Course: English Level 4
CONTENT/TOPICS
and TIME
Greek/Anglo Saxon
“From Legend to
History”
2 Weeks
ESSENTIAL
QUESTIONS
How did the Anglo Saxon belief
in fate influence the literature?
What defines a hero?
How did Anglo Saxon culture
influence literature?
Medieval Period
“From Legend to
History”
2-3 weeks
Renaissance
”Focus on Drama”
3-4 weeks
How did Medieval culture
influence the literature?
How do the pilgrims represent a
cross section of Medieval
society?
How did Elizabethan culture
influence the literature?
How can power corrupt?
How did Shakespeare satirize
unfair social customs?
OBJECTIVES/LEARNING TARGETS
STANDARDS
ASSESSMENTS
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Students will read and understand:
 Epic poetry
 Epic Hero
 Lyric poetry
 Paganism vs. Christianity
 Tracing the beginning of the English
Language
 Riddles
 Paraphrasing
 Themes- violence, good vs. evil, war
R
1,2,3,4,5,6,10
Students will understand:
 Characterization
 Narrative poetry
 Analyzing difficult sentences
 Allegory
 Frame story
 Exemplum
 Apologia
 Romances
 Who vs. whom
 Run on sentences
R
1,2,3,4,5,6,10
Students will read:
 Elizabethan Drama
Students will understand author’s use of:
 Blank Verse
 Imagery
 Tragic Hero
 Comedy/Tragedy
R
1,2,3,4,5,6,10
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W
2,4,5,6,7,9,10
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W
2,4,5,6,7,9,10
S&L
1,4,6
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W
2,4,5,6,7,9,10
S&L
1,4,6
S&L
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RESOURCES
Ongoing
Vocabulary
Test/ Quizzes
Presentations:
Written, Visual,
Oral
Reading
Homework
Literature/ theme
based essays
Riddles
On going
Vocabulary
Test/Quizzes
Reading
homework
Exemplum writing
Oral/Visual
presentation
(pilgrim)
Textbook:
 Beowulf
 The Iliad
 Anglo Saxon
Riddles
Movie:
 Beowulf
 Troy
Persuasive Essay
Memorization
Project
Reading
homework
Test/Quizzes
Presentations
Textbook
 Tales from
Shakespeare:
 Macbeth – Modern
Translation
 Hamlet
 Taming of the
Textbook:
 The PrologueCanterbury Tales
 The Pardoner’s
Tale
 “King Arthur”
from Once and
Future King
 “Sir Gawain and
the Lady Ragnell”
 “Federigo’s
Falcon”
 Ballads
 Everyman
 Dr. Faustus
Movie:
 Merlin
 History Channel
Productions
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Pronouns antecedents, possessive form
Dramatic Irony
Speech- tone, rhetoric
1,4,6
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Ongoing
vocabulary
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Shrew
Twelfth Night
Midsummer
Night’s Dream
Movie:
 Macbeth (selected
clips)
17th and 18th
Centuries Prose
“A Turbulent Time”
&
Poetry
How did 17th and 18th Century
culture influence the literature?
4 weeks
How do themes in poetry impact
us today through song lyrics?
How does Swift try to affect
social change through satire?
Students will:
 Read and comprehend non-fiction
 Satire
 Gothic Literature
 Poetic Devices
 Metaphysical poetry
 Inferring theme
 Drawing conclusions
 Dialect
 Symbols
 Grammar lessons (on-going)
R
1,2,3,4,5,6,10
W
2,4,5,6,7,9,10
S&L
1,4,6
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Satire Observation
Satire Project
Test/Quizzes
Presentations
Reading
homework
Parody of existing
Television show
and song
Ongoing
Vocabulary
Textbook
 Excerpt from
Gulliver’s Travels
 Journal of a
Plague Year and
Diary of Samuel
Pepys
Movie:
 Gulliver’s Travels
Authors:
 John Donne
 Ben Jonson
 Andrew Marvell
 Sir John Suckling
 Robert Herrick
 Richard Lovelace
 Thomas Gray
 Robert Burns
 William Blake
 William
Wordsworth
 Samuel Coleridge
 Lord Byron
 Percy Bysshe
Shelley
 John Keats
 Alfred Lord,
Tennyson
 Robert Browning
 Elizabeth Barrett
Browning
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19th Century Poetry
and Prose
How did 19th Century culture
influence the literature?
How do major themes found in
poetry impact us today, by way of
song lyrics?
Students will understand:
 Poetic devices
 Symbols
 Inferring theme
 Drawing conclusion
 Romanticism
 Lyric Poetry
 Odes
 Dramatic Monologue
R
1,2,4,5,7,10
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W
2,4,5,7,9,10
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S&L
1,2,4,6
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Poetry
Presentationanalysis
Ongoing
Vocabulary
Reading
Homework
Writing an ode
Poetry Projectfinding poetic
device in song
lyric
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Thomas Hardy
A.E. Housman
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William Butler
Yeats
T.S. Eliot
W.H. Auden
Siegfried Sassoon
Dylan Thomas
Selected Sherlock
Holmes short
stories
Selections from
Jane Eyre, Oliver
Twist, and Hard
Times
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Movie:
 Sherlock Holmes
20th Century
Literature- Post
Modern Period
What is dystopian literature, and
how are the values of society
questioned?
What are the effects of a
totalitarian society?
Students will understand:
 Irony
 Satire
 Allusion
 Point of View
R
1,2,3,4,7,10
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W
1,2,4,5,9,10
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Reading
Homework
Ongoing
Vocabulary
Analysis PaperLord of the Flies
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Lord of the Flies
S&L
1,3,4,6
Modernism
”A Time of Rapid
Change”
How did the Stream of
Consciousness technique
influence many of the stories we
read?
4 Weeks
How did British Imperialism
influence the literature of the 20th
Century
How does culture influence
literature? (ongoing)
Students will understand:
 Point of View
 Themes
 Symbolism/Realism/Naturalism/Classicis
m
 Plot Devices- Epiphany
 Irony
 Participial phrases
 Subject/Verb agreement
 Corruption of society
 Nature vs. Nurture
R
1,2,3,4,5,6,10
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W
1,2,4,5,6,7,9,
10
S&L
1,4,6
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Reading
Homework
Ongoing
Vocabulary
Presentations:
Written, Visual,
Oral
Tests/Quizzes
Summer Read
Analysis essay
Brief Narrative
Textbook:
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“An Appointment
with Love”
 “The Chaser”
 “Tickets Please”
 “A Devoted Son”
 “Demon Lover”
 “A Cup of Tea”
How can voice be taken away in a
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society with an unbalanced power
structure?
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