Twelfth Grade English
British Literature - Honors
CONTENT/THEME
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
CORE GOALS/SKILLS
“The Seafarer”
Master period information
“The Wanderer”
Master literary terms:
• Kenning
• Scop
• Epic
• Epic Hero
“The Wife's Lament”
From Beowulf
ASSESSMENT
Assessments may include but are not limited
to:
Objective Tests
Subjective Tests
Short answer
Timed essay
Take-home essay
Master characteristics of old English
Emergent Age
Master characteristics of leader
Writing will focus on synthesis of direct
quotations and analysis of the Emergent
Age as it relates to its historical context.
Riddles
Academic Standards for Reading, Writing,
Speaking, and Listening:
1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.6
Geoffrey Chaucer
“The General Prologue” to The Canterbury
Tales
Master period information
“The Nun's Priest Tale”
Master Literary Terms:
• Pilgrimage
• Heroic Couplet
• Fabliau
• Medieval Hero
• Quest Motif
• Ballad
• Poetry Terminology
Subjective Tests
Short answer
Timed essay
Take-home essay
Academic Standards for Reading, Writing,
Speaking, and Listening:
1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.6
Individual projects as determined by
instructor as it relates to the Medieval Age.
Master Period Information
Assessments may include but are not limited
to:
From Sir Gawain and The Green Knight
Medieval Age
Individual projects as determined by
instructor as it relates to the Emergent Age.
Sir Thomas Malory
From Morte d'Arthur
Ballads
“The Twa Corbies”
“Barbara Allan”
Master characteristics of middle English
Assessments may include but are not limited
to:
Objective Tests
Writing will focus on synthesis of direct
quotations and analysis of Medieval Age
as it relates to its historical context.
“Lord Randall”
Renaissance
“Get Up and Bar the Door”
Edmund Spencer
“Sonnet 1”
Twelfth Grade English
British Literature - Honors
Master Characteristics of Elizabethan Drama
Objective Tests
“Sonnet 35”
“Sonnet 75”
Subjective Tests
Short answer
Timed essay
Take-home essay
Writing will focus on synthesis of direct
quotations and analysis of the
Renaissance as it relates to its historical
context.
Individual projects as determined by
instructor as it relates to the Renaissance
period.
Twelfth Grade English
British Literature - Honors
CONTENT/THEME
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
Sir Philip Sidney
“Sonnet 31”
“Sonnet 106”
Master Literary Terms:
• Meter
• Types of Sonnets
• Tragedy
• Tragic Flaw
• Tragic Hero
• Hamartia
• Irony
• Characterization
“Sonnet 116”
Demonstrate ability to scan poetry
“Sonnet 130”
Academic Standards for Reading, Writing,
Speaking, and Listening:
1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.6
“Sonnet 39”
William Shakespeare
“Sonnet 29”
Renaissance, Cont.
CORE GOALS/SKILLS
Write original sonnet
ASSESSMENT
William Shakespeare
Othello
Much Ado About Nothing (film)
Restoration and 18th
Century
Essay - Critical Analysis
John Donne
“Valediction”
“Holy Sonnet 10”
“Meditation 17”
Andrew Marvell
“To His Coy Mistress”
John Milton
From Paradise Lost
Robert Herrick
“To the Virgins, to make Much of Time”
Master period information
Master literary characteristics of time Period,
including:
• Satire
• Mock Epic
Master Literary Terms:
• Carpe Diem
• Momento mori
• Diary
• Journal
Academic Standards for Reading, Writing,
Speaking, and Listening:
1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.6
Assessments may include but are not limited
to:
Objective Tests
Subjective Tests
Short answer
Timed essay
Take-home essay
Writing will focus on synthesis of direct
quotations and analysis of the Restoration
as it relates to its historical context.
Individual projects as determined by
instructor as it relates to the Restoration
period.
Twelfth Grade English
British Literature - Honors
Twelfth Grade English
British Literature - Honors
CONTENT/THEME
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
CORE GOALS/SKILLS
ASSESSMENT
Jonathan Swift
From “A Voyage to Lilliput”
From “A Voyage to Brobdingnag”
Alexander Pope
From Rape of the Lock
Restoration and 18th
Century, Cont.
Thomas Gray
“Elegy Written in a Country Courtyard”
Joseph Addison
From “The Aims of the Spectator”
Samuel Pepys
From The Diary
Daniel Defoe
From A Journal of the Plague Year
William Blake
“The Lamb”
“The Tyger”
Romanticism
William Wordsworth
“Lines Composed a Few Miles Above
Tintern Abbey”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Master romantic elements
Master characteristics of British Peerage
Gentry
Master period information
Academic Standards for Reading, Writing,
Speaking, and Listening:
1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.6
Assessments may include but are not limited
to:
Objective Tests
Subjective Tests
Short answer
Timed essay
Take-home essay
Writing will focus on synthesis of direct
quotations and analysis of Romanticism as
it relates to its historical context.
“Kubla Khan”
Individual projects as determined by
instructor as it relates to the Romantic
period.
Twelfth Grade English
British Literature - Honors
CONTENT/THEME
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
CORE GOALS/SKILLS
ASSESSMENT
George Gordon, Lord Byron
“She Walks in Beauty”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
“To the Moon”
“Ozymandias”
Romanticism, Cont.
John Keats
“Ode to a Nightingale”
“Ode on a Grecian Urn”
Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility (film) OR Emma
(film)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
“The Lady of Shalott”
From “In Memoriam, A.H.H.”
Thomas Hardy
“Ah, Are you Digging on My Grave?”
Master period information
Master literary characteristics of time
period, including:
• Mad Women in the Attic
• Place of Women
Master literary terms
Victorian Age
Robert Browning
“My Last Duchess”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnet 43
Academic Standards for Reading, Writing,
Speaking, and Listening:
1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.6
Modernism/Postmodernism
“When I was One-and-Twenty”
Subjective Tests
Short answer
Timed essay
Take-home essay
Writing will focus on synthesis of direct
quotations and analysis of Victorianism
as it relates to its historical context.
Individual projects as determined by
instructor as it relates to the Victorian
period.
Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre
Charles Dickens
From A Tale of Two Cities
A. E. Housman
“To An Athlete Dying Young”
Assessments may include but are not
limited to:
Objective Tests
Master period information
Assessments may include but are not
limited to:
Objective Tests
Twelfth Grade English
British Literature - Honors
Subjective Tests
Short answer
Timed essay
Take-home essay
Writing will focus on synthesis of direct
quotations and analysis of
Modernism/Postmodernism as
it relates to its historical context.
Individual projects as determined by
instructor as it relates to the
Modern/Postmodern period.
Twelfth Grade English
British Literature - Honors
CONTENT/THEME
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
Rupert Brooke
“The Soldier”
Master Literary Characteristics of Time
Period
Siegfried Sassoon
“Wirers”
Master Literary Terms
Wilfred Owen
“Anthem for Doomed Youth”
Dylan Thomas
“Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”
James Joyce
“Araby”
From Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
Modernism/Postmodernism,
Cont.
D. H. Lawrence
“The Rocking-Horse Winner”
Virginia Woolf
“The Lady in the Looking Glass: A
Reflection”
Joseph Conrad
“The Secret Sharer”
Graham Greene
“A Shocking Accident”
H.G. Wells
“A Moonlight Fable”
Somerset Maugham
Literary Criticism Research Paper
Writing
CORE GOALS/SKILLS
Lit Paper – Shakespeare
Annotated Bibliographies
Academic Standards for Reading, Writing,
Speaking, and Listening:
1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.6
ASSESSMENT
Twelfth Grade English
British Literature - Honors
CONTENT/THEME
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
CORE GOALS/SKILLS
ASSESSMENT
Lit Papers on Class Selections
Writing, Cont.
Grammar
College Application Essay
Chaucer Imitation
Review as needed
Vocabulary for the College Bound level D
Identify words in context
Student workbook/sheets and teacher
quizzes
Utilize new vocabulary in speech and
writing
Vocabulary
Recognize vocabulary words in outside
reading
Choose one of the following:
Wuthering Heights
Heart of Darkness
Frankenstein
Silas Marner
Summer Reading
Choose one of the following:
A Tale of Two Cities
Return of the Native
Brave New World
Pride and Prejudice
Enhance vocabulary mastery
Transition students to their Incoming grade
Introduce literature themes for incoming
grade
Maintain reading skills throughout the
summer months
Objective tests during first week of school
Twelfth Grade English
British Literature - Honors
CONTENT/THEME
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
Choose one of the following:
As You Like It
Hamlet
Summer Reading, Cont.
The Merchant of Venice
King Lear
The Tempest
CORE GOALS/SKILLS
ASSESSMENT