EK1, PLAN RADA

English Lit 1, LESSON PLAN 2017

Week 1 (2 – 6 Oct)

L: 5/10  Intro, AS Period, Heroic Poetry, Beowulf

Week 2 (9 – 13 Oct)

L: 12/10  AS Elegies, Religious poetry, Prose; Medieval Drama (Mysteries & Moralities)

S: 12 & 13/10 Beowulf ­– excerpts, The Wife’s Lament

               Week 3 (16 – 20 Oct)

L: 19/10 Middle English Period, Romances, Alliterative Revival, Sir Gawain & the Green Knight, Ballads

S: 19 & 20/10 Sir Gawain – excerpts, The Wife of Usher’s Well

                Week 4 (23 – 27 Oct)

L: 26/10 Chaucer, Canterbury Tales

S: 26 & 27/10 Canterbury Tales – excerpts from the General Prologue

                Week 5 (30 Oct – 3 Nov)

L: 2/11 Establishment of Theatres, Early Renaissance Drama, University Wits, Marlowe

S: 2 & 3/11 Dr Faustus - excerpts

                Week 6 (6 – 10 Nov)

L: 9/11 Sonnet, English sonneteers 

S: 9 & 10/11 Sonnets

                Week 7 (13 – 17 Nov)

Test 1 - AS period up to and incl. Dr Faustus

                Week 8 (20 – 24 Nov)

L: 23/11 Comedy and Tragedy, plots and characters; early comedies and tragedies in English; Revenge tragedy

S: 23 & 24/11 The Spanish Tragedy, Hamlet ­– excerpts

                Week 9 (27 Nov – 1 Dec)  

L: 30/11 WS – life, poetry, history plays

S: 30/11 & 1/12 Richard III, Macbeth – excerpts

                Week 10 (4 – 8 Dec)

L: 7/12 WS – 2^nd and 3^rd phase, comedies, tragedies, Roman plays

S: 7 & 8/12 The Duchess of Malfi – excerpts

                Week 11 (11 – 15 Dec)

L: 14/12 WS – Problems plays, Romances. Post-Shakespearean drama, Ben Jonson, Jacobean drama, John Webster

S: 14 & 15/12 12^th Night, The Merchant of Venice, Volpone­ – excerpts

                Week 12 (18 – 22 Dec)

L: 21/12 Metaphysical and Cavalier poetry, Milton, Paradise Lost

S: 21 & 22/12 The Flea, To his Coy Mistress, Paradise Lost – excerpts

                Week 13 (January) 

Test 2 (Sonnet up to and incl. Paradise Lost)