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If anyone remembers, this is strictly a reading and discussion class since DD will be doing Writing the Novel Way plus practicing SAT essays plus plenty of writing in her non English classes. This is a tentative plan and I would welcome any comments particularly if I am scheduling too much or forgetting something very important. I am skipping DIckens since she has already read A Tale of Two Cities in 9th grade and the same for Frankenstein.

 

Beowulf- 2 weeks, selections from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight- 2 weeks, Canterbury Tales- 3 weeks, Shakespeare- 6 weeks, Poetry -1 week, Paradise Lost- 4 weeks, Pilgrim's Progress- 2 weeks, Gulliver's Travels- 3 weeks, Pride and Prejudice - 2 weeks, Poetry - 1 week, Middlemarch- 3 weeks, Heart of Darkness- 2 weeks, Poetry- 1 week, Dubliners- 1 week, Poetry- 1 week, 1984- 2 weeks, wrap-up- 1 week

 

She likes to read and write poetry and likes Shakespeare.

 

Any comments?

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Looks like a wonderful year of reading. At first I thought it was an awful lot, but you are giving plenty of time for each work. If you find you are getting behind you can always amend your list -- better to have more planned than necessary.

 

You have "selections" from Sir Gawain. It isn't such a long work, so I'm wondering why not the entire thing? We used the recent Armitage translation and enjoyed it. And, btw, my ds enjoyed reading and comparing different translations of sections of both Beowulf and Gawain. I found these by googling "lesson plans" and the specific title. I'd share my bookmarks but they were lost when my old laptop died!

 

Looks like a terrific year -- have fun.

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IMHO, 2 weeks is not long enough for HOD. You can read it faster than you can understand and appreciate it. I think that you are also pushing it trying to get through Gulliver in 3 weeks. However, you can always cut out a few adventures from Gulliver with no great loss. My students did not like Gulliver last year. After the first adventure to Lilliput, they thought the rest of the book was just more of the same. I would just take a week to read "A Modest Proposal," skip Gulliver and add 2 weeks to the HOD discussion/reading schedule. But, that is just me looking back at my class last year-what worked/didn't work for them.

 

I would also cut one of your big works and instead include some enlightenment essays or some type of non-fiction.

 

I am also teaching English lit next year. Here's my tentative plan:

 

5 weeks: Wuthering Heights In-depth

5 weeks: Short Story Bootcamp

5 weeks: King Lear & MacBeth

5 weeks: Romantic (and other) Poetry Bootcamp w/Faerie Queene

5 weeks: Tale of Two Cities In-depth

5 weeks: Enlightenment Thinkers-Non-fiction Essays

 

Good luck!

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