Complete English 4 – Part 2 Outline
The British Tradition
Updated 2010
_____ Research Paper: See teacher to discuss requirements
The Romantic Period: 1798-1832
(*) = Take thorough notes
_____ p.654-661, Read and take notes (*)
_____ p.665, Dialect (*)
_____ p.667-668, To a Mouse (Burns) CR 2,3,4,5
_____ Writing #1
_____ p.679, Symbols (*)
_____ p.680-682, poetry by William Blake CR 1,3,4
_____ p.691, The Gothic Tradition (*)
_____ p.693-696, Introduction to Frankenstein (M. Shelley) CR 1,2,3,5
_____ p.704-705 & 707, Defining Lyric Poetry & Romanticism (*)
_____ Listening activity: Wordsworth & Byron (*)
_____ Poetry by Wordsworth see teacher
_____ p.717-718, The World Is Too Much With Us (Wordsworth) CR 2,3
_____ Benchmark Test 7 (Open Book – see teacher)
_____ p.729, Poetic Sound Devices (*)
_____ p.730-753, Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Coleridge) (see teacher)
_____ Writing #2
_____ p.761, Figurative Language (*)
_____ p.762-763, She Walks in Beauty (Byron) CR 2,4,5
_____ p.775, Imagery (*)
_____ p.777, Ozymandias (P. Shelley) CR 2,3,5
_____ p.789, The Ode (*)
_____ p.791-792, poetry by John Keats CR 2,3
_____ p.811, Political commentary (*)
_____ p.815, A Song: “Men of England” (P. Shelley) CR 2,3
_____ Listening activity: Jane Austen (*)
_____ p.823, Social commentary (*)
_____ p.825-827, On Making an Agreeable Marriage (Austen) CR 2,4 OR 1/3 outline
_____ p.828-830, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Wollstonecraft) CR 3,4
_____ Benchmark Test 8 (Open Book – see teacher)
Writings:
_____ #1: Lines 39-40 of “To a Mouse” are famous. Do you agree/disagree with this philosophy? How does your own experience reflect on or contradict with these lines? (See your teacher to discuss essay requirements.)
_____ #2: After the Mariner shoots the albatross, he experiences both shame and guilt. Discuss the difference between these two emotions.
The Victorian Period: 1833-1901
(*) = Take thorough notes
_____ p.854-861, Read and take notes (*)
_____ p.865, The Speaker in Poetry (*)
_____ p.876-878, Ulysses (Tennyson) CR 3,4,6
_____ Writing #1
_____ Listening activity: The Brownings: A Marriage of Poetry (*)
_____ p.883, Dramatic Monologue (*)
_____ p.885-887, My Last Duchess (Browning) CR 1,5
_____ p.893, Sonnet 43 (E.B. Browning) CR 1,2
_____ p.898-899, 903, Defining the Novel and The Novel & Social Criticism (*)
CHOOSE THE DICKENS OR BRONTE ASSIGNMENTS:
_____ Listening activity: Charles Dickens (*)
_____ p.902-910, Hard Times (Dickens) CR 1,2,6 OR
_____ Listening activity: The Brilliant and Bizarre Brontes (*)
_____ p.911-918, Jane Eyre (C. Bronte) CR 2,3,5
_____ p.929, Mood as a Key to Theme (*)
_____ p.930-931, DoverBeach (Arnold) CR 1,2,3 ½ outline
_____ p.933-934, Recessional (Kipling) CR 2,4,5
_____ p.967, Stanza Structure and Irony (*)
_____ p.969-970, Remembrance (E. Bronte) CR 2,3,4
_____ p.973-974, Are You Digging on My Grave? (Hardy) CR 2,3
_____ p.979, Rhythm and Meter (*)
_____ p.982, Spring and Fall (Hopkins) CR 2,3
_____ Pied Beauty (Hopkins) (see teacher)
_____ p.983-984, poetry by A.E. Housman CR 1,2,3
_____ Writing #2
_____ Benchmark Test 9 (Open Book – see teacher)
Writings:
_____ #1: Write Telemachus’s reply (poetry or prose) to his father’s speech in “Ulysses.” Include how you think Telemachus might feel about his father leaving again for more adventures.
_____ #2: Suppose a wise man advised you that it is better to give away your money than to give away your heart. Discuss your reply.
The Modern & Postmodern Periods: 1901 – Present
(*) = Take thorough notes
_____ p.1012-1019, Read and take notes (*)
_____ p.1023, Symbolism (*)
_____ p.1026, The Lake Isle of Innisfree (Yeats) CR 1,2,3 2/3 outline
_____ p.1027-1028, The Wild Swans at Coole (Yeats) CR 2,3
_____ p.1036-1037 & p.1039, Modernism and Beyond (*)
_____ p.1060-1061, Musee des Beaux Arts (Auden) CR 2,4
_____ Writing #1
_____ Benchmark Test 10 (Open Book – see teacher)
_____ p.1075, Irony (*)
_____ p.1077-1084, Shooting an Elephant (Orwell) CR 2,3,5
_____ p.1103, Tone (*)
_____ p.1105, The Soldier (Brooke) CR 1,2
_____ p.1143, Cultural Conflict (*)
_____ p.1144-1151, No Witchcraft for Sale (Lessing) CR 3,4
_____ p.1156-1157, Defining the Contemporary Short Story (*)
_____ Benchmark Test 11 (Open Book – see teacher)
_____ p.1231, Voice (*)
_____ p.1233, Do Not Go Gentle... (Thomas) CR 2,3,4
_____ p.1258, Not Waving, but Drowning (Smith) CR 1,2
_____ p.1263, First-Person Narrator (*)
_____ p.1264-1270, B. Wordsworth (Naipaul) CR 2,3,6
_____ Writing #2
_____ Benchmark Test 12 (Open Book – see teacher)
Research paper: Turn in rough draft
Make corrections
Turn in final draft
EXAM (2 class periods/25% final grade)
Writings:
_____ #1: Write an evaluation, based on appropriate criteria and supported by reasons and/or evidence.
_____ #2: The narrator of Naipaul’s story will never forget the remarkable B. Wordsworth. Write about a remarkable person you have met, using yourself as a first-person narrator.