Course Overview

 Quarter 1

• Reading
• Summer: C. S. Lewis' Great Divorce
• Notes
• Anglo-Saxon Times
• The Middle Age
• Beowulf, Caedmon's Hymn, "The Seafarer", "The Dream of the Rood
• Major Writing
• In-Class Essay on The Great Divorce
• Narrative (College Essay)
 

Quarter 2
 

• Reading
• Notes
• The Middle Ages (Notes)
• The Renaissance (Notes)
• Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
• The General Prologue
• The Wife of Bath's Tale
• The Pardoner's Tal
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• Shakespeare: Hamlet, Selected Sonnets

• Major Writing
• Expository (Literary Analysis)
• Final Exam Essay
  

Quarter 3

• Reading
• Note
• The Restoration and the 18th Century (Notes)
• The Romantic Period
• John Milton, Samuel Johnson, Swift's Modest Proposal
• Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice
• Romantic Poets
• Blake
• Wordsworth
• Coleridge
• Shelley
• Byron
• Keats
• Major Writing
• The Annotated Bibliography (Research, Part I)

Quarter 4

• Reading
• Notes
• Victorian Era
• The Modern Era
• Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnes
• Chesterton
• Dicken
• James Joyce
• Graham Greene
• Nadine Gordimer
• C. S. Lewis
• Quo Vadis (Where are you going?)

Major Writing

• The Final Research Paper