English II - COURSE SYLLABUS

THE ANGLO-SAXON PERIOD & THE MIDDLE AGES

• Beowulf

• The Canterbury Tales

THE RENAISSANCE (16th Century)

• Shakespeare’s Sonnets

• Macbeth

17th & 18th CENTURY POETS AND WRITERS

• Donne, Milton, Pope, Herrick

THE PRE-ROMANTICS

• Blake, Burns

THE ROMANTICS

• Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats

• Frankenstein

THE VICTORIANS

• Wollstonecraft (pre-Victorian), Tennyson, the Brownings, Austen, Bronte, Dickens

THE MODERNS

• Yeats, Eliot, Lawrence, Thomas, Huxley, Greene, Sillitoe & others

The literature survey covers all genres (the epic, poetry, essay, short story, novel, drama).

Expect to do compositions, reading response, projects, and oral and multi-media presentations.

Grammar &/or Vocabulary will be assigned each week.

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