East Penn School District
Secondary Curriculum
A Planned Course Statement
for
12th Grade English CP,
British Literature
Course #
136
Department:
Grade(s)
12
English
Length of Period (mins.)
Periods per Cycle:
40
Total Clock Hours:
6
120
Length of Course (yrs.)
Type of Offering:
required
Credit:
Adopted:
1.0
6/2006
Developed by:
Nichole Cavanaugh
Diane DiDona
Derek Grabfelder
Susan Arnold
Tony Kohl
Aaron Gavin
elective
1.0
Description of Course
Course Title:
12th Grade English, CP, British Literature - #136
Description:
In the twelfth grade English C. P. British Literature course, the students should develop an
understanding of the evolution and development of British Literature from the Anglo-Saxon to
the Contemporary periods. An emphasis will be placed on genre, theme, and historical
significance of the literature. In the composition component of the course the students will
write complete compositions, essays, and a research paper with an emphasis on the basic
elements of expository composition and literary analysis.
Goals:
Critical and analytical thinking skills will be stressed in writing and analysis of literature. In the
vocabulary section of the course the students are expected to develop their writing vocabulary.
In addition, the students should develop a knowledge and application of grammar, usage, and
mechanics as part of the writing program.
Requirements:
Students will be required to read an extensive amount of the literature of Great Britain for inclass discussion and in-class and out-of-class writing assignments. Additionally, they will be
required to listen, to think, to analyze, and to synthesize. They will be required to participate
orally on a daily basis. They will be required to write at least one analysis on an outside
reading of an approved novel. Students will be required to participate in a major documented
written research project using the high school library (and other libraries) culminating in a typed
manuscript. Additional in-class and out-of-class writing assignments will be at the discretion of
the teacher. Students will be required to study vocabulary and writing skills formally. The
study of formal grammar will be included in conjunction with writing assignments. Students will
be required to take midterm and final examinations. Students will be required to spend eight
periods utilizing the library and library research skills.
Texts, primary source, and reference materials:
Glencoe Literature: The Reader’s Choice, British Literature, Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, 2002
Adgar Roberts, Writing Themes about Literature, 4th Edition. Prentice Hall, 1977; Fifth Edition,
1983; Sixth Edition, 1988.
Vocabulary Power Plus, Book 4, Prestwick House 2004
Warriner’s English Grammar and Composition (Complete Course), Heritage Edition. Harcourt,
Brace, Jovanovich, 1977
Key to Levels of Achievement (Listed with each learning objective)
Awareness (A):
Students are introduced to concepts, forms, and patterns.
Learning (L):
Students are involved in a sequence of steps and practice
activities which involved further development and allow
evaluation of process.
Understanding (U):
Students demonstrate ability to apply acquired concepts and
skills to individual assignments and projects on an independent
level.
Reinforcement (R):
Students maintain and broaden understanding of concepts and
skills to accomplish tasks at a greater level of sophistication.
Course Objectives –
Unit
Overreaching
Literature Objectives
12th Grade English, CP, British Literature
Num Objective
Level Content
1
2
3
Students will recognize and
distinguish various Literary
Periods: Anglo-Saxon, Medieval,
Renaissance, Age of Reason,
Victorian, Modernism,
Contemporary
Students will recognize that
literature is a product of
historical, social, and
philosophical content in which it
was written.
Students will define and
recognize figurative language and
literary devices in literature
Evaluation
Page 1
Standard
L
All literature periods
Tests, quizzes, projects,
writing assignments,
homework, presentations,
collaborative work
Semester exams
1.1.1 D-H
1.2.11 A
1.2.00 C
1.7.11 A-C
U
All literature periods
1.1.11 A
1.3.11 A
1.7.11 A-C
U
All literature periods
Tests, quizzes, projects,
writing assignments,
homework, presentations,
collaborative work
Semester exam
Tests, quizzes, projects,
writing assignments,
homework, presentations,
collaborative work
Semester exam
Tests, quizzes, projects,
writing assignments,
homework, presentations,
collaborative work
Semester exam
Tests, quizzes, projects,
writing assignments,
homework, presentations,
collaborative work
Semester exam
4
Students will define and
recognize various stylistic
techniques particular to the
literary periods
L
All literature periods
Anglo-Saxon
5
Students will understand the
elements of an epic
L
Beowulf
Medieval
6
Students will understand the
structure of a ballad.
L
Ballads
“Get Up and Bar the Door”
“Sir Patrick Spence”
“Bonny Barbara Allan”
Tests, quizzes, projects,
writing assignments,
homework, presentations,
collaborative work
Semester exam
7
Students will discern satirical
elements in Chaucer’s works.
L
Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales
General Prologue
The Pardoner’s Tale
The Wife of Bath’s Tale
Tests, quizzes, projects,
writing assignments,
homework, presentations,
collaborative work
Semester exam
1.3.11 A
1.3.11 C-E
1.3.11 A
1.3.11 B
1.1.11.D-H
1.2.11.C
1.3.11.A-F
1.4.11.A
1.4.11.D
1.6.11.A-E
1.7.11.A
1.1.11.D-H
1.2.11.C
1.3.11.A-F
1.4.11.A
1.4.11.D
1.6.11.A-E
1.7.11.A
1.1.11.D-H
1.2.11.C
1.3.11.A-F
1.4.11.A
1.4.11.D
1.6.11.A-E
1.7.11.A
Course Objectives –
Unit
Renaissance
12th Grade English, CP, British Literature
Num Objective
Level Content
8
Students will recognize methods
of characterization.
R
9
Students will understand the
structure of Elizabethan sonnets.
L
10
Students will analyze the
structure of an essay.
11
12
Evaluation
Page 2
Standard
Ballads
“Get Up and Bar the Door”
“Sir Patrick Spence”
“Bonny Barbara Allan”
Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales
General Prologue
The Pardoner’s Tale
The Wife of Bath’s Tale
Malory
The Morte d’ Arthur,
“The Day of Destiny”
Edmund Spencer
Sonnet 30
Shakepeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet 116, 130, 73, 29
Tests, quizzes, projects,
writing assignments,
homework, presentations,
collaborative work
Semester exam
1.1.11.D-H
1.2.11.C
1.3.11.A-F
1.4.11.A
1.4.11.D
1.6.11.A-E
1.7.11.A
Tests, quizzes, projects,
writing assignments,
homework, presentations,
collaborative work
Semester exam
R
Francis Bacon
“Of Studies”
Tests, quizzes, projects,
writing assignments,
homework, presentations,
collaborative work
Semester exam
Students will recognize elements
of the pastoral.
L
Tests, quizzes, projects,
writing assignments,
homework, presentations,
collaborative work
Semester exam
Students will identify elements of
metaphysical writing.
L
Christopher Marlowe
“The Passionate Shepherd to
his Love”
Sir Walter Raleigh
“The Nymph’s Reply to the
Shepherd”
King James Bible
Psalm 23
John Donne
“Death Be Not Proud”
“Meditation 17”
1.1.11.D-H
1.2.11.C
1.3.11.A-F
1.4.11.A
1.4.11.D
1.6.11.A-E
1.7.11.A
1.1.11.D-H
1.2.11.C
1.3.11.A-F
1.4.11.A
1.4.11.D
1.6.11.A-E
1.7.11.A
1.1.11.D-H
1.2.11.C
1.3.11.A-F
1.4.11.A
1.4.11 D
1.6.11.A-E
1.7.11.A
Tests, quizzes, projects,
writing assignments,
homework, presentations,
collaborative work
Semester exam
1.1.11.D-H
1.2.11.C
1.3.11.A-F
1.4.11.A
1.4.11.D
1.6.11.A-E
1.7.11.A
Course Objectives –
Unit
12th Grade English, CP, British Literature
Num Objective
Level Content
Evaluation
13
Students will recognize a carpé
diem poem.
L
Robert Herrick
“To the Virgins, To Make
Much of Time”
Tests, quizzes, projects,
writing assignments,
homework, presentations,
collaborative work
Semester exam
14
Students will identify the
elements of Cavalier poetry.
L
Richard Lovelace
“To Althea, From Prison”
Tests, quizzes, projects,
writing assignments,
homework, presentations,
collaborative work
Semester exam
Elizabethan Drama
15
Students will recognize the
elements of a Shakespearean
tragedy (soliloquy, tragic flaw,
aside, blank verse)
R
Shakespeare
Macbeth
Tests, quizzes, projects,
writing assignments,
homework, presentations,
collaborative work
Semester exam
Age of Reason
16
Students will discern satirical
elements.
L
Tests, quizzes, projects,
writing assignments,
homework, presentations,
collaborative work
Semester exam
Romanticism
17
Students will understand Blake’s
theory of opposites.
L
Jonathan Swift
“A Modest Proposal”
Joseph Addison and Sir Richard
Steele
The Spectator
Thomas Gray
“Elegy in a Country
Churchyard”
Samuel Johnson
Dictionary
“Letter to Chesterfield”
William Blake
“The Lamb,” “The Tyger”
Tests, quizzes, projects,
writing assignments,
homework, presentations,
collaborative work
Semester exam
Page 3
Standard
1.1.11.D-H
1.2.11.C
1.3.11.A-F
1.4.11.A
1.4.11.D
1.6.11.A-E
1.7.11.A
1.1.11.D-H
1.2.11.C
1.3.11.A-F
1.4.11.A
1.4.11.D
1.6.11.A-E
1.7.11.A
1.1.11.D-H
1.2.11.C
1.3.11.A-F
1.4.11.A
1.4.11.D
1.6.11.A-E
1.7.11.A
1.1.11 B
1.1.11.D-H
1.2.11.C
1.3.11.A-F
1.4.11.A
1.4.11.C
1.4.11.D
1.6.11.A-E
1.7.11.A
1.7.11.B
1.2.11.C
1.3.11.A-F
1.4.11.A
1.4.11.D
1.6.11.A-E
1.7.11.A
Course Objectives –
Unit
12th Grade English, CP, British Literature
Num Objective
Level Content
18
Students will identify the
elements of romantic poetry.
L
Victorians
19
Students will recognize the
effective use of imagery and
rhyme with poetry.
L
Twentieth Century
20
Students will identify and analyze
the influence of world events on
literature.
L
Evaluation
Page 4
Standard
Robert Burns
“To a Mouse”
William Wordsworth
“The World Is Too Much
With Us”
“My Heart Leaps Up”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Lord Byron
“She Walks in Beauty”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Ozymandias”
John Keats
“Ode on a Grecian Unr”
Matthew Arnold
“Dover Beach”
A.E. Hausman
“To an Athlete Dying Young”
Tests, quizzes, projects,
writing assignments,
homework, presentations,
collaborative work
Semester exam
1.2.11.C
1.3.11.A-F
1.4.11.A
1.4.11.D
1.6.11.A-E
1.7.11.A
Tests, quizzes, projects,
writing assignments,
homework, presentations,
collaborative work
Semester exam
Rupert Brooke
“The Soldier”
Wilfred Owen
“Dulce et Decorum Est”
Siegfried Sassoon
“Dreamers”
William Butler Yeats
“An Irish Airman Foresees
His Death”
Virginia Woolf
“A Room of One’s Own”
Stevie Smith
“Not Waving but Drowning”
Elizabeth Bowen
“The Demon Lover”
Dylan Thomas
“Do Not Go Gentle into That
Good Night”
Seamus Heaney
“The Follower”
Tests, quizzes, projects,
writing assignments,
homework, presentations,
collaborative work
Semester exam
1.1.11.D-H
1.2.11.C
1.3.11.A-F
1.4.11.A, D
1.6.11.A-E
1.7.11.A
1.1.11.D-H
1.2.11.C
1.3.11.A-F
1.4.11.A
1.4.11.D
1.6.11.A-E
1.7.11.A
Course Objectives –
Unit
Outside Readings
12th Grade English, CP, British Literature
Num Objective
Level Content
21
Students will complete an
independent analysis of literary
work.
L
Evaluation
Page 5
Standard
Tests, quizzes, projects,
writing assignments,
homework, presentations,
collaborative work
Semester exam
1.4.11.D
1.6.11.A-F
1.7.11.A
1.7.11.B
Teacher selected titles for written
analysis
Student selected text--British
novel
Writing assignment
Semester exam
1.1.11.A
1.2.11.A-B
1.4.11.B
1.5.11.A-G
1.8.11.A-C
1.1.11.A
1.2.11.A-B
1.4.11.B
1.5.11.A-G
1.6.11 F
1.8.11.A-C
1.1.11.A
1.2.11.A-B
1.4.11.B
1.5.11.A-G
1.6.11 F
1.8.11.A-C
1.4.11.D-E
1.5.11.A-F
1.5.11.F
Nonfiction
Frank McCourt
Angela’s Ashes
Fiction
Nick Hornby
About a Boy
OR
Thomas Hardy
Return of the Native
OR
Great British Short Stories
OR
1984
OR
22
Students will write a literary
analysis paper of five to eight
pages.
23
Students will use all parts of the
writing process.
R
Student selected text--British
novel
Writing assignment
Semester exam
24
Students will utilize the library
reference materials and online
catalogue to locate sources to
support their literary analysis.
U
Student selected text--British
novel
Writing assignment
Semester exam
College Essay
25
L
Grammar
26
Students will write a personal
essay
Students will utilize grammar to
improve the fluidity and clarity of
their writing
Vocabulary
27
Parallelism
Active/Passive voice
Modifier Usage
Vocabulary Units 1-18
Writing assignment
Semester exam
Tests, quizzes, writing
assignment
Semester exam
Tests, quizzes, presentations,
homework
Semester exam
Writing/
Research
U
U
L
1.1.11.C
1.1.11.E
1.7.11.C
Course Objectives –
Unit
Composition
Speaking
12th Grade English, CP, British Literature
Num Objective
Level Content
28
Students will write logically
developed, 5-paragraph
compositions containing an
organizational central idea and
thesis statement.
R
29
Students will write full period,
timed essays.
R
30
Students will demonstrate fluency
and correctness in a variety of
oral forums.
L
PA’s academic standards writing
domains: focus, content,
organization, style, and
conventions
Writing process
Writing based on literature
selections from the course and
self-selected literature
PA’s academic standards writing
domains: focus, content,
organization, style, and
conventions
Writing process
Writing based on literature
selections from the course and
self-selected literature
3-5 minute oral presentation
related to a literary study
Various teacher directed oral
projects
Evaluation
Page 6
Standard
Writing samples
5-paragraph essays
Short answer responses
Semester exam
1.4.11 B
1.4.11 C
1.5.11 B-F
Writing samples
5-paragraph essays
Short answer responses
Semester exam
1.4.11 B
1.4.11 C
1.5.11 B-F
Individual/group oral
presentations
Class participation
Class discussion
Small/large group discussion
1.6.11 A-F