Grade 12 British Literature Syllabus
Grade 12 First Semester : The Hero and Fate
( Anglo-Saxon Period to Medieval Period)
Themes: Belief in Fate
11.5 Religious Devotion
11.6 The Warrior Hero
Chivalry Code of Honor
Styles/Genres: Oral Tradition
10.5 Poetry Dominant ( unique verse forms)
10.6 Folk Ballads
15.6-8 Mystery and Miracle Plays
6.6 Morality Plays
Oral Language: Discussion on:
1.5 Historical Event
2.5 Christianity and Pagan Beliefs
2.6 Roman Alphabet
Tribes and Clans
Illiteracy
Structures and Conventions:
21.4-6 Quick study of the origins of the English Language
22.10 Usage and mechanics ( active voice practices) based on readings
5.22 Proofreading exercises
Reading and Literature:
12.6 “ The Seafarer”
14.5 Beowulf ( with excepts from Seamus Heaney’s novel)
16.12 Canterbury Tales
9.5 English and Scottish Ballads
Mythology and its purpose
Legend ( with examples from King Arthur)
Composition:
19.30 Journal Writing/Note- taking Skills
21.5-7 The Resume
21.8 The College Essay
Paraphrasing/Reading Logs
Media:
24.4 SAT Vocabulary ( DVD)
25.6 The Essay Video
25.5 Beowulf Video
Seventh Seal Video
Brown University Lecture, “The Hero”
Art and Music:
3.1 Oral Presentations:
3.17 The Good Thief
3.18 Beowulf
Canterbury Tales
Mac Beth
Outside reading: Frankenstein
Grade 12 Syllabus Second Semester: Renaissance to Twentieth Century
Grade 12 Second Semester: Renaissance to Twentieth Century
(Rebels, Revolutionaries and Reactionaries)
Themes:
11.5 Age of Reason and Philosophy
11.6 Role of Women/Feminism
Romanticism
11.7 Rebellion against social and artistic values
Personal Liberty and Individuality
Styles/Genres:
8.3 Metaphysical Poetry and the Cavalier Spirit
10.6 Neoclassicists and Satire
The Gothic
Romantics and Lyrical Ballads
12.6 Modern Poetry and Prose
Oral Language:
3.17 Speech on Shakespeare ( Review)
2.5 A Coffee House Gathering of Poets
Structures and Conventions:
21.4-6 Meter/Scansion
22.10 Grammar Review
5.22 MLA Style
22.10 Proof Reading
Reading, Literature and Poetry:
12.6 Sonnet review
14.5 Metaphysical Poets
16.12 Lyrical Ballads
14.6
9.5 Victorian Prose
15.9
13.27 Modern Era
Composition:
19.27 The Research Paper
21.10
23.15
24.6
9.7 Construct an 18th Century magazine
19.30 (writing essays and newspaper articles)
21.9
4.27
Media:
25.4 Wuthering Heights/Jane Eyre Movie
16.12
26.6
25.6 1984 Movie
25.7
Grade 12 Semester 2
Required Reading List:
17th Century:
Ben Johnson and the Cavalier Poets Poetry
John Donne’s Poetry
Neoclassical 18th Century:
Milton’s “Paradise Lost”
Jonathon Swift “A Modest Proposal”
Alexander Pope “The Rape of Lock”
The Romantics:
The Bronte’s (Novel of your choice)
William Blake’s Poetry
William Wordsworth ‘s Poetry
Lord Byron’s Poetry
Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Poetry
John Keats’ Poetry
Samual Taylor Coleridge “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
The Victorian Era:
The Poetry of Alfred LloydTennyson
The Poetry of The Brownings
Charles Dickens and the Victorian Period
The Modern Era:
George Bernard Shaw and Evelyn Waugh Satirical Writings
HG Wells : Things to Come
William Butler Yeats: Irish Modernist
TS Eliot : Old Possum’s Tale of Practical Cats
James Joyce:
Virginia Wolfe: The Modern Perspective
George Orwell ; Philosophy and Politics
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