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2010-2011
Madison High School
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804-878-5349
MISSION STATEMENT
Madison High School English Department is committed to helping students firmly grasp
grammar, writing, critical analysis, rhetorical, and literary skills based on Virginia state
standards.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Students read an overview of British literature from the Medieval period to the Modern,
integrating a study of history to better supply a context for an appreciation and
understanding of the literature, with emphasis on a variety of prose and poetic genres.
Students write critical and argumentative essays, complete a research paper, engage in
creative writing projects, and make technology-assisted oral presentations. Students
prepare for the ACT, SAT, and college entrance exams.
MATERIALS REQUIRED
Textbook: Glencoe’s Literature
Three-ring binder or spiral notebook
TEXTS
Beowulf
The Canterbury Tales
Morte d’ Arthur
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Hamlet
Oedipus
Macbeth
The Taming of the Shrew
“A Modest Proposal”
Selections from Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Keats
“The Lady of Shallot”
The Brownings-Selected poems
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Victorian era novels
An Academy for Women” (Defoe)
Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Wollstonecraft)
“A Modest Proposal” (Swift)
The Importance of Being Earnest (Wilde)
RESEARCHED TERM PAPER: Literary Criticism
(An analysis of an approved British novel taking a chosen formal critical stance and with
a specific thesis stated simply and backed up with quotations from the text and
professional criticism on the chosen novel. This project will be an on-going one
throughout the fall semester.
GRADING SCALE
A= 93-100
B= 92-85
C= 84-77
D= 76-70
F= 69 and Below
GRADING POLICY
Essays/ Research Paper= 30%
Class work= 10%
Homework= 20%
Quizzes= 20%
Tests= 20%