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English Literature
English Literature and Composition is a chronologically-ordered survey of British literature from Beowulf to the present. Students will write in-class essays, MLA-format primary-source and secondary-source papers, and essay examinations.
General Information
ACT Prep
Course Syllabus
Expectations for Class Participation
Grammar Mini Lessons
No Red Ink Grammar Practice
Note-taking Guidelines
Universal Symbols
Writing Tips and Reminders
Summer reading
Anne Fortier -
Juliet
The Anglo-Saxons (449-1066)
Beowulf
Venerable Bede -
History of the English Church and People
The Middle Ages (1066-1485)
Geoffrey Chaucer -
The Canterbury Tales
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Thomas Malory -
Le Morte D'Arthur
The Renaissance (1485-1660)
William Shakespeare - selected sonnets and
Macbeth
Elizabethan/Jacobean Poets
John Milton -
Paradise Lost
and
Areopagitica
The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century (1660-1800)
Jonathan Swift -
A Modest Proposal
The Romantic Period (1798-1832)
Charlotte Bronte -
Jane Eyre
Romantic Poets - Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats
Mary Shelley -
Frankenstein
Jane Austen -
Pride and Prejudice
the Postmodern period (1945-present)
George Orwell -
1984
Final Exam Review
Personal Statement
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