Here is an idea of what is to come in this course. A Curriculum Map is still in the works. It is all
incumbent upon the student's work ethics, important school events, and other related
occurrences in the community. Your major source will be the British Literature textbook.
incumbent upon the student's work ethics, important school events, and other related
occurrences in the community. Your major source will be the British Literature textbook.
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I. Textbook introduction
A. Overview
B. Themes
C. Sections
D. Responsibilities, Duties
II. Reading Strategies: pages 6-7
A. Reading Handbook: pages 1324-1352 (two days)
1. Reading Purposes
a. Reading Literature
b. Reading for Information
c. Functional Reading
2. Reading Different Genres
a. Reading a Short Story
b. Reading a Poem
c. Reading and an Epic
d. Reading Nonfiction
e. Reading Online Text
f. Reading a Newspaper or Magazine Article
g. Reading an Encyclopedia
3. Enriching Your Vocabulary
a. Context Clues
b. Word Parts
c. Word Origins
d. Synonyms and Antonyms
e. Denotative Connotative Meaning
f. Homonyms, Multiple-Meaning Words, and Homophones
g. Analogies
h. Specialized Vocabulary
i. Decoding Multi-syllabic Words
4. Reading for Information
a. Reading a Textbook
b. Reading a Magazine Article
c. Reading a Web Page
d. Patterns of Organization
e. Main Idea and Supporting Details
f. Chronological Order
g. Comparison and Contract
h. Cause and Effect
i. Problem-Solution
5. Functional Reading
a. Guide to Colleges
b. Campus Map
c. College Application
d. Outline Job Search
e. Job Application
f. Workplace Document
III. Unit I-Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Periods (449-1485)
A. Epic
B. Beowulf-Epic Poetry
1. Grendel/Selected readings
2. Storyboard/Kamishibai
C. The Iliad intro. Epic Poetry
D. The Canterbury Tales-Poetry
2. The Prologue
3. Life and Times of Chaucer
4. Wife of Bath’s Tale
5. Author’s style
6. Story-telling/The Decameron intro.
7. Le Morte d’Arthur-Romance
IV. The Writing Strategies: pages 1355-
A. The Writing Process
1. Prewriting
2. Drafting
3. Revising, Editing, and Proofreading
4. Publishing and Reflecting
5. Using Peer Response
B. Building Blocks of Good Writing
1. Introductions
2. Paragraphs
3. Transitions
4. Conclusions
5. Elaboration
6. Using Language Effectively
C. Descriptive Writing
1. Key Techniques
2. Options for Organization
D. Narrative Writing
1. Key techniques
2. Options for Organization
E. Explanatory Writing
1. Types of Explanatory Writing*
2. Compare and Contrast*
3. Cause and Effect*
4. Problem-Solution
5. Analysis
* This quarter only.
F. Persuasive Writing
1. Key Techniques
2. Options for Organization
G. Research Report Writing
1. Key Techniques
2. Gathering Information Sources
3. Gathering Information Validity of Sources
4. Taking Notes
5. Options for Organization
6. Documentation Sources
7. Following MLA Manuscript Guidelines
8. MLA Documentation: Electronic Sources
9. Business Writing
V. On Writing: Octavio Paz, Isabel Allende, Cisneros, Alvarez, et. Al.
VI. Writing Workshop
VII. Unit Assessment
A. Writing Options
VIII. The English Renaissance 1485-1660
A. Sonnets-Differences between
1. Christopher Marlowe
2. Edmund Spencer
3. William Shakespeare
4. Francesco Petrarch
B. English Renaissance Theater
1. The Tragedy of Macbeth/Othello
C. Biblical excerpts
D. John Donne
E. Ben Johnson
F. Milton
IX. Self Assessment of Unit
X. The Restoration and Elightenment
A. Pope
B. Addison
C. Swift
D. Voltaire
E. Wollstonecraft
F. Johnson
XI. The Flowering of Romanticism
A. Blake
B. Wordsworth
C. Coleridge
D. Byron
E. Shelley
F. Keats
XII. The Victorians
A. Bronte
B. Tolstoy
XIII. Emerging Modernism
A. Yeats
B. Joyce
C. Wolf
D. Eliot
E. Huxley
F. Orwell
XIV. Contemporary Voices
A. Atwood
B. Heaney
C. Achebe
D. Walcott
