2024-2025 School Year
English w/British Literature CP GVL
Course Description
Welcome to the thousand-year adventure of British literature! We will read important British fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama spanning the centuries from before English was a written language through the twentieth century. We will survey the basic chronology of British literature and the major authors and cultural and literary developments of each period, as well as focusing in-depth on each work we read. We will analyze both the literary characteristics and the larger themes of each book, both on its own terms and in the larger context of the Christian worldview.
To be successful in this class:
Students must be able to maintain a rigorous reading schedule (100 pages or approximately four hours of audio most weeks), take an active part in classroom discussions and activities, and complete essays and other written assignments (including a research paper), as well as projects, presentations and tests, to demonstrate understanding and critical analysis of each work.
Grades: 11th Grade, 12th Grade
Fees: $425
Prerequisites:
English 1 (must have completed one high school English course)
Parents must read UHC High School Literature Class Parent Information before registering their student for a literature class at UHC.
Course Credit: 1 English
Required Materials
- Every student in grades 7-12 taking a Literature class at UHC must have access to the Blue Book of Grammar. You can download a free pdf or purchase a hardcopy. You will only need to download or purchase this book once, and your student will use it as a reference for all UHC Literature classes.
- Three-ring notebook with paper
- Reliable access to a word processor and printer
Books (no electronic books may be used in the classroom): *
- Beowulf
- Sir Gawain and The Green Knight
- The Canterbury Tales (selected) by Geoffrey Chaucer (Teacher will provide.)
- Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves by Edmund Spenser and Roy Maynard
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare
- Paradise Lost by John Milton
- Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- Twentieth Century Short Story and Essay Unit (Teacher will provide.)
Meet Shandi Stevenson
Education: BA Literature in English Excelsior College 2004, MA Humanities California State University 2013
Experience: Freelance writer and tutor
UHC courses taught:
- Middle school journalism
- Fifth grade IEW
- American Literature
- Seventh and eighth grade literature analysis
- English with British Literature
- English with World Literature
- SAT prep verbal skills
- ACT prep verbal skills
Began teaching at UHC in 2009