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Scope and Sequence Reading Skills/Short Stories Classic Novels: Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Emma by Jane Austen A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens The Time Machine by H. G. Wells Animal Farm by George Orwell Poetry Anthology: British poets including Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Hopkins, Hardy, Eliot, Owen, and Graves Time Periods: History of poetry Modern age Romantic period Victorian period Poetic Forms: Blank verse Classical sonnet Closed couplet Couplet Free verse Heroic couplet Octave Petrarchan sonnet Quatrain Sestet Shakespearean sonnet Sonnet Sprung rhythm Stanza Villanelle Poetic Devices: Abstract Archaism Concrete Metaphor Onomatopoeia Personification Primitivism Rhyme Romanticism Sentimentalism Simile Stream-of-consciousness Symbol Poetic Elements: Commentary Dialect Diction Dramatization Enjambment Iamb Iambic pentameter Image Line Meter Run-on Syntax Composition Essay Types: Poetry analysis Compare and contrast Research Essay Two Book Reviews Essay Structure: Introduction Thesis statements Body paragraph Supporting sentences Transitional devices Concluding paragraphs Writing Skills: Topic selection Outlines Evidence integration Conclusion crafting

Essay Assessment The Gold Book: British Literature Writing Assessment There are five major writing assignments in the Gold Book: British Literature that will be submitted for assessment throughout the year. Compare and Contrast: A four paragraph essay that compares and contrasts the film version and the book version of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Research Essay: A 500 word essay on a specific given topic. Poetry Analysis: Your student’s interpretation of Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach.” Book Review: A 700 – 1,000 book review on Charles Dicken’s A Tale of Two Cities. Book Review: A 700 – 1,000 book review on George Orwell’s Animal Farm. To sign up for the writing assessment service for this book, simply enter in the “quantity” for how many students you would like to sign up and click “add to cart.” When you go to your cart, check out as normal and we will email you to get started!

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LLATL Gold British
Grades 10-12

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