COURSE DESCRIPTION
1st Trimester
Beowulf
Selected Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer
Selected Elizabethan Poetry
Midsummer's Night Dream, William Shakespeare
Independent Reading: Grendel and one of your choice**
2nd Trimester
Frankenstein, Mary Shelly
Selected Romantic Poetry
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
Independent Reading: Dickens or Austen and one of your choice*
3rd Trimester
Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
To The Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
Selected Modernist Poetry
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Independent Reading: Beckett, Joyce or Woolf and one of your choice*
*Note: Honors English IV Reading Only
Essays
Students will use observations from annotations, class notes, and other classroom documents to write essays that interpret and analyze the text. Student writing should examine literary elements, analyze author craft, and illuminate themes within the text that reveal a truth about the human experience. Essay prompts will be provided. For each for the required novels, you will:
- Write an essay (800 - 1200 words in length)
- Present an argument—a.k.a. Your opinion, not a summary
- Incorporate textual details and examples from the text
- Include observations of the book's structure, style, or theme
- Follow the MLA Format guidelines outlined in class
- Turn your essay in with a copy of your annotations
Course Syllabus