British Literature (11 & 12)

Writing a newspaper article--the basics

Career and Interest assessments -- Minnesota State

Biblical Filter Lecture

• PowerPoint Lecture on "Why Do We Bother?" (Literature/creativity)
• Creation and Creativity -- Clip (5min) -- Tim Keller: why do we create?
• Humble Cultural Engagement -- 24 min -- Tim Keller:  how does the Gospel affect our culture?

• Anglo-Saxon (Old English) background
•  "Who was Bede the Venerable?"
• St Bede, the Venerable
• From the Bede, Ecclesiastical History ofthe English Nation (c. 731)
• Beowulf translation by Seamus Heaney
• Beowulf Scavenger Hunt
• Greene Village on Beowulf
• The literary and linguistic context of Beowulf -- Norton Anthology
• The Structure and Making of the poem Beowulf
• Sparknotes on Beowulf
• Background on Beowulf       
• A reading of Beowulf in Old English (lines 1-19)      
• "The Lord's Prayer" in Old English

BRITISH LITERATURE QUIZLET CONNECTION 
BRITISH and WORLD LITERATURE reading list
Classic Reader Website 

• The Middle English Period (video)
• Medieval background video (Osborne)
• Canterbury Cathedral video
• Background on Geoffrey Chaucer video
• Middle English -- Canterbury Tales sample   Sample #2
• Chaucer's Canterbury Tales -- Class notes ppt
• Nun's Priest's Tale in Middle English and Modern English
• No-Fear Literature Version of Canterbury Tales ("baudy")
• "The Pardoner's Tale" with prologue
• Detailed notes on "The Pardoner's Tale"
• TWO TALES QUIZ ("Nun's Priest's Tale" & "Pardoner's Tale")

• Literature Project website 
• Literature Timeline -World Lit
• Literature Timeline -- Interactive British Literature timeline
• Medieval Literature
• Medieval Life.net
• About the ballads

Shakespeare

• Early Modern English History Video
• Why Study Shakespeare?
• Absolute Shakespeare
• The Merchant of Venice  Character Map from MindMeister
• No Sweat Shakespeare -- Shakespeare resources, translations, and study guides.
• Shakespeare Online (Includes sonnet structure information)
• Shakespeare's quotes -- from No Sweat Shakespeare
• Shakespeare Timeline -- from No Sweat Shakespeare
• Shakespeare's quotes from Absolute Shakespeare 
• Elizabethan theater from mistersato411 on YouTube
  
• Romeo and Juliet (full original script)
• Romeo and Juliet (full script with notes/line #s)
• My Romeo and Juliet (multimedia variety of study tools)
• Romeo & Juliet (No Sweat Shakespeare)--summary in modern English
• Romeo & Juliet (No FearShakespeare)--parallel text of original with modern drama
• Taming of the Shrew resources

• Teacher notes from Mrs. Reilly on Macbeth 

• Macbeth No-Sweat Shakespeare w/ Modern language version

• Listen to Macbeth

• Macbeth (Brit Lit 2015-16) 1998 version (post-apocalyptic)

• Macbeth with Brett Jeremy and Laurie Piper, 1981 (YouTube)
• Shakespeare’s Hamlet--with David Tennant and Patrick Stewart