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Twelfth Grade Literacy Resources

European Literature

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Unit One
Middle Ages

In this six-week unit, students explore the tension between humans and the divine in the literature of the Middle Ages.

Unit Two
Renaissance and Reformation

This six-week unit introduces students to the literature of the Renaissance and Reformation, exploring its continuity with and departure from the literature of the Middle Ages.

Unit Three
Seventeenth Century

In this six-week unit, students explore literary works of the seventeenth century, with particular attention to questions of human reason and emotion.

Unit Four
Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century

In this four-week unit, students will read fiction, drama, poetry, biography, and autobiography from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, paying particular attention to the relationship between man and nature.

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Unit Five
Nineteenth Century

In this eight-week unit, students will observe common tendencies, contradictions, outliers, and subtleties of nineteenth-century romantic literature, including the Victorian, Gothic, and Edwardian periods.

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Unit Six
Twentieth Century

Using Auden’s term “Age of Anxiety” as a focal idea, students consider both the breakdown and affirmation of meaning in twentieth-century literature in this final six-week unit

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