Early+British+Literature

=**Early British Literature**=

[|Poetry Out Loud Website]

__**Course Documents**__ [|Early British Literature Course Expectations.doc] [|Early British Literature Course Outline Fall 2010.doc] __**[|Classroom Grade Point Scale.doc]**__

__**Unit 1-College Essay Writing**__ [|College Essay Unit Goals 2.doc]

[|College Essay Unit Common Structures.doc] [|College Essay Sample Prompts Common Types.doc]

[|College Essay Unit Sample Outline and Essay.doc]

[|College Essay Unit Sample Essay 1 Princeton, Athlete (Football).doc] [|College Essay Unit Sample Essay 2 Harvard, International experience_ Living in Switzerland.doc] [|College Essay Unit Sample Essay 3 Princeton, Childhood experience_ A fishing trip.doc] [|College Essay Unit Sample Essay 4 Brown, Achievement_ Martial arts competition.doc]


 * Sample Essays from Real Colleges Handout

[|College Essay Unit Topic Fact Sheet Future Goals.doc] [|College Essay Unit Topic Fact Sheet Important Issue.doc] [|College Essay Unit Topic Fact Sheet Influential Person.doc] [|College Essay Unit Topic Fact Sheet Significant Experience.doc]

[|College Essay do's and don'ts.doc] [|College Essay Unit Key Points for Writing College Essays.doc]

[|College Application Essay Assignment Sheet revised 2]

[|College Essay Unit Selecting a Topic Exercise Checklist.doc]


 * Past Present Future Worksheet (Graphic Organizer)
 * Essay Development Worksheet (Graphic Organizer)

[|College Essay Proofreading Tips.doc]

[|College Essay Unit Essay Assignment Rubric.doc]

__**Unit 2-Celtic Folklore**__



[|Celtic Mythology and Folklore Unit Goals.doc]

__[|Folklore Information]__ [|Folktale Characteristics]

[|Celtic Folktale Unit Presentation.pdf]

[|Celtic Folklore Characteristics Chart.pdf]

[|The Three Daughters of King O'Hara] [|Fair Brown and Trembling] [|The Weaver's Son and the Giant of the White Hill]

[|Celtic Folklore Presentation Assignment Sheet.pdf] [|Celtic Folklore Presentation Rubric.pdf]


 * __Unit 3-Anglo-Saxon Period__**

[|Anglo Saxon Unit Presentation.pdf]

[|Seamus Heaney reads Beowulf Prologue]

[|Beowulf MLA Response 1.pdf] [|Short Response Rubric.pdf]

[|Beowulf Another Attack Questions 2.pdf] [|Beowulf Comparing Grendel and his mother wkst.pdf] [|Beowulf Another Attack to Another Celebration Literature Groups Assignment.pdf] [|Beowulf Unit Beowulf Returns Home Questions.pdf] [|Beowulf The Dragon Wakes Questions.pdf] [|Beowulf Unit Beowulf Attacks the Dragon Questions.pdf] [|Beowulf Unit Beowulf's Funeral Elegy Assignment.pd]

[|Beowulf Unit Film and Poem Comparison Paper.pdf] [|Beowulf Unit Film Paper Rubric.pdf]

__**Research Paper**__ [|Research Paper Assignment #1 Sample Thesis_source document.pdf] __**[|Research Assignment #2 Notes Spring 2011]**__ __**[|Research Assignment #3 Outline Spring 2011]**__ __**[|Research Assignment #4 Rough Draft Spring 2011]**__ This document is in perfect MLA format and should be used as a guide for your own paper. It offers many helpful suggestions about formatting in the margins. When in doubt, use this paper as an example for how to format yours!
 * [|Research Paper Assignment Spring 2011.pdf]** **(Due dates will be changed in class due to scheduling problems)**
 * [|MLA Sample Paper]**

The actual paper is the text inside the gray outline. You will not have any notes at the very bottom of your page like this paper does. You will also not be including cartoons or illustrations in your paper. This paper is formatted correctly and also offers helpful suggestions which could be applied to any research paper in the margins.
 * __[|Sample MLA Paper-Another Example]__**


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__**Unit 4-The Middle Ages**__

__[|Middle Ages Unit Presentation.pdf]__



[|Federigo's Falcon by Giovanni Boccaccio] [|Middle Ages Unit Federigo's Falcon Info Sheet.pdf] [|Middle Ages Unit Federigo's Falcon Study Guide.pdf] [|Middle Ages Unit Federigo's Falcon Post Reading Activities.pdf]

__[|Laustic by Marie DeFrance]__ __[|Middle Ages Unit Laustic Worksheet.pdf]__ __[|Lanval by Marie DeFrance]__

__[|The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Full Text (Table of Contents and Side by Side Translations on the left side)]__
 * //The Canterbury Tales// by Geoffrey Chaucer**

__[|Canterbury Tales Character List.pdf]__ __[|Early British Literature Canterbury Tales Prologue Astrology Activity.pdf]__

[|Macbeth Full Text]
 * The Renaissance**
 * [|The Renaissance in England quick info sheet.pdf]**
 * __Macbeth__**

__**Final Exam Information**__ __**[|Final Exam Study Guide Fall 2010.pdf]**__