ENGLISH III—BRITISH LITERATURE
Spring Final Exam Information
Students will be tested over:
Novel:
Great Expectations by Dickens
Stories and poems (from literature textbook unless otherwise noted):
THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD (1485-1660)
--Renaissance poetry
--Sonnets
THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1798-1832)
--Wordsworth
--Coleridge: Rime of the Ancient Mariner; poems
--Shelley
--Byron
--Keats
THE VICTORIAN PERIOD AND BEYOND (1832-1900)
--Tennyson: assigned poems, In Memoriam
--Hopkins
Students must know:
works and authors; literary period, major developments in the growth of the English language, and basic historical information regarding text and/or author's life; poetic and literary devices;
Grammar and Vocabulary will not be covered on the final exam; however, students will be expected to formulate their essays and short answers in paragraph form (refer to LBH).
Format:
1. Short answer/identification
2. Analysis (students may be given a poem or section of a poem to explicate)
3. Essay (topic will ask students to discuss a theme or idea relating to two or more of the major works or movements studied this semester)
Weight: 20% of Semester Average
Spring Final Exam Information
Students will be tested over:
Novel:
Great Expectations by Dickens
Stories and poems (from literature textbook unless otherwise noted):
THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD (1485-1660)
--Renaissance poetry
--Sonnets
THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1798-1832)
--Wordsworth
--Coleridge: Rime of the Ancient Mariner; poems
--Shelley
--Byron
--Keats
THE VICTORIAN PERIOD AND BEYOND (1832-1900)
--Tennyson: assigned poems, In Memoriam
--Hopkins
Students must know:
works and authors; literary period, major developments in the growth of the English language, and basic historical information regarding text and/or author's life; poetic and literary devices;
Grammar and Vocabulary will not be covered on the final exam; however, students will be expected to formulate their essays and short answers in paragraph form (refer to LBH).
Format:
1. Short answer/identification
2. Analysis (students may be given a poem or section of a poem to explicate)
3. Essay (topic will ask students to discuss a theme or idea relating to two or more of the major works or movements studied this semester)
Weight: 20% of Semester Average
