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  (11^th 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  (15^th 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