10 Honors Year in Review Thematic Approach to British Literature

10 Honors Year in Review Thematic Approach to British Literature

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

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