British Literature II

 

Semester Schedule

 

January 3 Introduction to the Romantic Period

4 William Blake (biography)

     from Songs of Innocence: “The Lamb,” “The Chimney Sweeper,” “Holy Thursday”

     from Songs of Experience: “Holy Thursday,” “The Chimney Sweeper,” “The Tyger”

 

 

7 William Wordsworth (biography)

     “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey,” “I wandered lonely as a cloud,” “My  heart leaps up”

  8 Wordsworth

 “Ode: Intimations of Immortality,” “The world is too much with us”

  9 Samuel Taylor Coleridge (biography)

      “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” “Kubla Khan”

  10 Lord Byron (biography)

      “She walks in beauty,” “Darkness”

  11 Mary Wollstonecraft (biography)

       From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, chap. 4

 

 

 

14 Percy Bysshe Shelley (biography)

      “Ozymandias,” “Ode to the West Wind”

 15 John Keats (biography)

     “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer,” “When I have fears that I may cease to be”

 16 Keats

      “La Belle Dame sans Merci,” “Ode to a Nightingale,” “Ode on a Grecian Urn” 

17  Required written response: Write first about your impressions of Frankenstein before you start studying it in this class.  What are your expectations?  What do you associate with the name “Frankenstein”?

Reading Assignment: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, “Author’s Introduction,” “Letters,” and Chapters 1-3

 18 Frankenstein

      Chaps. 4-7

 

 22 Frankenstein

      Chaps. 8-12

 23 Frankenstein

     Chaps. 13-17

 24 Frankenstein

      Chaps. 18-20

 25 Frankenstein         

      Chap. 21-end

 

 28 Critical Essays

 29 Finish discussion of Frankenstein/ work on essays

 30 work on essays

 31 work on essays

 February 1 work on essays

 

 4 Critical Analysis due

Pride and Prejudice

 5 Pride and Prejudice

6 Pride and Prejudice

7 Pride and Prejudice

8 Pride and Prejudice

 

 11 Pride and Prejudice

12 Pride and Prejudice

Introduction to the Victorian Period

  13 Alfred, Lord Tennyson (biography)

     “The Lady of Shalott,”  “The Charge of the Light Brigade”

14 Tennyson

  “The Passing of Arthur”    

 

 

19 Elizabeth Barrett Browning (biography)20 Dramatic Monologue

21  Christina Rossetti (biography)

     “An Apple Gathering,” “Goblin Market”

Matthew Arnold (biography)

 “Dover Beach”

22 Robert Louis Stevenson (biography)

 

 

25 “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” (2187-2210)

26 finish discussion of “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”

27 Review for mid-term

28 Mid-term Exam

29    Read Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, chaps. 1-4

 

 March 3  Jane Eyre, chaps. 5-8

4  Jane Eyre, chaps. 9-11

5  Jane Eyre, chaps. 12-14

6  Jane Eyre, chaps. 15-17

7  In-service

 

 10  Jane Eyre, chaps. 18-21

11 Jane Eyre, chaps. 22-24

12 Jane Eyre, chaps. 25-27

13  Jane Eyre, chaps. 28-29

14finish Jane Eyre

 

 

Spring Break, March 17-21

 

 24 work on essays

25  work on essays

26 work on essays

27 work on essays

28 work on essays

 

 

31 Critical Analysis due

April 1 Great Expectations

2 Great Expectations

3 Great Expectations

4 Great Expectations

Writing activity:  apply a critical theory to your viewing of Great Expectations.  Your response should be one to two pages, hand-written.

 

7  Introduction to 20^th Century

8 Joseph Conrad (biography)

9 “Heart of Darkness” p. 2350-2368

10 “Heart of Darkness” p. 2368-2386

 Reader's chair.docx 

 

 

14 Watch "Heart of Darkness"

15 Watch "Heart of Darkness"

      T.S. Eliot (biography)

     “The Waste Land”

waste land.pptx

16 Dylan Thomas (biography)

     "Fern Hill," "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night"

17  Virginia Woolf (biography) 

     “A Room of One’s Own”

18 James Joyce (biography)

     “Araby”

 

 

21 Joyce

      "The Dead"

22 William Butler Yeats (biography)

     "The Stolen Child, "Easter, 1916"

23 Yeats

        "Leda and the Swan," "Sailing to Byzantium"

24 Seamus Heaney (biography)

     "Digging," "Grauballe Man"

 25 Kathleen Ni Houlihan

 drama/poem packet

 

28 Salman Rushdie (biography)

     “The Prophet’s Hair”

29 Monica Ali

     selections from Brick Lane

30 Reader's Chair:  Each student will present a poem or a passage from a short story/novel written by a British (or Irish) author.  You may not select anything we've read in class. In writing, discuss the significance of the passage (and work as a whole), the importance of the writer, and why you selected the piece. All selections must be approved by me prior to 3:30 on May 29. Extra credit will be given for works not in the textbook. 

May1 work on final analysis (you must have completed your viewing by this date)

 British Movies.doc

2 work on final analysis

 

5 Final Critical Analysis essay due

Class-pick British movie

6 Class-pick British movie

7 Class-pick British movie

8 Class-pick British movie

9 Class-pick British movie 

 

12 Review for final

13 Review or final

May 14 & 15 Senior Final Exams