British Literature
High School Course
Overview
What is the true meaning of British poetry, novels, plays and essays? Explore the language, meter and rhyme expressed in the Renaissance, Romantic, Victorian, Edwardian, and Modern literary styles and how primary writers were influenced by the intertwining of culture and politics. Read from Beowulf, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Dickens and more.
This High School Course is also offered as part of the College Prep Online Diploma program.
Credits: 1 Unit
Course ID: ENV12
Course Area: English
Course Type: College Prep
Study Method: Online
Course Outline:
Module 1: A Spot of Each Age
- Unit 1: Scansion, Schemes, and Sonnets
- Lesson 1: The rhythm of poetry
- Lesson 2: Italian sonnets
- Lesson 3: Elizabethan sonnets
- Lesson 4: Fun with sonnets
- Unit 2: The Renaissance
- Lesson 1: William Shakespeare
- Lesson 2: Christopher Marlowe and Ben Johnson
- Lesson 3: John Donne
- Lesson 4: Sir Francis Bacon
- Lesson 5: The Puritan Interregnum
- Unit 3: The Romantic Age
- Lesson 1: Samuel Taylor Colleridge
- Lesson 2: William Wordsworth
- Lesson 3: John Keats
- Lesson 4: Lord Byron
- Lesson 5: Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Lesson 6: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Lesson 7: Frankenstein
- Unit 4: The Victorian Age
- Lesson 1: Henley and Tennyson
- Lesson 2: Robert Browning
- Lesson 3: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Lesson 4: The Bronte sisters
- Lesson 5: Thoughts on marriage
- Unit 5 : The Edwardian Age
- Lesson 1: William Butler Yeats
- Lesson 2: Father Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Lesson 3: T.S. Eliot
- Unit 6: The War Poets
- Lesson 1: William Butler Yeats
- Lesson 2: The Canadian airmen
- Lesson 3: Wilfred Owen
- Lesson 4: Rupert Brooke
- Unit 7: The Modern Age
- Lesson 1: e.e. cummings
- Lesson 2: Seamus Heaney
- Lesson 3: Adventures in free verse
Module 2: A Spot of Epic Proportions
- Unit 1: Beowulf
- Lesson 1: Epic Conventions
- Lesson 2: Beowulf and Grendel
- Lesson 3: Beowulf and Grendel's Mother
- Lesson 4: Beowulf and the Dragon
- Lesson 5: Heane' s Beowulf vs. Gardner's Grendel
- Unit 2: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
- Lesson 1: The General Prologue
- Lesson 2: The Wife of Bath's Tale
- Lesson 3: The Clerk's Tale
- Lesson 4: The Merchant's Tale
- Lesson 5: The Franklin's Tale
- Lesson 6: The Knight's Tale
- Lesson 7: Culminating writing/portfolio
- Unit 3: Around the Round Table
- Lesson 1: Idylls of the King
- Lesson 2: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Lesson 3: Le Morte D'Arthur
- Lesson 4: The Once and Future King
- Unit 4: Other Classic Epics
- Lesson 1: The Faerie Queen
- Lesson 2: Paradise Lost
- Lesson 3: The Rape of the Lock
- Lesson 4: Ulysses
- Lesson 5: Culminating writing assignment
Module 3: Bits of the bard
- Unit 1: Writing the Research Paper
- Lesson 1: The life of Shakespeare
- Lesson 2: Famous quotations
- Unit 2: Much Ado About Nothing
- Lesson 1: Acts 1-2
- Lesson 2: Acts 3-4
- Lesson 3: Act 5
- Lesson 4: Culminating analysis
- Unit 3: Hamlet
- Lesson 1: Act 1
- Lesson 2: Character analysis: Hamlet
- Lesson 3: Act 2
- Lesson 4: Character analysis: Claudius
- Unit 4: Hamlet
- Lesson 1: Act 3
- Lesson 2: Act 4
- Lesson 3: Adaptations
- Lesson 4: The Lion King
Module 4: A Spot of Contemporary Phenomena
- Unit 1: A Little Irish Brew
- Lesson 1: Elements of contemporary drama
- Lesson 2: The Importance of Being Earnest
- Lesson 2: Playboy of the Western World
- Lesson 2: Juno and the Paycock
- Unit 2: A Dysutopian Novel
- Lesson 1: 1984, part 1
- Lesson 2: 1984, part 2
- Lesson 3: 1984, part 3
- Lesson 4: Culminating writing assignment
- Unit 3: Pioneers in Children's Literature
- Lesson 1: Carroll and Barrie
- Lesson 2: Rudyard Kipling
- Lesson 3: E.B. White
- Lesson 4: Roald Dahl
- Lesson 4: Charles Dickens
- Lesson 4: Culminating writing assignment
- Unit 4: The Magic of Harry Potter
- Lesson 1: The Philosopher's Stone
- Lesson 2: The Chamber of Secrets
- Lesson 3: The Prisoner of Azkaban
- Lesson 4: The Goblet of Fire
- Lesson 5: The Order of the Phoenix
- Lesson 6: Culminating portfolio
Items Provided by Students:
Books
- 1984 (Orwell)
- Othella (Shakespeare)
- Hamlet (Shakespeare)
- Brave New World
Videos/DVDs
- Film: Mists of Avalon
- Film: Once and Future King or Excalibur
- Film: Othello — preferred version the 1995 film with Laurence Fishburne, Irene Jacob, and Kenneth Branaugh
- Film: Hamlet — preferred version — the 1990 film with Mel Gibson and Glenn Close
- Film: Blade Runner
