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 2013-2014 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: from 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
“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”
SENIORITIS
(according to Urban Dictionary)
(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.
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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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.
An EXTENSIVE RESEARCH PAPER is required for this course, as
well as a MAJOR project in the form of a Senior Memory Book. Weekly Read and Respond
Articles will also count towards your quarterly average.
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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