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English Literature I

“Not marble, nor the gilded monuments

Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme.”

Shakespeare, Sonnet 55

Syllabus (including assignments)

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

Final Please print this document, read it carefully, and bring it with you to class on November 16 and 30, 2010.

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