English IV British Literature Pacing Guide 90-min Block Schedule Essential Questions: 1. What is the relationship between place and literature? 2. How does literature shape or reflect society? 3. What is the relationship of the writer to tradition? Duration Weeks 1-3 Unit Topics & Subtopics From Legend to History: The Old English and Medieval Periods (A.D. 449-1485) Part 1: Earthly Exile, Heavenly Home Part 2: The Epic Part 3: A National Spirit Part 4: Perils and Adventures Literary Terms Guiding Questions Suggested Resources Alliteration Archetype Ballad Couplet Diction Elegy Epic Epic hero Fable Figurative language Iambic pentameter Imagery Irony Kenning of Anglo-Saxon literature? What are epic conventions? How are pagan and Christian beliefs mixed in the epic? influence the literature of the Anglo- Saxons? of the literature from the Middle Ages? What different segments of society are represented by the characters in the literature of the Middle Ages? Beowulf Grendel Gilgamesh Iliad The Seafarer Star Wars film Indiana Jones film The Wanderer Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 1
Weeks 4-5 Celebrating Humanity: The English Renaissance Period (1485-1625) Part 1: Lovers and Their Lines Part 2: The Influence of the Monarchy Part 3: Drama Motif Rhyme Style Theme Allegory Blank Verse Carpe diem Epic simile Epigram Monologue Paradox Parallelism Pastoral poetry Soliloquy What are the reasons for taking a pilgrimage? Are pilgrimages made today? influence the literature of the Middle Ages? of the literature of the Renaissance? How does Renaissance poetry express the theme of carpe diem? influence the literature of the Renaissance? The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales Selection from Le Morte d Arthur The Passionate Shepherd to His Love The Nymph s Reply to the Shepherd Excerpts from: Paradise Lost The Inferno of Dante The Pilgrim s Progress Shakespeare s sonnets Macbeth Weeks 6-8 A Turbulent Time: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (1625-1798) Part 1: The War Against Time Part 2: A Nation Antithesis Connotation Diction Epigram Mock epic of literature from the Restoration (1660-1688)? of satire? A Modest Proposal An Essay on Man The Rape of the Lock 2
Divided Part 3: The Ties That Bind Part 4: The Essay Parody Satire influence the literary work? What are common themes in this literature? Excerpt from Paradise Lost The Pilgrim s Progress Samuel Pepys from The Diary How does an author s purpose and tone impact the literature? Weeks 9-10 Rebels and Dreamers: The Romantic Period (1798-1832) Part 1: Fantasy and Reality Part 2: Lyric Poetry Part 3: The Reaction to Society s Ills Alliteration Blank verse Haiku Imagery Irony Lyric poetry Metaphor Mood Ode Personification Symbol Terza rima of literature from the Romantic writers? influence the literature of the Romantic Period? Poems from: Blake Wordsworth Coleridge Burns Byron Shelley Keats Frankenstein Weeks 11-13 Progress and Decline: The Victorian Period (1833-1901) Part 1: Relationships Part 2: The Novel Assonance Couplet Drama Dramatic of literature from the Victorian Period? Tennyson R. Browning E.B. Browning Matthew Arnold 3
Part 3: The Empire and Its Discontents Part 4: Gloom and Glory monologue External conflict Internal conflict Mood Poetry Them influence the literature of the Victorian Period? Kipling Hardy Charles Dickens The Picture of Dorian Gray Dracula Jane Eyre Pygmalion The Importance of Being Earnest Weeks 14-16 A Time of Rapid Change: The Modern and Postmodern Periods (1901- Present) Part 1: Forging Modernism Part 2: Modernism in Fiction Part 3: Conflicts at Home and Abroad Part 4: The Postmodern and Beyond Characterization Elegy Epiphany Extended metaphor Figurative language Flashback Foreshadowing Magic realism Onomatopoeia Paradox Point of view satire of literature from the modern world? impact the literature? Which literary elements connect the various genres of literature? Lord of the Flies Heart of Darkness Yeats T.S. Eliot Auden Virginia Woolf D.H. Lawrence James Joyce Doris Lessing Dylan Thomas Samuel Beckett 4
**Final two weeks are for Research. Bibliography Clarity Documentation Editing Evaluation Final draft First draft MLA format Note cards Oral presentation Outline Proofreading Research paper Revision Rubric Sources Thesis statement Topic Transition words/phrases Works Cited The following were used to assist with the development of this guide: Prentice Hall: The British Tradition, 2010 Rowan-Salisbury School System English IV Pacing Guide 5