English Literature Survey

Grade 11

Mr. Donnelly

Course Web site (texts, lectures, homework, etc.): http://mrdonnelly.tripod.com

Readings and Topics for 2002-2003

Required texts:

Shakespeare, The Tempest

C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

Note: Texts may be added or subtracted at the discretion of the teacher.

1^st Quarter

Week One: Introduction

Aug. 27-30 Bede, History of the English People

Week Two: Paper due on Tuesday

Sep. 3-6

Beowulf

Week Three: Paper due on Monday

Sep. 9-13

Sir Gawain and the Green Night

Week Four: Paper due on Monday

Sep. 16-20

Chaucer, Canterbury Tales

Week Five: Paper due on Monday

Sep.23-27

Le Morte D’Arthur

Book of Margery Kempe

Week Six: Paper due on Monday

Sep. 30 – Oct. 4

Francis Bacon, Essays

Weeks Seven & Eight: Paper due on Monday, Oct. 7

Oct. 7-18 No paper due on Tuesday, Oct. 15

Charles Lamb, Tales From Shakespeare (The Tempest)

Shakespeare, The Tempest

2^nd Quarter:

Week One: Paper due on Monday

Oct. 21-25

Shakespeare, Sonnets

John Donne, Poems

Weeks Two: Paper due on Monday

Oct. 28-Nov. 1

Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year

Defoe, The Education of Women

Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

Week Three: Paper due on Monday

Nov. 4-8

Bunyan, Pilgrim’s Progress

Bunyan, Grace Abounding…

Week Four: Paper due on Tuesday

Nov. 12-15

Swift, Gulliver’s Travels

Swift, A Modest Proposal

Week Five: Paper due on Monday

Nov. 18-22

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

Week Six: Paper due on Monday

Nov. 25-26

Dickens, David Copperfield

Dickens, America Visited

Week Seven: No paper due

Dec. 2-6

George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

George MacDonald, The Light Princess

Week Eight & Nine: Paper due on Monday

Dec. 9-13

Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth

Katherine Mansfield, The Doll’s House

Week Nine: Paper due on Monday

Dec. 16-20

G.K. Chesterton, The Wisdom of Father Brown

CHRISTMAS BREAK (DECEMBER 21-JANUARY 1)

3rd Quarter

Week One: No paper due
Jan. 2-3
Chesterton, Father Brown Stories

Week Two: Paper due on Monday
Jan. 6-10
MacDonald, The Light Princess

Week Three: Paper due on Monday
Jan. 13-17
Kipling, The Phantom Rickshaw

Week Four: Paper due on Tuesday
Jan. 21-24

Kipling, Mary Postgate
H.G. Wells, The Door in the Wall

Week Five: Paper due on Monday
Jan. 27-31
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

Week Six & Seven: Papers due on Monday, Feb. 3, and Monday, Feb. 10
Feb. 3-14

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

FEBRUARY VACATION (FEBRUARY 15-23)

Week Eight: No paper due
Feb. 24-28

Sylvia Warner, The Phoenix
Frank O’Connor, My Oedipus Complex
Graham Greene, A Shocking Accident
Evelyn Waugh, Winner Takes All
Maugham, The Wash Tub

Weeks Nine & Ten: Papers due on Monday, March 3, and Monday, March 10
March 3-14
C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters


4th Quarter

Week One: Paper due on Monday
March 17-21

James Joyce, The Dead (from Dubliners)

Weeks Two: Paper due on Monday
March 24-28
D.H. Lawrence, The Prussian Officer
D.H. Lawrence, The Rocking-Horse Winner
D.H. Lawrence, Tickets, Please

Week Three: Paper due on Monday
March 31-April 4

Aldous Huxley, Nuns at Luncheon
Orwell, Shooting an Elephant
Roald Dahl, Beware of the Dog
E.B. White, The Door
Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth

Week Four: Paper due on Monday
April 7-11

Writing Fiction

SPRING BREAK (APRIL 18-25)

Week Six: No Paper due
April 28-May 2

Writing Fiction

Week Seven: Paper due on Monday
May 5-9

Writing Fiction

Week Eight: Paper due on Monday
May 12-16

Writing Fiction

Week Nine: Paper due on Monday
May 19-23

Writing Fiction

Week Ten: No paper due
May 26-30

Student Teaching

HAVE A GREAT SUMMER!

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