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The Anglo Saxon Period
Introduction
Collection 1
Collection Opener
Introduction to Beowulf
Excerpts from Beowulf
Epic 1 - The Monster Grendel
Epic 2 - The Arrival of the Hero
Epic 3 - Unferth's Challenge
Epic 4 - The Battle with Grendel
Epic 5 - The Monster's Mother
Epic 6 - The Final Battle
The Head of Humbaba
The Seafarer
Spotlight on: Anglo-Saxon Riddles
The English Language: Old English
Writer's Workshop: Analyzing a Literary Work
Language Workshop: Analyzing Groups
The Middle Ages
Introduction
Collection 2
Ballads
from The Canterbury Tales
The Prologue: Middle English an example of Middle English
The Prologue
The Pardoner's Tale
The Wife of Bath's Tale
Reading Skills and Strategies: Analyzing Word Parts
Federigo's Falcon by Giovanni Boccaccio
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Death of Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory
Spotlight on: The Weaving of Women's Tales
The English Language: Middle English
The Writer's Workshop: Expository Writing: A Comparison-Contrast Essay
Language Workshop: Agreement
The Renaissance
Introduction
Collection 3
Collection Opener
Whoso List to Hunt - Sir Thomas Wyatt
from Amoretti: Sonnets 30 and 75 - Edmund Spenser
Spotlight on: The Faerie Queene
Shakespeare Sonnets
Shakespeare Sonnets Introduction
Sonnets 29 and 73
Sonnets 116 and 130
Lyric Poems
Marlowe: The Passionate Shepherd and
Raleigh: The Nymph's Reply
Herrick: To the Virgins and
Mavell: To His Coy Mistress
Selections by John Donne
Song
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
Mediation 17
Death Be Not Proud
On My First Son/ Song to Celia :Ben Jonson
Lyric Poems by Suckling and Lovelace
Collection 4
Collection Opener
The Inferno of Dante
Shakespeare: The Tragedy of Macbeth
Macbeth the Characters
Act I
Act I Homework
Act II
Act II Homework
Act III
Act III Homework
Act IV
Act IV Homework
Act V
Act V Homework
Collection 5
Collection Opener
Of Studies/Axioms: Sir Francis Bacon
Spotlight on: Elizabeth I
Introduction: The King James Bible
from Genesis
Psalms 23 and Psalms 137
The Parable of the Good Samaritan
Worlds of Wisdom
The Fall of Satan: John Milton
Restoration and the 18th Century
Introduction
The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century
Collection 6
Collection Opener
John Swift: From Gulliver's Travels
from Part 1: A Voyage to Lilliput
from Part 2: A Voyage to Brobdingnag
A Modest Proposal John Swift
Poems by Alexander Pope
Heroic Couplets
from An Essay on Man
The Rape of the Lock
Voltaire
from CandideCollection 7
Collection Opener
from the Diary of Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys
from A Journal of The Plague Year Daniel Defoe
Selections From Samuel Johnson
from a Dictionary of the English Language
Letter to Lord Chesterfield
from the Life of Samuel Johnson James Boswell
from Faust, Part 1 Goethe
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Thomas Gray
The Romantic Period
Introduction
The Romantic Period
Collection 8
Collection Opener
To a Mouse by Robert Burns
Poems By William Blake
The Tyger
The Lamb
The Chimney Sweeper
A Poison Tree
Poems By William Wordsworth
Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
Lyric Poems
from Ode: Intimations of Immortality
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge
The World is Too Much with Us
I Have Visited Again by Alexander Pushkin
Kubla Kahn by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Collection 9
Collection Opener
Poems By Lord Byron
She Walks in Beauty
The Destruction of Sennacherib
from Don Juan, Canto II
from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV
Poems by Percey Bysshe Shelley
Ozymandias
Ode to the West Wind
To a Skylark
Jade Flower Place by Tu Fu
Poems By John Keats
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
When I Have Fears
La Belle Dame sans Merci
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Poems by: Li Po
The Victorian Period
Introduction
The Victorian Period
Collection 10
Collection Opener
Poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Tears, Idle Tears
The Eagle: a Fragment and Flower in a Crannied Wall
The Lady of Shalott
From In Memoriam A.H.H
Ulysses
Crossing the Bar
Poems by Robert Browning
My Last Duchess
Porphyria's Lover
Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Spring and Fall
Pied Beauty
Collection 11
Collection Opener
Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
Poems by Thomas Hardy
The Darkling Thrush
Channel Firing
Ah, Are You Digging on my Grave?
Spotlight on Victorian NovelistsPoems by A. E. Housman
When I Was One-and-Twenty
To An Athlete Dying
Is My Team Ploughing
The Mark of the Beast by Rudyard Kipling
How Much Land Does a Man Need? by Leo Tolstoy
The Twentieth Century
Introduction
The Twentieth Century
Collection 12
Collection Opener
The Rear-Guard by Siegfried Sassoon
Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen
La Guitarra by Federico Garcia Lorca (and translations)
Lots' Wife by Anna Akhmatova
The Destructors by Graham Greene
Ted Hughes
Hawk Roosting
Chaucer
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Freedom to Breathe / The Bonfire and the Ants
Thoughts of Hanoi by Nguyen Thi Vinh
In the Shadow of War by Ben Okri
Collection 13
Collection Opener
William Butler Yeats
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
The Song of Wandering Aengus
The Wild Swans at Coole
Araby by James JoyceD. H. Lawrence:
The Rocking Horse Winner
Snake
The Demon Lover by Elizabeth Bowen
Poems by Dylan Thomas
Fern Hill In my craft or sullen art
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
B. Wordsworth by V. S. Naipaul
Mushrooms by Margaret Atwood
Collection 14
Collection Opener
The Doll's House by Katherine Mansfield
Not Waving but Drowning by Stevie Smith
My Oedipus Complex by Frank O'Conner
W. H. Auden
Museé des Beaux Arts
The Unknown Citizen
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
Games at Twilight by Anita Desai
Digging / the Grauballe Man by Seamus Heaney
Collection 15
Collection Opener
Shakepeare's Sister by Virginia Woolf
The Cairo Rooftop by Naguib Mahfouz
Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell
No Witchcraft for Sale by Doris Lessing
Once Upon a Time by Nadine Gordimer
The Virgins by Derek Walcott
Marriage is a Private Affair by Chinua AchebeTelephone Conversation by Wole Soyinka: Telephone Conversation
Introduction
Collection 1
Collection Opener
Introduction to Beowulf
Excerpts from Beowulf
Epic 1 - The Monster Grendel
Epic 2 - The Arrival of the Hero
Epic 3 - Unferth's Challenge
Epic 4 - The Battle with Grendel
Epic 5 - The Monster's Mother
Epic 6 - The Final Battle
The Head of Humbaba
The Seafarer
Spotlight on: Anglo-Saxon Riddles
The English Language: Old English
Writer's Workshop: Analyzing a Literary Work
Language Workshop: Analyzing Groups
The Middle Ages
Introduction
Collection 2
Ballads
from The Canterbury Tales
The Prologue: Middle English an example of Middle English
The Prologue
The Pardoner's Tale
The Wife of Bath's Tale
Reading Skills and Strategies: Analyzing Word Parts
Federigo's Falcon by Giovanni Boccaccio
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Death of Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory
Spotlight on: The Weaving of Women's Tales
The English Language: Middle English
The Writer's Workshop: Expository Writing: A Comparison-Contrast Essay
Language Workshop: Agreement
The Renaissance
Introduction
Collection 3
Collection Opener
Whoso List to Hunt - Sir Thomas Wyatt
from Amoretti: Sonnets 30 and 75 - Edmund Spenser
Spotlight on: The Faerie Queene
Shakespeare Sonnets
Shakespeare Sonnets Introduction
Sonnets 29 and 73
Sonnets 116 and 130
Lyric Poems
Marlowe: The Passionate Shepherd and
Raleigh: The Nymph's Reply
Herrick: To the Virgins and
Mavell: To His Coy Mistress
Selections by John Donne
Song
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
Mediation 17
Death Be Not Proud
On My First Son/ Song to Celia :Ben Jonson
Lyric Poems by Suckling and Lovelace
Collection 4
Collection Opener
The Inferno of Dante
Shakespeare: The Tragedy of Macbeth
Macbeth the Characters
Act I
Act I Homework
Act II
Act II Homework
Act III
Act III Homework
Act IV
Act IV Homework
Act V
Act V Homework
Collection 5
Collection Opener
Of Studies/Axioms: Sir Francis Bacon
Spotlight on: Elizabeth I
Introduction: The King James Bible
from Genesis
Psalms 23 and Psalms 137
The Parable of the Good Samaritan
Worlds of Wisdom
The Fall of Satan: John Milton
Restoration and the 18th Century
Introduction
The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century
Collection 6
Collection Opener
John Swift: From Gulliver's Travels
from Part 1: A Voyage to Lilliput
from Part 2: A Voyage to Brobdingnag
A Modest Proposal John Swift
Poems by Alexander Pope
Heroic Couplets
from An Essay on Man
The Rape of the Lock
Voltaire
from CandideCollection 7
Collection Opener
from the Diary of Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys
from A Journal of The Plague Year Daniel Defoe
Selections From Samuel Johnson
from a Dictionary of the English Language
Letter to Lord Chesterfield
from the Life of Samuel Johnson James Boswell
from Faust, Part 1 Goethe
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Thomas Gray
The Romantic Period
Introduction
The Romantic Period
Collection 8
Collection Opener
To a Mouse by Robert Burns
Poems By William Blake
The Tyger
The Lamb
The Chimney Sweeper
A Poison Tree
Poems By William Wordsworth
Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
Lyric Poems
from Ode: Intimations of Immortality
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge
The World is Too Much with Us
I Have Visited Again by Alexander Pushkin
Kubla Kahn by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Collection 9
Collection Opener
Poems By Lord Byron
She Walks in Beauty
The Destruction of Sennacherib
from Don Juan, Canto II
from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV
Poems by Percey Bysshe Shelley
Ozymandias
Ode to the West Wind
To a Skylark
Jade Flower Place by Tu Fu
Poems By John Keats
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
When I Have Fears
La Belle Dame sans Merci
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Poems by: Li Po
The Victorian Period
Introduction
The Victorian Period
Collection 10
Collection Opener
Poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Tears, Idle Tears
The Eagle: a Fragment and Flower in a Crannied Wall
The Lady of Shalott
From In Memoriam A.H.H
Ulysses
Crossing the Bar
Poems by Robert Browning
My Last Duchess
Porphyria's Lover
Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Spring and Fall
Pied Beauty
Collection 11
Collection Opener
Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
Poems by Thomas Hardy
The Darkling Thrush
Channel Firing
Ah, Are You Digging on my Grave?
Spotlight on Victorian NovelistsPoems by A. E. Housman
When I Was One-and-Twenty
To An Athlete Dying
Is My Team Ploughing
The Mark of the Beast by Rudyard Kipling
How Much Land Does a Man Need? by Leo Tolstoy
The Twentieth Century
Introduction
The Twentieth Century
Collection 12
Collection Opener
The Rear-Guard by Siegfried Sassoon
Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen
La Guitarra by Federico Garcia Lorca (and translations)
Lots' Wife by Anna Akhmatova
The Destructors by Graham Greene
Ted Hughes
Hawk Roosting
Chaucer
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Freedom to Breathe / The Bonfire and the Ants
Thoughts of Hanoi by Nguyen Thi Vinh
In the Shadow of War by Ben Okri
Collection 13
Collection Opener
William Butler Yeats
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
The Song of Wandering Aengus
The Wild Swans at Coole
Araby by James JoyceD. H. Lawrence:
The Rocking Horse Winner
Snake
The Demon Lover by Elizabeth Bowen
Poems by Dylan Thomas
Fern Hill In my craft or sullen art
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
B. Wordsworth by V. S. Naipaul
Mushrooms by Margaret Atwood
Collection 14
Collection Opener
The Doll's House by Katherine Mansfield
Not Waving but Drowning by Stevie Smith
My Oedipus Complex by Frank O'Conner
W. H. Auden
Museé des Beaux Arts
The Unknown Citizen
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
Games at Twilight by Anita Desai
Digging / the Grauballe Man by Seamus Heaney
Collection 15
Collection Opener
Shakepeare's Sister by Virginia Woolf
The Cairo Rooftop by Naguib Mahfouz
Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell
No Witchcraft for Sale by Doris Lessing
Once Upon a Time by Nadine Gordimer
The Virgins by Derek Walcott
Marriage is a Private Affair by Chinua AchebeTelephone Conversation by Wole Soyinka: Telephone Conversation