CONTENT/TOPICS and TIME
Modernism – A
Time of Rapid
Change:
4 Weeks
Anglo Saxon- From
Legend to History
2 Weeks +
Medieval Period-
From Legend to
History
3 weeks +
ESSENTIAL
QUESTIONS
-How did the Stream of
Consciousness technique influence many of the stories we read?
-How did British Imperialism influence the literature of the 20 th
Century
- How does culture influence literature? (on –going)
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-How can voice be taken away in a society with an unbalanced power structure?
OBJECTIVES/LEARNING TARGETS STANDARDS
Students will understand:
Point of View
Themes
Symbolism/Realism/Naturalism/Classicism
Plot Devices- Epiphany
Irony
Participial phrases
Subject/Verb agreement
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Corruption of society
Nature vs. Nurture
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1,2,3,4,5,6,10
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1 , 2,4,5,6,7,9,
10
S&L
1,4,6
- How did the Anglo Saxon belief in fate influence the literature?
- What defines a hero?
- How did Anglo Saxon culture influence literature?
- How did Medieval culture influence the literature?
- How do the pilgrims represent a cross section of Medieval society?
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
Students will understand:
-Characterization
-Narrative poetry
-Analyzing difficult sentences
- Allegory
- Frame story
- Exemplum
- Apologia
- Romances
Who vs. whom
Run on sentences
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1,2,3,4,5,6,10
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2,4,5,6,7,9,10
S&L
1,4,6
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1,2,3,4,5,6,10
W
2,4,5,6,7,9,10
S&L
1,4,6
ASSESSMENTS
Reading Homework
Ongoing Vocabulary
Presentations: Written,
Visual, Oral
Tests/Quizzes
Summer Read
Analysis essay
Brief Narrative
On going Vocabulary
Test/ Quizzes
Presentations: Written,
Visual, Oral
Reading Homework
Literature/ theme based essays
Textbook:
-“Shooting an
Elephant”
-“Araby”
-“The Lagoon”
-“The Lady in the
Looking Glass”
-“The Rocking Horse
Winner”
-“A Dill Pickle”
-“A Cup of Tea”
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Novel:
-Lord of the Flies
Movie:
Lord of the Flies
Textbook:
Beowulf
“The Seafarer”
“The Wanderer”
“The Wife’s Lament”
The Venerable Bede
Anglo Saxon Riddles
Movie:
Beowulf
On going Vocabulary
Test/Quizzes
Reading homework
Ballad presentation
Exemplum writing
Oral/Visual presentation (pilgrim)
RESOURCES
Textbook:
The Prologue-
Canterbury Tales
The Pardoner’s Tale
The Wife of Bath’s
Tale
Morte d’Arthur
Sir Gawain and the
Green Knight
Ballads
Movie:

Research Paper
Project
8 weeks
Renaissance- Focus on Drama
3-4 weeks
17 th and 18 th
Centuries prose
A Turbulent Time
2 weeks
Poetry
2 weeks
Why do research?
-How did Elizabethan culture influence the literature?
- How can power corrupt?
-How did Shakespeare satirize unfair social customs?
Students will understand:
Utilization of Library Resources
MLA Format/ OWL
Rearch Steps
Formatting
Thesis Statement
Note Taking Skills
Plagiarism
Students will read:
Elizabethan Drama
Students will understand author’s use of:
Blank Verse
Imagery
Tragic Hero
Pronouns antecedents, possessive form
Dramatic Irony
Speech- tone, rhetoric
- How did 17 th and 18 th Century culture influence the literature?
- How does Swift try to affect social change through satire?
-How do themes in poetry impact us today through song lyrics?
Students will:
Read and comprehend non-fiction
Satire
Gothic Literature
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Poetic Devices
Metaphysical poetry
Inferring theme
Drawing conclusions
Dialect
Symbols
Grammar lessons (on-going)
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1,2,3,4,5,6,7,
10
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2,4,5,7,9,10
S&L
1,4,6
Bibliography
Thesis Statement
Book Report
Final Paper
No Late Papers Will
Be Accepted
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1,2,3,4,5,6,10
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2,4,5,6,7,9,10
S&L
1,4,6
Persuasive Essay
Memorization Project
Reading homework
Test/Quizzes
Presentations
Ongoing vocabulary
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1,2,3,4,5,6,10
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2,4,5,6,7,9,10
S&L 1,4,6
-Satire Observation
-Satire Project
-Test/Quizzes
-Presentations
-Reading homework
-Parody of existing
Television show and song
-Ongoing Vocabulary
Merlin
History Channel
Productions
Database
Books
Internet
Textbook
Macbeth
Taming of the Shrew
Movie:
Macbeth (selected clips)
10 Things I Hate About
You
Textbook
Excerpt from
Gulliver’s Travels
“A Modest Proposal”
“The Diary”
“A Journal of a Plague
Year”
“Intro to Frankenstein”
Article:
“Soap and the Campus:
A Web-Site Spoof
Succeeds”
Movie:
Gulliver’s Travels
Song:
Weird Al Yankowich
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John Donne
Ben Jonson
Andrew Marvell
Sir John Suckling
Robert Herrick
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19 th Century Poetry and Prose
How did 19 th 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
20 th 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
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1,2,4,5,7,10
W
2,4,5,7,9,10
S&L
1,2,4,6
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1,2,3,4,7,10
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1,2,4,5,9,10
S&L
1,3,4,6
Poetry Presentation- anlysis
Ongoing Vocabulary
Reading Homework
Writing an ode
Poetry Project- finding poetic device in song lyric
Reading Homework
Ongoing Vocabulary
Anaysis Paper
New World
Farm or
- Brave
Animal
Richard Lovelace
Thomas Gray
Robert Burns
William Blake
William Wordsworth
Samuel Coleridge
Lord Byron
Percy Bysshe Shelley
John Keats
Alfred Lord,
Tennysson
Robert Browning
Elizabeth Barrett
Browning
Thomas Hardy
A.E. Housman
William Butler Yeats
T.S. Eliot
W.H. Auden
Siegfried Sassoon
Dylan Thomas
Selected Sherlock
Holmes short stories .
Movie:
Sherlock Holmes
Novel:
Animal Farm
Brave New World
Movie:
Animal Farm
Brave New World
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