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English Literature I

 

“Not marble, nor the gilded monuments

 Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme.”

Shakespeare, Sonnet 55

 

Syllabus

 

Assignments 

Unit 1

Unit 2

       Unit 3

 

Outside Reading

 

Response to Video/DVD of King Lear:

Without merely summarizing the plot, write a response that demonstrates your understanding of the plot and characters of the play and your knowledge of the particular production you watched.  Use specific supporting details.  2 pages.  20 daily points possible.  This document may be of some help: Writing a Video Critique

 

Essay Exams

       Unit 1   

       Unit 2   Please print this document and bring it to class on October 28, 2009.

       Final      This document will be posted later this semester.

 

Study Guides  

       Unit 1: The Middle Ages

Study Guide 1: Beowulf and Old English Literature 

Study Guide 2: Chaucer

Study Guide 3: Sir Gawain and Morte Darthur

Study Guide 4: Middle English Lyrics and Everyman

 

Unit 2: The Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries

       Study Guide 5: Spenser and Sidney

       Study Guide 6: Marlowe and Shakespeare 

Study Guide 7: Jonson

Study Guide 8: Donne, Walton, and Bacon

Study Guide 9: Herbert, Marvell, Herrick, Suckling, Lovelace, and Milton’s Sonnets

Study Guide 10: Milton’s Paradise Lost

 

       Unit 3: The Restoration and Eighteenth Century

              Study Guide 11: Dryden, Pepys, Bunyan

              Study Guide 12: Astell, Defoe, Swift

              Study Guide 13: Addison and Steele, Pope, Ballads

              Study Guide 14: Johnson, Boswell, Gray, Goldsmith