamwebster.com/help/faq/history.htm
5.
SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS:
1. How to conduct a TP-CASTT
http://homepage.mac.com/mseffie/assignments/poem
-a-day/TPCASTT.pdf
2. Critical Approaches to Literature
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/courses/web/fa
ll96/litcrit
WRITING FOCUS: Informative
The Importance of Anglo Saxon Artifacts and the understanding
of the literature of the period.
4-6 analyses Argumentative ELACC11-12W1, 4, 5, 6, 10
Research connection Brief or sustained inquiries related to the
texts or topics ELACC11-12W7, 8, 10
2-3 narratives Conveying experiences ELACC11-12W3, 4, 5, 6, 10
Routine writing Notes, summaries, process journals, and short
responses across all genres ELACC11-12W1, 2, 3, 9, 10
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Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare
http://www.shakespeareonline.com/sonnets/18.html 5. Sonnet 130 by William
Shakespeare http://www.shakespeareonline.com/sonnets/18.html
SHORT INFORMATIONAL TEXTS INCLUDING PRIMARY AND
SECONDARY SOURCE DOCUMENTS FROM BRITISH HISTORY:
1. “To be or Not to be Shakespeare” by Doug Stewart
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/peopleplaces/shakespeare.html
2. Declaration of Reasonable Doubt by Derek Jacobi
http://doubtaboutwill.org/declaration
3. Elizabeth’s Act of Uniformity, 1559 (secondary source),
use excerpts to accompany the scenes from the film
http://history.hanover.edu/texts/engref/er80.html
4. Lord Chamberlain’s Men
http://www.luminarium.org/encyclopedia/chamberlain
smen.htm
SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS:
1. Oxford English Dictionary: http://www.oed.com/
2. Poetry:
a. “All the World’s a Stage” by William Shakespeare
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/all-the-world-s-astage/
b. “On Monsieur’s Departure” by Elizabeth I
http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/departure.htm
c. Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare
http://www.shakespeare-online.com/sonnets/29.html
d. Sonnet 106 by William Shakespeare
http://www.shakespeare-online.com/sonnets/106.html
4.
Art/Pictures:
1. Chandros Portrait of Shakespeare
http://quotationsbook.com/assets/shared/img/6633/S
hakespeare.jpg
2. Droeshout Portrait of Shakespeare http://www.williamshakespeare.info/images/droeshout-engraving.jpg
3. Shakespeare Bust at Holy Trinity Church in Stratfordupon-Avon
http://www.stratfordtownwalk.co.uk/assets/galleries/5
6/1william_shakespeare_bust.jpg
4. Thames River & Old London Bridge
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba
/Old_London_Bridge,_River_Thames,_1745.jpg
5. http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Fvxs4O09T_8/Sp1T9Yifs6I/A
AAAAAAAA6s/NRaDUPjN4_8/s400/old+London+Bridge.
jpg
6. Elizabethan era London
http://elizabethan.org/compendium/art/london.gif
http://www.nosweatshakespeare.com/wpcontent/uploads/2011/12/elizabethan-southwark1.jpg
7. Theaters in London
a. Old Globe:
http://www.clt.astate.edu/wnarey/Shakespeare%2
0Survey%20Pix/oldglobe.jpg
b. Modern Globe:
http://andyjs.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83421046653
ef0133f184c5d7970b-pi
Swan Theater:
http://www.princeton.edu/~danson/GRAPHICS/Sw
an.jpg
Articles/Documents
1. Bill Bryson’s Biography
http://www.billbryson.co.uk/about.html
2. Declaration of Reasonable Doubt by Derek Jacobi
http://doubtaboutwill.org/declaration
3. The Mystery of Shakespeare’s Identity by Jumana
Farouky
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,166161
9,00.html
4. “Is This What Shakespeare Looked Like?” by Richard
Lacayo
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,188377
0,00.html
5. Martin Luther’s biography
o “Driven to Defiance”
http://www.pbs.org/empires/martinluther/about_driv.
html
o “The Reluctant Revolutionary”
http://www.pbs.org/empires/martinluther/about_relu.
html
c.
Video/Film:
Elizabeth (1998 Film)
WRITING FOCUS: Informative
Research Paper on the real William Shakespeare
4-6 analyses Argumentative ELACC11-12W1, 4, 5, 6, 10
Research connection Brief or sustained inquiries related to the
texts or topics ELACC11-12W7, 8, 10
2-3 narratives Conveying experiences ELACC11-12W3, 4, 5, 6, 10
Routine writing Notes, summaries, process journals, and short
responses across all genres ELACC11-12W1, 2, 3, 9, 10
3rd Nine Weeks
READING FOCUS : Literary
THEME: Good and Evil in Literature
EXTENDED TEXT FROM BRITISH LITERATURE: Frankenstein by
Mary Shelley
SHORT TEXTS FROM BRITISH LITERATURE:
1. Milton’s Paradise Lost (excerpts)
2. Lord of the Flies by William Golding (excerpts)
3. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert L.
Stevenson (excerpts)
4. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (excerpts)
5. Man Was Made to Mourn: A Dirge, 1785 poem by Robert
Burns
SHORT INFORMATIONAL TEXTS INCLUDING PRIMARY AND
SECONDARY SOURCE DOCUMENTS FROM BRITISH HISTORY:
1. Charles I of England http://www.british-civilwars.co.uk/biog/charles1.htm
2. The execution of Charles I of England
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/pfcharlesI.htm
3. Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation
http://www.hccfl.edu/media/173616/ee2luther.pdf
4th Nine Weeks
READING FOCUS: INFORMATIVE
THEME: The Language of Our Lives
EXTENDED TEXT FROM BRITISH LITERATURE: The Professor and
the Madman by Simon Winchester
SHORT TEXTS FROM BRITISH LITERATURE:
1. “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll, poem
2. “A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed” by Jonathan
Swift, poem
Http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/nymphbe
d.html
3. “Strephon and Chloe” by Jonathan Swift, poem
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/strephon.
html
4. “The Rocking-Horse Winner” by D.H. Lawrence, short
story http://www.dowse.com/fiction/Lawrence.html
SHORT TEXTS FROM AMERICAN LITERATURE:
1. “The Man of the Crowd” by Edgar Allan Poe, short story
http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccernew2?id=PoeCrow.sgm&images=images/modeng&data
=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=all
4. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/wollstonecraft/wo
man-c.html#CHAPTERXIII
SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS:
1. http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Terms/epic.html
2. http://www.victorianweb.org/genre/epic2.html (Phillip
Allingham’s Notes of Heroic Poetry: The Primary and
Secondary Epic)
3. http://www.paradiselost.org/5-summary.html
4. http://www.brysons.net/miltonweb/milton04.html
5. http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/jung.html
6. http://www.youtube.com (Paradise Lost—preview prior
to sharing with students)
7. http://csmt.uchicago.edu/glossary2004/collectiveconsci
ousness.htm
8. http://www.literature.org/authors/miltonjohn/paradise-lost/chapter-01.html
9. http://students.cis.uab.edu/msuca/finalpaperindex.htm
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10. http://ic.galgroup.com/ic/suic/ReferenceDetailsPage/R
eferenceDetailsWindow?displayGr...
11. http://www.english-ecorner.com/britishliterature/contents/workshop1/defa
ult.htm
12. http://knarf.english.upenn.edu/Themes/index.html
13. http://www.simplypsychology.org/naturevsnurture.ht
ml
14. http://www.homework-online.com/lotf
Focus: Informative/Explanatory
4-6 analyses Argumentative ELACC11-12W1, 4, 5, 6, 10
Research connection Brief or sustained inquiries related to the
texts or topics ELACC11-12W7, 8, 10
2-3 narratives Conveying experiences ELACC11-12W3, 4, 5, 6, 10
Routine writing Notes, summaries, process journals, and short
responses across all genres ELACC11-12W1, 2, 3, 9, 10
2.
“The Swimmer” by John Cheever, short story
http://shortstoryclassics.50megs.com/cheeverswimmer
.html
3. “Rip Van Winkle” by Washington Irving, short story
http://www.eastoftheweb.com/shortstories/UBooks/RipVan.shtml
4. “The Mutability of Literature” by Washington Irving,
short story http://www.bartleby.com/109/6.html
5. Excerpt from Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan
Safran Foer (Pp. 1-4)
http://www.bookbrowse.com/excerpts/index.cfm/book
_number/1553/everything-is-illuminated
SHORT INFORMATIONAL TEXTS INCLUDING PRIMARY AND
SECONDARY SOURCE DOCUMENTS FROM BRITISH HISTORY:
1. “Five Events that Shaped the History of English,” blog by
Philip Durkin, Principal Etymologist at the Oxford
English Dictionary
http://oxforddictionaries.com/words/the-history-ofenglish?region=us
2. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel
Johnson, http://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/
3. “The Joy of Sesquipedalians” from Ex Libris by Anne
Fadiman,, essay The entire essay is not available online,
but most of it can be read at
Http://books.google.com/books?id=hxcE7vJdgZkC&pg=
PT13&lpg=PT13&dq=anne+fadiman+%22the+joy+of+se
squipedalians%22&source=bl&ots=C176R1d97q&sig=9f
FyTRdh5BYHEjrAmRbb4RJGI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=FFh7T5SzMpGa
8gTW87D3BA&ved=0CFsQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=ann
e%20fadiman%20%22the%20joy%20of%20sesquipedali
ans%22&f=false
4. “OED will not be printed again” by Alastair Jamieson,
news article
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/
7970391/Oxford-English-Dictionary-will-not-be-printedagain.html
SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS:
1. Oxford Dictionaries online
http://oxforddictionaries.com/?region=us
2. Articles for the history of the English language activity
A. “History of English”
http://www.ielanguages.com/enghist.html
B. The Great Melting Pot of Language
http://www.randomhistory.com/150/023english.html
C. “The Origin and History of the English Language”
http://www.krysstal.com/english.html
D. Chronology of Events in the history of English
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~kemmer/Words/chron.h
tml
E. Brief History of the English language
http://www.wordorigins.org/index.php/site/comm
ents/a_very_brief_history_of_the_english_languag
e3/
F. A Concise history
http://www.danshort.com/ie/ConciseHistory.htm
G. History of the English language, University of
Toronto
http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~cpercy/hell/
Lists of words recently added to the OED for the 1st writing
assessment
1. http://www.oed.com/public/newwords0312
2. http://www.oed.com/public/newwords1211
3. http://www.oed.com/public/newwords0611
4. http://www.oed.com/public/newwords0911
5. http://www.oed.com/public/update0311#new
6. http://www.oed.com/public/update1012#new
7. http:,//www.oed.com/public/update1009/september2010-update#new
8. http://www.oed.com/public/update1003/march-2010update#new
9. http:/ /www.oed.com/public/update0912/december2009-update#new
10. http://www.oed.com/public/update0906/june-2009update#new
11. http://www.oed.com/public/update0812/december2008-update#new
12. http://www.oed.com/public/update0809/september2008-update#rev
WRITING FOCUS: Argumentative
4-6 analyses Argumentative ELACC11-12W1, 4, 5, 6, 10
Research connection Brief or sustained inquiries related to the
texts or topics ELACC11-12W7, 8, 10
2-3 narratives Conveying experiences ELACC11-12W3, 4, 5, 6, 10
Routine writing Notes, summaries, process journals, and short
responses across all genres ELACC11-12W1, 2, 3, 9, 10
Assessment Types: May include the following: announced quizzes, surprise quizzes, tests, quarterly exams, EOCT exams, and
projects. On a daily basis, students should prepare as if they expect a surprise quiz over either the material just covered or the next
lesson before it is covered in class. Take Home tests and quizzes may be offered for you may take with you.
Grading Scale and Policy:
Points shall be awarded for homework, cooperative leaning (group work), quizzes, tests, exams, and participation. Points earned
shall be divided by points possible and then multiplied by 100 for each grading period. Points possible may arbitrarily lowered to
establish a curve, at the discretion of the instructor. Letter grades will be used for reporting to parents/guardians for each marking
period. Letter grades will be based on the board mandated scale:
GRADING SCALE
A = 90-100
B = 80-89
C = 70-79
F = Below 70
I = Incomplete
GRADING WEIGHTS for calculation of quarterly grades
Test = 40%
Daily Grades = 40%
Homework = 10%
Work Ethic = 10%
*It should be noted that attendance and participation in class are important and are counted as part of the points to be earned in a
class.
Standardized Testing Preparation: As a part of this course, significant effort will be directed towards the EOCT test.
ProgressBook: You and your parents should monitor your grades regularly by accessing the online grade book.
Materials: 3-ring binder, loose-leaf notebook paper, blue and black ink pens, #2 lead pencils, highlighters, USB flash drive, 3x5 index
cards.
Students need to establish a Gmail account, which is free. All major writing assignments must be electronically submitted.
AFTER SCHOOL TUTORIAL
Academic teachers will provide scheduled tutoring for all students for one hour per day, Monday-Thursday. Students who need
extra help are encouraged to take advantage of this opportunity. ALL STUDENTS ASSIGNED TO ISS WILL BE REQUIRED TO ATTEND
TUTORIALS FOR THE DAYS THEY ARE ASSIGNED TO ISS. After-school Tutorial runs from 3:30-4:30.
Monday
All Math Teachers
Tuesday
All Science Teachers
Wednesday
All English Teachers
Thursday
All Social Studies Teachers
Attendance Policy:
Make-up Work: If a student is absent (excused or unexcused), the student should approach his/her teachers before or after school
to request make-up work for the days the student was out. If the absence was excused, the student can receive up to full credit for
the work submitted. If the absence was unexcused, the student can receive a maximum of 70% on any make-up work submitted. All
make-up work must be requested within three days of the student’s return to school. The student will be allowed the same number
of days to complete and submit the make-up work as the student was absent (out three days, request work, due three days later).
Contact Information: TCHS phone 229-567-4377, e-mail: mpuckett@turner.k12.ga.us planning time – 4th period.
This syllabus is a tenative outline of this course and may be changed as deemed necessary by the instructor.