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Dr. LaGory
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Ms. M. Schroers
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Dr. Webb
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British Literature surveys major British writers from Chaucer to Eliot, placing the literature in historical and philosophical contexts. Students write not only analytical and persuasive papers but also original satires and sonnets. Every student must take either this course or American Literature.
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Quarter 1 (or 3)
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Renaissance Poetry (Wyatt, Spenser, Sydney, Shakespeare, Donne, Jonson, Herbert, Milton)
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Writing: personal and analytical essay, creative writing
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Reading aloud both quarters
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Quarter 2 (or 4)
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Restoration and Eighteenth Century Poetry (Dryden, Swift, Pope, Gray, Johnson)
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Romantic Period (Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Austen, Byron, Shelley, Keats)
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
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Twentieth Century (Thomas, Shaw, Housman, Hardy,Yeats, Lawrence, Eliot)
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Links of Interest:
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Homework guideline for 9th-12th grade: 30-45 minutes per night per core subject.
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