General Class Handouts

• Syllabus

• Reading Schedule

• Reading Journal  (Sample Journal Entry)

• Oral Presentations

• MLA Documentation for Literary Works (PDF)

• Writing a Literary Essay

• The Classical Epic

• Campbell's Heroes Journey Chart

• The Code of Chivalry

• Courtly Love

• The Medieval Romance

• The Sonnet

• Elizabethan Tragedy

• Aristotle's Components of Classic Tragedy

• Kip Wheeler's Literary Glossary (edited)

Authors and Works

• Beowulf (take home quiz)

• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (take home quiz)

• Geoffrey Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales

  • Prologue (take home quiz)

  • Pardoner's Tale

  • Wife of Bath's Tale

• Thomas Malory and Morte d'Arthur (take home quiz)

• Petrarch and the Elizabethan Sonneteers

  • Wyatt & Surrey

  • Edmund Spenser

  • Sir Philip Sidney

  • William Shakespeare

• Christopher Marlowe

• Walter Raleigh

• William Shakespeare (take home quiz)

• John Donne

• John Milton

• John Dryden

• Jonathan Swift

• Samuel Johnson