Getting Started with High School British Literature Course

In this high school British literature course, students take an in-depth look at key periods in the history of British literature from Old English and medieval through modern and postmodern. Numerous classics are studied including Beowulf, Macbeth, the King James Bible, Pilgrim’s Progress, Paradise Lost, Gulliver’s Travels, Pride & Prejudice, Jane Eyre, The Screwtape Letters, Animal Farm, and various selections of poetry.

Course Outline for High School British Literature:

• Lesson One: The Beauty of Anglo-Saxon Poetry: A Prelude to Beowulf
• Lesson Two: Beowulf
• Lesson Three: Beowulf
• Lesson Four: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• Lesson Five: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Conclusion
• Lesson Six: The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
• Lesson Seven: William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Part 1
• Lesson Eight: William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Part 2
• Lesson Nine: William Shakespeare’s Macbeth Conclusion
• Lesson Ten: KJV Bible
• Lesson Eleven: Renaissance Poetry, Part 1
• Lesson Twelve: Renaissance Poetry, Part 2
• Lesson Thirteen: John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress Part 1
• Lesson Fourteen: John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress Part 2
• Lesson Fifteen: John Milton’s Paradise Lost, Part 1
• Lesson Sixteen: John Milton’s Paradise Lost, Part 2
• Lesson Seventeen: Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels
• Lesson Eighteen: Seventeenth/Eighteenth Century Poetry
• Lesson Nineteen: Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Part 1
• Lesson Twenty: Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Part 2
• Lesson Twenty-One: Sir Walter Scott’s Waverly, Part 1
• Lesson Twenty-Two: Sir Walter Scott’s Waverly, Part 2
• Lesson Twenty-Three: English Romantic Poetry, Part 1
• Lesson Twenty-Four: English Romantic Poetry, Part 2
• Lesson Twenty-Five: Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Part 1
• Lesson Twenty-Six: Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Part 2
• Lesson Twenty-Seven: Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South, Part 1
• Lesson Twenty-Eight: Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South, Part 2
• Lesson Twenty-Nine: Charles Dickens’ Hard Times
• Lesson Thirty: English Victorian Poetry
• Lesson Thirty-One: George Orwell’s Animal Farm, Part 1
• Lesson Thirty-Two: George Orwell’s Animal Farm, Part 2
• Lesson Thirty-Three: C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters, Part 1
• Lesson Thirty-Four: C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters, Part 2
• Lesson Thirty-Five: George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion
• Lesson Thirty-Six: World War I Poetry