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English Literature I
“Not marble, nor the gilded
monuments
Of princes, shall outlive this powerful
rhyme.”
Shakespeare, Sonnet 55
Assignments
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 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