BRITISH LITERATURE I (ENGL 2322)
Term: 2023-2024 Fall
Christopher J. Harold, M.A.
Ponder High School
400 West Bailey St.
Ponder, TX 76259
(940) 479-8200
Mon-Tue-Wed-Thu-Fri, 11:34 AM - 12:19 PM (8/28/2023 - 12/16/2023) Location: PHS PHS TBA
A survey of the development of British literature from the Anglo-Saxon period to the Eighteenth Century. Students will study works of prose, poetry, drama, and fiction in relation to their historical, linguistic, and cultural contexts. Texts will be selected from a diverse group of authors and traditions. Upon successful completion, students will be able to: identify key ideas, representative authors and works, significant historical or cultural events, and characteristic perspectives or attitudes expressed in the literature of different periods or regions; analyze literary works as expressions of individual or communal values within the social, political, cultural, or religious contexts of different literary periods; demonstrate knowledge of the development of characteristic forms or styles of expression during different historical periods or in different regions; articulate the aesthetic principles that guide the scope and variety of works in the arts and humanities; and write re