British Literature
This year we will read some of the most famous historical selection in English Literature. The British colonized the world and their literature influenced writers the world over. Shakespeare is a household name in every literate culture in the world. He has influenced writers from his own time to our own time. But we won't stop...or start there.
We will start with the oral tradition in literature with Beowulf and work our way forward through the literary time periods....sampling as many as we can.
We will also write. As we are preparing you for college, the senior English team at Lee, will use many ideas and techniques you will find in college, as well as, introduce you to expectations that you will encounter at Lee College and beyond.
This is British Literature, so you also have to take into account changes ink language. From the Middle Ages to present day the vernacular in British Literature is very different from our own. This may require a dictionary and some deciphering of meaning using context clues.
This year we will read some of the most famous historical selection in English Literature. The British colonized the world and their literature influenced writers the world over. Shakespeare is a household name in every literate culture in the world. He has influenced writers from his own time to our own time. But we won't stop...or start there.
We will start with the oral tradition in literature with Beowulf and work our way forward through the literary time periods....sampling as many as we can.
We will also write. As we are preparing you for college, the senior English team at Lee, will use many ideas and techniques you will find in college, as well as, introduce you to expectations that you will encounter at Lee College and beyond.
This is British Literature, so you also have to take into account changes ink language. From the Middle Ages to present day the vernacular in British Literature is very different from our own. This may require a dictionary and some deciphering of meaning using context clues.