10 Honors Year in Review --Thematic Approach to British Literature
First Nine Weeks—Coming of Age/Loss of Innocence
- Golding’s Lord of the Flies
- Poetry by Blake, Donne, and Milton—When I Consider How My Time Hath Spent/Songs of Innocence and Experience/
- "A & P" by John Updike
- "The Bear" by William Faulkner
- "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker
- "Run" by Barry Milliken
- "The Scarlet Ibis" by James Hurst
- "Through the Tunnel" by Doris Lessing
- Novels:
- "Butterfly Revolution" by William Butler
- "A Day No Pigs Would Die" by Robert Newton Peck
- "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
- "Ordinary People" by Judith Guest
- "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
- Poetry:
- "To an Athlete Dying Young" by A. E. Housman
- Film:
- "Stand by Me" based on a book by Stephen King; directed by Rob Reiner
- To an Athlete Dying Young/Meditation 17
- SAT Vocabulary Lessons 1-4
- The Writing Process: Expository Writing
- The Research Process—Psychology and LOF—An Interpretive Analysis
- Grammar Activities—Diagnostic Review—Punctuation/Capitalization
- “Ozymandias”
- “When I Have Fears That I May Cease
- to Be”
- “Elegy Written in a Country Courtyard”
- “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”
- “Holy Sonnet 10”
- “Meditation 17”
- “How Soon Hath Time”
- Barbara Allen
- “The Ballad of Sir Patrick Spens” Share
- Ender’s Game
- The Parable of the Prodigal Son
- Songs of Innocence & Experience
So far---1-3 lessons; LOF reading/movie---literary analysis essay lof;poetry terms---poems of innocence and experience---research rite of passage; LOF group project
Second Nine Weeks—Attempts at Perfection/The Hero
Hero’s Journey—Beowulf; Grendel selections; King Arthur; Sir Gawain; I search a hero
- Beowulf
- Grendel
- The Wanderer
- A Tale of Two Cities
- West with the Night
- Everyman
- Treasure Island
- In Memoriam
- “The Ballad of Sir Patrick Spens”
- Arthurian romances
- “Ulysses”
- “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”
- A Man for All Seasons
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Tarzan
- Macbeth
- Julius Caesar
- Treasure Island
- Macbeth/Julius Caesar
- SAT Vocabulary Lessons 5-8
- The Writing Process: Persuasive Writing
- The Research Process—Peer Review and Editing Research Papers
- Grammar Activities—Pronoun and Tense Consistency
- Oral Presentation: Scene Selection Videos
A Man for All Seasons
Julius Caesar
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
A Tale of Two Cities
Brave New World
1984
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Lord of the Flies
Watership Down
The Once and Future King
A Modest Proposal
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Lord of the Flies
“The Ballad of Sir Patrick Spens”
Arthurian romances
“Ulysses”
- “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”
Third Nine Weeks---Satire and the Utopian/Dystopian Vision
- Orwell’s 1984
- Swift’s A Modest Proposal
- Lawrence’s The Rocking Horse Winner
- Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
A Tale of Two Cities
Brave New World
1984
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Lord of the Flies
Watership Down
The Once and Future King
A Modest Proposal
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- Movie The Island
- SAT Vocabulary Lessons 9-12
- The Writing Process: Creative Writing---Satire/Connotation/Denotation
- The Research Process—Literature in the News
- Grammar Activities—Adjective and Adverbial Clauses
- Oral Presentation: public service announcement group project
Final Nine Weeks—Battle of the Sexes/Women (and Men) of Invention
- Shelley’s Frankenstein
- The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”
- “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd”
- “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”
- “To His Coy Mistress”
- “Female Orations”
- “Eve’s Apology in Defense of Women”
- “Some Reflections Upon Marriage”
- “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”
- “My Last Duchess”
“A Warning Against Passion”
- “OfMarriage and Single Life”
- Anne Boleyn movie
- Women’s Lit Selections from Textbook
- SAT Vocabulary Final Lessons and Review
- Writing Process: Narrative Writing/Chronological
- Research Process—Validating Sources
- Oral Presentation: How-ToSpeech
Analytic writing—4—Four Poem Lit Reviews
Argumentative writing---4—Hero Definition Essay—Election 2012
Research-based writing---2—LOF/Public Service Announcement
Creative writing—2—satire/how to speech (fun)
Reflective writing—4—Journal Writings—collected each time
Timed Writings—6---Diagnostic Timed SOL Prompt/Four Journal Entries/Final Honor’s Essay Test