Lightning Literature & Composition: British Medieval Literature

Michael G. Gaunt

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New Third Edition, Perfect Bound- Hewitt's Lightning Literature and Composition guides use full-length novels, autobiographies, plays, essays, short stories, and poems to teach deep reading and composition skills. Unlike some literature programs that take a scatter-shot approach (where none of the literature seems connected) or that try to dump too much into one book, Lightning Literature guides focus on a few classics in depth, in a systematic manner. These guides are available for junior high and high school.Students read in the following order:William Blake (selected poems; text in this Guide); Jane Austen (novel: Pride and Prejudice); Sir Walter Scott (novel: Ivanhoe); Thomas Carlyle ("Essay on Scott," text in this Guide); Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley (selected poems; text in this Guide); Mary Shelley (novel: Frankenstein); Charlotte Bronte (novel: Jane Eyre); William Makepeace Thackeray ("Rebecca and Rowena," text in this Guide).Lessons cover description, point of view, persuasive writing, setting, humor, character, and imagery and tone in poetry and include information about the authors, comprehension questions, writing exercises, and reading lists appropriate to the period or subject. The Guide includes comprehension questions, semester and full-year schedules, and a bibliography. Free Teacher's Guide is included with answers and schedules.

Lightning Lit & Comp: British Lit Early-Mid 19th Century 3rd Edition (Lightning Lit & Comp)

New Third Edition, Perfect Bound- Hewitt's Lightning Literature and Composition guides use full-length novels, autobiographies, plays, essays, short stories, and poems to teach deep reading and composition skills. Unlike some literature programs that take a scatter-shot approach (where none of the literature seems connected) or that try to dump too much into one book, Lightning Literature guides focus on a few classics in depth, in a systematic manner. These guides are available for junior high and high school. Students read in this order: Alfred, Lord Tennyson (selected poems; text in this Guide); George Eliot (novel: Silas Marner); Charles Dickens (novel: Great Expectations); Lewis Carroll: (selected poems; text in this Guide); Robert Louis Stevenson (travelogue/essay, text in this Guide:"The Silverado Squatters"); Oscar Wilde (play: The Importance of Being Earnest); Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (short story, text in this Guide: "The Adventure of the Speckled Band"); Rudyard Kipling (novel: Stalky &amp; Co.) Lessons cover conflict, rhyme and meter, local color, theme, genre, and sources of ideas and include information about the authors, comprehension questions, writing exercises, and reading lists appropriate to the period or subject. Comprehension questions, semester and full-year schedules, and a bibliography are also in the Guide. Book-length works are sold separately and in a pack (see Related Items below). Free Teacher's Guide is included with answers and schedules.

Lightning Lit & Comp: British Lit Mid-Late 19th Century 3rd Edition (Lightning Lit & Comp)

New 2nd Edition, Perfect Bound. Hewitt's Lightning Lit guides use full-length novels, autobiographies, plays, essays, short stories, and poems to teach deep reading and composition skills. Unlike some literature programs that take a scatter-shot approach (where none of the literature seems connected) or that try to dump too much into one book, Lightning Literature guides focus on a few classics in depth, in a systematic manner.Students read in the following order:Beowulf (epic poem; anonymous author)Anglo-Saxon riddles (text is in this Guide)Piers the Ploughman (epic poem; possibly by William Landland)York Mystery Play Cycle 42, The Ascension (play; anonymous author; text is in this Guide)Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (epic poem; anonymous author)Selection from The Gest of Robyn Hode (epic poem; anonymous author; (text is in this Guide)"St. Thomas Becket" from The Golden Legend (biography; anonymous author; (text is in this Guide)Selections from The Canterbury Tales (tales by Geoffrey Chaucer)Lessons include story telling, imagery, symbolism, characterization, persuasive writing, drama, and description. For example, Beowulf is used to teach foreshadowing, Piers the Ploughman teaches allegory, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight teaches tone. This course makes an excellent companion for studying Medieval History. The free Teacher's Guide (included) has answers to comprehension questions, semester and full-year schedules, and bibliography. Book-length works are sold separately. The Guide includes answers to comprehension questions, semester and full-year schedules, and bibliography. Free teacher's guide included. Lend Me Your Ears required for the course.

Lightning Lit & Comp: British Medieval 2nd Edition (Lightning Lit & Comp)

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