History of English Literature and Language
The Oral Tradition
History of English Literature and Language
Epic Poetry
The Canterbury Tales and paired texts
The Canterbury Tales: 'General Prologue'
The Canterbury Tales and paired texts
The Refugee Tales: 'Prologue', ed. Anna Pincus and David Herd
The Canterbury Tales and paired texts
The Canterbury Tales: 'The Knight's Tale', Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales and paired texts
Telling Tales, Patience Agbabi
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare (Introduction and Act 1)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare (Act 2)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare (Act 3)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare (Act 4&5)
Contemporary Short Stories (Love)
Contemporary Short Stories (1/2): The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin
Contemporary Short Stories (Love)
Contemporary Short Stories (2/2): Sweetness by Toni Morrison
Introduction to poetry
The sonnet through time
The sonnet through time: Introduction to the sonnet
The sonnet through time
The sonnet through time: 'Sonnet 18', Shakespeare
The sonnet through time
The sonnet through time: 'Death, be not proud', Donne
The sonnet through time
The sonnet through time: 'If thou must love me', Barrett-Browning
The sonnet through time
The sonnet through time: 'If we must die', Claude McKay
The sonnet through time
The sonnet through time: 'The sonnet-ballad', Gwendolyn Brooks
Creative writing
Creative writing: short stories
Creative writing
Creative writing: poetry
Grammar
Recapping the basics: simple sentences, statements, paragraphs, capital letters and past simple verbs
Grammar
Complex sentences, avoiding fragments and run-ons, capital letters
Grammar
Past simple tense, subordinate clauses, punctuating conjunctions and lists
Grammar
Writing accurate, correctly punctuated and paragraphed dialogue, using personal pronouns
Grammar
Avoiding fragments, fused sentences and comma splices. Using capital letters and writing in the past tense. Using multiple subordinate clauses, punctuating lists correctly when in a complex sentence.
Grammar