Literature

General

  • One of our users, has made a webpage full of great helps for this year-plan.  Check it out!  Thanks Tamra for all of the neat forms you have at Highland Heritage!

  • Primary Source documents: an exhaustive site for teacher and older students.  Begins at 500 BC and keeps going.  Organizing principle is "documents that pertain to Early American history.  Obviously, a broad view of our "roots!"

  • FreeBooknotes.com presents Cliff's Notes-like help for many works.

  • Great Books in Time.  This huge (and growing!) site links world literature with a variety of sites.  Some give background to the historical period that produced the works (this is the avowed goal of the site's author) and some give actual text of Great Books.  Set aside some browsing time, and enjoy!

  • You won't believe this Wordsmyth site. You can look up any word, you can even make your own glossary. You type in a list of vocabulary words, decide what you would like included and push send. You then get a professional paged glossary of all your words. AND IT IS FREE! (You do have to register first.)  Contributed by Dody.

  • Norton online quizzes - Western Literature

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Unit 1

Week 1: Twilight of the Western Roman Empire

Week 2: Byzantine Empire and the Eastern Orthodox Church

Week 3: Byzantine Empire and Rise of Islam

Week 4: The Making of Medieval Europe: Charlemagne

Week 5: Developments During the Viking Age

Week 6: Medieval Life: Feudalism

Week 7: The High Middle Ages

Week 8: The Mongols, Marco Polo, and the Far East

Week 9: The Reshaping of Medieval Europe

Week 10: Early Lights of the Reformation

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Unit 2

Week 11: Introduction to the Southern Renaissance

Week 12: The Southern Renaissance and the Early Explorers

Week 13: The Southern Renaissance and the Age of Exploration

Week 14: Spanish Dominion and the New World: Aztecs and Incas

Week 15: The Northern Renaissance and Its Scholars

Week 16: The Reformation: Martin Luther and the German States

Week 17: The Reformation in Switzerland, England, and Scandinavia

Week 18: The Counter Reformation, French Huguenots, and the Netherlands

Week 19: Elizabethan England and the Scottish Reformation

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Unit 3

Week 20: Early New World Colonies and Eastern Europe

Week 21: Puritans in New England

Week 22: Charters, Creeds, and the English Civil War

Week 23: Restoration Colonies and the Age of Louis XIV

  • John Donne - ***parental guidance only: some sexual references near bottom of page***

  • Poems by Donne (list on right side of page)

  • Poems by Jonson (list on right side of page)

  • Poems by Marvell (list on right side of page)

  • Poems by Suckling (list on right side of page)

Week 24: Dissenters in America and the Age of Reason

Week 25: Colonists and Native Americans

Week 26: Empires at Odds

Week 27: Thirteen Established Colonies

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Unit 4

Week 28: Shaping Influences on Colonial Culture

Week 29: French and Indian War

Week 30: Give Me Liberty!

Week 31: First Battles for Independence

Week 32: Waging the Revolutionary War

Week 33: America under the Articles of the Confederation

Week 34: Writing the Constitution

Week 35: Federal Republic & French Revolution

Week 36: Perilous Times: The Adams Administration

Summer Reading:

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