English IV – Year Overview
1st Six Weeks: August 22nd – September 29th
-Short Stories
-an introduction to analytical thinking and writing
Review literary elements & card report format
-“The Black Veil” Charles Dickens 1836 (The
Victorian Period: 1833-1901) (not in book)
-“An Upheaval” Anton Chekhov 1886 (The Victorian
Period: 1833-1901) p. 1013
-“The Lagoon” Joseph Conrad 1902 (The Modern &
Postmodern Periods: 1901 to present) p. 1220
-“Araby” James Joyce 1914 (from Dubliners) (The
Modern & Postmodern Periods: 1901 to present)
p. 1236
-“The Rocking Horse Winner” D.H. Lawrence 1926
(The Modern & Postmodern Periods: 1901 to present)
p. 1246
-“The Lady in the Looking Glass” Virginia Woolf
1929 (The Modern & Postmodern Periods: 1901 to
present) p. 1192
-“The Demon Lover” Elizabeth Bowen 1946 (The
Modern & Postmodern Periods: 1901 to present)
p. 1300
-“A Shocking Accident” Graham Greene 1967 (The
Modern & Postmodern Periods: 1901 to present)
p. 1263
-A Shocking Accident (film) directed by James Scott 1982
-Writing thesis statements dealing with short stories
-Expository essay over a current event
-Topics provided to choose from or teacher’s approval
-Six weeks test over stories
2nd Six Weeks: October 4th – November 4th
-Old English & Medieval Periods (AD 449-1485)
-Research on Anglo Saxon time period
-Powerpoint presentation over research
-Beowulf unknown
-film for Beowulf
-analyze advice given by Hrothgar & compare to advice
today
-objective test over Beowulf
-from “Sir Gawain & the Green Knight” (poem)
-Sir Thomas Malory from Morte d’Arthur (romance)
- writing workshop pages 214-228
3rd Six Weeks: November 7th – December 16th
-Continue Beowulf & Intro to Canterbury Tales
-Expository essay over Beowulf
-Topics provided to choose from (from theme to
character analysis)
-Project over Beowulf – create a poem, mind game,
song, or drawing of any element from Beowulf &/or
the Anglo-Saxon time period (TALK TO NAT)
-Canterbury Tales
-listen to prologue in Middle English
-introduction video to Pilgrims w/ notes
-Canterbury Tales project - Create a Pilgrim portfolio
for a character described; include summary of tale,
resume, and business card for character
4th Six Weeks: January 3rd – February 10th
-English Renaissance Period (1485-1625)
Macbeth & Pygmalion
-Life in Elizabethan Jacobean England Kermode
(literary criticism)
-Sonnets William Shakespeare
-write a Shakespearean Sonnet
-from Disappearing Act Lahr (interview w/ Cate
Blanchett)
-Macbeth
- Youtube video opening scene of Polansky’s Macbeth
-expository essay over Macbeth
-from Pygmalion Shaw (drama)
-My Fair Lady (film: 1964)
-Film analysis over My Fair Lady
5th Six Weeks: February 13th – April 5th
The 17th & 18th Century (1625-1798), The Romantic
Period (1798-1832), & The Victorian Period (18331901), SOAPS & TP-CASTT poetry analysis
17th & 18th Century (1625-1798)
- Donne p. 482 (poetry)
- Ben Johnson p. 496 (poetry)
- Marvell p. 506 (poetry)
- Herrick p. 510 (poetry)
- Milton p. 522 (poetry)
- from Donte’s The Inferno (epic) p. 543
- Swift’s A Modest Proposal (essay) p. 617
- from Pope’s The Rape of Lork (mock epic) p. 632
English IV – Year Overview
5th Six Weeks continued. . .
The Romantic Period (1798-1832)
- Burns p. 734 (poetry)
- Blake p. 748 (poetry)
- SNL The Curse of Frankenstein (transcript)
- Frankenstein Boris Karloff 1931 (film)
- film analysis over Frankenstein
- Wordsworth p. 780 (poetry)
- Coleridge p. 820 (poetry)
- Lord Byron p. 854 (poetry)
- Percy B. Shelley p. 868 (poetry)
- Keats p. 882 (poetry)
- Keats p. 890 (poetry)
Feminist Literature from the Romantic Period
- “On Making an Agreeable Marriage” Jane Austen
(literary non-fiction)
- from “A Vindication of the Rights of Women”
Mary W. Shelley (literary non-fiction)
The Victorian Period (1833-1901)
- Tennyson p. 960 (poetry)
- Browning p. 978 (dramatic poetry & monologues)
- from Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte p. 1030 (novel
excerpt)
- Jane Eyre (2011) dir. Cary Fukunaga (film)
- film analysis over Jane Eyre 2011
- Matthew Arnold p. 1042 (poetry)
- Emily Bronte p. 1074 (poetry)
- Thomas Hardy p. 1077 (poetry)
- AE Houseman p. 1092 (poetry)
- expository essay over chosen poem(s)
- topics generated by students and approved by
teacher
- six weeks test over TP-CASTT poetry analysis
6th Six Weeks: April 10th – May 31st
The Modern & Postmodern Periods (1901 to present)
Lord of the Flies (1954), SS not covered, Poetry &
Churchill
- William Butler Yeats p. 1140 (poetry)
- TS Elliot p. 1156 (poetry)
- WH Auden p. 1172 (poetry)
- Stream of Consciousness Narration Study p. 1208
- clips from films w/ a voiceover
- Wilfred Owen p. 1276 (sonnet)
- listen to Winston Churchill p. 1289 (speech)
- Keith Douglas p. 1312 (poetry)
- Orwell p. 1318 (literary non-fiction)
- Seamus Heaney p. 1368 (poem & sestina)
- Dylan Thomas p. 1390 (villanelle & poem)
- Lord of the Flies William Golding (1954)
- expository essay over Lord of the Flies
- choice of topics assigned by teacher
- Lord of the Flies dir. Peter Brook (1963: film)
- Lord of the Flies dir. Harry Hook (1990: film)
- film comparison essay
- six weeks test over LOTF
Things to do if time. . .
Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland (1865: YA
novel)
Skellig by David Almond (1998) (YA novel)
Skellig: The Owl Man (2009) dir. Annabel Jankel
A Christmas Carol (1951) dir. Brian Desmond Hurst
(film)
Gulliver’s Travels (2010) dir. Rob Letterman
To make more time for works – try group studies