Natalie Said:

where can i find lesson plans for bible / christianity in literature?

We Answered:

Two that I use are:

Herbert Said:

British Literature?

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I am sorry this will take up some space, but here is the syllabus from when I had British Lit. II this past spring. I really enjoyed this class. One idea that my professor had was to make up flyers annoucing his Brit. Lit class. Everyone wanted to take it. It was the first time that a Literature class actually had a waiting list. Have fun teaching!

REQUIRED MATERIALS:
Abrams, M.H. et. al, eds. The Norton Anthology of English Literature Vol. 2, 7th ed. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2000.

An otherwise clean CD or 3.5 –inch diskette


SUPPLEMENTAL TEXTS: A college dictionary, your Harbrace Handbook, and your freshman literature texts will all be extremely useful for this course.

COURSE DESCRIPTION: English 2121 is a chronological study of British Literature from the Romantic era to the present. Drama, poetry, prose, and fiction are read and discussed from historical, cultural, and aesthetic perspectives. Course activities will include daily readings, discussions, postings, essays short and long, research, and exams. The readings may seem daunting, but you will be expected to come to class ready to discuss that day’s assignment. I will not stand in front of the class and drone on and on while you merely dictate what I say into note form. You will be engaged both one on one and in groups, so show up with your game face on. In fact, an element of your grade depends upon it.
Because English 2121 follows a required Freshman English sequence, the student is expected to have mastered the fundamentals of grammar, mechanics, and composition as well as literary analysis, literary terminology, research, documentation, and close reading. Hodge’s Harbrace Handbook and Perrine’s Literature are guides for all questions about writing standards, documentation, and terminology. Correct spelling and grammar are always required. Tests and other assignments will require such standards as well.

COURSE OBJECTIVES: Students will read British Literature critically for both basic understanding and interpretation within the works’ historical, cultural, and literary contexts. Comprehension of major forces and events, influences and ideas will help students make informed judgments in interpreting works of art. Students will organize and communicate knowledge and ideas in a logical and purposeful way all while conducting research, analyzing texts, and synthesizing information in a written format that utilizes both critical vocabulary and Standard Written English.

STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES: Note: General education outcomes are in italics.
Students completing English 2120 and 2121 toward any transfer degree should be able to:

1. read critically and understand literally a work of British Literature, interpreting and analyzing it at a basic level;

2. interpret and understand works of British Literature within their historical or literary context;
3. gather data for basic research from various sources, including the computer and other forms of electronic media, such as the Internet. Students will conduct rudimentary research, incorporating and properly documenting source material;

4. organize and communicate knowledge and ideas in a logical and purposeful way during class discussion;

5. use a critical vocabulary in tests and essays adequate for the discussion of literature in an intelligent and analytical manner;

6. comprehend major forces and events, influences and ideas that shaped history and society;

7. recognize and use accepted patterns of grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure in speech and writing;

8. make informed judgments in interpreting works of art, literature, and other aesthetic experiences;

9. analyze and synthesize information in a written format to discover new insights about the literature read.

EVALUATION:

Two short papers 10% each (20%)
Long paper 25% (25%)
Midterm and Final 20% each (40%)
DSConnect Posts (10%)
Class participation (5%)

COURSE POLICIES:

1. On the FOURTH class missed the student will receive an “F” unless the student withdraws. Turn off all cell phones for class unless you are wanted in surgery. The second time it rings I will destroy it with a hammer! No food or tobacco products during class. Sleeping is an absence.

2. Essays are due at the beginning of class on the due date listed on the syllabus. These essays will be penalized a letter grade for every day they are late (later in the day on the due date is one letter grade; every weekday is a subsequent letter grade until the paper dies a horrible death). Quizzes, homework, and exercises may not be made up. If you come in late you will miss the quiz and/or writing. The midterm and the final can only be made up if you are hit by a truck.

3. THERE WILL BE NO REVISIONS ON PAPERS. Also, I will be happy to work with you in developing your ideas on papers; however, I will only look at a thesis and a sentence outline. I will not read your paper from beginning to end. At some point the paper must be yours, not mine.

4. In addition to the hard copy you are probably accustomed to submitting, all out of class papers must also be submitted as a file bearing only your last name, formatted in Word (not Word Perfect) on an otherwise clean CD or 3.5 –inch diskette. Papers submitted only via hard copy will be considered late—and penalized as such—until submitted as specified. Plagiarism is using as your own the words or ideas of another. When you use material from a source, you must quote or paraphrase accurately and properly cite the information. Examples include word for word copying without indicating you are quoting, inaccurate quoting and paraphrasing, and incomplete or missing documentation. Purchasing a paper or copying someone else’s work and submitting it as your own is also plagiarism, as is any misrepresentation of the source. Whether intentional or unintentional, plagiarism is unacceptable and, as stated in the 2005-2006 college catalog, could result in penalties including loss of academic credit and expulsion. I will be using EVE-2 plagiarism search engine to spot-check your work.

5. You must post and reply to a post once a week. These posts will be graded A-F. You must post about a work before it is discussed in class. Your posts should demonstrate that you have read the work and thought about it—that’s what it will take to get an “A” on each post. In other words, “I didn’t like this work because it was hard to understand” will not cut it. You must also respond to someone else’s posts. Around midterm I will try to give you your post grades up to that point. Note that these posts are weighted as much as the short papers—do not take them lightly.
READING SCHEDULE: You should come to class having read the selection listed for the date ready to discuss, quiz, and/or write a response. We may fall behind in class discussion, but you should keep up with the reading calendar. I may alter this schedule at anytime.
NOTE: YOU WILL BE REQUIRED TO READ ONE WORK OUTSIDE OF CLASS FROM THE LIST BELOW. YOU MAY WANT TO GET STARTED ON IT RIGHT AWAY AS YOUR FINAL PAPER WILL DEPEND ON YOUR READING, AND YOU WILL WANT TO CHOOSE CAREFULLY AND READ THE WORK MORE THAN ONCE. IT MAY BE PRUDENT TO GET A JUMP ON YOUR BIG PAPER. THE WORKS TO CHOOSE FROM ARE:
George Gordon, Lord Byron Manfred Pg. 588. Robert Louis Stevenson The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Not in our book). Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart Pg. 2617.

TENTATIVE READING SCHEDULE
Stay with this reading schedule even if we fall behind in class discussion
January

Mon 09 Class Introduction
Wed 11 “The Romantic Period” Pgs. 1-6 (to “Poetic Theory”). William Blake Introduction Pgs. 35-39. “The Lamb” Pg. 45, “The Tyger” Pg. 54.
Fri 13 “Poetic Theory and Practice” Pgs. 6-12. “The Chimney Sweeper” Pgs. 46-47, “The Chimney Sweeper” Pg. 52.

Mon 16 NO CLASS. MLK HOLIDAY.
Wed 18 “Individualism” Pgs. 13-23. Mary Wollstonecraft Introduction Pgs. 163-166. “Chapter 2. The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed” Pgs. 170-185.
Fri 20 William Wordsworth Introduction Pgs. 219-221. “The Tables Turned” Pg. 228. “Tintern Abbey” Pgs. 235-238.

Mon 23 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Introduction Pgs. 416-418. “The Eolian Harp” Pgs. 419-420. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Pgs. 422-438.
Wed 25 Thomas De Quincey Introduction Pgs. 529-530. From Confessions of an Opium Eater Pgs. 530-543.
Fri 27 George Gordon, Lord Byron Introduction. Pgs. 551-555. “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” Pgs. 563-575 (to “Switzerland”).


Mon 30 SHORT PAPER #1 DUE AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS! Byron “Childe Harold” cont. Pgs. 575-587.

February

Wed 01 Percy Shelley Introduction Pgs. 698-701 “Ozymandias” Pgs. 725-726. “Stanzas Written in Dejection” Pgs. 726-727.
Fri 03 John Keats Introduction Pgs. 823-826. “Ode on a Grecian Urn” Pgs. 851-853. “La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad” Pgs. 845-847.

Mon 06 “The Victorian Age” Pgs. 1043-1048 (to “Mid-Victorian). John Henry Cardinal Newman Introduction Pgs. 1119-1121. “From The Idea of a University” Pgs. 1121-1127. “From Apologia Pro Vita Sua” Pgs. 1128-1137.
Wed 08 “Mid-Victorian Period” Pgs. 1048-1054 (to “The Nineties”). Elizabeth Barrett Browning Introduction Pgs. 1173-1174. Sonnet #43 from “Sonnets from the Portuguese” Pg. 43. Robert Browning Introduction Pgs. 1345-1348. “My Last Duchess” Pgs. 1352-1353.
Fri 10 “The Nineties” to end of Introduction Pgs. 1054-1065. Robert Browning “The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church” Pgs. 1359-1362.

Mon 13 Christina Rossetti Introduction Pgs. 1583-1584. “Goblin Market” Pgs. 1589-1601.
Wed 15 Matthew Arnold Introduction 1471-1475. The Scholar Gypsy Pgs. 1485-1491. Dover Beach Pgs. 1492-1493.
Fri 17 Gerard Manley Hopkins Introduction Pgs. 1648-1651. “Pied Beauty” Pg. 1653. “Carrion Comfort” Pg. 1656. “I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day” Pg. 1657.

Mon 20 MIDTERM IN CLASS!
Wed 22 Oscar Wilde Introduction Pgs. 1747-1749. “Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray” Pgs. 1760-1761. The Importance of Being Earnest Act 1 Pgs. 1761-1777.
Fri 24 The Importance of Being Earnest Act 2 Pgs. 1777-1795.

Mon 27 The Importance of Being Earnest Act 3 Pgs. 1795-1805. “The Twentieth Century” Pgs. 1897-1904 (to “Fiction”)

March

Wed 01 FILM. YOU MUST READ MARY SHELLY “FRANKENSTEIN” PGS. 903-1034.
Fri 03 FILM. CONTINUE TO READ SHELLY (PGS. 903-1034) FOR PAPER.

Mon 06 NO CLASS! SPRING BREAK!
Wed 08 SPRING BREAK!
Fri 10 SPRING BREAK!

Mon 13 “Fiction” to “Drama” Pgs. 1904-1910. Thomas Hardy Introduction. Pgs. 1916-1917. On the Western Circuit 1918-1934.
Wed 15 “Drama” to end of Introduction Pgs. 1910-1915. Siegfried Sassoon Introduction Pgs. 2054-2055 “They” Pg. 2055. Wilfred Owen Introduction Pg. 2066. “Dulce Et Decorum Est” Pgs. 2069-2070.
Fri 17 SHORT PAPER #2 DUE AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS! William Butler Yeats Introduction Pgs. 2085-2088. “The Second Coming” Pgs. 2106-2107. “Sailing to Byzantium” Pgs. 2109-2110.

Mon 20 T.S. Eliot Introduction Pgs. 2360-2363. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” Pgs. 2364-2367.
Wed 22 LAST DAY TO DROP! T.S. Eliot The Wasteland Pgs.2369-2375 (to III. The Fire Sermon).
Fri 24 Eliot The Wasteland cont. Pgs. 2375-2383.

Mon 27 James Joyce Introduction Pgs. 2231-2233 (To Ulysses). The Dead 2240-2255.
Wed 29 Joyce The Dead cont. 2256-2268.
Fri 31 Robert Graves Introduction Pgs. 2444-2445. “Down, Wanton, Down!” Pg. 2445. “The Cool Web” Pg. 2446. “The Reader Over My Shoulder” Pgs. 2446-2447. “A Slice of Wedding Cake” Pg. 2450.

April

Mon 03 Virginia Woolf Introduction Pgs. 2141-2143. “The Mark on the Wall” Pgs. 2143-2148. “From A Sketch of the Past” Pgs. 2218-2226. “The Legacy” Pgs. 2226-2230.
Wed 05 D.H. Lawrence Introduction Pgs. 2313-2316. Odour of Chrysanthemums Pgs. 2316-2330.
Fri 07 George Orwell Introduction Pgs. 2456-2457. “Shooting an Elephant” Pgs. 2457-2462. W.H. Auden Introduction Pgs. 2500-2501 “Musee des Beaux Arts” Pg. 2505.

Mon 10 Samuel Beckett Introduction Pgs. 2471-2472. Endgame Pgs. 2471—bottom of 2487.
Wed 12 Beckett Endgame Pgs. 2488-2500
Fri 14 LONG PAPER DUE AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS! Louis MacNeice Introduction. Pg. 2513. “Sunday Morning” Pg. 2513. Dylan Thomas Introduction Pg. 2516. “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” Pg. 2524. Philip Larkin Introduction Pg. 2564-2565. “Church Going” Pgs. 2565-2566.

Mon 17 Doris Lessing Introduction Pgs. 2541-2542. To Room Nineteen Pgs. 2542-2564.
Wed 19 Nadine Gordimer Introduction Pg. 2572 “The Moment before the Gun Went Off” Pgs. 2573-2576. Derek Walcott Introduction Pg. 2580. “From The Schooner Flight” Pgs. 2583-2584. “Midsummer” Pgs. 2584-2585.
Fri 21 Alice Munro Introduction Pg. 2706. Walker Brothers Cowboy Pgs. 2707-2717. Ted Hughes Introduction Pg. 2587. “Theology” Pgs. 2590-2591. “Daffodils” Pgs. 2592-2593.

Mon 24 Harold Pinter Introduction Pg. 2594. The Dumb Waiter Pgs. 2594-2616.
Wed 26 Tom Stoppard Introduction Pgs. 2785-2786. The Real Inspector Hound Pgs. 2786-2800.
Fri 28 Stoppard cont. Pgs.2801-2815.

May

Mon 01 Last Day of Class. Review for final.

Connie Said:

Any good lesson plans on bible / christianity in literature?

We Answered:

The Scarlet Letter? The Crucible?

Oh wait, those probably wouldnt be very good ones for a church group, lol

Nora Said:

College instructors - do you design your lesson plans from scratch?

We Answered:

If the class is a prerequisite for another course, there will be certain standards on what should be taught. However, there'll likely be some flexibility in how you teach them.

I taught pre-freshman-composition at a university (a course for students who weren't quite ready for the regular freshman comp). My dept told me in general what I needed to cover: basicially that students had to write certain types of essays. I picked out the readings on my own and also the specific topics for the essays.

Phillip Said:

Is anyone interested in detailed (day by day) lessons plans for home schooled children?

We Answered:

Count me in! At present I spend a minimum of 18 hours per week working on my daughters curriculum, any easing in the workload, even if its just to use parts of would be great.

Frances Said:

where can i find lesson plans (ppts or articles) about Bible as / in literature?

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http://www.dltk-kids.com/searchresults.h…