English IV                               Lumen Christi Catholic High School
The high school English courses are part of our Humanities program.

2008-2009 Syllabus

English IV: British Literature

Text: British Literature for Christian Schools
    1. Introduction to British Literature

    2. Old English Period
  • History
  • Beowulf
  • The Anglo Saxon Chronicle
  • St. Benedict and St. Bede

    3. Middle English Ages
  • History
  • The Canterbury Tales
  • Morte d' Arthur
  • Ballads

    4. The Renaissance Period
  • The Tudor Period: St. Thomas More, Tyndale, Poets
    Wyatt, Howard, Sidney, Raleigh, Spenser

    5. The Reformation: The Biography of
             Saint John Fisher

    6. Shakespeare's Hamlet

              7. The Stuart Period
  • Sir Francis Bacon
  • John Donne
  • Ben Joyhnson
  • George Herbert
  • John Milton
  • Samuel Pepys
  • John Bunyan

               8. The Age of Revolution
  • John Dryden
  • Daniel Defoe
  • Addison and Steele
  • Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels
  • Alexander Pope
  • Samuel Johnson
  • Robert Burns

    9. The Romantic Period
  • William Blake
  • William Wordsworth
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Charles Lamb
  • George Gordon, Lord Byron
  • Shelley & Keats

               10. The Age of Reform
  • Thomas Carlyle
  • John Henry Newman
  • Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  • Robert Browning
  • Matthew Arnold
  • Lewis Carroll
  • Thomas Hardy
  • Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • Francis Thompson
  • Rudyard Kipling

               11. Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility
          
               12. The Modern Period
  • William Butler Yeats
  • James Joyce
  • D.H. Lawrence
  • Virginia Wolf
  • Katherine Mansfield
  • Robert Graves
  • Louis MacNeice
1. The Rhetorical Situation
2.  Writing Process: Focus
3.  Descriptive Writing
4.  Paragraph Rubric
5.  Writing about Literature: Analysis
      & Research
6.  Writing about Literature: Evidence
7.  Writing about Literature: Using
      Quotations
Glossaries & Terms
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English IV  Composition
Text: A Writer's Reference (5th Edition)
by Diana Hacker
British Literature Atlas
      -in progress
Literature Resources
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