History of English Literature Timeline

You will be creating a literary timeline of British Literature to include historical information and literary periods from our beginning studies to the end of the year. While this timeline will not include every literary movement in British history, it will include the main literary movements that we covered throughout the school year. Though you may do this by hand, I highly suggest creating a PowerPoint Presentation in chronological order.

Though the goal of this timeline is to help you study for the NCFE, timeline will be a project grade in the 4th quarter. The timeline will be due in mid to late April, and it will be modified as the weeks continue. DO NOT PROCRASTINATE. I highly suggest completing the timeline as we cover the works in class as a way to review the material and terminology that you will need for the NCFE.

Requirements for the timeline may overlap. Ex: Beowulf is Anglo-Saxon Literature. Anglo-Saxon Literature uses kennings, which can be seen in Beowulf with words like “whale-road” to mean “ocean” and “blood-lust” to mean “savagery.” (With these two sentences, you have met some requirements for Anglo-Saxon Literature, Beowulf is included, and “kenning” is covered.)

Standards Reviewed/Taught with this Project:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.3
Analyze the impact of the author's choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed).

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.4
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including words with multiple meanings or language that is particularly fresh, engaging, or beautiful. (Include Shakespeare as well as other authors.)

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.5
Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text (e.g., the choice of where to begin or end a story, the choice to provide a comedic or tragic resolution) contribute to its overall structure and meaning as well as its aesthetic impact.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.6
Analyze a case in which grasping a point of view requires distinguishing what is directly stated in a text from what is really meant (e.g., satire, sarcasm, irony, or understatement).

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.9
Demonstrate knowledge of eighteenth-, nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century foundational works of literature, including how two or more texts from the same period treat similar themes or topics.

Literary Movements that MUST be on the timeline:

Anglo-Saxon Literature

Medieval Literature

Shakespearean Literature

Pastoral Poetry

Metaphysical Poetry

Neoclassical Literature

Romantic Literature

Victorian Literature

The Lost Generation Literature

Late Modernist Literature

Works/Events that must be included on the timeline:

*Note: This list will be edited and updated as the class progresses through the remainder of the timeline

Beowulf

The Norman Conquest

Canterbury Tales

Magna Carta

Reign of Queen Elizabeth I

Richard III (and one Shakespearean tragedy and one Shakespearean comedy)

One Shakespearean Sonnet

One Petrarchan Sonnet

A Passionate Shepard to His Love

A Nymph’s Reply to the Shepard

The Rape of Lock

A Modest Proposal

Songs of Innocence and Experience

One Work by William Wordsworth

One Work by Samuel Coleridge

One Work by John Keats or Percy Bysshe Shelly

The Reign of Queen Victoria

The Lady of Shalott

A Christmas Carol

Idylls of the King

World War I

World War II

Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Grendel

Under each Literary Movement you MUST include:

Dates of Literary Movement

Three characteristics of the literary movement

Three major works, author, year of publication, and a two sentence summary of each major work.

Literary Devices that must be represented by examples at least once (underline the terms):

Literature:

Characterization

Conflict

Connotation

Denotation

Dialogue

Figurative Language

Inference

Metaphor

Objective Summary

Oxymoron

Personification

Point of View

Setting

Simile

Theme

Poetry:

Kenning

Couplets

Rhyme Scheme

Meter

Stanza

General:

Antonyms

Synonyms

Ethos

Pathos

Logos

Literary Devices:

alliteration

allusion

analogy

anecdote

archetype

dialect

exaggeration

flashback

foreshadowing

hyperbole

imagery

irony – dramatic, situational, verbal

mood

motivation

narrative

onomatopoeia

paradox

parallel structure

pun

refrain

repetition

soliloquy

symbolism

tone

understatement

unreliable narrator