British Literature

Avon Lake City Schools

Curriculum Framework

British Literature

Course Overview:

British Literature is a semester long class offering students the opportunity to study classic works of literature. A variety of genres will be studied throughout the year such as poetry, plays, short stories (fiction/non-fiction) and essays. This course is a study of England’s literature form Beowulf to the late Romantic period. Writers representative of various periods will be studied. This class is recommended for college bound students and meets one period daily for 18 weeks.

Textbook (Title and Publishing Company):

Holt, McDougal British Literature

Online/Supplemental Materials:

None

Assessments:

Unit Tests from District Adopted Curriculum Materials

Content/Topics/Learning Goals

Subject to Pacing and Schedules

First Quarter

  • Beowulf
  • The History of the English Church and People
  • The Exeter Book
  • Age of Chaucer- The Canterbury Tales
  • Medieval Romance- Sir Gawain and The Green Knight, Le Morte D’Arthur
  • Pastoral Poems and Sonnets
  • The Rise of Humanism
  • Spiritual and Devotional Writings
  • Metaphysical and Cavalier Poetry

Second Quarter

  • Social Observers
  • Pepys, Defoe, Addison, Swift
  • The Age of Samuel Johnson
  • The Late Romantics: Byron, Shelley, Keats

Last Updated: September, 2023