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Unit 1 : Heroes and Kings: Anglo-Saxon Period 449–1066 |
The Conversion of King Edwin, The Story of Cædmon, from Ecclesiastical History of the English People |
from Beowulf, from Beowulf (graphic novel), from Grendel, The Head of Humbaba |
The Seafarer, The Wife’s Lament |
Writing Workshop |
Unit 2 : Social and Cultural Change: Medieval Period 1066–1485 |
Bonny Barbara Allan, Get Up and Bar the Door, Lord Randall, A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall |
The Prologue from The Canterbury Tales |
The Pardoner’s Tale, The Wife of Bath’s Tale, Simply Divine from The Guardian |
from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, from Le Morte d’Arthur, from The Art of Courtly Love |
Federigo’s Falcon |
Write a Cover Letter and Résumé |
Unit 3 : Rebirth of Culture and Ideas: Renaissance 1485–1625 |
Speech to the Troops at Tilbury, Elizabeth I, Queen of England |
Sonnets by Sir Thomas Wyatt, Sir Philip Sidney, Petrarch, and William Shakespeare |
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd |
Psalm 23, The Prodigal Son |
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, “Death, be not proud” (Holy Sonnet 10), A Quick and Rough Explication of Donne’s “Holy Sonnet 10: Death, Be Not Proud” |
Write a Poetry Explication |
Unit 4 : Comedy and Tragedy: Renaissance Drama 1485–1682 |
The Tragedy of Macbeth, Act I |
The Tragedy of Macbeth, Act II |
The Tragedy of Macbeth, Act III, Macbeth from Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays |
The Tragedy of Macbeth, Act IV |
The Tragedy of Macbeth, Act V, Comparing Shakespeare’s Macbeth to Holinshed’s Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland, The Analects |
Describe a Character |
Unit 5 : Harmony and Reason: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 1625–1798 |
Song (“Why so pale and wan”) |
To Althea, from Prison, To Lucasta, Going to Wars |
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time, To His Coy Mistress |
“How soon hath Time” (Sonnet VII), “When I consider how my light is spent” (Sonnet XIX) |
from Paradise Lost, Genesis 1–3, from the Bible, from The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches |
from Gulliver’s Travels, A Modest Proposal |
from Candide |
from The Rape of the Lock, from An Essay on Man |
from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, from A Journal of the Plague Year |
from The Diary of Fanny Burney, Ten Steps to Keeping an On-Going Journal |
Write a Satire |
Unit 6 : New Freedom and Equality: Romantic Period 1798–1832 |
To a Mouse |
The Lamb, The Tyger, London |
The World Is Too Much With Us, Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, from Preface to Lyrical Ballads |
Kubla Khan, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
She Walks in Beauty, from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage |
Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind |
Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn |
The Lorelei |
Write a Personal Essay |