Welcome to "Brit Lit" - 12th Grade Standard English at Grace Christian Academy!
This course will concentrate on introducing students to outstanding literature from its Anglo Saxon roots to the present. Students will be challenged to grow intellectually, creatively, and spiritually.
Key Readings:
Quarter 1: Selections from Robinson Crusoe, Beowulf, and The Canterbury Tales
Quarter 2: The Medieval Era: "The Arthurian Tales"; The Elizabethan Age: Shakespeare
Quarter 3: The Georgian Era: Austen; The Victorian Era: Dickens
Quarter 4: The Modern Era: The Lord of the Flies; Yeats; Hopkins; Dylan Thomas
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” —Jane Austen
This course will concentrate on introducing students to outstanding literature from its Anglo Saxon roots to the present. Students will be challenged to grow intellectually, creatively, and spiritually.
Key Readings:
Quarter 1: Selections from Robinson Crusoe, Beowulf, and The Canterbury Tales
Quarter 2: The Medieval Era: "The Arthurian Tales"; The Elizabethan Age: Shakespeare
Quarter 3: The Georgian Era: Austen; The Victorian Era: Dickens
Quarter 4: The Modern Era: The Lord of the Flies; Yeats; Hopkins; Dylan Thomas
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” —Jane Austen