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British Literature 2 (Classical)
Spring Semester 2007-2008:
Students with Ds and Fs were given hard copies of their progress reports the week of April 21, 2008. Missing assignments can be turned in for credit until May 1.
Here is the syllabus for Spring Semester: British Literature Spring Syllabus 2007-08
Week of May 12, 2008:
Students finished Richard III, and are finishing the semester reading John Milton's Paradise Lost.
They need to write an essay on the canon of British Literature for the final: Final Preparation
Week of April 28, 2008:
Students are reading Richard III. Here's a link to an online copy of the text: http://www.bibliomania.com/0/6/3/1084/frameset.html
This is the assignment on Richard III, due next week: Richard III Assignment Spring 2008
Week of April 14, 2008:
Students listened to and analyzed a selection of English folk ballads and Shakespearean sonnets. They will begin reading Richard III.
Week of April 7, 2008:
At the end of the week, students will debate who Shakespeare was, based on their reading of the following article: Ghost of Shakespeare Debate 2007 Here is the specific assignment to prepare for the debate: Ghost of Shakespeare Assignment 2007
Week of March 31, 2008:
Students are reading selections from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Here is their assignment, due April 10: Chaucer Poem Assignment 2007
Week of March 17, 2008:
Here is the article by Germaine Greer that discusses Frankenstein: Germaine Greer on Frankenstein
Also, this excerpt from Isaiah Berlin's lectures on Romanticism contains many examples of this movement: Romanticism Illustrations 2007
Week of March 10, 2008:
Here is the Jane Eyre assignment due later this week: Jane Eyre Assignment
This assignment for X-Credit students will be explained this week in class: British Literature Spring07 X-Credit Assignment
Week of February 25, 2008:
Students should be finished with Chapter 30 of Jane Eyre this week, and the entire novel next week. Close reading and discussions of the novel continue.
Week of February 11, 2008:
Students make their group presentations on their novels this week; present chapters from Jane Eyre; and outline their novel papers, which are due next week.
Here are websites that might be helpful in researching the Victorian novels: Research Websites 2007
Students should also avail themselves of the online
databases provided by DPS. To access these databases, click on
the following link for the DPS Library website, and then follow the
links to Literature Reference, via Online Databases: http://lion.dpsk12.org
The first two sites contain many critical articles on literature.
For
the research paper, students should use MLA guidelines for in-text
citations and a works-cited page. These guidelines can be found with
this link: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/
Week of February 4, 2008:
Students will present their Victorian novels next week. This week they should have Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte in class. Over the next four weeks, they should read one-quarter of the novel each week, and will individually report on chapters of the book: Jane Eyre Schedule and Presentation Rules
Next week, Period W3 Victorian Novel groups will present Pride and Prejudice on Monday; Tale of Two Cities and Wuthering Heights on Tuesday; and Jude the Obscure on Thursday. Period B1 will present Pride and Prejudice and Wuthering Heights on Wednesday; and Tale of Two Cities and Jude the Obscure on Friday.
Week of January 28, 2008:
Students are finishing The Importance of Being Earnest, and have the worksheet listed below due at the end of the week.
Students need a copy of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte in class by next week.
Here is a website that students might find useful in researching their Victorian novels: http://www.victorianweb.org/
Week of January 22, 2008:
Students should have read at least one-half of their Victorian novels. Here is a guide to Gothic elements in those novels: Elements of Gothic Novels
Week of January 14, 2008:
Students wrote about Waiting for Godot in class, answering these questions: (1) What is "funny", and define what you mean by funny? (2) Name two major themes, and discuss why Beckett focused on them. (3) Discuss the doubling of characters, and indicate what they represent. This is an in-class assignment, for which students were only given 20 minutes.
Week of January 8, 2008:
Students will finish Waiting for Godot this week, and then read a Tom Stoppard play, EGBDF.
Here is the assignment for the Victorian novel, due February 21: Victorian Novel Assignment 2007
To finish reading their independent novels, and for the sake of weekly group discussions, students should try to follow this reading schedule: Victorian Novel Reading Schedule 2007
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