By: Ms.

Heredia

Fall/Winter 2015-2016

Q3 Brit Lit: From Restoration to Victorian

The following syllabus outline for Q3 of ENG12 is subject to change at any given moment.
OUTSIDE READING for Q3

During Quarter 3, students will learn about various literary eras of British Literature (as outlined below).
During this time, students will be responsible for reading one of the following works in full (as an outside reading).
By the beginning of Quarter 4, students will be expected to present their outside reading to the class, individually
or in groups no larger than 3 (only available for students who have done the same or a similar reading).
In addition to the presentation, students will be writing a Literary Research Paper on their reading (to be
competed individually and turned in by Quarter 4).

Week 2-4 RESTORATION PERIOD

Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift

Restoration Period
A Modest Proposal

Unit Intro
Overview

Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift

Gullivers Travels
Gullivers Travels
Gullivers Travels

Part 1 A Voyage to Lilliput

Part 1 A Voyage to Lilliput
Part 1 A Voyage to Lilliput

(Chap 1-2)
(Chap 3-4)
(Chap 3-5)

Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift

Gullivers Travels
Restoration Period

Part 1 A Voyage to Lilliput

Unit Test

(Chap 6-8)

Week 5-7 ROMANTIC PERIOD

Austen, Shelley etc.

Romantic Era

Unit Intro

Mary W. Shelley
Mary W. Shelley

Frankenstein
Frankenstein

Part 1Frame Narrative (Psychoanalysis vs. Literature)

Part 2Characterization (Direct/Indirect)

Mary W. Shelley
Mary W. Shelley
Austen, Shelley etc.

Frankenstein
Frankenstein
Romantic Era

Part 3Setting (The Sublime)

Part 4Theme (Maternal Anxiety, Abandonment & Abortion)
Unit Test

Victorian Era
Comedy of Manners
Quest Fiction
& Colonial Discourse

Unit Intro
The Importance of Being Earnest (Review)
Heart of Darkness (excerpt)

CARNAVAL

Week 8-10 VICTORIAN ERA

Wilde, Conrad, Wells

Oscar Wilde
Joseph Conrad

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Detective Fiction

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Detective Fiction

Sherlock Holmes: The Speckled Band

Sherlock Holmes: The Red-Headed League

H.G. Wells
H.G. Wells
Wilde, Conrad, Wells

The Time Machine, First Man on the Moon, War of the Worlds
Island of Doctor Moreau
Unit Test

Science Fiction
Science Fiction
Victorian Era

Q3 END