BRITISH LITERATURE
Summer:
ALL: 1984
Pick 1: Grendel
Lord of the Rings/ The Hobbit?
FIRST SEMESTER QUESTION: What is a hero and how does that definition reflect the culture it derives from?
Current plan for reading/writing instruction (Google doc)
Aug: Discuss 1984
Sept: Write Position Paper
Oct: Beowulf
Write Hero Biography
Nov: King Arthur (^start early)
The Once and Future King (SS 1938 T.H. White) Tennyson
Dec: Macbeth (and sonnets) (^start early)
SECOND SEMESTER QUESTION:
Jan: iSearch paper?
Feb: Satire (Swift+) (^start early)
Romanticism (blake, wordsworth, coleridge, byron, Shelley, keats)
Mar: Frankenstein (1818 Shelley) (^start early)
Apr: Earnest or Pygmalion??
May: Lord of the Flies (1954 Golding)
Other questions I like (will keep adding as I find them):
Is utopia attainable or is your utopia another person’s dystopia?
