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Excellence in Literature :: English IV: British Literature
(Honors Option)
Excellence in Literature
British Literature: A Survey Course
What does British Literature cover?
 British Literature is a college-preparatory literature survey course. Focus works, including novels, short stories, poems, and drama, have been selected for literary quality, and for their place in the historical development of literature. Context readings provide background information about the author, the historical period, and the literary and artistic context of the focus work.
You may learn more about how I chose the literature for Excellence in Literature in this blog post.
Students will gain an understanding of the development of British literature and will practice the skills of close literary analysis through essays, approach papers, and other evaluative writing.
Objectives
By the end of the course, students will:
- Possess a broad knowledge of the history and development of British literature.
- Have specific understanding of selected representative texts by major authors of the periods studied.
- Have a general understanding of the historical and cultural contexts of the works.
- Be able to analyze literary texts and present thoughtfully developed ideas in writing.
- Demonstrate competence in essay organization, style, and mechanics.
- Demonstrate competence in the MLA style of source documentation
Table of Contents
Introduction 5
Overview and Objectives for Excellence in Literature 7
Frequently Asked Questions 13
How to Read A Book 19
Discerning Worldview Through Literary Periods 25
Unit 1: Beowulf
Honors: The Dream of the Rood and Caedmon’s Hymn or The Battle of Malden
Unit 2: Canterbury Tales (selected) by Geoffrey Chaucer
Prologue
The Nun Priest's Prologue and Tale
The Reeve's Prologue and Tale
The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale
The Magistrate's Prologue and Tale
The Canon's Yeoman's Prologue and Tale
Honors: Piers Plowman by William Langland
Unit 3: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and
The Faerie Queene (Book 1) by Edmund Spenser and “Letters to Raleigh”
Honors: Le Morte d’Arthur by Thomas Malory
Unit 4: King Lear by William Shakespeare
Honors: Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Unit 5: Paradise Lost by John Milton
Honors: Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan (if not read in English I) or
The Temple by George Herbert (Poetry Collection)
Unit 6: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Honors: Persuasion or other novel by Jane Austen
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Unit 7: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Honors: Oliver Twist or David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Unit 8: Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Honors: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë or Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (if you did not read it in English I) or Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Unit 9: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Honors: Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis
Honors 103
Formats and Models 105
Approach Paper Format 106
Historical Approach Paper Format 109
Author Profile Format 112
Literature Summary Format 112
Sample Poetry Analysis 116
What an MLA Formatted Essay Looks Like 118
Excellence in Literature Evaluation Rubric 121
Excellence in Literature Evaluation Rubric for IEW Students 123
Glossary 133
Selected Resources 137
Note: Books listed in the table of contents above are focus texts only. Context and honors reading are assigned within each unit.
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