The English 12 curriculum is focused on British Literature from the Old English and Medieval periods, leading up to the Modern and Post-Modern periods of today. We will read, analyze, and respond to examples from each literary period.
Selected readings for the 2011-2012 school year include, but are not limited to:
“Beowulf”
Geoffrey Chaucer: “The Canterbury Tales”
Christopher Marlowe: “The Passionate Shepherd to his Love”
Jonathan Swift: “A Modest Proposal”
William Blake: “The Lamb”, “The Tyger”
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
John Keats: “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
Robert Browning: “My Last Duchess”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: “Sonnet 43”
A.E. Houseman: "To An Athlete Dying Young"
W.B. Yeats: “A Drinking Song”, “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death”
T.S. Eliot: “The Waste Land”
Seamus Heaney: “Digging”,
Eavan Boland: “Outside History”
Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway
James Joyce: “Araby”
Dylan Thomas: “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”
Ted Hughes: “View of a Pig”
Supplemental materials include, but are not limited to:
John Gardner, “Grendel”
“Beowulf” 2007 film
“The Canterbury Tales” 2003 BBC television series (excerpts)
“Monty Python and the Holy Grail” (excerpts)
“Le Morte De Arthur” vs. “Harry Potter”
William Shakespeare “Hamlet”
Additional texts may include:
Arthur Miller, “Death of a Salesman”
Edward Albee, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper”
  
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Senioritis (according to Urban Dictionary)
noun. A crippling disease that strikes high school seniors. Symptoms include: laziness, an over-excessive wearing of track pants, old athletic shirts, sweatpants, athletic shorts, and sweatshirts. Also features a lack of studying, repeated absences, and a generally dismissive attitude. The only known cure is a phenomenon known as GRADUATION.
Please report all known (or suspected) cases of this deadly disease as soon as symptoms become apparent.
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As I’ve stated before, I treat ALL of my classes as if they were AP or pre-AP level courses. As such, your attendance is CRUCIAL to your success. Lateness will NOT be tolerated. Missing assignments will receive a ZERO, and extra credit is NOT an option.
BOOK REPORTS will be required, but the format will (for the most part) be left up to you.
Your PARTICIPATION grade consists of your interaction in class AND on the class website: www.keenan12.blogspot.com
If it looks like a lot of work, it is! But RELAX. It’s the last little bit of HS English you’ll ever face. Embrace it. Enjoy it!
"A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us."
-Franz Kafka
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
-Groucho Marx
noun. A crippling disease that strikes high school seniors. Symptoms include: laziness, an over-excessive wearing of track pants, old athletic shirts, sweatpants, athletic shorts, and sweatshirts. Also features a lack of studying, repeated absences, and a generally dismissive attitude. The only known cure is a phenomenon known as GRADUATION.
Please report all known (or suspected) cases of this deadly disease as soon as symptoms become apparent.
********
As I’ve stated before, I treat ALL of my classes as if they were AP or pre-AP level courses. As such, your attendance is CRUCIAL to your success. Lateness will NOT be tolerated. Missing assignments will receive a ZERO, and extra credit is NOT an option.
BOOK REPORTS will be required, but the format will (for the most part) be left up to you.
Your PARTICIPATION grade consists of your interaction in class AND on the class website: www.keenan12.blogspot.com
If it looks like a lot of work, it is! But RELAX. It’s the last little bit of HS English you’ll ever face. Embrace it. Enjoy it!
"A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us."
-Franz Kafka
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
-Groucho Marx
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