English Lit 1, LESSON PLAN 2018

Week 1 (1 – 5 Oct)

L – 4 / 10 – Intro, AS Period, Heroic Poetry, Beowulf

Week 2 (8 – 12 Oct)

L – 11 / 10 – AS Elegies, Religious poetry, Prose; Medieval Drama (Mysteries & Moralities)
S – 11 & 12 / 10 – Beowulf – excerpts, The Wife’s Lament

Week 3 (15 – 19 Oct)

L – 18 / 10 – Middle English Period, Romances, Alliterative Revival, Sir Gawain & the Green Knight, Ballads
S– 18 & 19 / 10 – Sir Gawain – excerpts, The Wife of Usher’s Well

Week 4 (22 – 26 Oct)

L – 25 / 10 – Chaucer, Canterbury Tales
S – 25 & 26 / 10 – Canterbury Tales – excerpts from the General Prologue

Week 5 (29 Oct – 2 Nov)

L – 1 / 11 – Establishment of Theatres, Early Renaissance Drama, Interlude, University Wits, Marlowe
S – 1 & 2 / 11 – Dr Faustus - excerpts

Week 6 (5 – 9 Nov)

L – 8 / 11 – Sonnet, English sonneteers (+ WS’s sonnets if time allows)
S – 8 & 9 / 11 – Sonnets

Week 7 (12 – 16 Nov)

Study week – L – TEST 1; AS period up to and incl. Dr Faustus

Week 8 (19 – 23 Nov)

L – 22 / 11 – Comedy and Tragedy, plots and characters; early comedies and tragedies in English; Revenge tragedy
S – 22 & 23 / 11 – The Spanish Tragedy, Hamlet – excerpts

Week 9 (26 – 30 Nov)

L – 29 / 11– WS – life, poetry (sonnets if not mentioned before), history plays
S – 29 & 30 / 11 – Richard III, Macbeth – excerpts

Week 10 (3 – 7 Dec)

L – 6 / 12 – WS – 2nd and 3rd phase, comedies, tragedies, Roman plays
S – 6 & 7 / 12 – The Duchess of Malfi – excerpts

Week 11 (10 – 14 Dec)

L – 13 / 12 – WS – Problems plays, Romances. Post-Shakespearean drama, Ben Jonson, Jacobean drama, John Webster
S – 13 & 14 / 12 – The 12th Night, The Merchant of Venice, Volpone – excerpts

Week 12 (17 – 21 Dec)

L – 20 / 12 – Metaphysical and Cavalier poetry, Milton, Paradise Lost
S – 20 & 21 / 12 – The Flea, To his Coy Mistress, Paradise Lost – excerpts

Week 13 (January) 

L – TEST 2 (Sonnet up to and incl. Milton)