British Literature II
This course is a college preparatory course stressing the improvement of reading, interpreting, analyzing and evaluating literature as well as analytical and critical thinking, language and writing skills. This course traces the development and history of British literature from Renaissance England to modern times.
Syllabus 2015
Unit 1: Renaissance Drama
Hamlet by Shakespeare
Unit 2: Renaissance and Restoration Literature
King James Bible
Paradise Lost by Milton
Amelia Lanier
Unit 3: Romantic & Victorian Writers
Blake, Keats, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron,
Hardy, Housman, E.B. Browning, Tennyson
Unit 4: British Novelists
Literature Circles
Unit 5: Modern and Contemporary Literature
TS Eliot, Woolf, Mansfield, Huxley, and Orwell,
Gordimer, Lessing, Atwood, and Achebe
Unit 1: Renaissance Drama
Hamlet by Shakespeare
Unit 2: Renaissance and Restoration Literature
King James Bible
Paradise Lost by Milton
Amelia Lanier
Unit 3: Romantic & Victorian Writers
Blake, Keats, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron,
Hardy, Housman, E.B. Browning, Tennyson
Unit 4: British Novelists
Literature Circles
Unit 5: Modern and Contemporary Literature
TS Eliot, Woolf, Mansfield, Huxley, and Orwell,
Gordimer, Lessing, Atwood, and Achebe