Dual Credit British Literature I (ENG 2323)

Days of Future Past:

The Heroes of Life & Literature, Then & Now

Lillian Sims Pisgah High School 2014-2015
Unit 1: Men of Steel: Anglo Saxons-Medieval Era) 4 weeks
o Primary text: Beowulf (Superman) (Aug. 11-Sept.5)
o Companion pieces:
Excerpt, The Iliad (Achilles; compare with Hercules)
Tennysons Ulysses, Crossing the Bar, In Memoriam
Elizabeths speech to the troops
Excerpt from Machiavellis The Prince
o Contrast pieces: Society as Hero (X-Men, the Avengers)
Primary medieval text: Canterbury Tales (Chaucer)
Prologue, Pardoners Tale, Wifes Tale
Ballads: Barbara Allen & Robin Hood
Excerpt from Mores Utopia
Unit 2: Good and Evil: the Making of a Villain: the Renaissance 6 weeks
o Primary Text: Macbeth (Shakespeare) (Sept. 8-Oct.17)
The natural villain (chaos): Joker, Loki
The good guy made bad (created): (Harvey Dent/Two Face, Jean Grey/Phoenix)
Shakespeares sonnets
Excerpts from Paradise Lost
Cavalier poets, etc.:
Light?:
o Marlowes Passionate Shepherd
o Raleighs Nymphs Reply
o Herricks To the Virgins
o Marvells To His Coy Mistress
Dark?
o Jonsons On My First Son
o Donnes Valediction, Med. 17, & Sonnet 10
o Petrarchs Sonnet 292
Unit 3: Your Friendly NeighborhoodSuperhero?: Women & the Romantic Hero 4 weeks
o The Importance of Being Earnest (Wilde) (Oct.20-Nov.14)
o The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare) (Spiderman)
o Companion pieces:
Selection from Pepys (Domestic Affairs)
Addison on marriage
From Wollstonecrafts Vindication
Behns On Loving Two Equally
E. Bronte Remembrance
Byrons When We Two Parted
Unit 4: The Dark World: the Birth of Modern Writing 3-4 weeks
o Satire (Iron Man): Swifts A Modest Proposal, Gullivers Travels (Nov.17-Dec.19)
o The everyman/secret hero (Batman):
Audens The Unknown Citizen
Grays Elegy
Discussion of independent reading novel, The Scarlet Pimpernel
o War (Captain America)
Poems by Sassoon, Brooke, Yeats, & Owen
Huxleys Words & Behavior
Bowens The Demon Lover
o Colonialism (Thor):
Things Fall Apart
Orwells Shooting an Elephant
*There will be a cumulative exam at the end of each unit (4 exams total).
*There will be one major summative essay and several shorter writing assignments.
*Other grades include daily homework, participation/discussion, & vocabulary quizzes.

Final Exam: December __, 2014