Photograph by U. Qadeer, ©2006.

English III is a survey of British Literature from the Anglo-Saxon to the modern period.

Students are given a broad overview of the historical development of British Literature with an emphasis on increasing reading, writing, and language skills integrated throughout all units of study.

guiding question of our course: What do texts reveal about the beliefs and values of the authors and cultures that produce them?

OUTLINE OF UNITS

I. Reading Strategies and Literary Analysis

II. Collective Stories, Communal Heroes

III. “Spirits That Tend on Mortal Thoughts…”

IV. Perfect Beauty in the Eternal Realm

V. Confronting the Sublimity of Nature

VI. Bitterness without a Name

Utopias, Dystopias, and Science Fiction