Thursday, July 19, 2012

New Syllabus -- Spring, 2013


Writing Syllabus
British Literature
Semester 2
Tammy Prichard (tamprichard@gmail.com)
Class Blogsite:  www.chatbritlit.blogspot.com

Objectives:
                The literature chosen for this class includes books considered to be classics of British literature.  The selections will be read in chronological order, and will include some discussion of the historical and social perspectives.  The writing assignments will be short and will include various aspects of literary analysis.

Resources:
     Whole Class: (to be purchased by the tutor)
  • Beowulf  (11th century, Dover Publishing)
  • Much Ado About Nothing  (1598, William Shakespeare) 
  • Great Expectations or Oliver Twist (1860/ 1838, Charles Dickens)
  • Pygmalion.  (1912, George Bernard Shaw) 
  • Selections of English poetry
Choose 1:  (to be borrowed, checked out or purchased by the tutor)
  • Everyman  (15th century, anon.)
  • Pride and Prejudice  (1813, Jane Austen)
  • Frankenstein  (1818, Mary Shelley)
  • Jane Eyre  (1847, Charlotte Bronte)
  • Wuthering Heights  (1847, Emily Bronte)
  • The Moonstone  (1868, Wilkie Collins)
  • Three Men in a Boat  (1889, Jerome K. Jerome)
  • Kim  (1901, Rudyard Kipling)
  • The Man Who Knew Too Much  (1922, G. K. Chesterton)
  • 1984  (1949, George Orwell)
  • The Nine Tailors  (1934, Dorothy Sayers)
  • Murder in the Cathedral  (1935, T. S. Eliot)

NOTE: The class will read four books listed and some selected poetry together.  Each student will select 1 work from the second half of the list to read and report back to the class.


Initial Draft – Subject to change
Week
Literature
Writing
1                      
Brief timeline of British History; Introduce Beowulf

2                      
Discuss Beowulf; Introduce Much Ado About Nothing

3                      
Discuss Much Ado About Nothing

4                      
Discuss Much Ado About Nothing;
Essay Exam
5                      
Introduce Great Expectations

6                      
Discuss Great Expectations
Plot Analysis
7                      
Discuss Great Expectations

8                      
Discuss Great Expectations; Final Exam
Character Analysis
9                      
Romantic Poetry

10                  
Victorian Poetry
Poetry Analysis
11                  
Independent Reading

12                  
Independent Reading Presentations.

13                  
Independent Reading Presentations; Introduce Pygmalion

14                  
Discuss Pygmalion
Theme Analysis
15                  
Discuss Pygmalion